The National Gallery recently announced its summer 2023 exhibition, After Impressionism, claiming the show will celebrate the “towering achievements of Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gaugin…
Yoav Litvin, The Rockefeller University Intellectuals, academics and artists play a unique role in society: they preserve and defend both freedom of expression and…
The Aral Sea was once the world’s fourth-largest inland sea. It exists now as an expanding toxic desert that straddles the borders of Kazakhstan…
Written and directed by Molly Manning Walker, How to Have Sex is a powerful rites-of-passage drama that follows the tale of three 16-year-old girls…
Imagine a time capsule that you’re sealing away, but instead of planning to open it in a decade or two, you want it to…
Bobi Wine has come a long way in two years. The self-styled “Ghetto President” of Uganda used to be a music star, playing politically…
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs (TEED) has carved a hole for himself in left-field dance music. Sitting somewhere between glistening pop and quirky house, Totally Enormous Extinct…
There was no better place to celebrate ‘Radio 6 Dad’ culture – and 50 years of hip hop – than Gilles Peterson’s We Out…
I found Barbie again during 2020’s COVID lockdown. Indoors, confined to Juicy Couture tracksuits, I was missing excuses to express my hyper-femininity through clothing,…
Brian Shimkovitz has spent the last decade building Awesome Tapes From Africa from a small blog into a record label. Along the way, Shimkowitz…
by Coty Perry As with many other aspects of government policy, overfishing and other fishing-related environmental issues are a real problem, but it’s not…
Mainstream politics in Europe and North America is increasingly divided into two hostile camps: on one side are conservative reactionaries who glorify imperialism and…
“Transformation, 1994, Limelight in Cannes, South of France. It’s one of the club hits for me that was playing at that time when I…
After decades of development and many trials and frustrations along the way, the James Webb telescope has finally started to deliver what it came…
We’re increasingly aware of how plastic is polluting our environment. Much recent attention has focused on how microplastics – tiny pieces ranging from 5…
