Financial Times: John Waters on the joy of bad taste — before the Trumps ruined it

As his still-shocking 1970s films are celebrated in a season at London’s BFI, the director remains defiant and unrepentant.

New York Times: Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley's Video Games Aren’t About Winning. They’re About Connecting.

The artist wants her audience to actively grapple with her ideas. To experience her work, you have to grab a controller and interact.

Kinfolk: David Erritzoe on the mind-bending potential of psychedelics

"David Erritzoe arrives at our meeting on a fold-up bike, perfectly coiffed and turned out in navy, ready to talk about drugs."

Kinfolk: Elise By Olsen Interview

What does the world’s youngest editor-in-chief do when they turn 21? Tom Faber interviews Elise By Olsen—the publishing maven who’s forcing the fashion industry to actually listen to the young people it fetishizes.

Financial Times: RuPaul, Pose and how the mainstream discovered voguing

Once voguers were influenced by models and fashion houses — now celebrities like Rihanna look to them for inspiration.

Financial Times: Netflix’s BoJack Horseman is an anti-hero for our times

How the smart tragicomedy reinvented animation while offering insightful satire of our slippery moment.

Financial Times: Oliver Beer - the artist who makes ancient cave paintings sing

For his new show in London, Beer has explored the resonance of a subterranean world containing hundreds of Palaeolithic artworks.

Kinfolk: Zakia is Finding Albion

The writer, broadcaster and DJ Zakia Sewell is on a quest through the history and folklore of the British Isles.

Financial Times: James Turrell – master of light

As he debuts a new Skyspace in Denmark, the artist discusses Quakers, Kanye West and his volcanic ambitions.

Financial Times: Lawrence Abu Hamdan: the ‘private ear’ who investigates government cover-ups

The Turner Prize winner’s forensic work is fuelled by a belief that sounds can reveal hidden violence.

Financial Times: You don’t watch Punchdrunk’s latest show, you play it

Audience members are the main characters in a ‘live-action video game’ from the pioneers of immersive theatre.

Financial Times: John Waters on the joy of bad taste — before the Trumps ruined it

As his still-shocking 1970s films are celebrated in a season at London’s BFI, the director remains defiant and unrepentant.

Financial Times: ‘Being Latin is fashionable right now’ — the rapid rise of Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso

The Argentine pop duo on their breakout success and how burnout — and therapy led by Sting — shaped their new album.

Financial Times: Book reviews — the reality of LGBT+ life in 20th-century Britain

‘The Log Books’ delves into a poignant archive of helpline calls, while ‘Tales of the Suburbs’ peeks behind those net curtains to revealing effect.

Financial Times: ‘It’s a kind of shock therapy’ — director Oliver Laxe on his apocalyptic rave movie Sirāt

The uncompromising spectacle was designed to be watched with the ‘ears, stomach and guts’. Now it’s up for two Oscars.

Financial Times: Sophia Al-Maria quit the art world. Now she’s back for one last job

The Qatari-American artist on growing up in the Gulf, Bedouin trucks and stand-up comedy.

The Guardian: The life and mysterious death of drag queen Heklina

The performer was found dead in ‘unexpected’ circumstances in her London flat in 2023. Why are her loved ones still waiting for an explanation?

Financial Times: What Charli XCX did next

The answer is film — spearheaded by a retelling of brat summer in which the artist plays a ‘hell version’ of herself.

Financial Times: How rave culture went from the dance floor to the museum gallery

Is this how the party ends?

New York Times: Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley's Video Games Aren’t About Winning. They’re About Connecting.

The artist wants her audience to actively grapple with her ideas. To experience her work, you have to grab a controller and interact.

New York Times: A Group of Socialists Created a Hit Game That Tore Them Apart

Instead of a Disco Elysium sequel came bitter lawsuits and five rival studios.

Financial Times: Punk philosopher Paul B Preciado on the true meaning of ‘dysphoria’

In a quiet Parisian square, the radical writer proposes a new way of understanding the world.

Tech Icons: Synthetic Hearts — Can AI Dating Apps Create True Love?

How technology is reshaping intimacy in the 21st century. Do we desperately need to pull the plug?

The Observer: ‘Great Rewiring’ or moral panic: are young people really the ‘anxious generation’?

Jonathan Haidt says the crisis in young people’s mental health is down to addictive phone habits. This may be too simple.

Financial Times: Feel the Sound at the Barbican review — a playground of sounds and vibrations

London exhibition offers a joyful array of interactive and immersive sonic experiences.

Financial Times: How The Last of Us broke the video game adaptation curse — and why Season 2 is more fraught

The zombie survival drama proved that gaming-based TV could be good — even great. Can the sequel reach the same heights?

New York Times: Leigh Bowery Arrives at Tate Modern, Without Labels

A new exhibition about the indefinable performer and designer won’t pigeonhole him, though it will bring his work to a much broader audience.

Dazed: The wild rise of NPC streamers

From background characters in video games to centre-stage on TikTok, what's behind our obsession with these avatars of the uncanny?

Kinfolk Journeys: The exquisite wilderness of Yemeni island Socotra

A visit to one of the planet's most biodiverse corners, far off the beaten track for all but the most dedicated explorers.

Financial Times: Electric Dreams exhibition at Tate Modern — when artists embraced the power of technology

Early computer art shows the creative possibilities of the marriage of man and machine.