‘Community at its absolute worst’: revisiting the horror of the Salem witch trials | Art

Cotton Mather – The Wonders of the Invisible World, 1693.

“The Salem witch trials are an example of a community at its absolute worst.” This is what Anna Danzinger Halperin, associate director of the Center for Women’s History at the New-York Historical Society, answered when […]

‘Hip-hop honeys’ and sitting as a political act: why Tschabalala Self is one of America’s hottest artists | Art

‘I want to make people feel like they have more perspective’ … overseeing production of Seated.

‘Imagine you’re on a bike, as opposed to a car, a train, or a plane,” says Tschabalala Self. “Imagine how the world appears, how quickly and easily you’re able to move through it. How clearly […]

Brad Pitt and Nick Cave make a surprise art debut in Finland : NPR

Brad Pitt and Nick Cave make a surprise art debut in Finland : NPR

Musician Nick Cave (from left), artist Thomas Houseago and with actor Brad Pitt pose prior to the opening of their joint exhibition, in Tampere, Finland, on Saturday. Jussi Koivunen/Sara Hilden Art Museum, Lehtikuva via AP […]

France’s answer to Banksy: the anonymous street artist filling potholes with colourful mosaics | Street art

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Last year, the studio of the Lyon-based artist known as Ememem received an urgent call from an architectural firm close to the city’s Place Sathonay. Someone was in the process of dismantling a mosaic he […]

Visual Artist Nashid Chroma is Making Art That Blossoms | Northern Clutch

Bengali-Canadian artist Nashid Chroma has been making art since he was a kid—and that’s led him to where he is today as a visual artist who creates stunning, colourful portraiture pieces filled with botanical imagery. As […]

And … relax: film, music, art and books for chilling out | Culture

Magical … Martin Courtney.

Film Bureaucracy meets the afterlife in Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s After Life, a gently paced drama concerned with a simple question: which single memory from your life would you choose to remember for eternity? Every […]

K-boom! South Korea’s art and high culture lands in Britain with a bang | South Korea

Psy in a bright green jacket and sunglasses, dancing in stage with two dancers

Kimchi, the fermented pickle, led the way, establishing a taste for colourful Korean food in Britain. It was followed by a youth wave of K-pop music hysteria. Then came those two international screen hits, Bong […]

Gorillaz Animator Jamie Hewlett Announces Art Book Phoo Action: Silver Jubilee

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Jamie Hewlett, the English animator and co-creator of Gorillaz, has announced an art book collecting his illustrations for Phoo Action and Get the Freebies. Phoo Action: Silver Jubilee includes an oral history of the Phoo […]