The Guardian Culture

Feathered frolics, webcam landscapes and The Hay Wain – the week in art

Tate Modern hosts a major exhibition of Ana Mendieta, Constable turns 250 and the accidental beauty captured by unattended online cameras – all in your weekly dispatchAna Mendieta Neolithic monuments inspired this Cuban-born American artist to create her ephemeral, raw, poetic works that embrace nature in a truly original way. • Tate Modern, London, from 15 July to 17 January Continue reading...

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026

The Guardian Culture

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup

Sublimation by Isabel J Kim; Last Day of a Prior Life by Andrés Barba; Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep by Paul Tremblay; The Carrier by Ruth Newton; Time to Burn by Ellery LloydSublimation by Isabel J Kim (Picador, £18.99)This debut novel from an award-winning Korean-American short fiction writer is a fantastical reimagining of the immigrant experience. Here, anyone who crosses a border not intending to return creates an “instance”: a duplicate self who continues life at home. Reintegration

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Add to playlist: the fluid club deconstructions of Stolen Velour, Floco and Aria SL and the week’s best new tracks

Housesharing brought the south London trio’s sounds – classical vocals, violin, clubby production – together as they bled through the walls, to shapeshifting effectFrom South LondonRecommended if you like FKA twigs, James K, Anysia KimUp next Debut album Underlight out nowThere are many ways to deconstruct club music. On Bristol label Illegal Data, releases might take explosive approaches to scary (Ship Sket) and whimsical (Mun Sing) extremes. More recently, the same label finds Stolen Velour, F

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026

Variety

Nike Releases New Limited-Edition Air Jordan 7 Retro ‘Miró’ Sneakers: Here’s Where To Buy a Pair Online

When Michael Jordan played for Team USA on the Dream Team during the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, he was wearing a pair of now-iconic Nike Air Jordan 7 sneakers on his feet. And in 2008, to celebrate the gold medal win, the sports apparel company dropped a colorway in the style of renowned Spanish […]

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Pokémon Go fans gather in Times Square to celebrate 10 years of game – video

Pokémon Go celebrated its 10th anniversary with a Times Square takeover in New York featuring a special event to defeat the Pokémon species Mewtwo. Nearly 2,000 people played the game together simultaneously in what organisers called one of the largest in-person Pokémon battles in history Continue reading...

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026

Variety

From ‘Kneecap’ to a Karlovy Vary Hit to Mia Hansen-Løve’s Next Film: Ireland’s Wildcard Makes Instant Splash as Producer

When setting up a production company, most filmmakers hope that the first feature out of the gate at least makes a little bit of noise. Thankfully for Dublin-based Wildcard, “Kneecap” didn’t do anything quietly. Rich Peppiatt’s rowdy, raucous, drug-soaked and politically-charged directorial debut, a comedy almost-biopic about the Northern Irish rap group of the same […]

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Julian Schnabel to Get Lifetime Honor at Lucca Festival

The artist and director of 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' and 'Before Night Falls' will receive a retrospective at the Italian event, which runs Sept.26-Oct.4.

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026

Variety

‘God Particle’ Physicist Fabiola Gianotti to Get Feature Biopic by ‘The Invisible Witness’ Director Stefano Mordini (EXCLUSIVE)

Pioneering Italian physicist Fabiola Gianotti, who led one of two experiments that led to the discovery of the Higgs boson, which has been nicknamed the “God particle,” is set to be the subject of a biopic titled “The Mysterious Particle.” The high-end biopic is to be directed by Stefano Mordini  (“The Invisible Witness”). Gianotti is […]

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Jesse Tyler Ferguson to Reprise Stage Role as Truman Capote in London Run of ‘Tru’

The 'Modern Family' star said he is "thrilled" to bring the production to the U.K. following its successful stint in New York.

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Jenni Fagan: ‘Maya Angelou taught me that I owed myself hope’

The Scottish author on loving The Hobbit, fairytales, Frankenstein and the shock of A Clockwork OrangeMy earliest reading memory Fairytales. I was obsessed. I took fairytales very seriously as moral lessons. I soon knew that I’d always help any old lady cross the road, it really is always best to do so.My favourite book growing up The Hobbit was my favourite book while growing up. It expanded my understanding of what could be achieved in fiction. I found JRR 

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Indigenous rebels, migrant bravery and joyful dance: New York’s Latin American Foto Festival – in pictures

This month Bronx Documentary Center is hosting the ninth edition of the Latin American Foto Festival, on view in New York from 11 to 26 July. The show brings together the work of photographers exploring social, environmental, and political issues from across Latin America and the Caribbean. Continue reading...

