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Rare photographs by Dora Maar cast Picasso’s tormented muse in a new light

London gallery shows intimate images, including portraits of the artist, that reveal a great talent in her own rightDora Maar is renowned as Pablo Picasso’s “weeping woman”, the anguished lover who inspired him to repeatedly portray her in tears. Now a London gallery is seeking to re-establish her as a pioneering surrealist artist in her own right,...

Sun Jun 16, 2024 11:48
A Song for You: Home review – soulful, spacious harmonies

(Rhythm Section) The 50-strong Berlin-based ensemble showcases the power of many voices on a funk and gospel inflected debutBerlin-based vocal ensemble A Song for You formed in 2022 to showcase the thriving alternative soul and jazz scene that operates outside the city’s reputation as Europe’s techno capital. Beginning as an impromptu gathering for...

Sun Jun 16, 2024 11:48
TV tonight: fabulous drag queens shake up small-town America

They hit Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where there is a statewide drag ban. Plus: unwind with a trip to the Shetland islands. Here’s what to watch this evening11pm, Sky Max Continue reading...

Sun Jun 16, 2024 08:44
On my radar: Golda Schultz’s cultural highlights

The South African soprano on her love of Star Trek, a Stockholm gallery that used to be a squat, and where to find a great negroni in LondonThe soprano Golda Schultz was born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1983. She studied journalism before switching to singing at the University of Cape Town and then Juilliard in New York. In 2011 she joined the Bavarian...

Sat Jun 15, 2024 17:32
Ash Atalla: ‘I cry easily. I get nostalgic about the passing of years’

The comedy producer, 51, reflects on early ambitions to be a stockbroker, dodging racism by being a wheelchair user, and being noisy enough to get invited to the partyI was born in Cairo and moved to Northern Ireland when I was two for my parents’ work – they’re both doctors. I’d open my mouth and this really manic Northern Irish accent would come out,...

Sat Jun 15, 2024 17:32
Beth Gibbons review – an unapologetically intense triumph

Barbican Hall, London EC1 Folk, classical and jazz textures from a quietly stellar band back the singer’s elegant, swooping voice on an almighty debut tourEyes shut, feet bare, with the stage in virtual darkness, singer Beth Gibbons clings to her microphone stand as though to a sapling in a gale, a veil of blond hair periodically falling across her...

Sat Jun 15, 2024 17:32

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