Artists – listen up: the Evening Standard Art Prize is back and there’s £5,000 cash up for grabs for the winner. First launched back in 2017, the competition provides an invaluable opportunity for artistic talent across the country to get their work in front of an impressive judging panel andContinue Reading
Normcore! Ghosting! Cheugy! The internet loves a buzzword. The latest entry into this category shows no signs of waning anytime soon: ‘stealth wealth’ — also known by its sister moniker, quiet luxury —which speaks to the rise in an inconspicuous (albeit, extortionately-priced) personal aesthetic. It’s popular with the super-rich, whichContinue Reading
Former Strictly Come Dancing judge Len Goodman has died three days before his 79th birthday, following a short battle with bone cancer. The “much-loved husband, father and grandfather” died “peacefully” in a hospice in Tunbridge Wells in Kent on Saturday, “surrounded by his family”, his spokesperson said. Goodman rose to stardom at theContinue Reading
The British composer Rebecca Saunders is a leading figure in European music, said Andrew Clements in The Guardian. But perhaps because she mainly lives and works in Germany, she gets relatively little attention in the UK. This “superb disc ought to gain Saunders many more admirers, for it includes oneContinue Reading
S inger Jess Glynne has teased new single Silly Me as she returned to music following an emotional journey that began after the loss of a friend. The singer-songwriter, 33, who had seven number ones in the UK including Hold My Hand in 2015 and I’ll Be There in 2018,Continue Reading
Review at a glance N ot many British medical dramas start with an armed gunman bursting into a hospital waiting room, but then again, ITV’s Malpractice isn’t your average medical drama. The gunman is dragging in a man who has been shot. Waving his pistol around, he demands somebody treatContinue Reading
C hris Pratt said his character in the final instalment of Guardians Of The Galaxy is more emotional which was a “real challenge” to act but he “loved the opportunity to try to do something different”. The third film in the Marvel franchise will see the return of Dave Bautista,Continue Reading
F ilming on the Rust movie has resumed in the US state of Montana and is expected to wrap at the end of May, producers have said. Representatives said the entire crew was “wholeheartedly dedicated” to realising the vision of the film’s late cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Work on the filmContinue Reading
Review at a glance T remendous blues and gospel voices buoy up this oddball musical, which maps a fairytale of sisterhood onto the brutal realities of the racist American south in 1964. Adapted from the 2001 bestseller by Sue Monk Kidd, and first staged in New York in 2019, theContinue Reading
The Rossettis were a “weird” bunch, said Melanie McDonagh in the Evening Standard. Born in London to Italian political exiles and raised to be “precocious artists and poets”, they were a major fixture of Victorian Britain’s cultural landscape. Dante Gabriel (1828-82), a painter, would become the co-founder and de factoContinue Reading
