Arts and Culture

Manchester pop-up Humbug is using the meat from just one animal - Maraschino the Red Poll cow

As Jesse Eisenberg’s second outing as writer-director, this plangent reflection of the legacy of the Holocaust is a tremendous accomplishment

John Crowley's beautiful film doesn't shy away from the gut-wrenching reality of cancer, instead it embraces it

Many directors might not have scaled their creative heights without Ponti’s recognition that one could make daring and challenging cinema and still turn a profit

Aberdeen may be in Scotland, but its name derives from the Welsh for river mouth. Why?

How a grumpy star, a broken piano and an improvised set added up to a timeless jazz classic recorded 50 years ago – the legendary Köln Concert

MAGA’s resurgence means that works by George Orwell, Khaled Hosseini, Anne Frank and even Agatha Christie are under threat

Rather than take part in a fad, consider spending the month eating produce from regenerative farms

Oscar-winner Asif Kapadia on his new docu-drama and the road to dystopia

Belgium is a funny old nation and that's what the most famous statue in Brussels, the Manneken Pis, represents to me

This adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel deserves – at minimum – an Oscar nomination for best picture

What is mere storage space to them represents chunks of our lives that would otherwise go unremembered

The daughter of a songwriter and from a long line of composers, the woman born Isabelle Gall was predestined for a career in music

Pet names, known technically as hypocoristics, often use abbreviation, rhyming, and vowel changes to express familiarity and fondness

For those who want tunes with their travel, Europe is home to an astonishing plethora of annual summer jazz festivals

A feast of festivals, ancient churches, bridge jumping and more make up Europe’s cultural hotspots for 2025

Has director Robert Eggers bitten off more than he can chew with a remake of FW Murnau’s 1922 classic?

Death of England, one of the cultural highlights of 2024, is coming to streaming. But what’s next for playwright Roy Williams?

There will be more sushi and Middle Eastern flavours, Mexican dining will hasten - and Nando’s could start to wane

These are the shows to hunker down with over the coming year

Intimate stories and unbreakable bonds in an exhibition of portraits that dig deep into our European ways of life and death

2025 looks like being an outstanding year for art

A whole host of alumni from the contest will release new music, and perhaps lift spirits, in 2025

We’ll need mechanisms in place to keep us sane and what better mechanism is there to achieve that than getting stuck in to a really good book?

The new peer is peddling misinformation about Bridget Phillipson’s plans for education

A defunct commodities exchange in Paris, owned by a billionaire, is the setting for an exhibition of a radical art movement that used lowly materials to react against consumerism

Colourful stories abound of how France’s vintners tricked and humiliated the occupying Germans in world war two. But the truth is rather more complex

A Kyiv gallery has defied Russian missile attacks to stage a visceral but tender art competition for artists under 35

The city’s working class banlieues have produced superstars like Kylian Mbappé and Thierry Henry. Could they now take Paris Saint Germain to the next level?

This supposedly heart-warming yuletide classic is the story of a NIMBY preparing to impose a radical moral agenda on his selfish neighbours