
Silicon Valley Investors Are Backing a New San Francisco Contemporary Art Institution That Promises to Look Beyond White Men
A new museum is coming to the Bay Area. The Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco is set to open in the summer or fall

Simon Denny Is Selling an Intentionally Lackluster NFT to Benefit Institutions Crypto Collectors Typically Don’t Care About
Denny says his “perverse” gesture is about reinserting wealth into systems outside of which it was made. Artist Simon Denny has created an NFT to

Josh Warrington: ‘I always worried about losing, because how will you react?’
After 30 successive wins the British featherweight was beaten by Mauricio Lara in February, and admits he has struggled to recover as he prepares for

Frank Oz on life as Fozzie Bear, Miss Piggy and Yoda: ‘I’d love to do the Muppets again but Disney doesn’t want me’
He played some of the most memorable characters of all time on The Muppet Show and Sesame Street – then became a brilliant comedy director.

What I Buy and Why: Software Exec Mikkel Svane on Moving to Get More Wall Space, and Commissioning 100 Works During Lockdown
The Svane Family Foundation recently donated $1 million to Bay Area artists. Last June, as most of the world remained firmly on lockdown, the Svane

Tenor Stuart Skelton: ‘You have to take the audience to the edge of the abyss with you’
The Australian opera singer on five-hour Wagner marathons, the Last Night of the Proms – and why he smokes the occasional cigar lover of fast

Lauren Elkin: ‘I felt like I was in De Beauvoir’s body’
The author of Flâneuse on the Les Mis fan fiction she wrote in her youth, her new book written on the bus, and the thrill

Sex Education’s Aimee Lou Wood: ‘I was in so much pain underneath it all’
As the high school comedy returns for a third series, its Bafta-winning star talks about stage fright, embarrassing scenes, and the torment that lay behind

Emmylou Harris’s teenage obsessions: ‘The Beatles parted the clouds after JFK’s assassination’
The country singer, 74, recalls the inspirational power of Joan Baez and American folk – and the lessons dogs can teach us Music Americana, the

Candyman director Nia DaCosta: ‘It is shocking the way people have talked to me’
As well as rebooting the horror classic, the 31-year-old is directing a Marvel movie with a $100m-plus budget. She talks about ambition, superstition – and

‘I’m a one in a billion’ – how Diane Warren penned windswept power ballads for Cher, Gaga and Dion
She’s the queen of the power ballad mega hit – and has even written songs for Biden, Harris and Ringo Starr. Now the world’s most

Sam Fender: ‘Leftie is now a slur in working-class towns’
In a brutally honest interview ahead of his stunning second album, the Tyneside chart-topper discusses politics, family, fame and mental health n 2011, Sam Fender was, by

‘How is it sustainable if only 1% can afford your food?’: the man on a quest to change farming
Chris Newman, founder of Virginia-based Sylvanaqua Farms, on why feeding people needs to be at the heart of sustainable farming hris Newman, 38, and his

Azeem Rafiq: ‘It brings back a lot of hurt to be around cricket people’
The former England Under-19 captain says he does not feel like being involved in the game in any capacity as the wait goes on for

Paul Abbott: ‘I have written two scenes I can’t bear to watch’
Shameless plundered his bleak childhood for comedy. Now, he’s written a ‘funny forensics’ show, Wolfe, informed by his own bipolar diagnosis. The hit writer talks

The Guardian’s first Tech editor: ‘They gave me a demo and showed me things I couldn’t believe’
Victor Keegan, the correspondent who went on to put the first Guardian content online, recalls the chance news item in 1981 that opened up the

Jeanie Finlay: ‘I don’t film alpha males. They don’t need more exposure’
She spent a year in her room as a teenager, and now makes heart-wrenching documentaries about people looking for safe spaces in record shops, on

Back for good: the fine art of repairing broken things
The new right to repair law will push manufacturers to reduce obsolescence. But artists and activists are already challenging the way we reuse and reimagine

‘I could have had a midlife crisis’: Ed Balls on cooking and life after politics
He’s been shadow chancellor, and he wowed the crowds on Strictly. Now Ed Balls has written a book that’s part memoir, part cookbook. He talks

Keir Starmer: my No 1 priority is winning elections
Labour leader says party must modernize to stand a chance of winning over voters Keir Starmer has told Labour that it has to modernise and