The naked billboard that shocked the establishment – and blazed a trail in the art world
Guerrilla Girls It’s been 40 years since the controversial activist group Guerrilla Girls formed. Their most powerful campaign, the “naked
How Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP sent shockwaves through the ’00s
Getty Images Twenty five years ago, the rapper provoked outrage with his third LP, which shot him to superstardom, and
The 12 Cannes films you need to know about
Rebecca Laurence, Hugh Montgomery and Nicholas Barber This year’s Cannes Film Festival finishes today – and from the hundreds of
Jafar Panahi’s ‘taut revenge thriller’ becomes frontrunner to take Cannes’ top prize
Courtesy of the Cannes Film Festival After years of imprisonment and travel bans in his native Iran, Jafar Panahi returns
How Midnight Cowboy became the only X-rated winner of the best-picture Oscar
Alamy When Midnight Cowboy came out 56 years ago this week, it instantly upended Hollywood’s idea of a mainstream hit.
This ‘deranged’ starry thriller about the US’s pandemic divisions will ‘leave you breathless’
Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival (Credit: Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival) Midsommar and Hereditary director Ari Aster is once again
The meaning behind Cannes’ ‘naked dress’ red-carpet ban
Getty Images There’s complex etiquette and a rich history behind the French film festival’s red-carpet ban of “naked” or “voluminous”
The provocative Estonian pop song that has caused outrage in Italy
Alina Pyazok One of the most controversial entries in the Eurovision song contest is Espresso Macchiato by Estonia’s Tommy Cash.
The lost 1934 novel that gave a chilling warning about the horrors of Nazi Germany
Alamy (Credit: Alamy) Published years before WW2, Sally Carson’s prescient novel captures the dawn of Nazi tyranny in a small
How black men have used flamboyant fashion to express pride and resistance
Tyler Mitchell (Credit: Tyler Mitchell) This year’s Costume Institute spring exhibition and Met Gala are honouring black “dandy” style, and