Watch Kaya Stewart Audition For American Idol

Kaya and Dave Stewart on "American Idol."

Aspiring pop singer Kaya Stewart got a musical assist from her famous father during her recent audition for “American Idol.” On Sunday night’s episode of the singing competition series, Stewart left judges Luke Bryan, Katy […]

‘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 […]

Music to eco-conscious ears: 10 sustainable festivals in the UK and Europe | Festivals

concert crowd in a glass-roofed space

Plastic cutlery, abandoned tents, artists flown in to perform … the traditional music festival has not been a bastion of eco-friendliness. Now several UK and European events are introducing measures to reduce their impact, using […]

A tale of too many remakes: why we never need to see a Dickens novel on TV ever again | Television

Olivia Colman and Shalom Brune-Franklin in Great Expectations.

Television needs to stop rolling out Charles Dickens adaptations – and this is coming from someone whose lockdown project was writing an Oliver Twist prequel about Nancy (binned after three chapters due to insufficient oom-pah-pah). […]

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 […]