Personalities
With the 70th BFI London Film Festival just around the corner, we spoke to Grace Barber-Plentie, one of the festival’s programmers, about what makes London audiences so passionate about cinema, how the LFF programme comes together and the new voices she hopes to bring to the screen.
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For Marie Curie and Superdrug’s *The Last Lipstick* campaign, Anita, Pavla and Sarah share personal stories of beauty, care and memory — and how small rituals, from applying lipstick to skincare, can help preserve identity, dignity and a sense of self through serious illness and at the end of life.
Fashion & Beauty
8 very different ways of mixing culture, fashion, music and design: from Pinterest phone-free bags to cashmere headphones.
Culture
Ana Mendieta’s art was rooted in presence and absence, body and earth, exile and belonging. A major exhibition at Tate Modern brings these threads together, transforming fragments of her ephemeral practice into a vivid encounter with one of the most singular artists of her generation.
Personalities
Launching in King’s Cross, Vision Festival brings culture, science, technology and performance into conversation. Michael John Harris, director of programming at Town Hall by Bottaccio, discusses the creative energy, Town Hall’s legacy and building a festival shaped by unexpected encounters.
Art
From cursed videos and Slender Man to the Backrooms and AI-generated horrors, creepypastas have evolved from digital folklore into a language of contemporary culture. How did internet myths become parafiction — and why are artists returning to their unsettling aesthetics today?
Art
Twin sisters Kristina and Sadé Alleyne talk about creating dance together, blending movement traditions, working with communities and refugees, and exploring belonging, home and human connection through the moving body.
Fashion & Beauty
Culture's most unlikely hookups — from £3K pencil cases to Charli XCX's Playboy debut
Art
The Tate Modern gallery’s Turbine Hall commission series is one of those rare things: a forward-thinking, artist-supporting initiative located at a global arts institution that is open to all and free to attend. Launched in 2000, the series invites international artists to make one-off artworks that
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A new documentary, and the concerts where thousands of strangers cry together over songs from 1994
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Rico Gagliano, the host of the new season of the MUBI Podcast explores the art of the perfect needle drop — how filmmakers from Scorsese to Linklater use familiar songs to unlock emotion, transform a scene and make us hear music anew.
Personalities
What makes a city more than a collection of strangers? On 12 September in Gloucester and 14–15 September in London, How to Build the City turns theatre, dance, gaming and live interaction into a three-hour exploration of how cities — and communities — are built. We spoke to the artists behind it.