One of Beatriz Milhazes’s distinctive compositions hangs in her Rio de Janeiro studio. Over the past four decades, she has been creating spirited abstract compositions that explode with overlapping geometric shapes and patterns in vibrant colours...
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton topped the timesheets during Friday’s opening free practice session for the Monaco Grand Prix, leading the way from McLaren rival Oscar Piastri and team mate George Russell...
Legendary rock’n’roll singer and multiple Grammy award-winner, Tina Turner was famed for her raunchy and energetic stage performances. Her husky, powerful vocals made her one of the best-known singers of her generation...
Bob Dylan #botd — D A Pennebaker filming his 1965 concert tour in England. 'Dont Look Back' was voted by critics in a Sight & Sound poll the joint ninth best documentary of all time...
'He was part of a generation of dramatists, including John Osborne and Harold Pinter, who helped change the face of British theatre. If Wesker’s early plays had personal origins, they also had profound political and social resonance...' — Michael Billington
Belle de Jour, the surrealist psychological drama directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, and Michel Piccoli, was released #otd in 1967.
Brancusi Exhibition | Centre Pompidou, Paris March 27 – July 1
Constantin Brancusi has never before been the subject of an exhibition on such a scale. An ensemble of over 120 sculptures, along with photographs, drawings, films, archives, tools and furniture from his studio...
Two star-crossed lovers have only minutes to change the course of their lives in this electrifying art-house smash hit. Set to a throbbing techno score, RUN LOLA RUN directed by Tom Tykwer #botd is a bracing shot of pure cinematic adrenaline...
Robert Moog #botd envisioned a limited market for synthesisers when he developed the instrument in the mid-60s. He credited Wendy Carlos's 1968 album Switched-on Bach with shattering the concept that they were only suitable for creating sound effects and avant-garde music...
'You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving...'
'Jacques Demy can now be seen, in all his complexity, as both a key part of the New Wave and a singular film auteur, with a coherent fictional universe. And Lola, released in 1961, is the matrix of that vision...'
