12.37 GMT First published on Wed 3 Mar 2021 00.18 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Play Video 1:24 ‘Vaccine, vaccine’: Dolly Parton adapts Jolene as she receives Covid-19 jab she helped fund – video Dolly Parton burst into song on Tuesday as she received her first dose of the Moderna Covid vaccine […]
08.56 GMT Last modified on Wed 3 Mar 2021 09.33 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Filiming The Mess You Leave Behind in the Galician mountains. Photograph: Jaime Olmedo/Netflix Rosa Vargas’s arrival in a small town in north-western Spain to investigate the disappearance of a young girl marked an unlikely milestone. Vargas is […]
14.49 GMT Last modified on Wed 3 Mar 2021 03.59 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Dr Seuss’s If I Ran the Zoo depicts two men, described as being from Africa, wearing grass skirts and carrying exotic-looking animals. Photograph: Erin McCracken/AP Publication of six Dr Seuss books will cease, the company that preserves […]
09.07 GMT Last modified on Wed 3 Mar 2021 09.49 GMT Bunny Wailer, left, with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, right, in 1964. Born in 1947 in Kingston, he and Marley became friends as toddlers, and formed the Wailers in 1963, which settled into a core trio of the pair alongside Tosh Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives Facebook […]
07.00 GMT Winner: Untitled, from the book The UncannyLéonard Pongo is the winner of the ICP/GOST First Photo Book award 2020, from the International Center for Photography and publisher GOST. The Uncanny explores Pongo’s relationship to the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the inner process he went through as he tried to understand the region, reconnect […]
10.53 GMT Last modified on Tue 2 Mar 2021 16.23 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The woman stays in the picture … Alice Guy-Blaché, top left, on the France set of The Life of Christ in 1906. Photograph: Everett Collection/Alamy Everything we’re told about cinema is that it’s shaped by men. If […]
11.00 GMT Last modified on Mon 1 Mar 2021 11.02 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘This story doesn’t have to have a tragic ending’ … Christopher Wallace, AKA Notorious BIG, with Hitman 50 Grand. Photograph: Netflix Perhaps posthumous legacy was always on the mind of late rapper Christopher “Notorious BIG” Wallace. His […]
07.00 GMT Actor Jeremy Irons, the Midland Hotel, Manchester, 1979Brian Griffin’s autobiography Black Country DADA charts his fascinating career, covering the period 1969-90. He writes: ‘Those were analogue days! Growing up among the factories of the Black Country, studying photography in Manchester alongside my friends Daniel Meadows and Martin Parr, and then with trepidation going down […]
21.00 GMT Last modified on Sun 28 Feb 2021 15.43 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Oprah Winfrey will talk to Meghan and Harry in an exclusive interview on 7 March. Photograph: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP You could have forgiven the British royal family for giving primetime, tell-all interviews a wide berth for the foreseeable. […]
04.33 GMT Last modified on Mon 1 Mar 2021 08.43 GMT Renée Zellweger announces the late Chadwick Boseman as the winner of the award for best actor in a drama award for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Photograph: Christopher Polk/NBC via Getty Images Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sacha Baron Cohen, who won best actor in a motion picture musical […]
07.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Albrecht Dürer’s Wing Blue Roller (1512) ‘lends the bird a semblance of living glory’. Photograph: Art Heritage/Alamy Albrecht Dürer was the first great sightseer in the history of art, travelling Europe to see conjoined twins, Aztec gold, Venetian gondolas and the bones of an 18ft […]
13.21 GMT Last modified on Mon 1 Mar 2021 14.20 GMT Josh O’Connor, who won best actor for his role as Prince Charles in The Crown, looked suitably regal and just a little bit like a Romantic poet in a Loewe cream suit. Photograph: David M Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images for Bulgari Facebook Twitter Pinterest She might not […]
15.12 GMT Last modified on Sun 28 Feb 2021 15.29 GMT London, UKChildren celebrating the Jewish holiday Purim stand in front of their house waiting for guests Photograph: Ming Yeung/Getty Images Facebook Twitter Pinterest Baikonur Cosmodrome, KazakhstanBlastoff for the Soyuz spacecraft carrying the Arktika-M satellite, which will monitor the Arctic’s climate Photograph: Russian Space Agency Roscosmos/Reuters Facebook […]
10.15 GMT Last modified on Fri 26 Feb 2021 13.52 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘I have to keep smiling’ … Billie Eilish. Photograph: Koury Angelo/Getty Images for Apple In a typical scene from Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry, the documentary’s pop star subject is in the back yard, surrounded […]
16.39 GMT Last modified on Fri 26 Feb 2021 22.06 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Seth Meyers: ‘Republicans stuck by Trump no matter how bad he was for the party because they agreed with him. They were engaged in the same project and wanted the same things.’ Photograph: YouTube Seth Meyers After […]
