๐ฅ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ Category: Steve Coogan,Film,Richard III,Culture,UK news ๐ Main takeaway: Steve Coogan said his film about the discovery of Richard III's remains was "the story I wanted to tell, and I'm glad I did" after he and two production companies agreed to pay "significant damages" to settle a High Court libel claim over the film's depiction of a university academic.Richard Taylor, deputy registrar at the University of Leicester at the time of the discovery, has sued Coogan, his production company Baby Cow and Pathe Productions for defamation over his portrayal…
๐ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ Category: Jazz,Music,Culture,Miles Davis โ
Hereโs what youโll learn: MThe interview with Jack DeJohnette didn't start out well. It was the summer of 2000 and DeJohnette was in London to play with Keith Jarrett's Standards Trio. Referring to him in my first question as a "drummer" seemed reasonable enough, but DeJohnette didn't appreciate being pigeonholed and immediately replied: "I'm a complete musician." A few days later, as I sat in the Royal Festival Hall watching the Standards Trio, I was struck by a moment of transcendent magic as Jarrett…
๐ฅ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ Category: Art,Painting,Art and design,Culture,Music,Pop and rock,Opera,Classical music,Dance music,Ragnar Kjartansson,Chris Ofili,Jeremy Deller,Laure Prouvost,Mark Leckey โ
Hereโs what youโll learn: FFrom Johannes Vermeer's music lesson to Piet Mondrian's homage to dance, with tiny ribbons of color moving across the canvas to a radically new rhythm, art and music have made natural companions. Peter Doig is now celebrating his love of music with an exhibition at London's Serpentine that combines recent paintings with his favorite recordings played through an exceptional sound system. So we asked other contemporary artists what music means…
โจ Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ Category: Music,Pop and rock,Soul,R&B,Culture โ
Main takeaway: TThe 63-year-old American on stage tonight was one of the biggest stars in the sky at the end of the 1980s. At the time, his debut album Introducing Hardcore According to Terence Trent Darby went multi-platinum, he was viewed as the Fresh Prince and told the world he was a genius. However, Darby's career declined after the brutal attack on his more experimental second album, and in 2001 he changed his name "to create a new identity that had not suffered…
๐ฅ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ Category: Comedy films,Culture,Film,Television,Television & radio,Harry Enfield,Kathy Burke โ
Main takeaway: Harry Enfield, co-writer, played KevinWe had done Kevin and Perry in Harry Enfield and Chums and we thought it would be fun to do a Wayne's World-y movie while we still had the momentum of the TV show. I went on holiday and Dave Cummings, who had written for Harry Enfield and Choms, prepared the first draft. I came back and took over. A month later, it all happened. It was really fast.We earned ยฃ3.5 million for filming…
๐ฅ Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ Category: Film,Animation in film,Anime,Manga,Science fiction and fantasy films,Japan,World news,Culture,Comics and graphic novels,Books,Asia Pacific ๐ Main takeaway: SShortly after the release of Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle last month - which was confirmed last weekend as the highest-grossing anime film of all time - a big-screen outing for a film adaptation of what, in manga terms, is a relatively conceited one: Tatsuki Fujimoto's blood-soaked coming-of-age epic, which was first serialized in 2018. Apply Standard Cash Directions: What will undoubtedly be catnip for fans will likely be just as well. It…
๐ฅ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ Category: Stage,Culture,Theatre ๐ก Main takeaway: IIt's hard to focus on writing a memoir when a nuclear reactor flashes nearby and the neighbors kill themselves. Playwright John Morton and director Jamie Fay extract maximum black humor from this dystopian film set in the year 2048 at the end of days. As Liam (Patrick O'Kane) and Edel (Anna Healy) hide out in a remote mountainside cabin, gradually engulfed by smoke and fire, they have no idea how many hours remain before everything is obliterated.In the high stakes of this drama,…
๐ Discover this trending post from BBC Culture ๐ ๐ Category: ๐ก Hereโs what youโll learn: When Townsend returned from Belgium in October, Margaret said that if she married him, she would have to give up her right of succession, her annual income of ยฃ6,000 on the civil list, the title of HRH, and her status as a member of the royal family. Public opinion was divided over what she should do, while some members of the royal family also felt conflicted. Craig Brown's biography of Princess Margaret, Madam Darling, notes that when the Queen Mother became concerned about where…
๐ฅ Check out this trending post from Culture Latest ๐ ๐ Category: The Big Story,Culture / Digital Culture,AI as Mother ๐ Hereโs what youโll learn: Established in 1966, Eliza has been called the first chatbot, and her primary character โscriptโ was DOCTOR, a fictitious psychotherapist. Nearly 60 years later, we put Dr. Eliza and one of her distant descendants, Claude, in conversation. The instructions we gave Claude were as follows: "You are having your first session with a very old and acclaimed psychotherapist. You are the patient. You are not the therapist."Dr. Eliza: How are you? Please tell me your…
๐ฅ Check out this must-read post from Culture Latest ๐ ๐ Category: The Big Story,Culture,Culture / Digital Culture,AI as Screen Killer ๐ Key idea: You wake up. You don't check your phone. Alternatively, you can activate various wearable devices embedded in your body and have a series of conversations with inanimate objects. You create Minority reportโ Style gestures in the air. You blink a lot. Things get started, tasks get done, and the day begins. It turns out that you don't need a smartphone at all.A lot of people are making big predictions about artificial intelligence. Critical thinking is this,…
