Steve McQueen

Honour our dead soldiers on stamps | Letter
Letters: Madeleine Burbidge on the artist Steve McQueen’s campaign to get Royal Mail to commemorate soldiers killed in Iraq
08, Jan, 2023 @4:40 PM

If you watch only one film … the greatest movies by the greatest directors
Some directors come with such huge back catalogues that it can be hard to know where to start. Enter our film critics, who suggest the best routes in to the works of some of our most prolific film-makers
Peter Bradshaw, Simran Hans, Catherine Bray and Danny Leigh
09, Jul, 2022 @11:00 AM

Footage of racist violence traumatises black children, says author
Claudia Rankine, whose latest play, The White Card, is to tour the UK, warns of negative effect on mental health
Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent
03, May, 2022 @5:00 AM

Curator of Tate Caribbean-British exhibition says UK museums must face up to past
Life Between Islands features artists of Windrush generation and explores Black power movement in UK
Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent
29, Nov, 2021 @10:50 AM

Daughters of the Mangrove Nine: ‘That passion in our parents was instilled in us’
Fifty years after the landmark court case, Yinka Inniss Charles and Jamila Bolton-Gordon talk about police harassment, their fathers’ legacy and their ongoing work against injustice
Ursula Kenny
28, Nov, 2021 @9:00 AM

The last humanist: how Paul Gilroy became the most vital guide to our age of crisis
The long read: As one of Britain’s most influential scholars, Gilroy has spent a lifetime trying to convince people to take race and racism seriously. Is Britain finally ready to listen?
Yohann Koshy
05, Aug, 2021 @5:00 AM

Steve McQueen’s Uprising films speak powerfully to the Britain of today | Martin Kettle
From the Black People’s Day of Action to the riots in 1981, the events of that year resonate profoundly in 2021, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle
Martin Kettle
21, Jul, 2021 @3:39 PM

Uprising review – Steve McQueen’s series on the New Cross fire is furious, devastating TV
McQueen and James Rogan’s remarkable, intimate documentary meets the survivors of the 1981 fire and looks at its shocking aftermath
Rebecca Nicholson
20, Jul, 2021 @9:00 PM

Emily in Paris but no Small Axe? This year’s Emmys snubs and surprises
An exciting selection of newcomers can’t fully take away the sting of some egregious snubs, such as Steve McQueen’s acclaimed anthology series
Stuart Heritage
13, Jul, 2021 @5:03 PM

New Cross fire tragedy should be taught in schools, says Steve McQueen
Director has made three-part BBC documentary, Uprising, on story of fire and subsequent Brixton Riots
Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent
11, Jul, 2021 @11:01 PM

10 of the best songs from Small Axe, chosen by Steve McQueen
From the Wailers to Al Green to Small Faces, the Oscar-winning director selects his favourite tunes from the world of his acclaimed series of films
As told to Steve Rose
04, Jun, 2021 @8:00 AM

Subnormal: A British Scandal review – the racist nightmare that scarred black children for life
Lyttanya Shannon’s film is a devastating look at the kids unfairly deemed ‘educationally subnormal’ in the 60s and 70s – and their lasting trauma
Rebecca Nicholson
20, May, 2021 @9:00 PM
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