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‘Suggestive toothpaste tubes shooting into mouths’: David Hockney’s enigmatic celebration of queer life | David Hockney

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🔥 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: David Hockney,Painting,Art,Art and design,Culture,LGBTQ+ rights,Sexuality 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: SNine decades after David Hockney painted The Biggest Splash, his most famous painting, reproductions have become a visual motif in gay domesticity. I've seen framed posters, prints, and postcards of the work—depicting the moment a person jumps from a diving board into a sky-blue pool—in countless LGBT households. In my apartment, it appears on a cushion cover I bought after seeing the real thing at Hockney's 2017 Tate Britain retrospective.It's fitting that A Bigger Splash is now an…

‘I have a naughty schoolboy attitude’: Anish Kapoor reveals his latest epic creation | culture

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🔥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Anish Kapoor,Art and design,Art,Sculpture,Painting 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: IAt Anish Kapoor's 3,100-square-metre studio complex in south London, photographers, assistants and gallery representatives gather in an upstairs conference room. The artist has a staff of 23 people in London – 11 studio assistants, nine people in offices, and three construction workers at a yard in Battersea – some of whom have been with him for decades. And when he's in town, everyone wants a piece of art ("It's like the West Wing," says one gallery rep).The studio, which…

Atlantis review – the Welsh climate crisis drama is an example for our times | stage

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💥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Theatr Clwyd,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IIn 2014, residents of Fairbourne in Gwynedd discovered that the local council had decided that maintaining the sea defenses was no longer possible. Instead, as part of a "managed retreat" process, this small Welsh coastal village will be abandoned and thrown into the sea by 2055.This timeline has since changed and is disputed, but although the village is not identified by name, it served as the inspiration for Emily White's Atlantis. Focusing on the hunter Brain and his wife Gwen (Richard…

Life in the Four Seasons Review – Dancers of all ages have a spring in their step | Dance

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✨ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Dance,Stage,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IIt was a wonderful idea: a dance through the four seasons of life, with performers ranging from spring to winter, in a reimagining of Vivaldi's four seasons. salary. It's amazing to see older dancers who can bring all forms of their experience to the stage. But the thing with so many actors, who all specialize in different styles, is that the dance ends up somewhere in the middle: everyone can do it but it doesn't suit anyone's strengths. The movement falls into…

Review of Pelléas et Mélisande – a luminous half-stage but Debussy’s elusive opera keeps its secrets | Opera

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✨ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Opera,Classical music,Culture,Music,Snape Maltings,Rory Kinnear,BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TTrying to unravel the secrets of Debussy's opera Pelléas et Mélisande, based on Maeterlinck's allegorical play, is a slippery task at the best of times. Doing this in a barely there stage show, with the orchestra on stage with the singers, is much more difficult. For the opening performance of the Aldeburgh Festival this summer, this was the challenge that brought together conductor Ryan Wigglesworth, a featured artist this year, with actor and occasional opera director…

‘Why would you put a toxic product into the hands of a young child?’: director turned activist Beeban Kidron on why big tech needs its ‘tobacco moment’ | Beeban Kidron

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🚀 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Beeban Kidron,Children,Children's tech,Technology,Children's rights,Society,AI (artificial intelligence),Computing,Film,Online abuse,Culture,Bridget Jones: the Edge of Reason 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Through the open windows behind Beeban Kidron drifts the unmistakable sound of children playing. Her north London office is sandwiched between a school and a nursery, and the occasional playground shriek functions as an aural reminder of what we’re here to discuss: the safety and happiness of young people, growing up in an age of screens.Though our conversation takes some dark turns, only once does the film director turned crossbench peer and online…

What to read this summer by Mark Haddon, Samantha Harvey, Zadie Smith and more | Books

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🚀 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Fiction,Autobiography and memoir,Poetry,Biography books,History books,Culture,Summer reading 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Zadie SmithMargaret Busby’s Part of the Story: Writings from Half a Century is the record of one woman’s lifelong passion for the literature and life of Africa and its diaspora, wherever she finds it. A beautiful collection. The funniest and smartest novel I’ve read in a while is Black Bag by Luke Kennard.Mark HaddonCan I recommend some metaphorical summer travel? Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King, won the International Booker prize so you’re legally…

‘I think about him every time I go swimming’: David Hockney remembered by Rachel Whiteread, Jeremy Deller and more | David Hockney

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🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: David Hockney,Art and design,Culture,Tacita Dean,Jeremy Deller,Rachel Whiteread,Helen Marten,Mark Wallinger 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Rachel Whiteread, artist: ‘It was like he was breathing art’My earliest memories of modern artists were of David Hockney, Andy Warhol and Bridget Riley. I remember seeing a TV programme about David in the 1970s as a young kid and thinking “wow, is that what being an artist is like?” Because my mum was an artist but she wasn’t anything like that!Compared with Bridget Riley, who was very sort of cool, David seemed out…

Books Q&A live: we answer your questions about our 100 top novels lists | Books

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🚀 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Culture,Fiction ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Key eventsIs reading books doomed in an age of screen addiction?mesm asks: Is there any way to help younger people back into reading and away from their phones? I’m 40 and I was an avid reader but I was addicted to my phone and didnt really read for about 10 years. I’m coming out of it now (although here I am) and I feel like an alcoholic in recovery. If it was so hard for me, an ex-readaholic, how difficult will literature…

‘I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way’: Kathleen Turner’s best films – ranked! | Film

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🔥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Turner goes full-on drill sergeant for one scene as a dog-trainer, her forearms covered with scratches. Marley the irrepressible yellow labrador retriever knocks her to the ground and gives her a more vigorous humping than any co-star since William Hurt in Body Heat.A late-career chance to bare her claws again … Turner (right) and Toni Collette in The Estate. Photograph: Alyssa Moran/Signature EntertainmentUnrepentant vileness is well within Turner’s wheelhouse and this bad-taste comedy gave her a late-career chance to bare her claws…