08.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 26 Feb 2021 11.51 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Sienna Miller: ‘They say “I love your style!” And I think: “What about my films?”’ Photograph: Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP No excuses for lateness in the era of Zoom, perhaps, but cut Sienna Miller some slack. The 39-year-old has […]
18.24 GMT Last modified on Wed 24 Feb 2021 18.40 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Cardi B performs 0n 14 September 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia. Photograph: Paul R Giunta/Invision/AP Cardi B has hit out at the racial disparities in the fashion world in a new interview, saying that black artists are discriminated […]
07.00 GMT When Georgia declared independence from the collapsing Tsarist empire in 1918, modernist art flourished. Here we see Gigo Gabashvili (centre) with his students at the Tbilisi Academy of Fine Arts, established in 1922. The online festival Georgia’s Fantastic Tavern: Where Europe Meets Asia runs until 28 February Facebook Twitter Pinterest Elene Akhvlediani (pictured second […]
14.07 GMT Last modified on Tue 23 Feb 2021 14.10 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Alicia Silverstone, George Clooney and Chris O’Donnell in Batman & Robin – a film you love? Photograph: Allstar/Warner Bros For the last two months, we’ve tasked Guardian writers with the unenviable: putting together an impassioned defence of […]
07.27 GMT Last modified on Mon 22 Feb 2021 07.30 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Al Pacino and Rachel Roberts in S1m0ne, a fun, camp film in which an exceptional cast slightly embarrasses itself. Photograph: Darren Michaels/AP It’s not surprising that S1m0ne wasn’t a hit at the time of its release in […]
13.00 GMT Last modified on Tue 23 Feb 2021 08.19 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Clone rangers … Laura Dern and Sam Neill in Jurassic Park. Photograph: Allstar/Universal In the Guide’s weekly Solved! column, we look into a crucial pop-culture question you’ve been burning to know the answer to – and settle […]
07.14 GMT Last modified on Fri 19 Feb 2021 15.40 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Harrison Ford and Shia LaBeouf in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Photograph: Allstar/Paramount Pictures/Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar It’s a wonder we got a fourth Indiana Jones film at all. Though the deal struck by Steven […]
06.00 GMT Last modified on Tue 23 Feb 2021 10.41 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email One night stand … Simona Brown as Louise in Behind Her Eyes. Photograph: Nick Wall/NETFLIX When Sarah Pinborough’s thriller Behind Her Eyes was published in 2017, even she described it as a “Marmite book”. Her publisher slapped […]
07.00 GMT Nick Meyer grew up in a small mill town in western Massachusetts. Ever since his youth the town’s terrain has been in flux, with houses and shops continuously erected, razed, and rebuilt in the chasm left by disintegrated industries. The Local by Nick Meyer is available through MACK Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Local documents […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Tue 23 Feb 2021 12.29 GMT Edinburgh Castle from Princes Street, 1960Between 1957 and 1966, Robert Blomfield created a substantial archive of life in the Scottish capital. This pursuit ran alongside his medical studies in the city and subsequent years spent as a junior doctor in London. Throughout his medical career, he […]
07.30 GMT Last modified on Mon 22 Feb 2021 12.29 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Risk-taking … Caleb Azumah Nelson. Photograph: Suki Dhanda/The Observer The unnamed protagonist of Caleb Azumah Nelson’s debut novel, a young black photographer, often reflects on his artistic process: he is principally trying to compose images that “portray […]
12.12 GMT Last modified on Mon 22 Feb 2021 13.36 GMT Regional police clash with protesters in Barcelona during a sixth night of protests and riots after the arrest and imprisonment of rapper Pablo Hasél Photograph: Paco Freire/Sopa/Rex/Shutterstock Facebook Twitter Pinterest Firecracker smoke on Vía Laietana in Barcelona. Police officers and vans cleared the streets Photograph: Paco […]
17.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 19 Feb 2021 17.03 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Laborious … The United States vs Billie Holiday. Photograph: Takashi Seida/© 2020 Paramount Pictures Corporation Lee Daniels’ bland, stilted, TV-movie treatment of the final years in the life of jazz singing legend Billie Holiday, imprisoned on a […]
11.29 GMT Last modified on Fri 19 Feb 2021 15.39 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Back in action … Paddington. Photograph: Studiocanal/PA To quote Gene Wilder’s Willy Wonka, the news that a third Paddington film is in the works shines like a good deed in a weary world. Hailed as one of […]
12.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Black Lives Matter supporters at a statue of Confederate leader Robert E Lee in Richmond, Virginia, in January. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images In 2018, two years after the “disastrous” 2016 US presidential election, Eddie Glaude Jr, professor of African American Studies at Princeton, made a […]