Art and Culture

Moses McKenzie, 26, won last year’s Hawthornden prize, previously awarded to Hilary Mantel and Ali Smith, for his 2022 debut, An Olive Grove in Ends, set among Jamaicans and Somalis in Bristol, where he grew up. William Waldegrave, a…
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This essay was adapted from Jacqueline Nesi’s newsletter, Techno Sapiens. Subscribe here. I’m an assistant professor at Brown University, where I study the impact of digital technology on kids’ development and mental…
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Recently, Billy Bragg showed his two young granddaughters a little promo film he put together celebrating his 40 years of making records. The girls were nonplussed by the early scenes on picket lines and spiky festival stages, but…
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Young cultural researchers need greater access to the UK’s rich archival resources so untold stories can be brought to light, according to the curator of an exhibition that documents five centuries of Black British music, from the Tudor…
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How did Donald Glover (Atlanta) and Maya Erskine (PEN15) become the poster chlidren for middle-range, middle-of-the-road, no-stakes characters? Their work is just fine in Mr and Mrs Smith, but … well. “What we have now is a…
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This article is part of our Museums special section about how institutions are striving to offer their visitors more to see, do and feel.At the Walker Art Center here, Felice Clark sits on a sofa that looks like it crawled off the set of…
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I was sitting in a suburban Cincinnati Starbucks when I realized everything was going to change. It was early 2008, and a friend was showing me his new phone. He loaded a website and passed his iPhone across the table, and I scrolled…
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At a moment when other Irish stars have signed up to represent the likes of Gucci (Paul Mescal), Louis Vuitton (Saoirse Ronan) and Versace (Cillian Murphy), Kerry Condon makes for strikingly unaffected company. “I just want to be a…
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Arts Engines highlights the perspectives of the thought leaders and game-changers who are creating significant impact in the field of the arts. As the only arts show of its kind with an African-American host, it is produced in…
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The Meta AI experience has so far been a spam-filled one. Nowhere is that clearer than on Instagram where the search function, once a place to look up a friend’s account, now exists seemingly to usher users into conversation with a…
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