17.57 BST Last modified on Tue 29 Sep 2020 23.08 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Barry Jenkins in February 2020. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters Moonlight Oscar-winner Barry Jenkins is set to direct a follow-up to 2019’s hit remake The Lion King. The writer-director, who won the best adapted screenplay Oscar for the acclaimed […]
17.01 BST Last modified on Tue 29 Sep 2020 17.53 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Stephen Colbert: ‘Normally you don’t find someone who owes that kind of cash in the Oval Office. You find them washed up on the banks of a river.’ Photograph: YouTube Stephen Colbert The fallout from the New […]
11.09 BST La Soirée at the Roundhouse, London, 2011 Facebook Twitter Pinterest A scene from Depart by Circa at Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, London, in 2016 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Piccadilly Circus Circus, part of the London 2012 festival Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tête-à-Tête’s Circus Tricks at Riverside Studios, London, in 2012 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Circa: The Return, […]
12.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Alma Fielding … treated with delicacy and dignity by Kate Summerscale. Photograph: Courtesy of Barry Fielding In the late 1930s something strange was happening in the semis and terraces of suburban Britain. Tables bucked and strange stigmata appeared on the bodies of quiet people living […]
09.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Ursula and her first husband Rudi after a picnic in the countryside just before her departure for Moscow. Photograph: Collection of the Hamburger family In November 1930, the 22-year-old Ursula Hamburger was visited at her Shanghai home by a good-looking man with a strong German […]
13.46 BST Last modified on Tue 29 Sep 2020 13.48 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Not many stars would take this route in a memoir … Mariah Carey, pictured in 2016. Photograph: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters In the popular imagination, Mariah Carey is a caricature: the embodiment of the demanding diva stereotype (a persona […]
07.00 BST Jamie Johnson has spent more than 20 years photographing children. In 2014 she was invited to Ireland to document the Irish Travellers, a nomadic, ethnic minority who have lived on the margins of society for centuries. While the Travellers don’t usually welcome outsiders, Johnson’s kindness and respect won them over and she was granted […]
09.00 BST First in the animals section and overall winner of the competition was this shot of an eel larva off the coast of Indonesia during a blackwater dive. Photograph: Galice Hoarau Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photographed during a night walk through the Kubah national park on the island of Borneo, a cat gecko, which gets its […]
06.00 BST Last modified on Tue 29 Sep 2020 16.47 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘I remember someone coming to the studio and saying, “You must be very depressed”’ … Nauman with his work Two Leaping Foxes; he is the subject of a Tate retrospective. Photograph: George Etheredge/The Guardian Bruce Nauman is […]
16.14 BST Last modified on Mon 28 Sep 2020 16.47 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Elijah Escapes the Mob, from the 1950s. Social justice was at the core of Pierce’s message as an artist. Photograph: Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio In 1974, the American artist Elijah Pierce sat in his barber shop […]
09.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Natalie Diaz: ‘There is an ongoing phosphorescence to her writing.’ Photograph: Deanna Dent Natalie Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California. She grew up on the banks of the Colorado river and water is her element. Her second […]
07.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘In love with the theatre, mythology and passion of the restaurant kitchen’: Bill Buford at home in New York. Photograph: Ashley Gilbertson/New York Times/Redux/eyevine It has taken Bill Buford a long time to give us Dirt. His last book, Heat, which detailed his macho adventures […]
07.00 BST Last modified on Tue 29 Sep 2020 11.05 BST Blyth Services at Night, Blyth, Nottinghamshire, February 1981Throughout Graham’s childhood his family would take its annual two weeks’ holiday in the Lake District, travelling from his home in London to visit relatives. He says: ‘To an impressionable five-year-old, travelling up the Great North Road seemed a […]
11.30 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Dynamic duos: (from top left) John and Yoko, Bill and Hillary, Bernstein and Woodward, Sue and Mel, Beyoncé and Jay-Z, Bill and Melinda Gates, Judy and Richard, Ant and Dec. Illustration: Gluekit There is something about the “power of two” in our culture, a unique, […]
11.27 BST First published on Mon 28 Sep 2020 11.01 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘Progress takes courage’ … Dwayne Johnson on social media. Photograph: Instagram @therock/Reuters Dwayne Johnson has come out in support of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in the US presidential election, with the self-proclaimed “registered independent with centrist […]
