✨ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Children and teenagers,Books,Culture,Young adult 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Wonderland By Tom Percival, Simon & Schuster, £12.99It seems like Daniel's gray, wet day will never get better - until he hears music and everything changes. A subtly beautiful picture book about finding small moments of joy and wonder.The Big Green by Ken Wilson Max, Outer Barry, £12.99Maryam and Issa head into the desert to plant seedlings with their family and neighbors, and help build Africa's Great Green Wall in this rhythmic and colorful picture book, a rich…
🔥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Culture,Folk music 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: from London via Corsica/OccitaniaRecommended if you like Arooj Aftab, Maria Callas, The Choral Tragedy of Prioritizing Self-Esteem in an Age of Pleasurethe next New single “Dieus Sal la Terra” is out nowThe Idrissi Ensemble is a useful corrective to the stereotype of medieval music as smooth, pious, and serene. Hearing the howls of this London-based group – sometimes backed by up to 19 members – you are reminded of song's inexhaustible ability to conjure new pain.In 2016, Thomas Fornell, a Corsican…
✨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art and design,Art,Culture,Painting,Photography,Exhibitions,Tracey Emin,Don McCullin 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Exhibition of the weekTracey Emin: A second lifeThe most serious, intelligent and passionate artist of her generation proves that art can still touch us all and express the meaning of life. Tate Modern, London, until 31 Augustalso appearRamses and the Pharaoh's goldEgypt's most ambitious pharaoh, Ramesses II, brings his positive Trump vision to London in a megalomania-filled wonderland show. Rose Wylie: The picture comes firstThis cheerful, frenetic, and sometimes convincing painter struts her stuff. But it gets a…
🔥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Comedy,Billy Porter,Stage,Diabetes,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Sugar Daddy is a one-man show about "love, grief and insulin" presented by 31-year-old Sam Morrison. An autobiographical monologue that turns tragedy into comedy, it tells how Morrison fell in love with Jonathan, who was 24 years his senior, after meeting him at the Gay Bear Festival in Provincetown, Massachusetts. In 2021, two and a half years into their relationship, Jonathan died of Covid.For the past four years, Morrison has been performing "Sugar Daddy" around the world; Next month, he…
🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Superhero movies,Sony Pictures,Spider-Man,Venom,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: TThe old saying goes that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. This week's news that Sony is planning to reboot its much-vaunted, and now downright laughable, "Spider-Man Universe" shows that there must be a few Hollywood executives who still believe in it.Speaking on The Town podcast this week, Tom Rothman, the studio's CEO and head, was asked about the future of the bewildering superhero franchise that gave us three…
✨ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Neil Sedaka,Music,Pop and rock,Culture,US news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Neil Sedaka, the singer-songwriter behind Breaking Up Is Hard, Oh! Carole, Calendar Girl and Bad Blood, as well as numerous hits by other artists, including Stupid Cupid and Love Will Keep Us Together, has died at the age of 86.An actor confirmed his death to Variety on Friday, hours after he was taken to a hospital in Los Angeles. The cause of death was not mentioned.“Our family is devastated by the sudden death of our beloved husband, father…
🔥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Stage,Theatre,Culture,Imogen Stubbs 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: SSince Peter Morgan's "Frost/Nixon" 20 years ago, there have been articles about famous TV interviews - James Graham's "The Best of Enemies", Doug Wright's "Good Night", an Oscar, and a TV drama about Emily Maitlis and Prince Andrew. A play about Michael Parkinson's studio bouts with Muhammad Ali is being prepared.Now A Thing of Beauty by Wendy Oberman and Jonathan Lewis imagines Leni Riefenstahl, director of Hitler's propaganda films (Triumph Of The Will) and lover of rumours, in London in 1972…
🔥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Tash Aw,Miranda July,Olga Tokarczuk,Culture,Fiction,Francis Spufford ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Paul, Guardian readerI was reading a very short book by Claire Paglen, translated by Jordan Stamp, around the clock. Set on the edge of somewhere in Brittany, all rundown buildings, dual roads and drive-in restaurants, it's a dark and sometimes funny story of a working-class family and a young woman who starts working in a fast food restaurant. Through a few short scenes, we get a real idea of the day-to-day soullessness of the work.It's a quick read,…
🚀 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Pokémon,Pokémon Go,Games,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: It's been 30 years since Pocket Monsters was released for the Nintendo Game Boy in Japan. Numerous video games, trading cards, toys, anime series, and films followed as the franchise achieved global success. With that in mind, we'd love to hear what Pokémon means to you three decades later.Share your experienceYou can tell us what Pokémon means to you using this form.Your responses, which can be anonymous, are secure because the form is encrypted and only a custodian can access your…
🚀 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art and design,Performance art,Painting,Sculpture,Photography,Hungary 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Speaking to The Art Newspaper in 2019, Dora Maurer made a surprising claim. She told the interviewer that her business benefited “from a lack of market.”It seemed a strange thing to say. The Hungarian artist, who died at the age of 88, was about to hold her second show at the White Cube in London. If an exhibition at the legendary Jay Jopling Gallery is the stuff of dreams – his stable includes multi-million-pound giants such as Anselm Kiefer…
