‘Northern Soul: Still Burning’ – fluorescent fever dream of Wigan Casino
At once a social history and a devotional mixtape, Northern Soul: Still Burning traces the afterlife of an improbable movement: the migration of obscure American soul records into the dance halls of working-class Britain, where they became sacred texts for a...
Pussy Riot storm the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
They arrived in a rush of color and noise. More than 50 members of Pussy Riot stormed the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale on Wednesday, only to find police already forcing the doors shut. What followed unfolded outside: a loud, kinetic protest that blurred...
‘Olivia’ – Her father goes missing at the End of the world
Sofía Petersen is an Argentinian-born and UK-based filmmaker, who studied film in Buenos Aires and San Sebastián. Her feature debut, Olivia, was shot with a largely non-professional cast of more than 40 people. With a crew of five and two actresses, a 45-day shoot,...
‘Surviving Earth’ – Powerful & personal debut directed by Thea Gajić
Director Thea Gajić’s feature directorial debut, Surviving Earth, is a film deeply rooted in the personal. Based on her own father’s story, Surviving Earth follows a character named Vlad (Slavko Sobin), who fled the war in Yugoslavia in the 1990s and has made a home...
‘ROBOTA’ by Ella Road of Karel Čapek’s R.U.R
This summer, Headlong inaugurates a new chapter in Oxford with ROBOTA, a production that revisits one of the twentieth century’s most quietly prophetic works of science fiction. Staged at the recently opened Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, the play marks the...
My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow
Russian-American filmmaker Julia Loktev's documentary My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow underwent a dramatic shift because of geopolitical events. What began as an exploration of the realities facing Russian independent journalists living and working...
‘We Thought We Were Alone’ Koen Vanmechelen
There’s something quietly radical unfolding in Venice this spring. Inside the crumbling, timeworn walls of Palazzo Rota Ivancich, Koen Vanmechelen stages We Thought We Were Alone — his first solo sculptural exhibition in the city, landing in sync with the La Biennale...
The mysterious Angine de Poitrine release ‘Vol. II’ and single ‘Fabienk’
We love a band of mystery. We love costumes even more. But if the music doesn’t hit, the whole thing collapses into awkward theatre-kid cosplay pretty fast. Thankfully, Angine de Poitrine aren’t playing dress-up—they’re building something genuinely unhinged and...
‘We move through scales of blue’ – Phoebe Boswell
Descending into Bethnal Green or Notting Hill Gate, something shifts. Between the habitual rhythm of the commute—steps, escalators, the low hum of the Underground—Phoebe Boswell’s we move through scales of blue emerges in fragments. Not all at once, but slowly, as if...
Modern Woman release ‘Daniel’ from album ‘Johnny’s Dreamworld’
Some songs feel like they arrive fully formed, carrying a memory with them. “Daniel,” the new single from London’s Modern Woman, moves with that kind of quiet gravity—less a statement than a fleeting, deeply personal imprint. It’s the most intimate glimpse yet into...
Kraftwerk – Radio-Activity at 50
Fifty years deep, Radio-Activity is getting a full-spectrum glow-up. Kraftwerk are dropping a trio of anniversary editions on 15 May 2026 via Parlophone—Blu-ray, vinyl and digital—all wrapped in fresh 50th anniversary artwork. The headline move: a brand-new Dolby...
Okada Paris – SS 2026 inspired by Marie-Antoinette and Mononoké
Spring arrives quietly in Ken Okada’s latest collection for OKADA PARIS, unfolding less like a fashion presentation and more like a stage set between seasons. The mood carries something faintly Shakespearean—an atmosphere of suspended time, where winter loosens its...
‘Think of England’ film – is pornography for the boys a myth?
Think of England debuted at the Glasgow film festival this year, an intriguing indie film that explores a surprisingly overlooked piece of history from World War 2, long considered a myth; that the government once considered the idea of producing pornographic movies...
Jack White Art Show in London: These Thoughts May Disappear
London is about to witness a new side of Jack White. Known worldwide as the garage rock icon behind The White Stripes, White has also been quietly creating sculptures, furniture, and experimental art for decades. For the first time, his private studio work goes public...
A&E, Adolf & Eva, Adam & Eve – Paul McCarthy’s show lands in Madrid
“With Adolf (Hitler) & Eva (Braun), Adam & Eve, I wasn’t interested in historical accuracy. They’re not monuments. They’re buffoons. Pop buffoons, they’re images, languages.”— Paul McCarthy In a city where spectacle and politics blur by default, Paul McCarthy...