Kusama with Pumpkin (2010) Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Singapore, Shanghai; Victoria Miro, London; David Zwirner, New York Celebrated Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is set to bring exciting new work to her latest on-the-horizon exhibition, alongside some of her classic signature pieces. The sprawling exhibition of Kusama’s work
Yayoi Kusama is creating her first ever participatory art installation
How Liz Johnson Artur chronicled black culture – in pictures
The photography of Russian-Ghanaian Liz Johnson Artur is being showcased in her first solo exhibition , now on at the Brooklyn Museum in New York until 18 August. It spans three decades of work and offers up an intimate look at individuals and communities across the African diaspora.
Let’s not forget, women’s football is still an act of resistance
As the Women’s World Cup reaches new levels of recognition and respectability, we explore how inequality has always been rife in the game When the early football clubs of England began to establish the Football League in 1888, women were already left behind…
Women outperform men after Japan medical school stops rigging exam scores
Women have outperformed their male counterparts in entrance examinations for a medical school in Japan that last year admitted rigging admission procedures to give men an unfair advantage. Juntendo University in Tokyo said that of the 1,679 women who took its medical school entrance exam earlier this year…
Polly Higgins, lawyer who fought for recognition of ‘ecocide’
Polly Higgins, one of the most inspiring figures in the green movement, has died aged 50. Higgins, a British barrister, led a decade-long campaign for “ecocide” to be recognised as a crime against humanity. She sold her house and gave up a high-paying job so she could dedicate herself…
One Brave Woman – Carole Cadwalladr
Carole Cadwalladr speaking at TED2019 last week. The Observer journalist was invited to give a talk in a session tagged Truth. If Silicon Valley is the beast, then TED is its belly. And on Monday, I entered it. The technology conference that has become a global…
‘We are now free’: Yazidis fleeing Isis start over in female-only commune
A mural in Jinwar. The female-only commune in north-eastern Syria opened in November and is home to Kurdish, Yazidi and Arab families. Photograph: Bethan McKernan/The Guardian Berivan runs over to join in the dancing, her traditional gold dress catching the winter sunlight. The 15-year-old Yazidi clasps hands with her […]
Tracey Thorn: ‘Not everything you do is cool’
‘I feel very lucky to still feel like I’m full of ideas’: Tracey Thorn. Photograph: Katherine Anne Rose for the Observer You mined your teenage diaries a little in your first book, Bedsit Disco Queen . Did you find something different going back to them this time? When I…
Susan Hiller, artist who explored the paranormal, dies aged 78
The artist Susan Hiller – whose work tackled such esoteric subjects as automatic writing, near-death experiences and alien abduction – has died aged 78 after a short illness. The news was confirmed by Matt’s Gallery in London, who described her as “a unique and idiosyncratic voice, a great artist, […]
Megan Rapinoe: ‘Maybe men should just take a few hundred years off’
Megan Rapinoe says: ‘It’s not really an issue of whether police brutality exists or not or whether racism is still an issue or not. It very much is.’ Photograph: Jeff Chiu/AP “As I’ve grown older I’ve really got to understand how powerful one voice can be, my voice can […]
