The awful cult of the talentless hipster has taken over
By Will Self.
Our generation is to blame – we’re the ones who took the avant-garde and turned it into a successful rearguard action by the flying columns of capitalism’s blitzkrieg.
Inside No 9; Bunkers, Brutalism and Bloodymindedness
By Rachel Cooke.
Two of the League of Gentleman offer up a sublime new series, while Jonathan Meades’s films about concrete architecture are his richest yet.
Poets and madmen: the art of Paolo Veronese
By Michael Prodger.
The Renaissance painter abhorred an empty canvas. Did his crowded scenes lack spiritual depth – or is it time to take a closer look?
Morph reborn: how everyone’s favourite plasticine man became a model for the digital age
By Anoosh Chakelian.
The last time Aardman’s little clay man Morph went on any new adventures was almost two decades ago. Why is he now returning with another series?
Why the suit is the greatest British invention ever
By A A Gill.
Nothing else that comes from this pathetically stunted island has had anything like the universal acceptance, reach or influence of the suit.
Stop clap-shaming first-time theatregoers who like Martin Freeman from off the telly
By Caroline Crampton.
So-called “seasoned theatregoers” have complained about the audience clapping during Martin Freeman’s West End appearance as Richard III, in what is nothing more than a display of blatant snobbery.
Britpop: an insider’s tale of music’s last great gold rush
By John Niven.
Twenty years ago, it felt like John Niven and his fellow indie kids had won pop’s cold war. But then the madness set in.
Who wants to live forever? The new frontiers of posthumous rock
By Kate Mossman.
In the next two decades there’ll be a mass departure of the people who brought us the best of rock’n’roll, but some bands are finding new ways to give their tunes eternal life.
The hunting of the snark: Friends, 20 years on
By Andrew Harrison.
Twenty years ago, a new sitcom was described as “not very entertaining, clever, or original”. But Friends went on to shape the way we live now.
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Kate Bush at the Hammersmith Apollo: the ecstatic triumph of a life’s work
By Tracey Thorn.
If we still ask, where has Kate Bush been all these years and why has she not done this before, my answer would be that I think she has been living the life that made this show possible.
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