The artist Archie Moore has won the prestigious Golden Lion for best national participation at the 2024 Venice Biennale for his artwork commemorating 65,000 years of Indigenous Australian history โ the first time an Australian artwork has won the prize.
'Five of Europeโs best national parks โ with all the beauty but none of the crowds. Offering exquisite scenery, rare wildlife and spectacular trails, these under-the-radar national parks are worth tracking down...' โ Rachel Dixon
London Day 1 ๐ฎ started the day with some excellent vegan waffles in Bethnal Green then off to explore the book-shopping scene in East Ldn. Jambala, Brick Lane, Libreria, Common Press. Pitstop in Kings X for Word on Water ๐ค Finished the day in Angel. Book count: 5 ๐
The Academy Award-winning director studied at Cambridge and at Londonโs RADA, before entering the film industry. Riot in Cell Block 11, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and Dirty Harry, are among his best known action dramas.
According to Bram Stoker's son Noel, the genesis of Dracula was a dream about a vampire king rising from his tomb. Bram Stoker died on April 20, 1912, and did not live to see the immense cultural impact of his novel, and the many permutations in print and on the screen...
'Mirรณ's work is loved for its joyful celebration of life and colour. It also contains ideas of freedom which, in Franco's Spain, were very dear to the painter...' โ Tim Adams
'Among Post-Impressionists, it was the symbolist Odilon Redon #botd who most excelled with pastels, finding its brilliant colours a potent means of communicating his intense visions...' โ Emma Crichton-Miller
Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence and Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai have teamed up and made Bread & Roses, a film about the abuse of women in Afghanistan. In an emotional interview, they discuss women being denied every basic right and opportunity...
'Agnรจs Vardaโs 'Clรฉo de 5 ร 7' dazzled when it opened in 1962, and looks even more timely today in its tackling of female identity as a function of how women see and are seen by the world...' โ Molly Haskell
Lord Byron, poet and peer, joined the Greek War of Independence to fight the Ottoman Empire, for which Greeks revere him as a folk hero. He died of a fever #otd aged thirty-six in Missolonghi...
Much missed gifted theatre, film and television comic, classical and jazz pianist, and composer. He played the Brahms Triple Concerto with Itzhak Perlman and Yo-Yo Ma, and fronted a classical music series on British television partnered by Sir Georg Solti...