Have the arts ever been so healthy? Here on the Review desk we're calling it a cultural explosion and we sent Rachel Cooke out to as many events as she could manage in a 24-hour period, in an attempt to find out why this is happening now. In this piece, she ask if it can last or whether feast is inevitably followed by famine.
But for now, it's there for the taking. For instance, this week's openings included Carsten Höller's amazing slides at Tate Modern; Cabaret on Shaftesbury Avenue starring Anna Maxwell Martin who was so good in BBC1s Bleak House, the reopening of the Young Vic, a show of David Hockney portraits.
At Stratford the RSC have never looked healthier, in Sheffield Sam West is about to star opposite his dad in A Number. There are no tickets left to see Harold Pinter on stage in Krapp's Last Tape, our art critic says Velasquez at the National Gallery which opens next week should be the exhibition of the year.
It is just impossible to keep up. So over to you ... which events would you recommend? Tell us about the best arts events in your region.
