10.26 BST Last modified on Wed 29 Apr 2020 13.08 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Play Video 2:30 Irrfan Khan’s memorable roles: from Life of Pi to The Lunchbox – video Irrfan Khan was a distinguished and charismatic star in Hindi- and English-language movies whose hardworking career was an enormously valuable bridge […]
13.00 BST Last modified on Thu 30 Apr 2020 11.28 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘The heft of soap bubbles but the force of trucks’ … Britney Spears at the 2001 MTV VMA Awards. Photograph: Chris Polk/FilmMagic The album to start with Blackout (2007) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Britney Spears: Piece of Me […]
14.41 BST Last modified on Wed 29 Apr 2020 15.25 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Simone de Beauvoir in 1957. Photograph: Jack Nisberg/Sipa Press/Rex Features A novel by Simone de Beauvoir that was deemed too intimate to release in her lifetime will be published for the first time later this year. The […]
07.00 BST Picture Summer on Kodak Film is a book by photographer Jason Fulford about light and time. The title comes from an advertisement on the shop wall where Fulford bought his first camera. Fulford’s book Picture Summer on Kodak Film is published by Mack Facebook Twitter Pinterest The pictures were made over three years, as […]
07.15 BST Last modified on Thu 30 Apr 2020 07.16 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Leah Lewis and Daniel Diemer in The Half of It. What keeps the film mostly on track, even in its scrappier moments, is its central trio of accomplished young actors. Photograph: KC Bailey/AP There’s a satisfying ease […]
09.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email High Sunderland, designed by Peter Womersley, in he Scottish Borders. Photograph: Chatto When Shelley Klein moved back in with her father Beri after her mother died, she brought some old furniture with her. He didn’t want it in the house: a Victorian chair would compromise […]
14.00 BST Last modified on Thu 30 Apr 2020 15.15 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Enduring affection … A Secret Love. Photograph: Netflix This documentary from Netflix is a real heart-soother. Directed with tremendous sensitivity and intimacy by Chris Bolan, it’s a love story about two women now in their 90s – […]
06.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Survived target practice by Nazis … Eileen Gray’s villa, with Bibendum and Transat chairs. Photograph: Manuel Bougot ‘A room fit only for nightmares and insomnia.” This was the response of one critic to Eileen Gray’s radical scheme for a bedroom in 1923, installed at the […]
12.15 BST Last modified on Wed 29 Apr 2020 12.16 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Nina Moran and Rachelle Vinberg in Betty. Photograph: Photographer: Alison Cohen Rosa/Alison Cohen Rosa Betty, HBO’s six-part series about a group of female skateboarders, started with a fortuitous subway ride. A few years ago, the show’s creator, […]
08.10 BST Last modified on Wed 29 Apr 2020 08.11 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A still from Blood Quantum. Photograph: Shudder Given how movies about the undead refuse to die, a tweak on what’s become a decaying formula is always a welcome surprise, especially if said tweak involves a little more […]
12.00 BST Last modified on Wed 29 Apr 2020 12.01 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Mind and body … the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. Photograph: Matthew Naythons/The Life Images Collection/Getty Images A few years ago the eminent American philosopher Thomas Nagel put quite a few celebrity scientist noses out of […]
09.00 BST Juliet on Swing, The Face, 1999, by Elaine Constantine. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Barbershop Polaroid, 2019, by Maxwell Tomlinson. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Untitled, by Martin Parr. Facebook Twitter Pinterest From the series ‘Skins’, Skinny Jim, 1980, by Gavin Watson. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Pearsall, Texas, January 2018, by Mark Power. Facebook Twitter Pinterest By The Underpass, […]
08.00 BST Winner | Birds Flurin Leugger – Takeoff. A coyote panics geese Photograph: Flurin Leugger/2020 GDT Nature Photographer of the Year Facebook Twitter Pinterest Third place | Birds Hermann Hirsch – Stony Dipper. An American dipper, California Photograph: 2020 GDT Nature Photographer of the Year Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fourth place | Birds Christoph Kaula – […]
07.00 BST Last modified on Wed 29 Apr 2020 15.28 BST Peter Beard, 1961 Beard was born in New York, but fell in love with the African wilderness as a young man, moving to Hog Ranch in Kenya to work. All photographs: © Peter Beard/courtesy Peter Beard Studio Facebook Twitter Pinterest Karen Blixen and Kamante Gatura, Rungstedlund, […]
09.45 BST Last modified on Tue 28 Apr 2020 13.58 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Trudie Styler: ‘Art is meant to guide us through challenging times.’ Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer My family is used to being on the road, so being in one place for this long is a truly rare situation. […]
