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‘Torture porn or serious literature?’: the love-hate phenomenon of cult novel A Little Life
One million copies sold, sobbing superfans on TikTok and a new stage adaptation starring James Norton – yet Hanya Yanagihara’s 2015 book continues to divides readers
Alex Needham
11, Mar, 2023 @9:00 AM
Why Triangle of Sadness should win the best picture Oscar
Projectile vomiting and exploding toilets aside, Ruben Östlund’s satire about the super-rich is more thoughtful than it initially appears – it’s a film for our times
Alex Needham
07, Mar, 2023 @9:38 AM
Hedi Slimane’s Celine show revives early 00s hedonism for TikTok age
Menswear show at Paris nightspot Le Palace draws on indie aesthetic, topped off by Libertines performance
Alex Needham
12, Feb, 2023 @10:13 AM
‘There are truths that have to be told and they may upset people’: Tony Kushner on Spielberg, Ye and ‘the orange-covered mud devil’
The Angels in America writer talks about antisemitism, homophobia and working on The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg’s loosely autobiographical film about a teenager obsessed with cinema
Alex Needham
16, Dec, 2022 @8:00 AM
From vinyl to streaming: music writers on how they consumed the Top 40
Crying over the Spice Girls, recording off the radio and raging against the sales machine: our writers recount how they consumed the singles chart
Alex Needham, Alexis Petridis, Laura Barton, Laura Snapes, Tayyab Amin and Sophie Walker
18, Nov, 2022 @2:30 PM
‘It’s undoubtedly going to have a big impact’: inside three Arts Council funding cases
In our final set of case studies exploring the impact of Arts Council England’s new funding round, we speak to Ballet Black, Disability Arts Online and Camden Art Centre
Mabel Banfield-Nwachi, Caroline Butterwick and Alex Needham
18, Nov, 2022 @8:00 AM
‘We fight propaganda with art’: the Georgian festival hitting back at Putin
In a giant former Coca-Cola factory, Georgian and Ukrainian artists united for Culture Week Tbilisi, a show of defiance and solidarity that captured the harrowing reality of life under siege
Alex Needham
11, Nov, 2022 @3:08 PM
‘I’m not saying we won’t make mistakes’ – violin sensation Nicola Benedetti on becoming EIF’s first female director
She was leading an orchestra at the age of eight and won Young Musician of the Year at 16. What is the virtuoso’s vision for Edinburgh international festival? Audiences moved to tears and bagpipes going global
Alex Needham
17, Oct, 2022 @2:55 PM
Wolfgang Tillmans on making the ICA rave: ‘It is underground, progressive and has a really late licence’
London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts has a new director tasked with making the place party until 6am, and an art auction to raise funds organised by Tillmans, the venue’s chair
Alex Needham
11, Oct, 2022 @11:07 AM
‘She paints with the brush in her ass’: the artists sharing their worst savagings
In the book Bad Reviews, 150 artists have revisited their most brutal critiques – from an ‘unforgiveable’ Carolee Schneemann sculpture to the critic who suggested the artist should be jailed
Alex Needham
04, Oct, 2022 @11:37 AM
‘Painting takes me over – like witchcraft’: Jadé Fadojutimi, art’s hottest property
She’s only 29 yet her paintings have already been scooped up by the Tate and fetched over £1m at auction. Now she’s thinking even bigger. On the eve of a new exhibition, the artist talks colour visions and anime obsessions
Alex Needham
07, Sep, 2022 @5:27 PM
How You Get Famous by Nicole Pasulka review – the triumph of drag
Why has drag culture exploded in the past decade? Pasulka finds answers in the stories of Brooklyn’s charismatic queens
Alex Needham
04, Aug, 2022 @6:30 AM
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