Anna Picard discusses the problems of subject matter and sensationalism in the new opera Jack the Ripper: The Women of Whitechapel; Anna Vaux talks us through the Bauhaus school and its global influence, as well as Lucian Freud's compulsion to create and control
Books
Jack the Ripper:The Women of Whitechapel by Iain Bell, ENO, until April 12
Walter Gropius: Visionary founder of the Bauhaus by Fiona MacCarthy
Josef Albers: Life and work by Charles Darwent
Lucian Freud by Martin Gayford