Culture

Beans, butts and cheesy smiles: is this the future of good taste?

Introducing ... FIMS! The Salford University course teaching tomorrow’s budding super-creatives – and they’re releasing an off-the-wall zine.

A wormhole into Mowalola’s world

The designer’s debut exhibition Silent Madness is a soundtrack-accompanied installation exploring her inner thoughts and tapping deep into her Nigerian roots.

The street scenes capturing modern Britain in all its glorious mundanity

Cieron Magat has been documenting us on his trusty iPhone.

Love, Ren Hang: a retrospective

A new exhibition at C/O Berlin celebrates the late Chinese imagemaker’s output, and its poetic and provocative overtones.

How Sophia Takal became the first woman to direct a Blumhouse horror

Takal reenvisioned classic slasher Black Christmas, bringing a fresh directing perspective to the revered fright flick distributor.

Ben Pundole’s Miami survival guide

Before the madness of Basel takes over Miami, the entrepreneur and travel connoisseur gives us the low-down on the city’s late-night establishments and early morning juice spots.

The Movement Factory and Shy One want you on your feet

In partnership with Women By Nike

Global culture calendar: December

A month packed full of stuff worth getting out of bed for.

How Nashville became a Mecca for gaming music

Since joining gaming giant EA in 2001 Steve Schnur has been at the epicentre of music and gaming. Here’s why he’s made it his mission to tell the world why Tennessee has won his heart.

Visions of intimacy

Three rising black American artists – Jarvis Boyland, Jonathan Lyndon Chase, and Clotilde Jiménez – who feature in new LA exhibition, Disembodiment, discuss growing up in the ’90s and intimacy in a digital age.

Art and HIV: it’s time to open up the conversation

Número de Serie uses art and design to spark the ever-crucial conversations surrounding HIV and sexual health. Now they’ve released a non-profit T-shirt – and it’s gorgeous.

10 years of Tokyo life shot entirely on disposable cameras

Yorkshire-born photographer Dan Bailey captures the weird, the wonderful and the beautiful of Japan in his book, Disposables.

The unexpected standout moments of films in 2019

When Gary can’t reach the lock in Arthur Fleck’s apartment, the Joker just… lets him out?

‘Honey Boy’ is an emotional retelling of Shia LaBeouf’s younger years

Review: The actor is back to his best as he plays his own abusive father in his self-autobiographical screenplay.

Kadeem Ramsay is on the rise

Having racked up roles in Sex Education and Top Boy the Brit actor is in demand. In his first solo interview Ramsay discusses his latest role as a cheeky teen in Rapman drama Blue Story .

Who’s better: Harry Styles or Richard Brautigan?

One’s an eccentric genius, whose poetic twists and turns of phrase have masterfully improved our intelligence quotient and expanded our definitions of sex. The other is Richard Brautigan.

Josh O’Connor on his role as a young Prince Charles

After a devastating performance in God’s Own Country, the actor swaps the Yorkshire Dales for Buckingham Palace in the new series of The Crown. Here’s why even punks, anarchists and republicans should tune in.

Princess Nokia on her acting debut

The East Harlem rapper – aka Destiny Nicole Frasqueri – stars in Angelfish, a coming-of-age love story set in the Bronx in 1993.

Inside the mystery of Kowloon’s Walled City

Amongst the day-to-day prostitution, gambling and smells of rotting carcasses, Greg Girard set about capturing the final decade of the vice-ridden city in the heart of Hong Kong.