‘I tend to avoid moral statements’: the Mexican artist looking at oil, wealth and history | Art

Minerva Cuevas, installation view of in gods we trust, Kurimanzutto, New York, 2023.

Taking in Mexican artist Minerva Cuevas’s exhibition in gods we trust is like feeling your way through bits and pieces of enormous counter-narratives that retell hundreds of years of Mexican history. Like the proverbial tip […]

Hits and myths: why has Hollywood abandoned ancient Greece? | Movies

Jason and the Argonauts.

The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King will be back in North American cinemas next month, to celebrate 20 years since Peter Jackson first debuted his Oscar-winning film. Its return to the multiplexes […]

Two sides to a story: why feminist retellings are filling our bookshelves | Books

Madeline Miller.

From Circe to Medusa via Persephone, Electra and the women of Troy, it seems there are few characters from Greek mythology left who haven’t been the subject of a feminist retelling in recent years. This […]

U2’s The Edge wants to be the ‘vanguard’ of the ‘resurgence’ of guitar music – Music News

U2's The Edge wants to be the 'vanguard' of the 'resurgence' of guitar music - Music News

U2 guitarist The Edge wants to be “the vanguard of this resurgence of guitars”. The 61-year-old rock legend has revealed he has a lot of “great material waiting” and that he hopes frontman Bonos LP […]

Steven Van Zandt on Springsteen’s E Street Band Tour: Podcast

Steven Van Zandt on Springsteen's E Street Band Tour: Podcast

Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Amazon Podcasts | Stitcher | Pocket Casts | Radio Public | RSS Steven Van Zandt joins Kyle Meredith to talk about the 20th-anniversary of Little Steven’s Underground Garage and his current tour with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band (get […]

Selena Gomez Begs Fans To Stop Bullying Hailey Bieber

Justin and Hailey Bieber photographed on March 13 in Los Angeles.

Selena Gomez is calling on her fans to stop bullying Hailey Bieber. The “Only Murders in the Building” star said in an Instagram Story on Friday that Bieber has reached out to her and said […]

‘Motherland’ Takes Top Prize At CPH:DOX; See Full Winners List – Deadline

A Belorussian soldier at attention in 'Motherland'

Motherland, a “dark and monumental” film about neo-nationalism in Belarus, earned the top prize tonight at the prestigious CPH:DOX festival in Copenhagen. Belorussian directors Alexander Mihalkovich and Hanna Badziaka accepted the Dox:Award honor at a ceremony […]

Freewheelin’ to fame – the untold story of Bob Dylan’s iconic VW van | Bob Dylan

The 1963 VW van for which Jack Ubaldi traded the Dylan cover van, manufactured in 1961.

New York City’s Greenwich Village has always been a magnet for outsiders, artists and poets. In 1963, one of those types was Bob Dylan, a kid from Minnesota who had felt the pull of the […]