Noughties TV  

The decade in television

The triumph of reality was the decade’s distinguishing mark, infecting most of its most popular forms

The top 50 TV shows of the Noughties

Fists fly as The Times’s frontline TV critics argue out the best 50 programmes of the decade

Were the Noughties a cultural golden age?

You can probably sum it up by looking at the Christmas No 1 battle. This little drama has all of what made the Noughties

Noughties music  

The decade's 100 best pop albums

As the decade draws to a close, we look back on the releases that rocked the pop world

The decade's ten best world music albums

From Rachid Taha to Tinariwen, David Hutcheon looks back over the decade in world music

The decade's ten best contemporary classical albums

As the Noughties draw to a close, Neil Fisher and Richard Morrison look back on the best releases of the decade

Noughties film  

The decade in film

The Noughties were the decade in which the drama of real life left the movies in the dust, decides Wendy Ide

The 100 Best Films of the Decade

Our pick of the best movies released in the Noughties. Do you agree with our selection? What were your favourites?

The 100 Best Films of 2009

Here is our pick of the best movies released in the UK this year. Do you agree with our selection? What have we missed?

The 100 Worst Movies of 2009

Our critics hated them, but audiences lured by multimillion dollar marketing campaigns defied our advice. Do you agree?

Noughties Visual Art  

The best art of the decade

Our writer remembers a glorious Titian retrospective, the opening of Tate Modern and the world going gaga over Vermeer

• The Sunday Times on the best television of the decade

• The best theatre of the decade

The decade in the visual arts

Damien Hirst’s bespectacled mug has dominated the British art scene over the past decade as he capitalised on the boom

The top five buildings of the decade

From the Neues Museum in Berlin to the Eden Project in Cornwall, we look back on the decade in architecture

The Noughties on stage  

The best theatre of the decade

We saw puppets centre stage, Scottish soldiers lift the lid on Iraq, Douglas Hodge in a dress and Doctor Who as Hamlet

The best dance of the decade

From Darcey Bussell's last Royal Ballet performance to Alina Cojocaru's Giselle, we list the top ten dance events

The decade in opera

There has been a sea change: the new divas and divos are now stage animals as much as vocal technicians

What a performance by British theatre

In spite of the hard times, production after production posts healthy balance sheets. British theatre is replenishing its future