Category: 5. Entertainment

Amy Ching-Yan Lam’s recent projects are incisive examples of how artists’ books can be actively encountered by viewers rather than sealed inside vitrines. For a full…

Early on in her latest collection, the Canadian poet Karen Solie apologises: “I’m sorry, I can’t make this beautiful.” The line appears in a poem, Red Spring, about agribusiness and its sinister human impact: the world’s most widely…

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You sit in a circle at the Shed, the cultural center in Manhattan’s futuristic Hudson Yards, waiting for the show to begin. Through your enhanced glasses, you see four empty chairs facing you, just out of reach. You watch strangers look out for…

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This is an excerpt from The Strad January 2026 feature, ’Paganini Quartet: When the stars aligned’. Read the full article here

It was always known that Nicolò Paganini had owned a quartet of…

In May 2022, a few weeks after the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, musician Bulat Khalilov was attending a demonstration in Nalchik, a southern Russian city in the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains. As he joined a group…

SkyShowtime, the European streaming joint venture of Paramount and Sky owner Comcast, has started production on its latest original series. The eight-part Swedish crime drama with the working title National Homicide Unit (Riksmord) is…