Arts

Dr Peter Small, chief medical officer, Hyfe, explains why the G20 needs to bring the urgency and digital technology of the response to COVID-19 to fight against tuberculosis.  Recently I had the privilege of addressing attendees of the G20 Summit in Indonesia at their health meeting about tuberculosis. It was …

1 / 6 Check out Kareena Kapoor Khan’s five family moments from Ranbir Kapoor-Alia Bhatt’s wedding which will make you go aww. Kareena Kapoor Khan is an actress who has aced the art of striking a balance between personal and professional life. Be it doing some remarkable work on the …

One of the African art ancestors, the late professor Es’kia Mphahlele, said: “The arts have been served by alternative institutions primarily because the state has never been interested in using schooling to promote creativity.” This was the reality of art education for black South Africans during the apartheid years; suffice …

Only nine months after his last record was released, Vince Staples is back with another. While the 28-year-old California rapper is known for his prolific output – he already has four albums under his belt, a further six mixtapes and EPs, and a host of features on other people’s tracks …

France has committed over R7 million in partnership with Wits University’s Tshimologong Digital Innovation Precinct. The renewal of the partnership aims to foster growth and development of creative and cultural industries in Africa. Tshimologong will launch a gaming incubator skill-set to assist and develop start-up gaming studios.  For more stories …

For years, China has left a loophole open for people to access unauthorized video games, but it’s ready to close it. Many foreign titles lack a Chinese publishing partner like Tencent to help them obtain the government-issued license needed to operate in the country, so players normally rely on an …

A long weekend calls for adventures – and sometimes the best adventures are the ones where we step into the world of another. The art world, to the outsider, can be intimidating at a first glance. Snooty or demanding of edification and refinement. It can feel confusing. Suddenly colours are …

How much would you pay for nothing? For one private European art collector, it is $1.2m. That’s the amount paid at a recent Sotheby’s auction in Paris for a receipt written by the French artist Yves Klein to prove the ownership of one of his “invisible art” pieces – now …

You will not remember this awful remake, for good reason. While the original was a classic piece of British cinema famed for its ambiguous (and literal) cliffhanger ending, this was a charmless hunk of dreck that ends with – no joke – Seth Green buying a set of speakers designed …

At the bottom of the Met Gala invitations sent every spring is an inscription small in size but vital in importance: the dress code. In 2020, for “Camp: Notes on Fashion,” it was studied triviality. In 2021, for “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion,” it was American independence. And come …