Category : Culture

TV tonight: celebrities take on a barmy climate change challenge

Celebrities from Jodie Kidd to John Barnes are guilt-tripped into making outfits out of their rubbish. Plus: the story behind one of the most defining moments in sports history. Here’s what to watch this evening Continue reading...

Racist attack on English Heritage exhibition celebrating black lives

Police called after ‘n’ word scrawled on photograph of black model at stately home showAn English Heritage exhibition on “Englishness” held at a stately Bedfordshire home was the target of a racist attack following tensions over the charity’s role as...

Jo Harrop: The Heart Wants review – a rare mix of delicacy and boldness

(Lateralize)The singer’s original material and a guest list of top musicians fit like a glove on this follow-up to last year’s Weathering the StormHow many musicians vowed to use the sudden, blank silence of lockdown to plan and prepare the album the...

The Velvet Underground review – avant-garde cool brought back to life

Todd Haynes uses Warhol-style split screen for this ideally pitched documentary about the influential 60s bandHow do you make a rock doc without any concert footage? In his electric portrait of the Velvet Underground, the film-maker Todd Haynes elega...

On my radar: Courttia Newland’s cultural highlights

The novelist and playwright on Thundercat’s bass genius, an insight-filled black history exhibition and the colourful ceramics of Lubna ChowdharyCourttia Newland was born in 1973 and raised in west London. After an early start in music, he turned to...

One to watch: Jamire Williams

A go-to collaborator for everyone from Herbie Hancock to Solange, the LA-based musician explores endless possibilities on his stunning new solo albumYou can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep, and the names that have inked Jamire Will...

Coldplay review – stadium poppers take the big-time small scale

O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, LondonChris Martin and co – and Ed Sheeran – keep the festivities local, for now, launching Coldplay’s space-inspired new album in a venue the band last played in 1999 At the end of Coldplay’s greatest-hits set, Chris Marti...

‘I’m so glad you guys exist!’ Carrie Brownstein meets the Linda Lindas

When teenage LA punks the Linda Lindas went viral, they caught the attention of Amy Poehler, Jimmy Kimmel and original riot grrrl, Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney, who joins them for a cross-generational chinwagIn May, the US punk band the Linda...

Degrees of separation: what connects Bill Clinton to Patty Hearst?

From Slick Willie to the kidnapped heiress via OJ Simpson: we go down the rabbit hole, thanks to the new American Crime Story series on the Lewinsky affairImpeachment: American Crime StoryIt’s back to the 1990s for the latest instalment of American C...

The week in classical: Fidelio; Gabriela Montero – review

Glyndebourne, Lewes; Kings Place, LondonThe introduction of a new character does Beethoven’s great opera no favours. Elsewhere, there’s breathtaking invention – with a little help from Charlie ChaplinPoor Beethoven. A brief history of recent producti...

Corporate Accountability review – collaboration with Argentinian state terror exposed

Jonathan Perel’s low-key doc focuses on the companies, still in business, which collaborated with the killings and torture that followed 1976 coupJonathan Perel has made a stealthily powerful one-man documentary about corporate involvement in human r...

Road review – community spirit turns sour in Thatcher’s Britain

Northern Stage, NewcastleLittle leavens the air of hopelessness in Jim Cartwright’s 1986 collage of awkwardly staged monologuesAngela Rayner would probably approve of the “Tory scum” slogan scrawled in orange spraypaint on the corrugated iron at the...

Desperately seeking Diana: can any actor get to the heart of the people’s princess?

The princess is now a constant presence on our screens, from a camp musical to The Crown. Such a blank canvas is a dream for directors and a nightmare for actors, writes Hadley FreemanThe first imitation I ever saw of Diana, Princess of Wales was in...

Alternative Los Angeles as seen by the LA Six – in pictures

Punks, lowriders, gang members and the glittering facade of Los Angeles are on show at an exhibition of documentary and street photographers known as the LA Six. Presenting the outsiders and marginalised of the city, the show at Durden and Ray offers...

Daisy May Cooper: ‘It’s like I’m flypaper for embarrassing myself’

The star of This Country will do anything for a laugh – even spoofing Kim Kardashian’s ‘break the internet’ shoot. She talks about her journey from cleaner to comedy queen• Read an extract from her memoirA ripple of excitement crackles around the roo...