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Cambridge Film Festival at 45 - Discovery, Retrospective and the End of the One-Director Festival
A festival is a set of choices, and the most revealing ones are not the headline premieres. They are the rules nobody reads: who picks the films, which prizes exist, and who is allowed to win them. Th
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Submissions
By artculture Pitch us Send the idea, not the finished piece. A clear angle, why it matters now, and two or three links to your work are enough. We read every pitch and reply within about ten working days. The full guidelines are below. What are you proposingReviewFeature or long-formInterviewOpinion or essaySomething else Full name*…
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London in September 2026: Exhibitions, Festivals and Openings
September is the month London stops performing for visitors and starts programming for itself. The summer blockbusters have done their work, the crowds have thinned, and the institutions bring out the
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Venice 83 - The Most Political Competition in Years
Venice opened on 2 September 2026 with Danny Boyle's Ink: 21 films in competition, two Golden Lions, and an argument about who gets to direct.
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How to Find an Art Critic - Who Commissions Reviews, Art Critics, and How to Approach One
Galleries, museums, brands and artists all end up asking how to find an art critic. What criticism actually changes, how to approach a writer without wasting the chance, and a starting list of critics in London, New York, Paris, Berlin and Los Angeles.
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Open House at 35 - When London Shows Its Machinery
Open House Festival runs 12 to 20 September 2026, free, across all 33 London boroughs. In its 35th year the programme has shifted from famous facades to the working machinery of the city.
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Orson Welles' Unfinished Don Quixote - Four Archives Join to Reassemble a 70-Year Dream
Four European film archives are pooling more than thirty hours of material to reassemble the Don Quixote that Orson Welles began in 1957 and never finished. Not to complete it, but to make it legible.
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Richard Vinen and the History of Ordinary Compulsion
A historian at King's College London has built a career on the parts of the recent past that everyone lived through and nobody mythologised: conscription, Thatcherism, occupation, 1968.
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The Scholar Who Said No to a Very Good Story: April DeConick and the Gospel of Judas
In 2006 the world was told that a lost gospel made Judas a hero. A professor at Rice University read the Coptic and said it did the opposite. A case study in how popular history gets corrected.
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Cambridge Film Festival at 45 - Discovery, Retrospective and the End of the One-Director Festival
A festival is a set of choices, and the most revealing ones are not the headline premieres. They are the rules nobody reads: who picks the films, which prizes exist, and who is allowed to win them. Th
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Cambridge Film Festival at 45 - Discovery, Retrospective and the End of the One-Director Festival
A festival is a set of choices, and the most revealing ones are not the headline premieres. They are the rules nobody reads: who picks the films, which prizes exist, and who is allowed to win them. Th
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Submissions
By artculture Pitch us Send the idea, not the finished piece. A clear angle, why it matters now, and two or three links to your work are enough. We read every pitch and reply within about ten working days. The full guidelines are below. What are you proposingReviewFeature or long-formInterviewOpinion or essaySomething else Full name* Email* Links to two or three published pieces Field Your pitch* Send pitch Prefer email?…
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London in September 2026: Exhibitions, Festivals and Openings
September is the month London stops performing for visitors and starts programming for itself. The summer blockbusters have done their work, the crowds have thinned, and the institutions bring out the
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Venice 83 - The Most Political Competition in Years
Venice opened on 2 September 2026 with Danny Boyle's Ink: 21 films in competition, two Golden Lions, and an argument about who gets to direct.