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Not every artist who skyrockets to fame makes it all the way into space. But that was the case for Amoako Boafo who, three years after his big break, painted three panels on the top of Jeff Bezos’s rocket ship. “I’ll be honest, I just did it for the experience,” says the Ghanaian artist, whose … Read more

Your new film, Sinners, sounds scary. What scares you? MrSOBaldrickLoneliness. I’ve always wanted to act, but I’ve never taken the plunge. Has there been a role where you felt you took a plunge out of your comfort zone? AliciaGrace1Getting to portray an American comes with inherent impostor syndrome, because so many other US actors could take the … Read more

Pulp have announced their first album since 2001’s We Love Life, entitled More, trailed by a new single, Spike Island. “I was born to perform, it’s a calling / I exist to do this, shouting and pointing”, frontman Jarvis Cocker sings on the anthemic song, ushering one of the most successful British bands of the … Read more

Two oils on canvas hang together, strikingly similar, in the first room of the National Gallery of Ireland’s new show. Both titled Composition, they date from 1924 and 1925. They’re cubist still lifes, with the regular, geometric patterns and contrasting colour schemes favoured by many early 20th-century modernists, Marcel Duchamp and Juan Gris among them. … Read more

It’s tough being an anthology. While other dramas set up their premise and characters and then lazily dole out a little more of the same in every episode, anthologies must constantly seek our approval anew. If critics and viewers think the latest shiny thing is a dud, they toss it into the void and deem … Read more

As the longtime editor of Taschen’s All-American Ads book series, cultural historian Jim Heimann has helped chronicle the shifting landscape of commercial artistry through each decade of the 20th century. Now, with a final volume dedicated to the 2000s, Heimann has completed what he calls a “swan song” – not just for the series, but for … Read more

There’s a kerfuffle in the Camden Art Centre. Painter Richard Wright’s exhibition is opening soon and time is not on their side. Ten people are on the landing off which the galleries open. Huge, elaborate leaded glazed panels have just arrived, the metallic sections forming intricate geometric designs, and they need installing. It is a … Read more

My home country, Japan, is one of the safest places in the world to give birth: it has one of the very lowest mortality rates in Asia. A few years ago I had the opportunity to work on a story about midwives in Japan, and I became very interested in their role. In November 2023 … Read more

This week I took my son, Zac, to see the new Minecraft movie, which is hardly a remarkable statement in the highly video game-branded world of 21st-century cinema – except that what followed was not typical at all. At least, not yet. As you may have seen from a number of bewildered news reports over … Read more

It all started as an unsolicited Facebook message, which may have been the first sign of foul play – and led to Wolfgang Flür, ex-member of Kraftwerk, believing that he was collaborating with Thomas Bangalter, formerly one half of Daft Punk. Someone posing as Bangalter contacted Flür on Facebook, complimented his music and asked for … Read more