When violence is sustained long enough, it undergoes an insidious transformation: it ceases to be an acute aberration and settles into habit. In contemporary Iran,…
A shield at the Sun-Earth Lagrange point now has funded engineering studies and a cost estimate. Nobody yet has the authority to switch it on,…
Some filmmakers are interested in what happens in the physical world. SaiKiran Sunkoju is fascinated by what happens within the people who inhabit it. For…
The British folk music revival is the name for two main waves of activity that brought traditional song and dance back into public life: a…
Charlotte Drablow came to acting through psychology, broadcasting and presenting. The Berkshire actress on nerves, anger on set, and the serious drama she wants next.
Aurora Geraci on figurative oil painting, her own photographs as a starting point, and what a move from Palermo to the Royal College of Art…
Victor Erice's films turn childhood fear into a way of seeing post-war Spain, from The Spirit of the Beehive and El Sur to Close Your…
Prospect Cottage is Derek Jarman’s small fisherman’s house on the Dungeness shingle in Kent, bought in the 1980s, where a garden of driftwood, flint and…
To photograph an artwork well, put it flat and square to a camera on a tripod, light it evenly from both sides with two matched…
Krish reviews Orlando von Einsiedel's documentary about PK Mahanandia, the Delhi artist who cycled to Sweden in 1977 for the woman he loved, and finds…