Culture

When shit hits the fan (in the art world)

Guts Gallery have tackled the nationwide closure of galleries by setting up an online Instagram exhibition instead, featuring 38 emerging British artists who will be sharing their work over the coming weeks. Here, seven of them weigh in.

Photographers making isolation sexy

In the current situation, isolation is an ordeal – but it can also look pretty. Just check out these seven photographers lensing quiet street scenes, empty shopping centres and bars without people for proof.

What does a joke sound like in 2020?

Volume 4 Issue 3: We ask stand-up heavyweights Jaboukie Young-White, Janine Harouni, Jamie Demetriou, Phoebe Walsh, Catherine Cohen, Sam Campbell, Kate Berlant, Jordan Brookes and Chris Redd about the new era of comedy.

Barry Keoghan is pulling no punches

The Irish actor and boxing fanatic on his latest role as a drug dealing ex-boxer in Calm With Horses, a criminal drama set in the underworld of darkest small town Ireland.

Tom of Finland’s fight for gay liberation

Homoerotica’s late, radical master arrives in London for the first time, in the year of his centennial. His partner, Durk Dehner, talks to us about the fascinating life of the subversive artist who helped liberate gays in the 20th century.

Talia Ryder is set to conquer Hollywood

Volume 4 Issue 003: This brand new acting talent has gone from Matilda on Broadway to a tough teen abortion drama, with Spielberg’s West Side Story thrown in for good measure.

Riz Ahmed is breaking up with Britain

On his new album he sets out his plans to create a new world for the displaced – a no man’s land in between “us” and “them”. Here, the actor, musician, poet and political activist talks of finally feeling like himself.

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