🔥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art and design,Textile art,Culture,Art 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: eLizabeth Allen lived at the end of a steep, muddy road in a rickety shack with a note on the door that said: “Knock very loud.” One winter day in 1965, artist Patrick Heron did just that — and overnight Allen, then in her eighties, became famous in the art world. There were exhibitions all over Britain, not to mention New York, Los Angeles and Barcelona. The Guardian described her as a "brilliant colorist", adding that "Klee and Matisse…
💥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Podcasts 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: History's greatest failuresHow to Fail's Elizabeth Day teams up with historian Dan Jones in this new series about mistakes from the past. Fast forward to a university reunion (they were at Cambridge together) and it quickly became interesting. The first episode challenges Shakespeare's vision of the evil Richard III, while the future episode, 'Ross and Rachel in Early Modern History', will look at Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Hannah J. DavisWidely available, weekly episodesStrangeYou may have heard of the surgeon…
🔥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Jacob Elordi,Sydney Sweeney,Zendaya 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: tranceMonday, 9pm, Sky AtlanticA lot has happened in the four years since Sam Levinson's gritty high school drama wrapped its second series - namely, that lead actors Zendaya, Jacob Elordi and Sidney Sweeney have become some of Hollywood's most recognizable stars. They're all back in this third and final outing, which picks up the story five years after high school, with the characters in their early twenties. The previews are top secret, but what we do know is…
🔥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Thrillers,Netflix,Film,Horror films,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: DGiven the huge amount of money Netflix has to play with (last year it spent about $18 billion on content) and the ever-increasing number of subscribers it has to satiate, the streaming device often acts as a home for other people's unwanted goods, and a digital island of inappropriate games. At one point, the shark thriller Beneath the Storm was ready for a theatrical release by Sony, set for release in 2024. The following year, it was retitled Shiver and…
🚀 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Culture,Pop and rock,Taylor Swift 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: AAs a profession, pop stardom has been in existential crisis for some time. It was simple – a single was the only real qualification – but in a post-monoculture world, a title is often bestowed as a result of incremental success: a British Rising Star award and a Taylor Swift support slot here, four million monthly listeners on Spotify and a Top 5 album there.Cruel World album artwork.This, specifically, is the autobiography of Lincolnshire's Holly Humberstone, who cemented her…
🚀 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Culture,Experimental music 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A A decade ago, Londoner Alex Berenger sparked interest in the nightclub circuit with his eccentric style of dance music. Structured around striking time signatures and wry tales of unfulfilled lovers and misplaced pills, its tracks referenced everything from UK funky to new wave and sea shanties. Then came several years of near silence – now broken by this self-released debut album, How Long Has It Been? The record acknowledges this fracture not only in the title, but also in its…
🚀 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Coachella,US news,Festivals,Culture,Music,Justin Bieber,Sabrina Carpenter,Karol G,The xx ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Justin Bieber is gearing up for a big return to performing live at this year's Coachella festival, where rainy weather is expected to be a spoiler.The Canadian singer will face his biggest live stage since abandoning his 2022 tour due to health concerns. Bieber suffered from "complete paralysis" on one side of his face after being diagnosed with Ramsay Hunt syndrome. “I wish it wasn't like that, but obviously my body is telling me I have…
🚀 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Fiction,Books,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: My first memory is reading"The Cat in the Hat" by Dr. Seuss, especially the little red fan that the cat carries at the tip of her tail. When I was five years old, I was reading The Famous Five, learning about Enid Blyton's most complex characters, Aunt Fanny and Uncle Quentin. I was born in racist South Africa. The children in the Famous Five series had no human rights issues, and the series is set in Dorset, an area I was completely…
🔥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art and design,Culture,Painting,Photography,Art,Exhibitions 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Exhibition of the weekextractionThis ominous exhibition takes a look at the sordid world of oil, gas and petroleum, all seen through the lens of artists like bio-sculptor Margaret Humeau and digital wizard John Gerrard. Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, from 11 April to 26 Julyalso appearTherese Oulton: Holding PatternsThick, opaque, heavily textured semi-abstract landscape paintings by one of the first women to be nominated for a Turner Prize (in 1987). Vardaksoğlu, London, from April 11 to May 29Michaela Yearwood Dunn: Editing PracticeDrawing,…
🔥 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Comedy,Stage,Comedy,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: HDid you know that you are an artist? Have I made the right choices in life? Pertinent questions, especially if you've spent decades on the fringes of left-wing comedy (in Norris's case), far from the trappings of fame and glory. Norris, with an "Artist"-branded headband wrapped around his forehead, addresses these concerns and more in his latest maverick confection, "You're Waiting." Time passes, albeit with as little self-seriousness as possible. It's a show that explores the choice of making extremely absurd art…
