カテゴリー: Culture
The national ballet troupe will become the first classical company in the world to perform an entire year of works choreographed by womenIt’s an ethereal art form in which dancers, who are overwhelmingly female, strive for unattainable perfection perfo…
Critics may carp, but stellar lineups, celebrity sightings and swarming crowds make Jaipur the world’s biggest literary eventFor a country too often associated with poverty and bad news, the annual Jaipur literature festival is a matter of national pri…
Curator assures the public that stereotype-busting show will not include Sting or Kama SutraForget “no sex please, we’re British”. More a case of “there will be lots of sex, we’re the British Museum”. But the curator has assured the public the first ma…
The turmoil in Indian-administered Kashmir is an urgent topic but Ashvin Kumar’s coming-of-age film feels lifeless and leadenAshvin Kumar is an Indian film-maker who has made Kashmir an urgent focus of his career and was Oscar-nominated for his short f…
Devastated by his time in Germany, which he regards as still Nazi, the artist has moved. As he unveils a powerful virtual reality artwork, he talks about needing a monster to fight – and why he’d like to be a barber‘When we filmed this,” says Ai Weiwei…
Blaze complying with ministry directive meant for schools harks back to Qin dynasty and Nazi Germany, critics sayA county library in north-western China has been criticised for burning books in line with a nationwide cull of “illegal” or “improper” mat…
Government’s chief censor says storylines featuring male persistence would be adopted by younger viewers in their own sex lives More than a third of all pornography watched in New Zealand depicts non-consensual sexual activity, a study by the chief cen…
Toxic mix of misogyny and view of mental illness as a failure is ruining lives beyond music industryOnly a few years ago, Sulli and Goo Hara were at the height of their powers, two K-pop stars whose talents had brought them fame across Asia. But in the…
Toxic mix of misogyny and view of mental illness as a failure is ruining lives beyond music industryOnly a few years ago, Sulli and Goo Hara were at the height of their powers, two K-pop stars whose talents had brought them fame across Asia. But in the…
Emma-Lee Moss, who makes music as Emmy the Great, on life, new motherhood and her divided birthplaceIt feels as if the entire world’s press is there, standing on the pavement outside the Foreign Correspondents’ Club. They’re in Hong Kong to cover the p…
Plays combine plots from blockbuster franchise and feature Ichikawa Ebizo XI, foremost star of the traditional acting formThe Star Wars franchise is about to breach the artistic final frontier with a one-off performance of a kabuki adaptation starring …
Kazakhstan’s A Dark-Dark Man, Hindi-language drama Bhonsle and the Philippines’s Verdict among other winnersSouth Korean black comedy Parasite has continued its juggernaut trajectory by winning best feature film at the Asia Pacific Screen awards on Thu…
Riot police have swooped on pro-democracy activists trying to flee a university they had set ablaze in one of the most violent confrontations in nearly six months of unrest. Hundreds of demonstrators clashed with officers who had threatened to use dead…
More than 250 authors urge India’s prime minister to reinstate overseas citizenship of British journalist Aatish Taseer Salman Rushdie, Orhan Pamuk and Margaret Atwood are among more than 250 authors calling on India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, to…