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 […]
16.35 GMT Last modified on Thu 11 Feb 2021 12.04 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘More and more people were getting angry and shouting’ … Nicholas-Williams posing in Cameron’s barn. Photograph: Alexandra Cameron When I noticed the model and activist Nyome Nicholas-Williams on social media early last summer, I felt hugely appreciative […]
19.30 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Marilyn Manson in 2020. Photograph: Leon Bennett/WireImage Marilyn Manson is involved in a domestic violence investigation concerning alleged incidents about a decade ago, the Los Angeles county sheriff’s department said. “The Los Angeles county sheriff’s department, special victims bureau is investigating allegation[s] of domestic violence […]
19.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 19 Feb 2021 19.02 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Odette: ‘When I listened back to this body of work, it almost felt like I was looking at things with clarity. I was able to empathise with myself.’ Photograph: Kitty Callaghan People see the story of their […]
12.54 GMT First published on Fri 19 Feb 2021 08.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Olivia Rodrigo … ‘the flag-bearer for a wave of predominantly young women, non-binary and queer songwriters penning power ballads.’ Photograph: PR The biggest song in the world right now considers two teenage rites of passage: learning to […]
11.09 GMT First published on Thu 18 Feb 2021 11.06 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Rihanna has previously apologised for using a song sample with Islamic text in a Fenty fashion show. Photograph: Will Oliver/EPA The singer Rihanna has angered the Hindu community with a “disrespectful” Instagram picture in which she wears […]
07.15 GMT Last modified on Thu 18 Feb 2021 10.26 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Up to his loins in crisp clean snow … Damien Hirst’s 21ft-tall Temple in St Moritz, Switzerland. Photograph: Felix Friedmann/Damien Hirst and Science Ltd, DACS 2021 If anyone should have been ready for this it was Damien […]
14.36 GMT Last modified on Thu 18 Feb 2021 16.33 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘I just talk about unity with people’ … U-Roy performing at the Jamaica 50 festival, London, 2012. Photograph: Roger Garfield/Alamy The legendary toaster U-Roy has died aged 78, a representative for Trojan Records has confirmed. No cause […]
07.00 GMT At the age of 22, Robert Darch had a stroke, followed by a period of ill-health that would affect him for the majority of his 20s. As a coping mechanism during convalescence, he retreated into a world of fictional narratives, of indoor spaces and eventually a physical move back to his family home in […]
10.17 GMT Last modified on Tue 16 Feb 2021 10.19 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘Visionary’ … Johnny Pacheco in 2010. Photograph: Wilfredo Lee/AP Johnny Pacheco, the co-founder of trailblazing salsa label Fania Records, has died aged 85. The cause was complications from pneumonia. A representative for Fania said Pacheco was “the […]
10.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Too cool for school … Glenn Howerton as embittered professor Jack Carson Griffin in AP Bio. Photograph: NBCUniversal/Peacock TV AP Bio is the funniest sitcom you aren’t currently watching. Tucked away without fanfare on Sky Comedy, it’s a fast, smart, silly show about a disgraced […]
09.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Bhanu Kapil: ‘Her memorable protest depends upon her ability to overturn poetic expectation.’ Bhanu Kapil, poet and performance artist, recently won the TS Eliot prize for How to Wash a Heart. Kapil, born in Britain to Indian parents, recently returned to the UK after years […]
09.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘Light comic touch’: Lauren Oyler in New York, January 2021. Photograph: Maria Spann/The Observer A danger for the debut novelist who makes her name writing combative book reviews is that, when it’s time to step into the arena, her targets’ friends, fans and flatterers will […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Wed 17 Feb 2021 14.34 GMT Asbestos Eye by Susan Worsham, 1st place winner, from the series Bittersweet on Bostwick LaneThe suicide of my brother seeps into my work like a slow-forming stain. He took his own life on his first visit home after severing his spinal cord in a motorcycle accident. […]