CULTURE
How Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour became a near-religious experience
Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, a “cultural juggernaut” remarkable for both its scale and intimacy, comes to an end this week.
Gaudy or iconic? How leopard print took over
Worn by everyone from pin-ups and “mob wives” to Jackie O and royalty, leopard print has long divided opinion. As the festive season approaches, the
12 of the best films to watch this December
Searchlight Pictures From a steamy age-gap thriller starring Nicole Kidman to a Bob Dylan biopic featuring Timothée Chalamet, these are the films to stream and
Matthew Bourne on his Swan Lake with male swans, the show that shook up the dance world
Emmanuel Lafont/ Getty Images Celebrating the 30th anniversary of his legendary stage production, Matthew Bourne tells the BBC about the show that radically changed ballet
Wicked author Gregory Maguire on the real meaning of the story that captivated the world
Universal Pictures Before it was a Hollywood blockbuster it was a megahit musical, and before that it was a 1995 novel. Author Gregory Maguire tells
Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas is You went from modest 1990s hit to Christmas’s defining song
Getty Images When it was first released in 1994, it made a mere ripple – but 30 years on, it is a track that reigns
The British politician who was caught faking his own death
Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) When John Stonehouse’s clothes were found in a pile on Miami Beach on 20 November 1974, many people presumed that
Why the poignant Kes is Britain’s greatest coming-of-age story
Alamy First released in November 1969, Ken Loach’s social-realist tale of a boy who adopts a kestrel still resonates and has become a timeless classic
These five bizarre Surrealist artworks are not what they seem
Courtesy of SFMoMA, San Francisco (Credit: Courtesy of SFMoMA, San Francisco) Dismissed or trivialised by some as unserious and silly, Surrealist art was in fact
The climate warnings in 19th Century paintings
John Brett, 1856. Photo: Tate A new exhibition that documents the impact of the Industrial Revolution features several 1800s artists, writers and thinkers as they