Culture
European culture: art, music, film, books and ideas.
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Books Q&A live: we answer your questions about our 100 top novels lists
Were our readers right to put Lord of the Rings above Middlemarch? What was missing from our list? Has anyone read the whole 100 ……
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Pan-Africanism in London, the health benefits of art, Barbara Hepworth—podcast
In this week's episode, Ben Luke learns about Pan-Africanism through a travelling exhibition now open at the Barbican in London, a…
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Bollywood's Nora Fatehi hopes her FIFA World Cup song brings 'unity'
The Canadian-born artist will be performing her official Fifa song at the Toronto opening ceremony.
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“Do not ever use my music”: Ariana Grande slams the White House over ICE video
The White House has repeatedly faced criticism for using popular music in social media posts without the approval of the artists i…
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What World Cup? It’s the ultimate summer TV guide
Don’t want to spend months watching corporate greed besmirch football? Fear not. From the spectacular return of Larry David to Wil…
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‘Windrush is a love story too’: Renell Shaw on paying homage to Black British life in his new jazz trilogy
The Ivor Novello-winning musician has written works inspired by his family history. He talks about building music from testimony –…
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Fan favourite Tosh to leave Shetland TV show after 13 years
Alison O'Donnell, one of the original cast, says she wanted to explore other acting opportunities.
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Drawings by Willem de Kooning, the ‘last Old Master’, take centre stage in Chicago show
Exhibition traces how the artist’s draughtsmanship was integral to his work
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Working in the fourth dimension: William Kentridge’s latest opera arrives at Glynbourne
This summer the artist directs Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo at the Glyndebourne Festival in East Sussex
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Van Gogh’s wheatfields ‘under turbulent skies’
Did these panoramic landscapes foreshadow the artist’s untimely death?
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Taylor Swift makes tearful 21-minute speech as she joins Songwriters Hall of Fame
The singer thanks her family as she becomes the youngest woman to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
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The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup
Not With a Bang by Temi Oh; Tillinghast by Clare Cavenagh; Atomic Coffin by Benedict Anning; The Unicorn Hunters by Katherine Arde…
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Art world pays tribute to 'endlessly inventive and unique' David Hockney
Tate Britain's director says the "loss to the art world is immense" following Hockney's death aged 88.
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David Hockney, an artist of brio and versatility, with global recognition beyond the art world, has died, aged 88
The Yorkshire-born maestro had been a cultural star to reckon with, and a pioneer of new figurative formats, since making headline…
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Julio Le Parc obituary
Radical Argentinian artist who demanded the viewer participate in his kinetic art “Art today is nothing but a tremendous bluff,” J…
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British artist David Hockney dies at 88
Considered a superstar of pop art, the UK painter was one of the world's most influential artists during his lifetime.
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‘David Hockney caught the look of the modern world’: a tribute to the artist whose work was a feast of visual pleasure
He was subversive and bold, yet also playful and accepting – putting the fun into pop art and finding freedom and fulfilment amid …
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David Hockney: Bradford's artistic genius who painted the things he loved
The flamboyant Yorkshireman, routinely described as Britain's greatest artist, has died aged 88.
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Art's great innovator whose vivid paintings made him a household name
The proud Yorkshireman, who also painted iconic pictures of America, was routinely described as Britain's greatest artist.
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Revolutionary British artist David Hockney dies aged 88
The Bradford painter whose sun-kissed visions of California broke world records at auction, has died David Hockney, the iconic Bri…
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Ruth Ozeki: ‘All my books are an attempt to recreate Charlotte’s Web’
The US author, film-maker and Zen Buddhist priest on smart young girls, the difference between irony and cynicism, and working her…
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The Long Drop review – Denise Mina’s whisky-soaked tale of triple murder is horribly gripping
Citizens theatre, Glasgow The novel is adapted with equal parts wit and horror to capture the depravity of a notorious crime in Gl…
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The best podcasts of 2026 so far
Surreal genius from Harry Hill, trailblazing women and a passionate ode to an incredible New York rapper – these are the best list…
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'Most unusual book' wins Walter Scott historical fiction prize
Alice Jolly's The Matchbox Girl wins the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize at the Borders Book Festival.