David Lister
A founder member of The Independent David Lister joined the paper in 1986 as Assistant Home Editor. He became the paper's arts correspondent in 1988 and is now Arts Editor and writes a column each Saturday. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
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David Lister: A surreal ending to pop's most extraordinary life story
08 November 2011 12:00 AM
This was not a typical, domestic life of a rock star because nothing about Jackson was typical
David Lister: If you really want to pay tribute to Amy Winehouse, give the profits to charity
05 November 2011 12:00 AM
The Week in Arts
David Lister: Might someone pay millions for a Nat Tate painting just to avoid looking ignorant?
22 October 2011 12:00 AM
The Week in Arts
Nice to see you, to see a comedian honoured
15 October 2011 10:00 AM
It may or may not have been a case of "Nice to see you, to see you nice" when the Queen knighted Bruce Forsyth this week. But it was certainly a case of "Significant to see you, to see you significant." Here was a comedian being knighted; and comedians don't get knighted. There was no Sir Eric Morecambe, no Sir Benny Hill, no Sir Kenneth Williams, no Sir Max Wall.
David Lister: If a knighthood is good enough for Brucie, then why not other entertainers?
15 October 2011 12:00 AM
The Week in Arts
David Lister: Of all these unnecessary award shows, the Mobos are the worst
08 October 2011 12:00 AM
The Week in Arts
David Lister: 'Twenty-five years is a long time in arts journalism'
07 October 2011 12:00 AM
I feel a little queasy about writing an anniversary piece, as I was in the room in August 1986 – two months before the launch of The Independent – when the founding editor Andreas Whittam Smith declared that one of the many ways in which we should break the mould was by avoiding anniversary journalism. Twenty-five years on and I'm still disobeying his instructions, although that particular pledge, to be fair, didn't last terribly long.
David Lister: The Tories say they love the arts but the evidence is lacking
01 October 2011 12:00 AM
The Week in Arts
David Lister: The award for most grotesque acceptance speech goes to...
24 September 2011 12:00 AM
In Cannes, it's not just films that entertain
21 May 2011 12:00 AM
In my visits to the Cannes film festival I have been as entertained by the daily press conferences as by the films. Film writers from across the world manage to put on a display of sycophancy like you have never seen. The rush to the platform for autographs by the world's film press is so frantic as to make any baying crowd at a Leicester Square premiere look downright sedate. And then there are the "questions". My favourite moment was when a film writer from Lebanon asked Charlton Heston the "question": "Mr Heston, are you aware that you are my father, my mother, my sister and my brother?"
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