Encounters with great art can be absorbing, unsettling and even painful. How has this been tamed into mere ‘reading for pleasure’?
It is the UK’s National Year of Reading. Specifically, this governmen…
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Four years ago, the world expected Ukraine to be crushed, but it has stood firm. So what now for Putin? | Rajan Menon ⊖⊖
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A quick landgrab has distorted into a complex geopolitical conflict – and even Trump’s fulminations can’t seem to make Ukrainians give in
Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine entered its fifth year on…
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The Trump-Kennedy Center is another front in the battle for the soul of America | Charlotte Higgins ⊕
Under Trump, the world-class centre for performing arts is one of many US cultural institutions changing beyond recognition. Will others buckle?
A year ago – just a year ago – the Kennedy Center in Wa…
3 months ago
Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center should serve as a warning to UK arts institutions | Charlotte Higgins ⊕
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Culture is not immune from the advances of the hard right – but it isn’t too late for resistance
Into the pale stone wall of the Kennedy Center, above its elegant terrace on the edge of the Potomac ri…
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Ukraine war briefing: Snag for EU’s support of Kyiv after aid opponent wins Czech election ⊖
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Andrej Babis’s pledge to halt military aid aligns him with PMs of Hungary and Slovakia; Cubans fight in their thousands for Russia, says US. What we know on day 1,321
The prospect loomed of the EU’s s…
11 months ago
From acid house to ancient rites: Jeremy Deller’s enormous, collaborative, unsellable art – podcast ○
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The artist Jeremy Deller can’t really draw or paint. Instead of making things, he makes things happen. And later this year, he is planning to unleash a bacchanalian festival that will be his most dar…
‘Music is never fixed in me’ … cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason on surviving a ‘volcano of racism’ ○
A remark about Rule, Britannia! led to uproar but the star musician is concentrating on the joy and power of classical music. As his first book is published, he talks to Charlotte Higgins
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12 months ago
‘The ghosts are everywhere’: can the British Museum survive its omni-crisis? – podcast ○
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Beset by colonial controversy, difficult finances and the discovery of a thief on the inside, Britain’s No 1 museum is in deep trouble. Can it restore its reputation?
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13 months ago
Trump chairing a major arts institution would be laughable if it weren’t so deeply troubling | Charlotte Higgins ○
Jokes about the president’s power grab at the Kennedy Center in Washington soon pale. This is a nakedly authoritarian move
Donald Trump’s announcement that he was installing himself as the chair of th…
14 months ago
‘Worse than the 1980s’ – that’s the arts sector now. It’s not a good look for a Labour government | Charlotte Higgins ○
So many pre-election promises: but still a cultural malaise spreads from our schools to museums, galleries and theatres
If a former director of the National Theatre says that “more harm has been done …