10.14 BST Last modified on Mon 28 Sep 2020 19.38 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Sacha Baron Cohen, in character, at the London film festival premiere of Borat in 2006. Photograph: David M Benett/Getty Images Reports that Sacha Baron Cohen has filmed and test-screened a sequel to his 2006 comedy hit, Borat: […]
10.18 BST Last modified on Mon 28 Sep 2020 10.19 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Mariah Carey in 2017. Photograph: PA With her immaculate, glamorous image, Mariah Carey is the last person you’d expect to don a plaid shirt, ripped denim and mope over a squall of electric guitars. But the R&B […]
10.49 BST Elisabeth Moss, The Children’s Hour, Comedy theatre, London, 2011 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kit Harington, True West, Vaudeville theatre, London, 2018 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sophie Okonedo, The Goat, Or Who is Sylvia? at Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, 2017 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Michelle Dockery, Network, National Theatre, London, 2017 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cate Blanchett, The Present, […]
15.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Public Enemy. Yes, Chuck D has earned the right to make as much average music as he wants. What’s dispiriting is that the genius who devised the deathless definition of rap as the black CNN remains so stuck on the History channel. This is an […]
11.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘Brisk, first-rate stuff, and not especially radical’: Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Photograph: Studio Canal Capital in the Twenty-First Century is not so much a critique of capitalism as a critique of its corruption. In New Zealand film-maker Justin Pemberton’s documentary, French economist Thomas Piketty’s […]
21.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Radical … Letitia Wright rallies protesters in Mangrove. Photograph: Des Willie/BBC/McQueen Limited Vivid, immediate and impassioned, this new movie episode in Small Axe, Steve McQueen’s five-part film series for the BBC, is about the Mangrove Nine case in 1970. A group of black British campaigners […]
07.00 BST Love Heart of Nature by the Australian photographer Jim Picôt is the overall winner. The shot immortalises a salmon school in New South Wales, forming the shape of a heart with a shark swimming inside it. Photograph: Jim Picôt Facebook Twitter Pinterest Two million Hongkongers took to the streets on 16 June 2019, calling […]
17.00 BST Last modified on Mon 28 Sep 2020 14.16 BST Notting Hill carnival sound system, 1989. Photograph: © Adrian Boot/Urbanimage Facebook Twitter Pinterest Setting up Channel One sound system at Notting Hill carnival, 2019. Photograph: © Eddie Otchere/Museum of London Facebook Twitter Pinterest DJ Lepke of the Dread Broadcasting Corporation, Notting Hill carnival, 1981. Photograph: © […]
18.23 BST Last modified on Fri 25 Sep 2020 19.12 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A still from A Wilderness of Error. Photograph: FX A Wilderness of Error, a five-part true crime series that’s more meditation on the magnetism of conclusions than the pursuit of one, begins, tellingly, with the acknowledgment of […]
08.25 BST Last modified on Fri 25 Sep 2020 15.10 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Debbie Harry, Neneh Cherry and David Bowie, three of Red Hot’s biggest stars. Composite: Red Hot For millions of people, the current situation feels entirely new. For John Carlin, it feels eerily familiar. Three decades ago, when […]
09.01 BST Last modified on Thu 24 Sep 2020 20.16 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The Black Godfather, which gives us a shining look at a man you wish there were a lot more of. Photograph: Netflix The first time I saw The Black Godfather, the 2019 Netflix documentary on black entertainment […]
17.09 BST Last modified on Fri 25 Sep 2020 17.28 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Uncharted waters … Jimmy Kimmel hosted the 72nd annual Emmy awards over Zoom. Photograph: ABC/AFP/Getty As with other creative industries, the film business is reeling under the impact of coronavirus. Crews are struggling to shoot, cinemas are […]
16.50 BST Last modified on Fri 25 Sep 2020 16.53 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Seth Meyers Photograph: YouTube Late-night hosts attacked the president’s latest sinister suggestion that he may refuse a peaceful transfer of power while also looking at how the Republicans are trying to dismantle the process. Trevor Noah: ‘Donald […]
15.07 BST Last modified on Thu 24 Sep 2020 15.55 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A big fan of comic-books … Nicolas Cage. Photograph: RB/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images As rumours go, the one this week that Nicolas Cage might end up starring as Superman in Warner Bros’ Flash movie takes some beating. There’s every […]
11.14 BST Last modified on Fri 25 Sep 2020 11.33 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Tory Lanez and Megan Thee Stallion. Photograph: Getty Images Rapper Tory Lanez has denied shooting chart-topping rapper Megan Thee Stallion in a July incident in Los Angeles. On his new album Daystar released today, Lanez raps “I […]