Category: Culture

Nationwide Belief Pictures, Matthew Hole Viscountess Astor by John Singer Sargent, 1908 (Credit score: Nationwide Belief Pictures, Matthew Hole) The wealthy, glamorous, American ladies of the gilded age who married into the English aristocracy confronted some challenges – however they had been resilient, formidable characters. As TV’s The Buccaneers season two begins, and an exhibition […]

Alamy Mixing the type of The Rolling Stones with African beats and devices, Zambian group Witch have been revolutionary – then disappeared. Nobody may have predicted their superb return. Within the early Seventies, Zambia produced a singular music scene of its personal creation. Zamrock, because it grew to become recognized, was the southern African nation’s […]

Getty Pictures Along with his well-known wig and shades, Warhol cultivated a mysterious, enigmatic persona. Now a brand new exhibition with unprecedented entry reveals the person behind the flowery façade. Bob Adelman Property/ Westwood Gallery NYC Andy Warhol, pictured right here together with his Flower work at The Manufacturing unit in 1964, was well-known for […]

His looping melodies and bewitching harmonies had been the soundtrack to an infinite, Californian summer time. Brian Wilson’s loss of life has prompted an outpouring of affection and admiration, because the music trade pays tribute to a person thought of a lyrical genius and a grasp of harmonies, and whose compositions now represent the gold […]

After adapting three of Stephen King’s horror tales, director Mike Flanagan opted for the creator’s candy and life-affirming novella “The Lifetime of Chuck” for his newest movie. Movie critic Emma Jones tells us why Tom Hiddleston brings a candy levity to this uncynical life story, advised in reverse. We additionally focus on the newest massive […]

She is Brazil’s most compelling defender of Black feminism. Thinker, author and professor Djamila Ribeiro has been instrumental in calling out structural racism and pushing for societal change, be it in publishing or in politics. Ribeiro joins us to speak about her deeply private e-book “Letters to my grandmother”, which recounts her personal expertise as […]

On this version of our arts24 music present, Jennifer Ben Brahim chats with UK-based Nigerian musician Obongjayar. He is simply launched his second album known as “Paradise Now”, a danceable document impressed by partying. He even hosted a sequence of events of the identical identify in London as he was producing the document. The Ivor Novello-nominated […]

Alamy (Credit score: Alamy) Darren Aronofsky’s radical drug-addiction drama was extremely acclaimed and angrily slated when it got here out in 2000. Right now, this Hubert Selby Jr adaptation isn’t any much less contentious. When Requiem for a Dream debuted 25 years in the past in Might 2000, it drew each rave evaluations and a […]

Andrei Linde (Credit score: Andrei Linde) A brand new episode of the BBC’s Historical past’s Secret Heroes podcast focuses on the Night time Witches, a gaggle of Russian feminine pilots who bombed German forces beneath the duvet of darkness. World Struggle Two is crammed with so many extraordinary tales of heroism that not all of […]

On this particular version for World Oceans Day, we highlight the pressing, haunting work of Mandy Barker, the award-winning British photographic artist utilizing sea-salvaged style waste to show the reality about plastic air pollution. Her cyanotype sequence “Pictures of British Algae: Cyanotype Imperfections” reimagines the work of Nineteenth-century botanist Anna Atkins, changing seaweed with clothes scraps collected from 121 seashores […]