ART & CULTURE

Infernal Affairs, the 2002 film starring Andy Lau and Tony Leung Chiu-wai, brought Hong Kong cinema out of a slump for a while with its stellar cast and slick production. Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Yours…

Pop artist Pauline Boty should have been a star - and for a few short years she was.In the London art scene of the early 1960s, her painting was mentioned in the same breath as contemporaries such as Peter Blake and David Hockney.Her CV…

A few years ago, the director Stewart Laing invented a character called Paul Bright. He was a Glasgow performance artist who had staged an epic adaptation of Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg in the 1980s, and Laing assembled…

Set in a far future, robot-filled take on Kowloon Walled City, Stray presents a world that’s tried to move on without human rule—but one that can’t escape the long shadow of our influence. In it, a domestic animal whose species has learned…

In Brian Logan’s reasonable and informed article (Who went too far: Jerry Sadowitz or those who cancelled his Edinburgh fringe show?, 16 August), I think he missed a couple of salient points.First, the comparison between Jerry Sadowitz’s…

The most striking visual image in this show is created by small torches, their beams edging through darkness. Four young performers turn the torches on themselves, running subdued rays along their limbs and over their feet, as if…

Henry Horenstein was a student at the University of Chicago in the 1960s when he discovered the work of the leftwing English historian EP Thompson. Soon afterwards, on the advice of his tutor, he journeyed to England and enrolled for a term…

Close your eyes and think about the funniest night out you’ve ever had. Not the best, not the most impressive or life-changing – the funniest. Chances are it took place in a high street club called Revenge or GLAM or something with the…

There can’t be many of us left who’ve never ordered a package from Amazon, despite increasing awareness of the human cost behind that convenience. Upcoming game The Last Worker, the first from developer Oiffy, is a dark comedic take on the…

I took this eight years ago in an underpass beneath the metro line that runs through the north of Paris. The place used to be a haven for hundreds of refugees, mostly from Africa. It’s near La Chapelle station, between Gare du Nord and the…