Art & Culture
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Celebrating degenerate music and fighting the fascists – in a blue dress
Jun 4, 2018Afew weeks ago I posted a photograph on Twitter. Yellowed and cracked with age, it showed my mum as a young nurse in London, smiling, proud and starched in her puff- sleeved uniform. The Windrush scandal was raging and... -
Berlin Philharmonic/Rattle review – all guns blazing on Simon’s farewell tour
Jun 4, 2018Royal Festival Hall, London The fruits of Simon Rattle’s long partnership with the Berlin orchestra were evident in a magisterial Bruckner Ninth and vivid miniatures by Hans Abrahamsen. In 2002, newly installed as chief conductor of... -
Singer Mariama: Creating a space ‘where we can be human’
May 31, 2018Ahead of her appearance at the Africa Festival in Würzburg and the upcoming release of her next album, Love, Sweat and Tears, singer Mariama Jalloh talked to DW about music, motivation and the places she calls... -
Can Michelle Wolf’s Netflix show shake up the late night comedy scene?
May 28, 2018Wolf’s pilot episode prophesies a brief period of growing pains in pursuit of an individual identity, and grand dividends once it’s complete. Michelle Wolf knows you’re tired. She’s tired, too. She conceived her new series The... -
‘Gloriously risky’: Edinburgh residents play 450 characters in wordless play
May 28, 2018An exuberant jogger crosses paths with a weeping woman; a defeated football fan stumbles around a champagne-quaffing toff; lovers embrace as a blind-folded prisoner is dragged towards execution. In The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other,... -
Floating cyborgs and a mutant octopus … the grotesque, gorgeous art of Lee Bul
May 28, 2018Lee Bul’s earliest memories are defined by dust. In a military town outside Seoul, where she lived aged 11, many of the trees had been cut down for fuel, while, under the dictator Park Chung-Hee’s modernisation... -
Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk wins Man Booker International Prize for translated novel ‘Flights’
May 23, 2018Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk and her translator Jennifer Croft have won the Man Booker International Prize for fiction. “Flights,” a novel about journeys in time, space and human anatomy, was praised for its wit. An English... -
The Gutenberg Bible re-published 550 years after his death
May 23, 2018Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of modern printing press, died 550 years ago. To celebrate the anniversary, a facsimile edition of the legendary Gutenberg Old Testament Bible of 1454 has been published. The publication by Mainz scholar... -
Sculpture by Romania’s Brancusi Breaks Record at Auction
May 18, 2018A brass sculpture portraying American writer and heiress Nancy Cunard made by Romanian-born Constantin Brancusi sold for 71 million dollars at Christie’s auction house. A bronze portrait of American heiress and political activist Nancy Cunard sculpted... -
Whitney Houston: film alleges singer sexually abused as a child by Dee Dee Warwick
May 17, 2018Kevin Macdonald’s documentary, which has premiered at Cannes and has the backing of the singer’s family, alleges Houston was abused by her cousin, the late sister of Dionne Warwick. A new documentary about the life of Whitney...
