Ibrahim Mahama: Purple Hibiscus at the Barbican.
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The bright pink fabric swaying gently in the wind stands in stark contrast to the grey tones of the brutalist architectural complex.
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As a woman who has been working in the ‘boys club’ of the UK music industry for over 30 years I can say it’s been, at best, frustrating and exhausting.
(L-R) Adil El Arbi, Sofia Coppola and Quentin Tarantino.
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For every film that makes it to our screens, hundreds if not thousands fail to make it.
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Wiley’s seminal debut marked a pivotal moment in the foundation of grime and its history.
(L–R) Mike Faist as Art, Zendaya as Tashi and Josh O'Connor as Patrick in Challengers.
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The Challengers fuses sex and sport to explore our competitive instincts.
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Gradually, with more life experience, I have gained perspective and poetic nerve.
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A brilliant post-apocalyptic tale that expands the lore of a universe fans of the game love.
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In an effort to bring the Olympics to a wider and younger audience, breaking is the latest “sport” to make its debut at Paris 2024. But how will it work as a scored sport?
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A harrowing and important depiction of a male victim of sexual abuse.
Alisha Weir as Abigail.
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Though she appears to be a child, we soon learn Abigail is centuries old, and has developed a habit for ‘playing with [her] food’
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A young white southern belle asks a woman not to cheat with her man while an older Black southern queen warns a woman against cheating with her husband.
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In the album, Swift claims that she can use heartbreak as a stimulus for creativity, rather than allow it to dictate her everyday life.
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Dungeons and Dragons may soon be used be psychotherapists.
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The Homelessness World Cup is a real tournament that has helped hundreds of people all around the world.
George Gershwin composed Rhapsody in Blue in three weeks.
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With his highly original melodic gift, Gershwin blended jazz and classical elements to create the iconic and enduring Rhapsody in Blue.
(L-R) Enzo Mari, Daisy Ridley, Taylor Swift and Andrew Scott.
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An album of easter eggs, a film about a woman with worrying dreams, a series about an unknowable man, new Welsh music and the last chance to see a design great.
Adding water to the mash vat as part of the brewing process: from left to right, Adrian Warrell (historic brewer), Charlie Taverner (postdoctoral researcher) and Marc Meltonville (head brewer) and Jamie Comer from Storylab at Anglia Ruskin University.
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At Christchurch Cathedral in Dublin masons received up to 15 pints a day as payment.
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Respondents to a survey confirmed they would hesitate to encourage anyone to become a freelancer given the limited prospects currently offered in the profession.
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A reconsideration of Nas’s literary clout, 30 years after the release of Illmatic.
Artists were invited to draw and create artworks while snorkelling in Scottish waters.
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Nine artists have taken part in a snorkelling artists’ residency that began underwater in Scotland.
Analogue music enthusiasts configure a modular synthesizer at the Revision festival in Saarbrücken, Germany, March 2016.
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We have spent a decade researching what’s behind the extraordinary revival of vinyl records, film cameras and other ‘old school’ technology
The fresco showing Helen of Troy and Paris.
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The paintings show the trio of women from Greek myth in a way that makes us see the Trojan War myth anew.
Daisy Ridley in Sometimes I Think About Dying.
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Fran (Daisy Ridley) has a complex and creative inner world that she escapes into in order to feel real.
Cuts at Goldsmiths University in London could threaten up to half of departmental jobs in English, history, music, theatre and visual cultures.
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In the latest higher education funding freeze: sacrificing the arts for STEM subjects makes no sense.
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My research found that people experience a weaker sense of ownership over their digital possessions and perceive them as less meaningful than physical ones.