09.43 GMT Last modified on Fri 1 Jan 2021 12.17 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Eugene Wright in 1960. Photograph: Bill Wagg/Redferns Jazz bassist Eugene Wright, who was the last surviving member of the Dave Brubeck Quartet’s classic lineup, has died aged 97. The Brubeck estate announced the news on Twitter, saying […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Wed 16 Dec 2020 18.08 GMT Gradiva (1982)Through the 1970s and 80s Victor Burgin’s work mainly consisted of photographic sequences, with printed texts juxtaposed with the image. His work is influenced by a variety of theorists and philosophers, especially post-structuralist thinkers. Gradiva is a laconic evocation of Freud’s 1907 commentary on Wilhelm […]
15.38 GMT Last modified on Thu 3 Dec 2020 18.35 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Upending the way we watch? … Gal Gadot in Wonder Woman 1984. Photograph: Allstar/DC/Warner Bros/Clay Enos Wonder Woman’s origin myth is well known: Princess Diana of Themyscira quits her beloved fantasy island of Amazonian warrior women and […]
07.15 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Working as a journalist in Gaza, says Palestinian photographer Jehad al-Saftawi, is like walking barefoot in a field of thorns. “You must always watch where you step. Each neighbourhood is composed of its own intimate social network, and travelling through them with a camera makes […]
12.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 20 Nov 2020 04.37 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email 30. Rude Boy (1965) The ska-era Wailers launch themselves into the 60s Jamaican vogue for singles either praising or condemning the violent Kingston “rude boy” youth cult. Tellingly, given the socio-political songs that lay ahead of him, […]
10.50 GMT Last modified on Wed 18 Nov 2020 14.18 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Lee paid tribute to his mother for helping him overcome his early dislike of musicals. Photograph: Michael Buckner/Variety/REX/Shutterstock Spike Lee is to direct a musical about the impotence medication Viagra, it has been revealed. According to Deadline, […]
12.06 GMT Last modified on Fri 13 Nov 2020 12.08 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Tambellini leans against one of his sculptures in the churchyard of St Mark’s church, New York, in 1963. Photograph: The New York Post Archives/Getty Images Aldo Tambellini, the pioneering artist and film-maker who had an obsession with […]
15.45 GMT Last modified on Thu 12 Nov 2020 15.04 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A shot of Sean Ellis used in Trial 4 Photograph: Netflix Sean Ellis was 19 when he was arrested by Boston police over the killing of an officer in October 1993. Head down and nearly collapsing, barely […]
07.30 GMT Last modified on Thu 12 Nov 2020 16.44 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘What can Joe Biden do to patch together a frayed nation?’ Supporters of the president-elect gather near the Texas capitol building to celebrate his victory. Photograph: Sergio Flores/AFP/Getty Images So the Biden-Harris ticket has won, but by […]
08.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘It must be so scary having someone like frickin’ Trump or Bolsonaro leading your country’ … Benee. Photograph: Harry Were Twelve thousand fans packed into a venue on a Saturday night, phones aloft, no masks in sight: it looks like a scene from another era, […]
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06.00 GMT Last modified on Mon 26 Oct 2020 09.53 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Constructive period … Sarah Sze in Paris with her installation, Twice Twilight, from her show Night Into Day. Photograph: Ed Alcock/The Guardian One click and the image on my laptop judders. When it reasserts itself, I’m looking […]
06.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Lesley Lokko says the obstacles that she encountered in New York were unlike anything she had come up against before. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian When the Scottish-Ghanaian architect Lesley Lokko was appointed to head the architecture school at the City college of New York last […]
09.50 BST Last modified on Fri 9 Oct 2020 09.53 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Blowing them away … Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Photograph: David Redfern/Redferns Fifty years ago this week, all hell broke loose on Dick Cavett’s US talkshow. The host was interviewing the British actor Trevor Howard before a live studio […]
08.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email We have lift-off … Micah Stock, Jake McDornan, Aaron Staton, Michael Trotter, Patrick J Adams, Colin O’Donoghue and James Lafferty in The Right Stuff. Photograph: AP It’s Mad Men in Space, almost. Disney+ marks its first anniversary with The Right Stuff, an eight-part drama based […]
