TV presenter broke show’s Covid bubble on trip to hospital hours after sliding into sewer of rotten fruit and vegetablesRichard Madeley has confirmed he has left I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here! because he “broke the Covid ‘bubble’” after he was…
Frida Kahlo self-portrait sold for record $34.9m at auction
Diego y yo (1949) becomes most expensive Kahlo and Latin American work to go under the hammerIt is one of Frida Kahlo’s last self-portraits and represents the artist’s vulnerability and emotional turmoil over her husband Diego Rivera’s adultery.Seven d…
Louis Wain’s anthropomorphic cats to go on display at Bethlem museum
Eccentric artist was famed for outlandish drawings produced while a patient at ‘Bedlam’ psychiatric hospital“He has made the cat his own,” HG Wells once said of Louis Wain. “English cats that do not look and live like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of the…
Theatre in UK faces exodus of women after pandemic, study finds
More than 60% consider leaving jobs amid concerns that ‘safe’ work by men could be prioritisedLeading women in British theatre have expressed concern that cash-strapped theatres could prioritise staging “safe” work by men and face an exodus of female t…
Eight candidates for the next UK city of culture announced
Areas will receive £40,000 grants to support the next step of their applications to succeed CoventryArmagh City, Bradford, County Durham and Stirling are among the eight places in the UK longlisted to become the next city of culture, after a record of …
‘People of colour were less than human’: how The Harder They Fall redefines the western
Directed by London-born Jeymes Samuel, the movie with an all-black cast and strong female characters was always going to be unique, but the experience was also shaped by CovidFrom John Wayne’s toe-to-heel walk to Clint Eastwood’s trademark squint, the …
‘So different’: how the millennials of 28 Up are coping with changing times
As a new chapter of the landmark series begins, life isn’t the same as it was for their baby boomer forbearsIt was a groundbreaking documentary series that became a TV institution as it followed the lives of 14 Britons of vastly different backgrounds f…
R Kelly’s ex-wife says victim shaming stopped women coming forward
Drea Kelly puts focus on what happens outside courtroom after singer’s racketeering and sex trafficking convictionThe culture around victim shaming stopped women coming forward sooner about the abuse they experienced at the hands of R Kelly, the singer…
‘You’re in a new world’: refugee actors share their journey on stage
A new play touring England uses beds to reflect on experiences of former unaccompanied minorsFor most people, bed is a place of comfort, somewhere to recline and switch off. For others, it is a scene of displacement, a symbol of the precariousness of l…