08.00 BST Last modified on Tue 28 Apr 2020 08.01 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘Original, unique’ … Terry Pratchett. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/the Guardian On what would have been the late Discworld creator’s 72nd birthday, Terry Pratchett’s production company Narrativia has announced a new development deal to create “truly authentic … prestige […]
18.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Michelle Obama called Nadia Hallgren, who directed Becoming, ‘a rare talent, someone whose intelligence and compassion for others comes through in every frame she shoots’. Photograph: Hau Dinh/AP Netflix has announced a new original documentary focused on former first lady Michelle Obama to be released […]
06.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email On the verge of giving up … Laurie Nunn, creator of the Netflix hit. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian Laurie Nunn is remembering her own experience of sex education. It was, she says, “practically nonexistent” at her school, which is ironic, given that she is responsible […]
11.00 BST Last modified on Tue 28 Apr 2020 15.09 BST A mural in progress by Morgan Zion at Molly Moon Ice Cream on Capital Hill Photograph: Mike Hipple Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Be Nice mural graces Lost Lake Cafe, by Goldsuit Photograph: Mike Hipple Facebook Twitter Pinterest A homage to the Tiger King by Elisa Law […]
19.15 BST Last modified on Mon 27 Apr 2020 19.43 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Maitreyi Ramakrishnan in Never Have I Ever, a show that offers a moving and original portrait of a teenage girl grappling with grief. Photograph: Lara Solanki/Netflix It’s the first day of sophomore year, and 15-year-old Devi (Maitreyi […]
07.00 BST Wolfgang Tillmans Still life (Bühnenbild), 2020 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Marlene Dumas James Baldwin (from the series Great Men), 2014 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Gillian Wearing All I Ever Wanted Was Love, 1992/93 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nicole Eisenman Never Forget Kissing in Bars, 2020 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Thao Nguyen Phan March on a Honda Dream, 2020 […]
04.27 BST First published on Sun 26 Apr 2020 14.26 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Brad Pitt portrays Dr Anthony Fauci in the second at-home episode of SNL, during the coronavirus pandemic. Photograph: NBC/AP For the second time this month, Saturday Night Live made a surprise return to deliver a new episode […]
21.22 BST Last modified on Sat 25 Apr 2020 21.43 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Hamilton Bohannon in 1975. Photograph: Gilles Petard/Redferns The US disco, funk and soul musician Hamilton Bohannon, who backed Motown’s greats before starting a respected solo career, has died at age 78. No cause of death has been […]
14.43 BST Last modified on Sat 25 Apr 2020 14.52 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Kanye West pictured in February. The majority of his wealth comes from his Yeezy trainer line. Photograph: Ian West/PA Kanye West is officially a billionaire, according to Forbes. The magazine says the rapper and fashion designer, who […]
12.00 BST Last modified on Mon 27 Apr 2020 10.46 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The BBC adaptation of The Buddha of Suburbia, 1993. Photograph: BBC/courtesy Everett Collection/Alamy All first novels are letters to one’s parents, telling them how it was for you, an account of things they didn’t understand or didn’t […]
07.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Stephen King: ‘right on the money’. Photograph: Ulf Andersen/Getty Images Stephen King has made good use of the sometimes tricky novella form over his nearly 50-year career, often as a vehicle to explore ideas and styles that lie off the more familiar path of his […]
07.00 BST Last modified on Sun 26 Apr 2020 16.31 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Donald Trump speaks at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, in January 2017. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images The 2016 election left the US gaping at a brewing battle between the president-elect and the most senior members of the […]
12.00 BST Last modified on Thu 23 Apr 2020 18.27 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Finding his funk … Lorenzo Senni. Photograph: John Divola ‘Where’s the drop?” This was a complaint often howled at festivals or in YouTube comment sections during the EDM years (usually by a hench guy in a vest), […]
17.45 BST Last modified on Thu 23 Apr 2020 18.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Andrew Cuomo to Trevor Noah on Trump: ‘Who cares about how I feel about him personally? My feelings are irrelevant, my emotions are irrelevant. Just do the job.’ Photograph: YouTube Trevor Noah Trevor Noah called up New […]
17.07 BST Last modified on Thu 23 Apr 2020 20.30 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Going to work … the Rolling Stones performing in 2019. Photograph: Greg Allen/Invision/AP The Rolling Stones have released their first original music since 2012, a new – and rather apocalyptic – single called Living in a Ghost […]