🚀 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Culture,Experimental music ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: AArabic electronic experimentalism is thriving. In recent years, expatriate artists, such as Egyptian producer Abdullah El-Minyawi, singer Nada El-Shazly, and Lebanese singer-songwriter Maysa Jallad, have released recordings that combine the Arabic musical tradition of the maqam and its slippery melodies with grainy electronic sound design, rumbling bass, and metal drum programming to create a new dramatic presentation.Artwork to glowBeirut-born, Amsterdam-based composer Tony Jeitani is the latest to contribute to this growing scene with his brilliantly produced sophomore album “Wajh.” Working as…
🚀 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: David Bowie,Music,Culture,Music industry,Pop and rock,V&A,Museums,Music documentary 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: When David Bowie died on 10 January 2016, the amount of media coverage and public mourning was so great that one assumed his music would be everywhere forever, elevated as he was, when he misquoted Smash Hits, to the position of Lady of the People. That happened briefly — Starman reached No. 18, Space Oddity No. 24 — but then it wasn't.Every year, Forbes compiles a posthumous list of celebrities' billionaires. Bowie debuted in 2016, ranked…
✨ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art,Netherlands,Belgium,Painting,Art and design,Culture,Europe,World news ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Is he a bald old man with a bushy beard and a wine-addicted look? Or a friendly young woman with flowing locks and a crown of braids?For Belgian art dealer Claes Müller, the answer to this question matters no more than the fact that this particular picture of the optical illusion of a duck-rabbit was painted by Peter Paul Rubens.Three years ago, a former Brussels-based gallery owner managed to acquire not only two studies of the Flemish Baroque artist's…
🚀 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: The Traitors,Television,Television & radio,Culture,Claudia Winkleman 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IIt's a tangled web of intrigue in those castle corridors. Two hidden relationships have already come to light in the current run of The Traitors. The wrongfully exiled Jodie is revealed to be Faithfull's mother Roxy, before psychiatrist Ellie admits that Ross, who has just been sent to pack himself, was her boyfriend.One increasingly popular fan theory suggests that these secret connections are just the tip of the treacherous iceberg. Couch detectives claim that the framed family…
🔥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Baftas,Race,Sinners,Women,Awards and prizes,Culture,Society,World news 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: For now, the BAFTA Film Awards appear to have avoided further criticism over their long-running diversity crisis after revealing their longlists on Friday.Although Bafta overhauled its awards voting system in 2020 after allegations of “systemic racism”, anger resurfaced in 2023 after no people of color won awards. The longlists, which represent an intermediate stage on the way to the final nominations, where each category is determined by a different combination of member voting and jury selection, suggest that some…
💥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Jessie Buckley,Film,Culture,Celebrity,Oscars,UK news,Awards and prizes 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: HAmnet, Chloe Zhao's film adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's best-selling novel about William Shakespeare and his wife Agnes (or Anne) Hathaway, is a tender meditation on love and grief. The depiction of the couple's agony over the death of their 11-year-old son - which is said to have inspired the play "Hamlet" - moved audiences to tears and united critics in their praise.The film's emotional power is carried by Irish actress and singer Jessie Buckley, who plays Hathaway (unlike…
💥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Mona Lisa,Leonardo da Vinci,Art,Art and design,Culture,Painting 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: ITightened security after the latest robbery has made the queues at the Louvre slower, but on this very wet winter morning, no one is complaining. After all, the Mona Lisa is waiting inside for all those tourists who have come from all over the world. Leonardo da Vinci's Woman - wrapped in dark cloth and silk, smiling enigmatically as she sits before a landscape of rocks, roads and water - attracts crowds like no other painting. But…
🔥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film industry,Film,Action and adventure films,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: RRealistically, there would never be a good time for a sequel to Greenland in 2020. That's partly because Greenland was one of those movies where Gerard Butler is running around like he's desperately trying to catch a giant fart. However, releasing a movie about Americans focusing all their efforts on Greenland at this very moment seems a bit disturbing.Also, and hopefully this isn't a spoiler, but it's kind of weird to be making a Greenland 2 movie when…
💥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Comedy,Comedy,Culture,Soho theatre,Stage 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WWho would have thought, in 2026, that comedy would still be in demand for parodying sexism in the Christian church? Such is the case with Kate Owens' "Cooking with Catherine," in which a woman from America's Bible Belt struggles to keep up appearances while, for the first time, hosting her late mother's community cooking program. Owens was nominated for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe for this award, and you can see why. She's a sexy, charismatic presence here, playing a…
🚀 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Culture,Television & radio 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Brooklyn Nine-NineI love every character and every aspect of Brooklyn Nine-Nine. There isn’t a weak link in the cast and they work together as seamlessly and apparently joyfully as you could wish.Jokes come thick and fast … Andre Braugher and Terry Crews in Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Photograph: Fox/Getty ImagesThe jokes come thick and fast, the tone is perfectly pitched, the occasional emotional moment well done, and it rarely strikes a false note. You can watch it again and again and…
