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A fiction filmmaker known for obliquely powerful explorations of class, race and colonialism turns her eye to a local crime that exposes a deeper rift of ownership.

Despite a call for calm, a combustible mix of politics and protest punctuated the preview week across the pavilions Every two years the art world assembles in Venice for a sprawling celebration of visual arts at which countries “compete” against one another for the prize of best national pavilion. It is a barometer of taste, a shop window for artists and the industry’s biggest get-together – once…

The contrast between the dense, layered building and the clean lines of the cab make for a winning image William Shum describes Yau Ma Tei, the Hong Kong district in which he took this photo, as “one of the region’s older and most characterful districts. I’m always drawn to this area because it feels authentic and full of local life. Older residential buildings, street-level shops and constant tr…

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The festival can often make you queasy, as geopolitics are played out through the proxy of art. This year it feels on the verge of collapsing in on itself On Tuesday, the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale was full of activity. Several pallets, piled high with cases of prosecco and a few boxes of good old English Gordon’s gin, had been delivered outside. Inside, Ensemble Toloka, a group of “…

Barenaked bell ringers, banned opera singers and mind-boggling dog-owner relationships … the art at this year’s biennale has people calling the cops She’s famous for her extreme performances and Florentina Holzinger upped the ante yet again in Venice with a postapocalyptic pavilion that opened with her suspended upside down from the clappers of a large bell. Inside, there was a woman riding a spe…

_Aesthetic Investigations_ 8 (1). 2026In the 1990s, Laurie Shrage critiqued dominant semiotic and psychoanalytic approaches to film, advocating instead for a contextual analysis attentive to audience reception. Drawing on Christopher Strong (Arzner, 1933), Shrage highlighted its capacity to “disturb patriarchal sensibilities,” particularly in its portrayal of women and marriage. This paper revisi…

In this week's Screen Gab, "Dutton Ranch" executive producer Christina Alexandra Voros discusses the new series, plus streaming suggestions to add to your watch list.

David Attenborough has spent more than seven decades bringing the natural world into our living rooms, becoming one of the first truly recognisable faces on television. From his seminal 1950s series Zoo Quest to the groundbreaking Life on Earth documentaries of the 80s and 90s, and more recently his hard hitting explorations of the climate crisis, including Ocean , Attenborough has left an indeli…

About a dozen pavilions affected, while some artists backed strike by adding Palestine references to their work A strike called in protest over the inclusion of Israel at the 2026 Venice Biennale meant several pavilions closed on the last day of the preview, some for a few hours while others – including the standout work from Austria – remained closed all day. The strike was organised by the Art …

A new documentary at Cannes film festival looks at the French footballer’s five turbulent and triumphant seasons in Manchester – and the love story between him and manager Alex Ferguson It was 30 years ago this weekend that Eric Cantona struck an audacious volley from the edge of the penalty area to win the 1996 FA Cup final. For his team, Manchester United, it meant triumph over their fiercest r…

The Huntington acquired Robert Indiana's iconic "LOVE" sculpture. Designed in 1966, the piece is third in an edition of five.

The theme of earth’s biggest art extravaganza – spiritual rest – felt wildly wrong for our crisis-hit planet. Thank goodness for the pavilions, from fake babies to hi-tech sperm banks to a chocolate Russell Crowe It was almost over before it even started. This year’s Venice Biennale has been tearing itself apart for months: countries not showing up, artists getting fired, exhibitions being cancel…

A new art-house drama tells three stories that span the century — and connect to one tree. Silent Friend will open your eyes to the beauty of the natural world.

This Florida-set revenge thriller swings between being boring and ludicrous. It’s riddled with awkward dialogue and convenient plotting Miami, Florida is the US at its extreme. Ostentatious wealth is everywhere, some legal, some very illegal, most of it in a grey area between the two. All of it is propped up by the hard work and cherished dreams of immigrants, people whose fight for a better life…

Whitaker Malem worked with pop art sculptor Allen Jones, visual artist Nadia Lee Cohen and a car bodyshop in Kent At Monday’s Met Gala, it inevitably fell to Kim Kardashian to deliver the evening’s biggest jolt. One of the few celebrities to straightforwardly interpret the “fashion is art” dress code – which focused on how the dressed and undressed human body is the through-line in most works of …

Adolescence writer Jack Thorne’s romantic new drama Falling is quite the gear shift. Its stars open up about what it’s like to research a love so controversial that the church couldn’t allow it The scene is the convent garden of a closed order of nuns, the place is somewhere in the UK with a maelstrom of social problems – which, let’s be real, could be any of it. Keeley Hawes’s Anna, a nun, isn’t…

This week’s developments across the art world moved between rediscovery, reinvention, and cultural reflection. From long-lost conceptual installations… The post The Latest in the Art World: Marilyn Monroe, the Met Gala, and Rediscovered Artworks appeared first on Arts To Hearts Project .

The 1930s artists, poets and intellectuals who united to defend Europe, memories of Cambodia, blooming marvellous painters and a beautiful reclining nude – all in your weekly dispatch Comrades in Art: Artists Against Fascism In the 1930s Europe was descending into extremism. Artists as well as poets and intellectuals tried to fight the fascists, reveals this exhibition based on a recent book abou…

Bold interior choices allowed these first-time buyers to utilise every square inch of this 19th-century building to create something special Eleanor and Dominic Charles’s wishlist was typical of most city dwellers looking to get a foot on the property ladder: a bit of outdoor space, ideally a house rather than a flat, and somewhere with character. But they ended up being bolder than most first-ti…