Japanese cinema needs an overhaul. At least that’s what acclaimed director Koji Fukada thinks, calling for less reliance on manga adaptations, more money for arthouse and better treatment of workers.
News that Israeli actress Gal Gadot will play Cleopatra has prompted Hollywood’s latest “whitewashing” row — and renewed a historical debate over the ancient Queen of Egypt’s ancestry. Gadot, best
Tehran, March 2018: the lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh reflects on a career that has seen her take on the most sensitive of causes in Iran, including saving juveniles from the death
Photos by Dexter Matilla With physical distancing becoming the norm, auction house Leon Gallery adapts to the new normal by holding a two-day online auction via its Leonexchange platform on
Turner prize-winner Damien Hirst looks back on his time as one of the most notorious “Young British Artists” in a new solo retrospective show opening in London on Wednesday. “End
Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei held a silent protest on Monday outside a London court to demand the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who faces extradition to the United
British artist Sacha Jafri paces barefoot back and forth across his giant canvas stretched across the ballroom floor of a luxury Dubai hotel, listening to a young girl singing. She performed Friday on
We’ve been blessed, of late, with excellent movies about families of grifters. There was Hirokazu Kore-eda’s gloriously heartfelt “Shoplifters,” about a makeshift clan of small-time thieves whose familial bonds run at least
The creators of big Emmy winner “Watchmen,” a timely blend of superheroes and political satire that confronts US racism, say they are proud to have spotlighted the nation’s historic traumas
In this episode of Artists Talk, artist Jed Gregorio is interviewed by Gabrielle Gatchalian, independent curator and international liaison for artist-run organisation 98B Collaboratory, about Gregorio’s young yet distinctive body
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