Art

How merry the medieval illustrator must have been. Even in some of the most strait-laced works of liturgy, margins are beset with monkeys playing bagpipes and admiring themselves in mirrors, cats defending castles besieged by mice…
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Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons LemonsHarold Pinter Theatre, LondonWe’re all left speechless sometimes, but for Oliver (Aidan Turner) and Bernadette (Jenna Coleman) that condition is perilous. They’re the couple at the heart of Sam…
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A collection of 25 Surrealist works, valued at £13mn-£18mn, will be offered through two sales at Christie’s in London this season. Some of Europe’s Surreal stars are among the fare, including René Magritte, Óscar Domínguez and Yves…
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There should be a conversation about “The Real Friends of WeHo,” a new reality series from MTV billed as an “unfiltered and honest look at a select group of friends living, loving, and pursuing their passions in the West Hollywood…
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The verdict is in: people who live in glass houses may thrown stones with impunity. After six years of legal battles, the highest court in the land has ruled that the residents of the luxury glass-walled flats opposite Tate Modern’s viewing…
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Four weird kids in black clothes turn their big eyes in unison as they sing what you imagine is a melancholy song about death. The great, great (and a few more greats) grandmother of Wednesday Addams is on keyboards, playing the virginals,…
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Until last month, I had never met anyone who admitted to carrying suicide pills. That changed when I had the opportunity to meet Yeongbok Woo who, with her husband, two young daughters and 83-year-old mother, escaped from North Korea in…
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In May 2020, not long after we went into lockdown, the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter commissioned me to take photographs responding to its wonderful seed collection. The shots were to accompany a touring exhibition called…
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“Hip-hop was this movement of people who weren’t considered valuable creating worth,” said Sacha Jenkins, chief creative officer of Mass Appeal magazine and co-curator of an expansive new exhibition.Celebrating hip-hop’s 50th anniversary,…
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“Whatever happened to Gary Cooper?” asks Tony Soprano of his therapist, Dr Melfi, in the first episode of The Sopranos, which aired in 1999. “The strong, silent type. That was America. He wasn’t in touch with his feelings. He just…
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