‘This biennale seems cursed’, texted my friend. Despite feeling hypocritical about the environmental burden, I booked a flight to Venice.
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This impressive installation is a showcase of the roots and routes within the development of Black British music and is a must-see for all lovers of music.
In the early 2000s, Ireland was a newly rich country that wanted to be more international looking. Westlife created un-Irish pop for an international market.
Despite the deadliness of the disease, it was possible to recover from plague, and medieval chroniclers mention the possibility – however unlikely – of survival.
Steven Soderbergh’s new film raises important questions about authenticity, creative ownership and racism in the art world.
Morecambe and Wise still have a place in the hearts of the British public, and Eric was instrumental in ensuring their enduring popularity.
Novelists and translators from Bulgaria to Brazil make up this this year’s impressive shortlist.
The museum will feature seven floors of never-seen-before material, rotating exhibitions, a fan store and the recreation of the studio where Let it Be was recorded.
The fragment wasn’t placed besides the body, but stuffed inside it.
Cameras mounted on the referee, trialled at the Fifa Club World Cup last year, will show us what the ref can – and can’t – see.
Loss is inevitable, but the formalised language of poetry may help us endure it.
As celebrity shrinking dominates the red carpet, the Met’s Costume Art exhibition bucks the trend with body shapes that signal acceptance and inclusion.
Our picks for this week include two striking exhibitions and Japan’s highest-grossing live-action film of all time.
At one point in Eurovision’s history, all instruments present in a song had to be on stage.
The documentary explains how the English and Welsh culture of access differs from that of close neighbours like Scotland.
An international criminology expert reviews new drama which examines how undercover work reshapes identity, morality and survival.
Rather than existing outside politics, the Venice Biennale has become a site where geopolitical tensions are actively staged and contested.
The Devil Wears Prada 2 shows how fashion operates as a language of identity, signalling status, ambition and belonging.
The film asks what makes a star kabuki actor – hard work or blood?
The youngest, quietest sister was over-edited and underestimated – Anne Brontë deserves better.
The Conversation UK Climate Poetry Award Terms & Conditions 2026.
In its rapid pacing, brief runtime and propulsive, hard-boiled action, Normal positions itself as a latter-day B-movie and mostly delivers.
Climate science is the anti-myth. Researchers have long noted that the human brain struggles with psychologically distant threats.
Attenborough has influenced everything from conservation and documentary production to the communication of the biggest story of all – climate change.
This first fully AI podcast produces a coherent-sounding narrative. But coherence is not the same as sense making, and pattern recognition is not interpretation.