Canadian–American architect who explored crumpling and fish curves in such buildings as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao

Parr said his brightly coloured, closely observed pictures of British life were ‘disguised as entertainment’ but they became hugely popular Martin Parr, the British documentary photographer who captured the peculiarities of the nation with clarity and hilarity, has died aged 73. He had been diagnosed with cancer in May 2021. Known for his acute observations of the English class system, Parr’s images covered sunbathers and Conservative clubs, village fetes and coffee mornings, often in vivid colour and with more than a dash of humour. His iconic 1986 photobook The Last Resort: Photographs of New Brighton captured working-class holidaymakers in the Wirral, Liverpool and helped mark a sea change in British documentary photography, from the gritty, black and white style of the past towards a cheekier and more colourful style. Continue reading...

Independent musicians in Ireland have created the most exciting and genre-diverse indie scene in the world

Writer rose to prominence after Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead won attention at Edinburgh fringe

If one culprit looms behind these shifts, it is the early digital consensus that everything should be free

Cultural observations have always been going viral, from the oral cultures of the ancient world to the have always been going viral, from the oral cultures of the ancient world to the visual cultures...

The visual artist Corban Walker on his middle name, what makes him angry, and how work gives him joy

Until you meticulously quantify how the hours, days and weeks of your life are really being spent, you can’t possibly know for sure. The BIA survey gave me that knowledge

[un]inhabited initials [after Holbein] is a cross genre essay in images and words explorating Hans Holbein the Younger’s 1524 Alphabet with Dance of Death. [un]inhabited initials [after Holbein] was p...

Radical English director who clashed with the BBC over his ‘horrifying’ film about nuclear war, was forced to look abroad to continue working Peter Watkins, the radical British film-maker who won an Oscar for his controversial drama-documentary The War Game, about a nuclear attack on Britain, has died aged 90. His son Patrick confirmed that he died on Thursday, but no cause of death has been given. Watkins was an uncompromising figure who clashed with the BBC after the latter failed to show The War Game on broadcast TV, and subsequently led a peripatetic film-making existence, looking overseas for backing. He was wary of the press, in a rare interview he spoke to the Guardian in 2000, saying he was “someone who has been working for 30 years to help shift the power balance between public and TV”. He added: “Had TV taken an alternative direction during the 1960s and 1970s and worked in a more open way, global society today would be vastly more humane and just.” Continue reading...

Self-Portrait as a Drowned Man (The Willows) 2011 Silicone; fibreglass; hair; clothing; mixed media. As the title may suggest to some, this work is...

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Anne Enright’s time looking after her parents has given the Booker winner an opportunity to take stock, both personally and creatively

minor literatures ; stuttering cultures. Click to read minor literature[s], a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

minor beef[s] is a new feature where you can express your literary gripes, complaints and pet hates … Is there a writer you despise who is getting too much praise? a lauded critic whose opinio…

We planted on the cheapest land we could find in Ireland. These small wet fields now hum with life. This habitat is healing

Podcast Episode · What Were We Like? · S1 E1 · 34m

from Alphabet with Dance of Death, Hans Holbein the Younger   Chronically cash-strapped, the Emperor [Maximilian I] stimulated contemporary local artists […] to try out new techniques and form…