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Zanele Muholi, Tate Modern review - photography as protest
Hail the Dark Lioness (Somnyama Ngonyama in Zulu) is a powerful celebration of...
Mank review – David Fincher’s brilliant, bitter-sweet paean...
For so much of the year, Tenet was cited as the film that was going to save cinema – the tentpole extravaganza that would draw...
Mary Chapin Carpenter, One Night Lonely livestream review -...
Mary Chapin Carpenter’s Songs from Home has been an anchor-point almost since the beginning of lockdown for many people, all of us invited into...
Collective review - waging war on corruption
It was around the time of the 14th century Black Death that the word “corruption” – from the Latin corruptus, the past participle of ...
Album: Nick Cave & Nicholas Lens - L.I.T.A.N.I.E.S.
The Covid pandemic has meant, with both performance and recording opportunities at a minimum, that many musicians have had to apply a bit of...
The Undoing, Series Finale, Sky Atlantic review - bluff and...
Throughout its preceding five episodes, The Undoing (...
Christine Rice, Julius Drake, Wigmore Hall review - songs of...
It began as a Christmas present in the bleakest of winters. In December 1939, as war engulfed Europe, Bertolt Brecht sent a poem to the exiled...
theartsdesk on Vinyl 61: Amy Winehouse, Krust, Motörhead, Ex...
Welcome to the penultimate 2020 edition of the world’s vastest, most musically wide-ranging, regularly posted, online...
Annie Ernaux: A Man's Place review - an intimate portra...
As much as we would like it to, writing can never fully recapture someone who is gone. This we learn all too effectively in A Man’s Place...
Blu-ray: Goodbye, Dragon Inn
In his exclusive half-hour-plus interview for distributor Second Run, the affable...