💥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Architecture,Art and design,Culture,Donald Trump,US politics 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WWhen the United States celebrated its bicentennial on July 4, 1976, it marked the occasion by opening the Exhibition Hall of the National Air and Space Museum on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Designed in a bold, modern style by Helmuth's firm, Obata + Kassabaum (now known as HOK), they were a testament to the daring of American aviation, from the Wright Brothers to the moon landing.At the time, although the smell of Republican political shenanigans was…
✨ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Painting,Art,Art and design,Culture,Michelangelo 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IIt must be the ugliest fresco in Rome – and that's even without the bizarre image of Giorgia Meloni as an angel. Artist Bruno Valentinetti painted a tribute to Umberto II, the last king of Italy, earlier this century in a side chapel of the ancient church of San Lorenzo in Lucena in its historic heart, the Centro Storico. It's the kind of ugly build-up you try to ignore when basking in the city's artistic glories which include, in this…
💥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Chichester Festival theatre ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: THere's a sparkling irony in Tim Foley's ghost story: An unemployed actor is recruited to play a ghost for a week, only to become haunted himself. Joe (George Naylor) is hired by David, a handsome outsider, to prowl the grounds of Paragon Hall in order to perpetuate the legend of a troubled spirit residing in the countryside.What a great gig – he can pay off his debts with what he earns and exercise his acting muscles. Of course, Joe…
✨ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Classical music,Culture,Music,Southbank Centre,London Philharmonic Orchestra,Aurora Orchestra,Chineke! Orchestra,The London Sinfonietta,Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment,The Philharmonia Orchestra 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: 'h“Hear music in different ways in our acquisition across locations,” ran a marketing blurb. “You can choose to listen again, skip and move on to another orchestra or pause to catch up with friends at one of our bars.” The idea is to create a live mixtape in which the six world-class orchestras based at the Southbank Center will play a short set, repeated throughout the evening,…
💥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Comedy,Comedy,Stage,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: S“Shame” is what Sue Perkins promises us in this return to live comedy after years of absence: her public persona pulled back like layers of a Russian doll to reveal the real, disgraced person underneath. Who wouldn't want to see the former Bake Off star, after "30 years in our living rooms", put on a show like this? But that's not quite what Perkins offers. Like Dawn French before it, in a tour de force intended to show how "silly" she…
🚀 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Culture,Television & radio,Adolescence,This Is England,Drama,Jack Thorne 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: HHe has been hailed as Britain's most industrious writer. Given Jack Thorne's impressive list of credits, it's hard to argue. The prolific playwright and screenwriter's output includes many of the best local television dramas of the past two decades.This is without the numerous plays and films he also wrote. There's more to come, too. Next in Thorne's pipeline is Channel 4's forbidden romance Falling, with Keeley Hawes and Papa Essiedu, and Enola Holmes 3, which will be…
💥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Culture,Television & radio,TV comedy ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: HAre you watching a show about girls in Derry? With one about women in Belfast, obviously. That's what Lisa McGee did. Her new eight-part book, How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, is about as far from Derry Girls as you can get when the distance between worlds is 70 miles along the A6.Or as she says: "I wanted a top-flight Northern Irish team!"Part thriller, part surreal comedy, How to Get to Heaven from Belfast follows Saoirse (Roisín Gallagher),…
✨ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: US television,Super Bowl,Sport,US sports,US news,Culture,TV comedy,Comedy,Television,Bad Bunny,Music 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WWhen the NFL announced Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny as the main star of this year's Super Bowl halftime show, it entered straight into a culture war. Right-wing critics were angered by the musician's gender-nonconforming style, Spanish-language music, and anti-MAGA policies. Donald Trump, after saying he had never heard of Bad Bunny, called the headline choice "completely ridiculous."In response, Erika Kirk and her conservative advocacy group Turning Point USA turned the controversy into their own counter-programming…
✨ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Marvel,Avengers: Doomsday,Superhero movies,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: WWith its enigmatic trailer for Avengers: Doomsday, Marvel has perfected the trailer that reveals nothing in particular. Teasers consist of foreboding glances, moody lighting, and characters standing still. Dialogue is pre-cleaned of context. The music swells with confidence that something tremendous is happening outside the frame. Meanwhile, the plot was placed in witness protection. The studio is clearly well aware that giving away even a few details this early — the film isn't scheduled to be released until December —…
✨ Read this must-read post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: In the trailer, Ruby is seen doing some very suggestive bread-making actions, her cheeks flushed and her chest heaving, as she recalls Elordi's bare torso. Then there are shots of a corset being pulled forcefully, of Elordi taking off his shirt, and of someone putting his finger in the mouth of a fish. The typical response to all this lust and debauchery was an article in The Spinoff titled 'Everyone hates the new Wuthering Heights trailer, and here's why'. "Vinyl takes a piece of art…
