Culture

Some of history’s greatest pop albums are video games

We speak to the creators of Tetris Effect and Sayonara Wild Hearts about what happens when music takes the lead in game design.

This author’s first novel was ruefully ignored, so it’s making a comeback

With Circus being reissued, author and poet Wayne Koestenbaum revisits how he brought the sexually deviant protagonist of his debut novel to life.

Global art calendar: July

Curator, writer and art-lover Shonagh Marshall has edited a list of the must-see exhibitions opening this month.

New York’s new LGBTQ+ revolutionaries

Who’s shaping the city’s scene 50 years on from the Stonewall riots? Bubble_T, New Pandemics, Glam Collective and Papi Juice!

“Art and good nature can change the world”

We talk to the Virgil Abloh about his mid-career retrospective at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art.

“A bottom should always aim to be on top.” The world according to DICKPRINT

Hard-on alert! The new magazine gives gay readers a chance to delve into fetish and homoerotica, no stigmas attached.

How the ’90s changed cinema forever

In partnership with BFI

A self-portrait of Davide Sorrenti

Photo of the day: Solo exhibition Our Beautyfull Future acts as a visual diary of the late photographer’s world before his death in 1997.

The cult of Stanley Kubrick: subversion, sci-fi and control

A landmark exhibition at London’s Design Museum reveals the story of a man who is as much an enigma as his work.

Catching up with Pat Loud, America’s first reality TV star

The matriarch of the revolutionary PBS series An American Family discusses divorce, her son Lance, and the current state of television.

Films that told the future 002: Woman in the Moon

A space obsessed entrepreneur, a woman on the moon. Fritz Lang’s 1929 sci-fi may be closer than you think.

England behind England: Is it coming home?

We joined Romance F.C’s Women’s World Cup screening in an East London pub to catch up with the fans, old and new.

BRUJAS’ Anti-Prom party kicks off Pride

This is NYC Pride under Trump’s America, and there’s only a slim chance the queerest skateboard collective are going to come quietly...

What is it like to be an image archivist?

Nelson Harst and Nikki Igol are the husband and wife duo whose entire job is hunting down and archiving rare print materials.

Inside DRC No.12 + Bunker, Beijing

One is a low-key art space in a former diplomatic residential compound. The other is an underground bunker built during the Sino-Japanese war. In China’s art scene, Peng Xiaoyang’s spaces take a radically different approach.

Jayda G, Jamie 3:26, Dan Shake and Horse Meat Disco perform at adidas Ensemble

Here’s all the juice from last night’s adidas x The Face party held in Paris...

Dystopian look, utopian feel: welcome to Germany’s queerest weekend

Brought to you by Pornceptual, CockTail d’Amore and Buttons, Whole is an “unreal, exciting, beautiful, liberating and overwhelming” festival. Is it the future of Pride?

Andrea Dunbar lives on through a contemporary adaptation

The unflinching Bradford playwright was overlooked during her lifetime. Now The Face speaks to the Northern writers keeping her spirit alive.

Curated by Amelia Abraham: 13 queer films to watch

Get queered up on queer film classics using the author’s definitive guide – it’s good for the soul.

Fleishman is in Trouble is a novel about women, told through the lens of a man

Review: Taffy Brodesser-Akner has enough empathy for everyone – whether they’re navigating marriage, identity, capitalism, gender norms, and the 21st Century measures of success we’re all taught to aspire to.

Neneh Cherry and Andi Oliver on cooking and friendship

We speak to the artists, curators and collaborators involved in Somerset House’s groundbreaking exhibition Get Up, Stand Up Now.

Listen to Jenn Nkiru read an extract from a Stuart Hall paper

We speak to the artists, curators and collaborators involved in Somerset House’s groundbreaking exhibition Get Up, Stand Up Now.

Why is the video games industry in love with Keanu Reeves?

The actor makes an appearance in one of 2020’s biggest releases, but his association with the medium extends beyond a single game.

Hassan Hajjaj on his journey as an artist

We speak to the artists, curators and collaborators involved in Somerset House’s groundbreaking exhibition Get Up, Stand Up Now. First up, Moroccan artist Hassan Hajjaj.