The future of your face
Isobel Thompson traces the backlash against facial recognition. From police biometrically mapping faces to nationwide watch-lists, will the balance between citizens and the state soon topple?
Isobel Thompson traces the backlash against facial recognition. From police biometrically mapping faces to nationwide watch-lists, will the balance between citizens and the state soon topple?
As the lockdown starts to lift, the UK’s galleries are opening their doors to the public so you can finally get your fill of some proper fine art. Social distancing regulations still apply. Enjoy – but wear a mask.
Fresh from Party of Five creator Christopher Keyser, Netflix’s newest series is a seductive teen drama asking big questions.
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.
Sisterhood – a photo project by photographer Vivek Vadoliya and Bradford stylist Neesha Champaneria – captures political collective Speakers Corner in celebration of its tight-knit community and positive changes in the city.
A proposed Super League would give more power to the few. Going by the explosion of anger on social media, fans are able to see the move for the disaster it is.
The 1975 do slick disco-pop, Tottenham's drill scene brings out the A-team and Beyoncé merges Break My Soul with Madonna's iconic hit Vogue.
This week, rappers Dutchavelli, Digga D and Lavida Loca described being threatened with recall for endorsing the movement. While authorities deny the claim, it raises questions about how confident people on probation feel about speaking out.
Journalist Jason Okundaye and HIV prevention activist Marc Thompson have launched a new digital photographic archive honouring, remembering and celebrating the Black British LGBTQ+ community over a fifty-year span.
We Are Here is a harrowing, thought-provoking exhibition by a non-profit organisation, aiming to challenge preconceived notions of refugees in the UK.
In her brilliant and rigorously argued debut book, the writer sets a radical new agenda for trans people – and everyone else – living in the UK.
Positive measures to protect the arts. Uplifting community initiatives. A newly cashless society. Despite Berlin’s general reluctance to abide by rules, the city's instructions around COVID-19 have struck a chord. Photographer Carys Huws weighs in.
The racially-motivated violence that has broken out across the UK over the past week has left the country’s brown and Black communities living in fear. But while the scale of the riots has been shocking, they’ve not exactly been a surprise.
With the second sequel of a second-time-rebooted superhero franchise currently enticing cinema-goers back in droves, we ask industry experts: just what is driving movie-going post-pandemic? Spoiler alert: it isn’t just spoilers.
Robots, a bra made from two TVs and collaborations with the 20th century’s most avant-garde minds – Tate Modern’s new exhibition extensively explores the artist credited as the founding father of video art.
The zine founder explores chronic illness and feminism in her debut book Poor Little Sick Girls. Here, she reveals what she’s been reading, scrolling over and memeing.
On the weekend Jesus is King was supposed to drop, Kanye spread the gospel in Detroit, Chicago and NYC. The Face caught some time with organ player Philip Cornish in the Motor City.