You know it’s going to be a good year for art when choosing even your top 12 shows is agonising. We are in for a huge art treat in 2022, and a pleasingly diverse one, too. So while there are plenty of timeless crowd pleasers like Van Gogh and Raphael,Continue Reading
But more recently what has made these artists bedfellows is their financial dealings: all have sold the rights to their back catalogues for hundreds of millions. Bruce Springsteen recently sold the rights to his music to Sony for $500 million, the Red Hot Chili Peppers sold their music for aContinue Reading
When 17-year-old Margaret Whigham made her society debut in 1930, resplendent in turquoise in a sea of young women dressed in traditional white, she was an instant sensation. Named London’s “debutante of the year” (one report said she was “a thoroughbred in a field of hacks”) she would be laudedContinue Reading
Review at a glance Things are ominous from the off in this new BBC six-parter. The music is brooding; the landscape, arid and Australian, is bleak; the protagonist, played by Jamie Dornan, is stony-faced and irritable. And within minutes, our man is hurtling through the outback in a rickety oldContinue Reading
Artist Es Devlin is among the capital’s cultural heavyweights recognised in the New Years Honours. The designer and artist, whose work includes West End theatre hits and London’s Olympic ceremonies, has been awarded a CBE. Devlin, who made her name with large scale installations, designed the UK pavilion at theContinue Reading
JK Rowling has admitted to ripping up the first few chapters of her upcoming novel in a tell-all Q&A with fans on Twitter. Answering a fan who asked the Harry Potter author, worth £820 million, for advice on finishing their first book, Rowling replied: “Today, I reread the first 14kContinue Reading
Celebs and chefs, eh? If there’s one they don’t lack, it’s self-belief, as evidenced by the raft of cookbooks they’ve come out with this year. Here, we’ve rounded up some of the most notable releases of 2021, from the actors we knew could perform on screen but had no ideaContinue Reading
They don’t have VC funds. They just thanklessly post all the helpful content people really need.Continue Reading
A longstanding mystery of the Star Wars franchise has been cleared up in the first episode of new Disney spin-off The Book of Boba Fett. The series, which landed on Disney Plus on Wednesday, focuses on former bounty hunter Boba Fett, played by Temuera Morrison. Boba Fett made his returnContinue Reading
TATE ST IVES Tate St Ives announces 2022 exhibitions and events highlights including a retrospective of Barbara Hepworth bringing together some of most important works, and with a special focus on her life in Cornwall For the first time at Tate St Ives, the exhibition is staged across both theContinue Reading
