From weightlifting teen girls in Egypt to the saga of a Russian clown, there’s a lot on offer during the 2020 edition of the documentary film festival. […]

Photos collected by Empress Elisabeth of Austria, known as Sisi, are on display in an exhibition in Cologne, shedding a new light on her character. […]

Swiss photographers Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer spent months traveling across the US taking pictures of people from all walks of life. […]

Ferhat Bouda is a photographer on a mission. His goal: to preserve Berber culture and celebrate its strong women. His images are as impressive as his life. […]

Sotheby’s in London had been due to sell more than 200 items from cash-strapped museumAmong the hundreds of precious items at Jerusalem’s Museum for Islamic Art is an ostentatious helmet that may have belonged to an Ottoman sultan, a page from a nearly millennium-old Qur’an, and a 13th-century Mamluk glass bowl.While no doubt treasured, these artefacts can no longer be considered priceless. In a controversial Sotheby’s auction previously set to take place in London on Tuesday, the bowl was estimated at £60,000-£80,000 and the helmet and Qur’an leaf at £200,000-£300,000 each. Continue reading… […]

21Soho, LondonBritain’s Got Talent botherer Nabil Abdulrashid leads an impressively forthright and sometimes edgy night of standup dealing with race and identity Comedian Nabil Abdulrashid elicited thousands of complaints joking about Black Lives Matter and a black Winston Churchill on Britain’s Got Talent 2020. All grist to the publicity mill – but the English-Nigerian standup shows he can do it away from the cameras too, with this Sunday gig in Soho. He’s the star by a wide margin of a night curated by comic Aurie Styla, himself featured on last week’s excellent Channel 4 documentary Black, British and Funny.The argument of that film, hosted by Mo Gilligan, was that Britain has a parallel comedy scene, crammed with black talent that can’t get a mainstream break. Tonight’s lineup could hardly be more diverse, with Styla and Abdulrashid supported by comics of British-Lebanese, British-Pakistani and, er, Scottish ginger heritage. What’s notable about it – and this may be as much about class as culture – is how easy and fluid are the jokes about race and identity. Continue reading… […]

Restored draft will accompany the final work in Tate Britain exhibition in LondonA once filthy, fungus-covered preparatory sketch by JMW Turner for one of his most glorious paintings has been restored and gone on display for the first time next to the finished work.Turner’s The Fighting Temeraire has been lent by the National Gallery to Tate Britain for a landmark exhibition exploring what it meant to be a modern artist during his lifetime. Continue reading… […]

‘Our producer received a letter from a woman asking for compensation to buy new trousers for her husband, as he had soiled the ones he was wearing’The script focused on the story of two girls, Kim and Suzanne Early (Cherise and Michelle Wesson), and their mother Pam (Brid Brennan), who lived in a reportedly haunted council house in Northolt, London. It was presented as a “live ghost hunt”, with reporters, interviewers and a film crew in the house, and an anchorman in the studio. To quote the screenplay: “Certain parts will be played by real television personalities, using their true names.” Continue reading… […]