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Arcadia Review – Love, gardening, and Euclidean geometry come together in Tom Stoppard’s cosmic masterpiece | platform

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💥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Stage,Tom Stoppard,Theatre,Culture,Old Vic Theatre ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WWhen Tom Stoppard was asked what this play would be about, just as it was making its fast way from London to New York in the 1990s, he called it a drama of romance, mathematics, gardening, landscape and Byron. It doesn't cover it completely. Arcadia is often seen as his best work, about life, the universe and everything, to borrow a phrase.It takes place in one room, across time, filled with the 19th century past and a parallel…

I loved Prue, but Nigella joining Bake Off sounds like the good news I needed | Rebecca Shaw

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✨ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: The Great British Bake Off,Nigella Lawson,Food TV,Television,Culture,Reality TV 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: toLast week, a friend sent me an interesting news story. This was a surprise for two reasons: I'm chronically online so I usually see everything first, and also there's no more good news in this life. But it was real, and for many people, myself included, this good news was worth three or four good news.He's the king of good news, a lump of good news clogging my pipe. It has been announced*The trumpets herald…

Wuthering Heights Audiobook Review by Emily Brontë – Amy Lou Wood Reads The Romance of the Moment | Emily Brontë

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✨ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Emily Brontë,Wuthering Heights,Books,Fiction,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: RIt is a version of Wuthering Heights that failed to anger Brontë's followers. Andrea Arnold's 2011 film was criticized for its grittiness and bleakness, while Emerald Fennell's remake, which hits theaters on Valentine's Day, has been described as "aggressively provocative" after preview screenings. Maybe now is the time to return to the source material. In the audio, there have already been readings by Michael Kitchener, Danielle Massey, Juliet Stevenson, Patricia Routledge and Joan Froggatt, although I prefer this 2020 edition…

Gwen John: Strange Beauties review – The great modern Welsh artist dazzles us with the glory of isolation | Art and design

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✨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art and design,Culture,Art,Painting,Wales 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: THe's straight john goin, no stalker. The National Museum Cardiff has put together a fascinating and chilling retrospective of the woman who is now perhaps the most famous Welsh artist. It is not a detailed biographical story of how she was born in Haverfordwest in 1876, how she and her brother Augustus loved art as children, how she insisted on going to the Slade School of Fine Arts like him, and then lived in bohemian France. Instead, the moment she…

Purr-fect pick: Is Orangey the most important movie cat of all time? | film

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🔥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Cats,Breakfast at Tiffany's,Audrey Hepburn,Pets,Animals,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IHalfway through Oscar season, it becomes clear how much work is required to win an Oscar, both in on-screen work and off-screen campaigning. However, keep in mind that many actors have won more than one Oscar. (Emma Stone, one of this year's Best Actress nominees, has won twice in the past decade.) Meanwhile, only one cat has twice won the Patsy Award — Picture Animal Star of the Year. (The award, presented by the American Humane Society, not to…

Magic Beach by Alison Lister has been named Australia’s Best Children’s Picture Book | Picture books

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✨ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Picture books,Australia news,Children and teenagers,Books,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Alison Lister's Magic Beach has won a Guardian Australia poll to find Australia's best children's picture book of all time.More than 100,000 votes were cast after polling began on January 27. Aside from Day 1, when Possum Magic by writer Mem Fox and illustrator Julia Vivas took the early lead, Magic Beach was the most voted book every two days of the count.With the recurring line "On our beach, on our magic beach," Lister's rhyming picture book from…

Volcanic vulva and hermaphroditic marble: a reconstruction of Ovid’s Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum | Museums

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✨ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Museums,Culture,Art and design ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: HeyOn three huge screens in a dark room, snakes slide down artist Jules Krieger's face - covering her eyes, caressing her lips. She is the silent but terrifying snake-headed Medusa, one of the surprises in an exhibition at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum based around Greek and Roman mythology.The power of nature...a room inspired by Leda and the Swan in the Transformations exhibition. Photography: Albertin Dykema / RijksmuseumAlthough the exhibition rarely presents works by artists such as Caravaggio, Bernini, Rodin and Branchi, it…

David Furnish calls alleged hacks of him and Elton John an ‘abomination’ | David Furnish

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💥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: David Furnish,Elton John,Music,UK news,Culture,Daily Mail,Media,National newspapers,Newspapers & magazines,Media business,Newspapers 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: David Furnish said it was “abhorrent” that the publisher of the Daily Mail could write “narrow-minded” stories about him and his husband Elton John, using information allegedly obtained by illegal means.In evidence submitted to the High Court, Furnish said he and John were “violated” by the Mail, after being told it had worked with private investigators to intercept their phone calls and personal details.“Although The Mail has partly changed with the times, it has…

‘One of the country’s most stunning sights’: your picks for the UK’s cultural city | culture

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✨ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Lisa Nandy,Glastonbury holidays,Hastings holidays,Scotland holidays,Wales holidays,England holidays,Ipswich,Scarborough,Wiltshire,Kent,Art,Art and design,Sussex holidays,Music,Stage,Festivals,Books,Film 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: CCulture Secretary Lisa Nandy has launched a search for the UK's first 'City of Culture', modeled on the City of Culture programme, which honored Bradford last year. After Guardian writers nominated their names - including Ramsgate in Kent, Falmouth in Cornwall, Abergavenny in Monmouthshire and Portobello in Edinburgh - we asked readers which British cities they would put forward.(Hastings, East Sussex).“Culture is woven into everyday life”... Jack in the Green 2024 Parade in…

The Goldberg Variations album review – Yeonshan Lim untangles Bach’s complex web of strings | classical music

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💥 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Classical music,Culture,Music ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Yeonshan Lim recorded Goldberg Variations live at Carnegie Hall last year, riding the momentum of a string of shows, including two in London. Those who enjoyed his interpretation at Wigmore Hall will find many of the same rewarding elements here, not least the apparent ease with which the 21-year-old pianist untangles the music's complex web of threads. However, it is good to find that his interpretation was not set in stone. Perhaps the New York performance had a more forceful bent,…