Category: Arts
Music As Medicine by Daniel Levitin review – musician, heal thyself
That great music can up be uplifting, transportive, transcendent – and conversely sorrowful or deeply unsettling – is a given, but its power to heal [more…]
Beverley Knight to play rock’n’roll pioneer Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Beverley Knight is to play Sister Rosetta Tharpe in a drama about the gospel singer and guitarist who became known as “the godmother of rock’n’roll”. [more…]
Carrie Underwood to perform at Donald Trump’s inauguration
The country singer Carrie Underwood is scheduled to perform at Donald Trump’s second inauguration this month. A spokesperson confirmed to Axios that the star will [more…]
Oscar nominations further delayed by wildfires as Grammys and Sundance set to go ahead
The ongoing wildfires in California have added a further delay to this year’s Oscar nominations as the industry continues to feel the impact. With 92,000 [more…]
‘I was waking up five times a night’: how film-maker Mikhail Krichman escaped from Russia
It was March 2022 and Joshua Oppenheimer was waiting at Copenhagen airport for the young man who would be staying with him for a few [more…]
‘Our computer sampler cost more than a house!’: how the Korgis made Everybody’s Got to Learn Sometime
James Warren, vocalist/bassist/songwriter We’d had a Top 20 single in the UK with If I Had You and were recording our second Korgis album, Dumb [more…]
Marvel is ready to recast Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa in Black Panther. Should they?
Marvel’s multiverse has become a narrative Swiss army knife capable of slicing through the thorniest of creative dilemmas and papering over the widest of cracks. [more…]
Musical duo Baba Stiltz and Okay Kaya: ‘Basically our music’s for losers’
Baba Stiltz and Okay Kaya’s collaboration was like a long-shot blind date, set up by a mutual friend who figured they’d make beautiful music together. [more…]
My Stolen Planet review – home-movie bulletins unearths Iran’s forbidden past
Farahnaz Sharifi is an Iranian artist and film-maker who has been exiled from her homeland since 2022, and with this personal essay movie she ponders [more…]
Ladies Only review – striking account of sisterhood’s intricacies on the Mumbai metro
During peak rush hour, the Mumbai metro turns into a bustling microcosm of the city’s social fabric. Largely shot inside women-only carriages, Rebana Liz John’s [more…]
