Image: Garden Pieces (1998) Dir Margaret Tait, Courtesy of Margaret Tait and LUX, London. See film on Wed 5 Nov 2025, 19:00. barbican.org.uk As the world prepares for COP30 in Belém, Brazil, we turn to Dr Becca Voelcker – BBC…
Image credit: The Sex Pistols, April 1976. Credit: PT MADDEN From his days as Marketing Director EMEA at Saatchi & Saatchi to co-founding Byline Times – among the leading crowdfunded independent news publications in the UK – Byline TV and…
Image credit: Photograph of Susanna Davies-Crook by Liz Seabrook For over 15 years, writer and curator Susanna Davies-Crook has been a vital force in contemporary art and media – shaping conversations that bridge the poetic and the political. Her latest…
Image description: THE DELUSION, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, 2025. Commissioned and produced by Serpentine Arts Technologies. © Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley Artist–game designer Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley has built a formidable practice of “living archives” that centre Black Trans life – spanning game worlds, performance and…
Image description: Pepa Ubera, photographed by Noemie Reijnen. Pepa Ubera is a deft builder of worlds: a choreographer, researcher and multidisciplinary artist whose work blurs performance, installation and immersive tech. This week she premieres The Machine of Horizontal Dreams at…
Image description: Black Power Desk production shot. Photo by Helen Murray London multi-hyphenate Urielle Klein-Mekongo returns with swagger: the writer-performer behind Yvette now turns historian-DJ, spinning a fearless new Black British musical that thumps with lovers rock, rap, soul and…
Image: Fucktoys Here to help you look beyond the red-carpet glare: the 69th BFI London Film Festival serves up a 247-strong programme of films, series and immersive works, threaded through eight thematic strands – from Love and Debate to Dare,…
Image description: LM TESTO Wet Mess. Credit: Lesley Martin I love London. That was one of the things that lured me to the Southbank Centre, being able to contribute to its incredible cultural life and even shake it up a…
On opening day at BFI LFF, Georgia “Zeta” Gkoka’s short You Can Call Me Lou joins the Roots and Branches programme – a tender portrait of Louise Kramer, an ex-dancer whose 1980s transition is remembered through movement, memory and chosen…
Freddie Opoku-Addaie, long-time friend of Run Riot and Co-CEO and Artistic Director of Dance Umbrella, steers this year’s festival like a generous host, inviting both first-timers and die-hard dance lovers to meet a vibrant mix of perspectives and tune into…