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South African photographer Zanele Moholi: My mother worked for a white family. I remember the pools I wasn’t allowed to swim in Zanele Moholi

South African photographer Zanele Moholi: My mother worked for a white family. I remember the pools I wasn’t allowed to swim in Zanele Moholi

✨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Zanele Muholi,Art,Photography,Art and design,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: gAnnelie Moholy has received the 2026 Hasselblad Prize. The South African artist, who identifies as non-binary, now takes his place among the pantheon of the world's greatest art photographers, from Carrie Mae Weems, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Wolfgang Tillmans and Sophie Calle, to the genre's forefathers, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Ansel Adams.It's the kind of tribute that codifies the breathless reception with which Moholy's works have been greeted thus far. When their 2020 survey show at London's Tate Modern was hampered by…
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Inside The Pitt: The stunning hit medical drama from the team behind ER| the house

Inside The Pitt: The stunning hit medical drama from the team behind ER| the house

✨ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: The Pitt,Television,Culture,Television & radio,Medical drama,Drama ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: toLike many American hospitals, Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center (PTMC) is a place where time melts away. Rain or shine, at 1 a.m. or 1 p.m., everything becomes bathed in the same retinal-burning fluorescent light. Wait times often exceed several hours; The lobby has a barrage of warnings in capital letters (“Aggressive behavior will not be tolerated”), while several TVs play clips from Deadliest Catch in two-minute loops. Purgatory looks a lot like an American hospital... as recreated on…
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Review by Elizabeth Leonskaja – The unmistakable sense of architecture of the piano legend reveals connections and kinship | classical music

Review by Elizabeth Leonskaja – The unmistakable sense of architecture of the piano legend reveals connections and kinship | classical music

💥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Classical music,Culture,Music,Wigmore Hall 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: eEighty-year-old piano legend Elisabeth Leonskaya threw herself onto the piano stool and into the two turbulent descending chromatic scales that open Beethoven's Op 77 Fantasia in G minor in one gesture. There's still a long way to go in a concert program that feels like a lucky dip into European metal — Beethoven, Schoenberg, Chopin, Webern, Schubert — and Leonskaya isn't messing around.Of course, there was no chance in terms of programming. The Austrian pianist's expressive and passionate playing may…
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Hallé/Chauhan/Helseth review – Muhly paints death with Helseth’s brilliant trumpet | classical music

Hallé/Chauhan/Helseth review – Muhly paints death with Helseth’s brilliant trumpet | classical music

🔥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Classical music,Hallé Orchestra,Culture,Music,Nico Muhly 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: AAudiences can be fickle. The Hallé Band's latest program featured one of the world's most famous trumpeters, was the UK premiere of one of the world's leading living composers, and one of this country's most successful young conductors - yet the Bridgewater Hall yawned with its empty seats. Whatever the reasons, those who decided not to book missed out on a delightful evening.It began politely enough, with the rolling baroque of Britten's gentle dances from Gloriana. A group of…
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“I’m wearing tree fiber underwear now!” Meeting with Oscar bag organizers Oscars 2026

“I’m wearing tree fiber underwear now!” Meeting with Oscar bag organizers Oscars 2026

🔥 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Oscars 2026,Oscars,Film,Awards and prizes,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: IIt has now been 20 years since the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences discontinued the official Oscars gift bag. Modest by today's standards, this bundle of gifts was subject to an unglamorous IRS crackdown on taxation of its contents, which viewed it as non-monetary compensation.But no sooner had that been done away with than a wave of benevolent gift barons swooped in to take their place. This week Hollywood has seen a frenzy of secret and intense…
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Sinners or One Battle: What can we learn from the anonymous balloting for this year’s Oscars? | Oscars 2026

Sinners or One Battle: What can we learn from the anonymous balloting for this year’s Oscars? | Oscars 2026

🚀 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Oscars 2026,Sinners,Oscars,Film,Awards and prizes,Culture,Jessie Buckley,One Battle After Another,Michael B Jordan,Timothée Chalamet,Hamnet,Marty Supreme,Paul Thomas Anderson,Ryan Coogler 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IIt took a great deal of blood, sweat, and tweets, but in 2016 the Academy finally took notice and began to embrace diversity and modernity. The #OscarsSoWhite hype over two straight years of all-white nominees (Michael B. Jordan's snub of Creed was the harshest in my opinion) led to a sea change and has continued ever since with more women, people of color, and international voters added…
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Naked Erotica, Japanese Giants Confront, and Spring Arrives in Oxford – The Week in Art | Art and design

Naked Erotica, Japanese Giants Confront, and Spring Arrives in Oxford – The Week in Art | Art and design

🔥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art and design,Culture,Painting,Photography,Art,Exhibitions,Hokusai ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Exhibition of the weekIn Bloom: How Plants Changed Our WorldBeautiful flower paintings herald the arrival of spring, but all is not as it seems in this survey of how science, commerce, and the tulip craze helped shape the modern world. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, from 19 March to 16 Augustalso appearAlexis RalivaoPaintings that hover provocatively between abstraction and fleshy sensuality. Pilar Correas, London, until 23 MayUnder the great waveHokusai and Hiroshige get the Turner and Constable treatment in this look at…
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King Conan is Arnold Schwarzenegger’s chance at a late-era masterpiece, like Clint Eastwood’s ‘Unforgiven’ | film

King Conan is Arnold Schwarzenegger’s chance at a late-era masterpiece, like Clint Eastwood’s ‘Unforgiven’ | film

🔥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Arnold Schwarzenegger,Science fiction and fantasy films,Culture,The Terminator,Clint Eastwood,Unforgiven 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: IIf you were a fan of Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 80s and 90s, his late-era career will likely be a huge letdown. The Austrian oak was once Hollywood's most reliable tool for beating up killer robots, but it's never had its unforgivable moment. Despite a string of absurdly influential sci-fi and fantasy films, Schwarzenegger missed the kind of late-career reckoning that could have dismantled his youthful legend, just as Clint Eastwood's 1992 epic Western confronted…
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Twisted Yoga Review – A Wild Reveal of Tantric Sex Cult | television

Twisted Yoga Review – A Wild Reveal of Tantric Sex Cult | television

💥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Documentary,Factual TV,Yoga 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: YYou are invited to an exclusive yoga retreat in the 'Villa'. When you arrive, you'll find a gloomy building in Romania, where women walk around in tiny bikinis and drink each other's urine after a group orgy. You have been summoned to meet a spiritual teacher in Paris. When you arrive, a woman wraps your SIM card in foil and takes you to the suburbs. Later you are taken to a dingy apartment where you are expected to have…
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Daisy Johnson: “I wasn’t a fan of David Salai, but Flesh is a masterpiece.” books

Daisy Johnson: “I wasn’t a fan of David Salai, but Flesh is a masterpiece.” books

🚀 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Fiction,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: My first memory is readingMy childhood memories bloom as I read to my young children right now. Something in the pictures of Helen Cooper's "The Bear Under the Stairs." Or Lynn Smith's Big Pet It takes me back to being four years old and reading to him.My favorite book growing upI love Sabril A series by Garth Nix that I first read alongside my father, and later my younger brother. It was a real pleasure to be immersed in this world, and…
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