Art & Culture
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Blowing hot air: glass artists in Dorset – in pictures
Jul 4, 2018Notarianni Glass is a design partnership between contemporary glass artists Amanda Notarianni and Charlie Macpherson established in 1998. They offer domestic and architectural clients a bespoke service using innovative glass techniques. They are based at a... -
Crazy critters and strange street scenes – in pictures
Jul 4, 2018Untitled, by Barry Talis Second place, single image FacebookTwitterPinterest Hanging Pig, by Jingsheng Nie Third place, single image FacebookTwitterPinterest Floating Heroes, by Sowrav Das First place, series FacebookTwitterPinterest Men of Shadow by İlker Karaman Second place,... -
Nazi-looted Cezanne painting to be shared between Swiss, French museums
Jul 4, 2018Cezanne’s “La Montagne Sainte-Victoire” was found in the trove of notorious “art hermit” Cornelius Gurlitt in 2014. How the work came to be in the hands of the Nazis remains a mystery. The Bern Museum of... -
Richard Swift of The Shins and The Black Keys dead at 41
Jul 4, 2018Cult musician Richard Swift, who played with the Black Keys and The Shins, was known for his musical talent across multiple instruments. He was hospitalized in June for a serious medical condition. Richard Swift, a cult... -
What to see this week in the UK
Jul 3, 2018Five of the best … films Leave No Trace (PG) (Debra Granik, 2018, US) 109 mins FacebookTwitterPinterest A tender study of outsiders on America’s rural fringes. A traumatised military veteran (Ben Foster), self-exiled from society along... -
This week’s tracks reviewed: Little Mix, Paul McCartney and Ariana Grande
Jul 3, 2018Thomas Savage is a standard Shoreditch art-hole who in his last band, Kins, spent most of his time pretending to be Wild Beasts – something that seldom worked, even for Wild Beasts. He is having much... -
Meat Loaf will do anything for love – but he won’t sing on his new tour
Jul 3, 2018Name: Michael (formerly Marvin) Lee Aday. AKA: Meat Loaf. Age: 70. Appearance: Loveable schlub. Shtick: Preposterously overblown gothic rock with unexpected movie cameos. Ah yes. I remember him from such films as The Rocky Horror Picture Showand Fight Club. That’s right. But he is... -
Toned down for what? How ‘chill’ turned toxic
Jul 3, 2018In the early 2010s, pop culture was at the peak of a maximalist high. People wore T-shirts and baseball hats emblazoned with neon “YOLO”s (You Only Live Once) and listened to hyper-climactic pop bangers and rap odes... -
Recipe for disaster: what’s behind the rise of 50s-style domesticity?
Jul 3, 2018Judy Martin is a proud, archetypal 1950s housewife. She waves her husband, Johnny, off to work in the morning and welcomes him in the evening with a cocktail and his slippers. Except Judy – the... -
Vertigo is not the last word in misogyny, but a feminist deconstruction of it
Jun 29, 2018‘Farfetched nonsense,” said the New Yorker. “The film’s first half is too slow and too long,” said Variety. When Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo was released in 1958, the critics were by no means all negative – “One of the...
