🔥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: UK news,Classical music,Culture,Music,Radio 3,BBC,Media,Radio industry âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Pianist Yuja Wang today published an email written to her by writer, critic and Radio 3 presenter Norman Lebrecht, and her response accusing the journalist of “degrading bullying and misogyny”.Lebrecht wrote to the musician inquiring about her decision to withdraw from a BBC interview with Lebrecht, saying: "I am surprised and disappointed. I thought you were a serious person who was keeping her commitments. I may have to revise that opinion."On her official Instagram account, Wang wrote…
🔥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Film,Berlin film festival,Germany,Culture,Europe,Festivals,World news âś… **What You’ll Learn**: forErlen is a difficult place to hold a major international film festival. It may be impossible, as the events of the past two weeks have shown. The main reason for this difficulty is that Berlin, unlike all its major competitors, is a national capital. Cannes, Venice, Toronto and Sundance are all hosted in locations far from the centers of political gravity. In Berlin, world events always remain at the cinema's doorstep and continue to flow inward.The event has long…
✨ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Horror films,Film,Culture,Thrillers đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: WWhether you love or hate the Scream series, at this point it's hard not to at least respect it. Even without the subterranean bar set by other slasher series (chase, stab, repeat, yawn) it's a series that has now been around for thirty years and has tasked itself with expanding the ongoing narrative of the insanely twisted soap, finding new ways to comment on the horror genre and attracting a more savvy generation of young fans (the sixth film managed to…
✨ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: David Hockney,Painting,Art and design,Art,Culture,UK news đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: David Hockney's first English landscape, which depicts a perfectly manicured Oxfordshire garden, is on display for the first time in three decades before being sold at auction.Sotheby's said the 1965 painting The English Garden, completed in Boulder, Colorado, was pivotal for Hockney, as well as holding an important place in broader art history.“It's a moving painting,” said Tom Edison, co-head of contemporary art at Sotheby's in London. “It really lays the foundations for everything that comes next.”The painting…
🚀 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Games,Culture,Resident Evil,Action games,Role playing games âś… **What You’ll Learn**: TThere's often an undercurrent of existential exhaustion in games that look back to their legacy. The dying kingdom of Dark Souls III, and the crumbling serpent of Metal Gear Solid 4. So when Capcom showed us an aging Leon Kennedy entering the ruins of the police station that marked the beginning of his journey from rookie cop to hardened veteran, it seemed as much tinged with boredom as it did with nostalgia. This self-reflexivity of this 30-year-old series…
✨ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Classical music,György Kurtág,Music,Culture đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: I I clearly remember my first meeting with György Kurtag. That was almost 40 years ago at the International Musicians' Symposium in Prussia Cove, Cornwall. I was sitting in the dining hall there, when a man with gray hair and an unusually enthusiastic countenance came up to me, and began talking, almost without any introduction, about my pizzicato playing in a performance he had heard of a Schubert quintet some years before, in which I had played the second part…
🚀 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Film,Culture,Robert De Niro,World news,US politics,Donald Trump,US news đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Donald Trump responded to Robert De Niro's recent podcast appearance, in which he called the president an "idiot."Speaking on Monday's episode of "Best People with Nicolle Wallace," De Niro, who has long criticized Trump's politics, ethics and competence, said: "He's an idiot. We've got to get rid of him. He's going to destroy the country."He added: "I don't want everyone walking around with their flags, American flags, as if they are the only ones. We…
đź’Ą Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Television,Culture,Television & radio,Fallout,Underground cities đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: SAltman's got one — although Mark Zuckerberg is apparently larger. Peter Thiel is described as “huge” and is located in New Zealand. These days, it's a doomsday bunker (or, in Elon Musk's case, an "apocalypse resort"). It is necessary For any self-respecting billionaire - it's enough to make you wonder if they know something we don't.A slew of recent dramas suggest we're fascinated by such impressive underground real estate. Even more daring is Paradise on Disney+, in which…
🚀 Explore this awesome post from BBC Culture đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Scientific9. Hail Mary projectIf you fancy a deeply researched story about a scientist stuck alone in space, Andy Weir is your man. His first novel, The Martian, was made into a successful film written by Drew Goddard and directed by Ridley Scott. A decade later, Goddard wrote the screenplay for another film adaptation of one of Weir's novels, the Hail Mary Project. Directed by Christopher Miller and Phil Lord (directors of The Lego Movie and producers of the animated Spider-Verse films), it stars Ryan Gosling…
🚀 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,TV comedy,Zach Braff 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: forThe sick Lawrence is on the verge of tears. This is the man who gave us Ted Lasso and Shrinking, and who is just days away from the launch of Rooster, the Steve Carell sitcom that HBO already sees as the anchor for its comedy output. At this point in his career, Lawrence could blow his nose and the contents of his handkerchief would become a beloved, heart-warming sitcom.So it's interesting that out of all the options available…
