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For a South Asian treat and an eyeful of images go now to Christie’s, which is showing a wonderful, eclectic selection of paintings, sculptures and videos from the region.
It’s street versus home in Ish, a coming of age story about a Muslim British Asian in the Bedfordshire town of Luton.
Life Support is a doctors’-eye-view of the Israeli attack on Gaza. And what a visceral, appalling view it is.
‘This film will fry your brain’, proclaims a new documentary, Planet Israel.
I was in two minds about the new biopic of Nigerian-British photographer Misan Harriman — exciting shots of political demonstrations but is it a little too adulatory? — until I read about right-wing cultural attacks on him.
Advance sales for the new Frida Kahlo exhibition topped 41,000, a Tate Modern record. At £25 a pop, it will be a commercial bonanza.
What a tragically sad title for Itai Erdal’s monologue at the Finborough Theatre: Soldiers of Tomorrow.
What has Florence Nightingale got to do with the post-World War Two international development aid industry?
Theatre should make you think, but the Arcola is about to ask audiences to consider a particularly awkward and painful question: if you support international aid, do you really want to change the world — or do you just like the idea of helping?
Films are getting odder. After a Thai drama about ghosts who inhabit vacuum cleaners (A Useful Ghost) and a people-smuggling drama seen through the eyes of a chicken (Hen), we now have Bouchra, a Moroccan mother-daughter movie acted by canids.
