A street vox pop asks strangers which artwork they’d own if money were no object, and the dull answers, the ones that sell it on, say a lot about art’s transformation into an asset class.
Photographic contests are an uncomfortable beauty parade built on other people's worst days, yet they remain a vital counterweight to censorship and billionaire media control.
A visit to the National Portrait Gallery's Marilyn Monroe exhibition, read through the parallel history of photography.
Dolly Parton was a broad church. She found me as a boy reading on a Harare verandah while my father played 'Jolene' on vinyl, and she never really left.
The Nobel Prize’s integrity is a reminder that excellence still prevails over politics. Amid funding cuts and cynicism, the MacArthur Fellows highlight America’s diversity and brilliance - an antidote to the relentless noise and despair of the news cycle.
The African Union has renewed support for the “Correct the Map” campaign, which challenges the Mercator projection for distorting the true size of continents. The campaign seeks to restore Africa’s rightful place in global consciousness.
Mandé-jazz ensemble Balimaya Project at Snape Maltings. Their vibrant, genre-fluid sound recalls reference to African music that has, in part, soundtracked my life—joyous, evocative, and far beyond the rubric of “world music.”
Reforming the visual culture of football through the success and popularity of the women's game.
Iconic fashion photographer Nick Knight shoots the latest couture collections featuring Lulu Tenney for Harpers Bazaar Italia.