On the cover of Renaissance, Beyoncé is seated atop a glowing glass horse, naked but for an elaborate metallic bikini. Credit: Carlijn Jacobs You feel a little sorry for Renaissance , the first solo album by Beyoncé in more than six years. It just wants to dance, but will […]
She’s pop’s Damien Hirst: Beyoncé’s Renaissance reviewed
New record label raises profile of forgotten female composers
Historically, women have been unsung in the classical canon. But now a recently founded label is aiming to remedy that Clockwise: composers Alice Mary Smith, Liza Lehmann, Adela Maddison and Charlotte Sohy. Liza Lehmann, Alice Mary Smith and Adela Maddison were British composers of the 19th and early 20th […]
When the Lionesses won, every overlooked and patronised woman triumphed too
So many women who couldn’t care less about football were in tears, because they understood what it meant England footballers Alex Greenwood and Ellie Roebuck at Trafalgar Square to celebrate their Euro 2022 victory. If you want a job doing, ask a woman. So the former sports minister (and […]
Elizabeth Carmichael obituary
Papier-mache skulls made by the Linares family in Mexico and collected for the British Museum by Elizabeth Carmichael as part of her fieldwork on Day of the Dead traditions. In 1991 the anthropologist Elizabeth Carmichael, who has died aged 84, was the British Museum’s curator of an exhibition that […]
Kate Moss ‘sick and angry’ at being made a scapegoat for taking cocaine
Kate Moss arriving at New York’s Met Gala in May 2022. Kate Moss, one of the world’s most famous models, has spoken of her anger at the condemnation she received after publication of photographs of her taking cocaine in 2005. She took the blame, she believes, for the widespread […]
Sheila Paine obituary
My mother-in-law, Sheila Paine, who has died aged 92, was an authority on tribal embroideries. During her eventful life she journeyed alone to some of the remotest parts of the world, in search of the origin of textile patterns and traditions, about which she wrote a series of acclaimed […]
‘My music is singular to me’: Arooj Aftab, the brightest new star at this year’s Grammys
Arooj Aftab … ‘My music is a product of my experiences’. Photograph: Blythe Thomas Informed by Urdu verse, mythological vultures and her brother’s death, the US-Pakistani musician’s latest album is unexpectedly up for one of the ‘big four’ prizes – and she’s only just left her day job. She […]
Polar priest: the church in the world’s northernmost town – a photo essay
Located in the Svalbard archipelago in Norway , Longyearbyen is the world’s northernmost settlement. Here, winter temperatures range from -13 to -20C and inhabitants are prepared for two and half months of complete darkness in winter, the constant danger of polar bears, and avalanches. The road to the cabin […]
Vogue’s 12 Best-Dressed Women Of 2021……Oh Dear
There have been some truly memorable fashion moments this year; from Amanda Gorman’s Prada headband to Kim Kardashian’s haute Balenciaga morph suit. But when it comes to consistently delivering smash hits, these are the women you can always rely on. Despite uncertain times, Zendaya managed to out-gown everyone, Lady […]
bell hooks obituary
A trailblazing cultural theorist and activist, public intellectual, teacher and feminist writer, bell hooks, who has died of kidney failure aged 69, authored around 40 books in a career spanning more than four decades. Exploring the intersecting oppressions of gender, race and class, her writings additionally reflected her concerns […]
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