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026

Variety

Greek Myth Summer Continues as Mediawan Rolls Out Kinetic Content Gameshow ‘Trojan Horse’ Across Europe

It’s the summer for Greek mythology. While Christopher Nolan’s screen adaptation of Homer’s epic “The Odyssey” is set to take the box office by storm, French producer Mediawan is rolling out a high-concept unscripted format called “Trojan Horse.” Created by Kinetic Content, Mediawan has secured option rights to the original show, which it is now […]

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026

Variety

‘Modern Family’ Star Jesse Tyler Ferguson to Reprise Truman Capote in ‘Tru’ at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory

“Modern Family” star Jesse Tyler Ferguson will make his Menier Chocolate Factory debut playing Truman Capote in Jay Presson Allen’s “Tru.” Rob Ashford directs the production, which opens Sept. 27 following previews from Sept. 19, and runs through Nov. 14. “Tru” arrives at the Menier on the back of a well-received New York staging earlier […]

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Baby Rose: Yearnalism review – gloriously cinematic soul from the edge of emotional collapse

(Secretly Canadian)The US songwriter paints an impressively wide variety of shades on her third album, from vintage R&B to melodic soft-rock and balladry worthy of Nina SimoneJasmine Rose Wilson doesn’t love lightly. On her third album as Baby Rose, the US soul singer uses her fraying contralto to communicate the peaks and troughs of relationships as if on the brink of emotional collapse. On the slow-moving The Reason, Rose is fully aware she’s “gone off the deep end”, while on the vintage R

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Wild Gods: The Glorious Abysmal review – truly fascinating songs born of tweed-beating and psychedelic trips

(Wren Cathedral)Inspired by communal Hebridean Gaelic song and ceremonial music, these reels and ballads reveal the fascinating proximity of post-rock and folk rockA thick, distant rumble, the metallic sheen of an accordion drone and a woman singing a traditional Gaelic lament for the dead: these open Keening, the first track on the most fascinating folk-adjacent set of the summer. Wild Gods is a new project from Argyll’s Jamie Livingstone, a regular collaborator with the Scottish electronic pro

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘Being a billionaire is so tacky!’ Musical firebrand Lido Pimienta on exploitation, class struggle – and going ‘Enya mode’

After beating Leonard Cohen to Canada’s biggest music prize and splicing dembow with classical, the cross-cultural artist is now confronting Colombia’s new presidentWhen I speak to the Colombian Canadian musician Lido Pimienta, it’s in the run-up to Colombia’s presidential election, and she is worried. One of the two remaining candidates, Abelardo de la Espriella, “is so rightwing he wants to open up our beautiful country to fracking and the influence of the US,” she says – and at one point in h

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026

Variety

Malaysian Sci-Fi ‘Mimpi Kita: Castle in the Air’ Lands Distributor and Sales Agent Abnormal Studios (EXCLUSIVE)

Malaysia’s Abnormal Studios has picked up theatrical distribution rights for Malaysia and Brunei to “Mimpi Kita: Castle in the Air,” the science-fiction fantasy feature that recently participated in the NAFF Project Market‘s It Project strand at the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival. The company will also serve as the film’s worldwide international sales agent, excluding […]

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Mahler: Songs of Youth and Awakening album review – exuberance and intensity from fine cast of singers

Rennert/Konradi/Peter/Keenlyside/Middleton(Signum)This collection of songs that the composer wrote as a young man is full of interest and emotion. Pianist Joseph Middleton brings sensitive support and an array of illustrative coloursThe second volume in Signum’s survey of Mahler song focuses on the three books of Lieder und Gesänge that the composer worked on in his 20s, rounding off the album with his first vocal masterpiece, the Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen.These early ditties are highly in

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Lucky and The Hawk: the seven best shows to stream this week

Anya Taylor-Joy is looking to break away from her criminal past with one last career-crowning heist, while Will Ferrell stars in a fun new comedy as a washed-up golferA suitcase full of money in a swanky Vegas hotel room. It’s a conventional way to start a thriller, but even if Lucky never threatens to shatter any paradigms it fulfils its edgy, twisty brief. Anya Taylor-Joy stars as Lucky, a woman who thinks she’s pulled off a career-crowning heist with lover Cary (Drew Starkey), only to wake th

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Transcendent by Laverne Cox review – success against the odds

The actor and activist tells the story of her brutal childhood in the deep south with eloquence and defianceWhen Laverne Cox was eight years old and growing up in Mobile, Alabama, she saved up her pocket money and bought herself a fan decorated with Japanese geishas. The fan became her favourite plaything, a prop to be used while dancing in imaginary music videos or recreating scenes from Gone With the Wind in which she cast herself as Scarlett O’Hara. “I lit up, animated, whenever that fan was

entertainment  Jul 10, 2026