ART & CULTURE

As of now, the museum will remain open. (Photo by Gilbert Carrasquillo/GC Images) Unionized workers at the Philadelphia Museum of Art are striking after two years of failed negotiations with the museum. “This action should come…

You might expect times to have changed since Barrie Keeffe’s play Sus, which explores the deep-set systemic racism within the Metropolitan police and premiered over 40 years ago. But with Black people still nine times more likely to be…

Liverpool and Glasgow are the two cities which remain in the competition to host the 2023 Eurovision song contest, the BBC has announced.They have been selected after Birmingham, Leeds, Newcastle, Sheffield and Manchester were removed from…

When I was about 13 years old, I did the things my friends did until they went to bed, then I’d walk miles along Ste Catherine Street, a night lover, peeking into marble tabled cafeterias where men wore overcoats even in the summer,…

The markets may have reacted badly to Kwasi Kwarteng’s “fiscal event”, sending the pound tumbling to its lowest level against the dollar for decade, but you can always count on some stoic British humour in the face of the government tanking…

This war movie from Ukraine was made before the full-scale invasion in February, and tells the important story of how Moscow-backed separatists have been fighting in eastern Donbas since 2014. Director Marian Bushan co-wrote the script with…

In the early 1990s, fashion shows were still quite a rough and ready business. Things weren’t quite as closely managed as they are these days, especially if you scratched beneath the surface. Jo Jones, now the Observer’s fashion editor,…

Russia will not submit a film to the Oscars this year, the first time the country has boycotted the prestigious film awards since the fall of the Soviet Union, as Moscow’s cultural isolation deepens.“The presidium of the Film Academy of…

Tourists visiting the Caribbean during the summer of 1981 might have spotted something unexpected: Joni Mitchell in the thick of things at a disco, grooving up a storm to the Police’s inscrutable hit De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da. “I love to…

There are some heartfelt performances and vignettes in this debut feature from producer-turned-director Kirsty Bell and writers Elizabeth Morris and Dominic Wells – and certainly some lustrous monochrome images from cinematographer Sergio…