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‘Like a giant Squid Game’: soul searching in South Korea after latest celebrity suicide
Nine working-class creatives on class in the arts – and how they made it
British artists have said the UK’s unique cultural output is under threat unless more is done to improve access to their industries, after analysis showed that almost a third of major arts leaders were privately educated. The Guardian spoke to visual artists, directors, classical musicians and playwrights about their views …
Working-class creatives don’t stand a chance in UK today, leading artists warn
Artists, directors and actors have raised the alarm about what they describe as a rigged system preventing working-class talent thriving in their industries after analysis showed almost a third of major arts leaders were educated privately.
The creator of Peaky Blinders, Steven Knight, the director Shane Meadows and the Turner …
The Guide #179: How National Theatre Live brought the magic of the stage to the cinema
Last month I went to the National Theatre to catch
The Importance of Being Earnest
, Oscar Wilde’s campy, farcical comedy. But unlike other theatre visits, this time I was surrounded by a number of large cameras.This was not due to some crisis in audience etiquette, but …
Who is ‘working class’ and why does it matter in the arts?
Noel Clarke loses appeal court challenge that could have delayed Guardian libel trial
Noel Clarke has suffered a legal setback after the court of appeal rejected his 11th-hour bid to seek to add a new ‘conspiracy’ claim to his lawsuit, which could have delayed the start of a libel trial.
Clarke’s lawyers had wanted try to introduce the ‘conspiracy’ claim, which would have …
Stephen Colbert on Trump: ‘With this guy, every troll is a trial balloon’
The Late Show host delves into
’s congestion pricing and Bigfoot maybe becoming California’s official state cryptid.Stephen Colbert
took on a topic close to his professional home at New York’s Ed Sullivan theater: congestion pricing
, …AFL footy is protected by anti-siphoning rules, so why must fans pay to watch some games? | Jack Snape
The Australian rules community survives on habit. More than a century old, the VFL and now AFL counts more than 1.3m club members, and hundreds of thousands fans prove their commitment each week by attending matches. Millions more watch on television, and increasingly on smart TVs, computers and phones. But …
The Sims at 25: a terrifying facsimile of life, death and the endless cycle of work
“Who would you put in your pool these days?” asks my friend while we stand in a giant lime-green dollhouse. We’re at Acmi’s celebration of The Sims’ 25th birthday, inside a Y2K-inspired pop-up styled by the interior designer influencers and diehard Simmers Josh and Matt. There are a couple of …
Share of €500,000 jackpot offered to men who bought scratchcard with stolen credit card
Two homeless men who bought a winning lottery scratchcard with a stolen credit card have been offered a potentially lifechanging deal by their victim: a share of the €500,000 jackpot if they can produce the ticket.
The situation has left legal experts scratching their heads over who is the rightful …