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Cordell Broadus
By Anna Zhila, art and music critic The Unexpected Education of Cordell Broadus There is a certain kind of story we expect from the children of the famous. It is often a story of imitation or rebellion, of either following dutifully in a parent’s footsteps or veering dramatically away from them. But what happens when…
Aliens. The Fossil God of LV-426
Some things are frightening because of what they are. The xenomorph is one of them. But some things are frightening because we don’t know what they are. In the silent, cathedral-like chamber of the derelict ship on LV-426 sits the greatest mystery of the Alien franchise: the fossilised pilot, fused to its arcane technology. Nicknamed the Space…
Bbno$
By Anna Zhila, artist, art and music critic The internet is a voracious machine for creating disposable pop stars. Yet, somehow, the Canadian rapper Bbno$. Which brings us to Alexander Gumuchian, the Canadian rapper known as Bbno$ (pronounced, he tells me, Baby No Money). You almost certainly know his work, even if you don't know…
The 2025 Booker Prize Longlist Is Here
By Yulia Tulegenova The judges have spoken. After sorting through 153 books over seven months, the panel for the 2025 Booker Prize has unveiled its longlist of 13 novels. The selection, chaired by the Irish writer Roddy Doyle, is a fascinating snapshot of the contemporary novel, offering a globe-spanning tour of fiction that feels both…
A Fresh Start for the Fantastic Four
After a run of complicated sequels and crossovers, Marvel has made a film that anyone can watch. The new Fantastic Four movie does not require you to have seen any other film in the series. This might be the course correction the Marvel universe needed. Recent films like The Marvels and Captain America: Brave New World have struggled to connect with…
Art Liard - Review by Anthony Fawcett
By Anthony Fawcett, the esteemed art critic and historian, once served as John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s personal curator. His illustrious career includes introducing Man Ray to London, collaborating with icons like Andy Warhol, and assuming pivotal roles in leading art institutions. Fawcett is renowned for his 80 historical interviews with legends such as Francis…
Sotheby's Rebuilt New Bond Street in Decentraland. It Weighs Nothing
A pixel-perfect replica of the London auction house now stands in the metaverse. What is missing when a viewing room loses its air, its wax and its history.
The Great Elsewhere - Art in the Age of The To-Do List
By Anna Zhila, artist, musician and art critic One suspects the defining artwork of our era is not a monumental Sterling Ruby sculpture or an Alex Katz canvas, but an altogether more abstract creation: the itinerary. It is a masterpiece of logistics, a multi-stop, continent-spanning performance piece whose primary medium is the carbon footprint. Ibiza,…
Why We Traded Wisdom for Answers
It must have been the winter of 2018. I remember the weak afternoon light, the specific chill of a room that is never quite warm enough, and the discovery of a feature on Spotify called ‘Organise Liked Songs’. For the next four hours, I did not move. I plunged into the digital viscera of my…
The Last Party in Pompeii
By Michael Mittelman There is a telling detail nestled within the fanfare for London’s vast new Gianni Versace retrospective. It comes from Sir Elton John, a man for whom understatement is a foreign country he has no plans to visit. Speaking of his trove of Versace’s famously baroque silk shirts, he admits, ‘I never wore…
Beautiful burden of being a Combs
There is a particular kind of quiet fortitude required to build something new while the world is watching the ruins of your old world burn. ArtCulture.UK will tell you about the launch of 12TWINTY1, a new fashion line from D’Lila and Jessie Combs, the 18-year-old twin daughters of the disgraced music mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.…
The Creativity's Prize. One Award, Creative Impact
By Michael Mittelman ArtCulture.UK will tell you about the strange, alchemical process that turns private obsession into public legacy, where the sentience of a creative work is finally met with the gaze of the world. It’s a transaction brokered not in galleries or auction houses, but in the quiet pronouncements of a jury. An award…
The endless cruise - The magnificent, freedom
There is a new dream being sold to the restless and the retired, a fantasy of perpetual horizons and a life unbound by the dreary anchor of a fixed address. ArtCulture.UK will tell you about the ultimate escape, a magnificent, terrifying, and distinctly modern form of self-imposed exile. It is the story of Sharon Lane,…
The impossible sadness of a perfect smile
Death came quietly for Kylie Page. It didn't arrive with the clamour of headlines or the orchestrated grief of mainstream celebrity, but as a stark notification from the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner, a bureaucratic finality to a life lived in the glare of a million anonymous screens. ArtCulture.UK will tell you about the unnerving…
Critical analysis of the novel ‘Eastern Empire’
Yulia Tulegenova, critic and reviewer in the fields of literature and art Under the glossy exterior of a modern techno-thriller about the rise and fall of a start-up at the crossroads of civilisations, ‘Eastern Empire’ conceals the structure of a classical tragedy. This work is not so much about code and augmented reality as it…