08.00 BST Last modified on Tue 6 Oct 2020 08.01 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Word of mouth didn’t really take off … Robert Pattinson in Tenet. Photograph: Allstar/Warner Bros Pictures/Melinda Sue Gordon Releasing his lowest-grossing film since 2006’s The Prestige was probably not on Christopher Nolan’s agenda for 2020, but then […]
10.13 BST Last modified on Tue 6 Oct 2020 13.19 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The tune will come to you at last … Robert Plant and Jimmy Page in 1988. Photograph: Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images Led Zeppelin have prevailed in a long-standing copyright battle over their signature song, Stairway to […]
21.12 BST Last modified on Mon 5 Oct 2020 21.23 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Sarah Snook and Kingsley Ben-Adir in Soulmates. Photograph: AMC Soulmates, an AMC anthology series co-created by a Black Mirror writer and Stranger Things producer, orbits around an intriguing if not previously unexplored fictional breakthrough: in the near-ish […]
16.36 BST Last modified on Fri 2 Oct 2020 16.38 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Jamal Khashoggi in Kingdom of Silence Photograph: Courtesy of Showtime Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul on 2 October 2018, with the hope of finalizing a new marriage and a reasonable-enough sense of security. […]
09.14 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Nothing to see here … a Regal cinema in New York in March 2020. Photograph: Victor J Blue/Getty Images Oscar-winning film directors James Cameron, Clint Eastwood and Martin Scorsese joined forces with movie theatre owners on Wednesday in an appeal for financial help, saying they […]
14.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The state of being a woman is simply to provide and provide. Photograph: Lloyd Vas/Alamy Stock Photo This book doesn’t let up. What starts as a series of anecdotes about male privilege and how it motivates men to act in violent ways develops into a […]
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 […]
07.00 BST Illinois, Chicago, US, 1981The exhibition René Burri – Les Autres runs until 24 October at Galerie Bildhalle, Zürich, and showcases more than 50 signed prints, including famous works from Burri’s oeuvre, colour photographs and samples of lesser-known colour images. All photographs: Rene Burri/Magnum Photos Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tokyo, Japan, 1980Akihiro Maruyama, a transvestite, with […]
07.31 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Anne Heche and Sandra Oh in Catfight. Photograph: PR Onur Tukel’s 2016 “black and blue comedy” Catfight is catharsis by proxy. It goes without saying that the world is absurd and there’s a lot to be mad about. It’s far from a new sentiment but […]
17.05 BST Last modified on Thu 10 Sep 2020 22.22 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Ronald Bell of Kool & the Gang performing in 2016. Photograph: Jeff Hahne/Getty Images Ronald “Khalis” Bell was nothing if not an adaptable musician and songwriter. He began his career aged 13, playing jazz in New York’s […]
07.00 BST Last modified on Tue 8 Sep 2020 12.16 BST Jeff Mermelstein, Sidewalk, 1995 Jeff Mermelstein is a major street photography artist. The images exhibited at Festival Images have been taken from his famous SideWalk series and take us back to the New York of the 1990s. Nesting somewhere between photojournalism and voyeurism, his photography adds […]
01.05 BST Last modified on Tue 1 Sep 2020 20.51 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email BTS accept the best pop award at the MTV Video Music awards. They have become the first all-South Korean act to top the US singles chart with Dynamite. Photograph: AP The K-pop sensation BTS have become the […]
12.00 BST Last modified on Thu 27 Aug 2020 12.28 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Too much focus on Mario detracts from the documentary’s scope. Photograph: Netflix/Courtesy of Netflix Netflix’s latest nostalgia-driven docuseries tackles the history of video games, with a focus on the 1970s, 80s and early 90s that made this […]
13.00 BST Last modified on Fri 21 Aug 2020 13.56 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email One-dimensional characters … Hoops. Photograph: Netflix Coach Ben Hopkins has a problem. His high-school basketball team sucks. And to make matters worse, it is filled with hateful stereotypes. The token yokel has rabies. The token gay kid […]
08.00 BST Last modified on Thu 20 Aug 2020 17.34 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Ralph Fiennes in Coup 53. Photograph: Chris Morphet This powerful and authoritative documentary by the Iranian film-maker Taghi Amirani is as gripping as any thriller. Coup 53 is about a vitally important historical event and horribly inglorious […]