Pablo Picasso may be the greatest of modern painters. He founded the Cubist movement, creating a new way of seeing the world.
Syrian music sensation Omar Souleyman—topping 500 studio albums—is THE aviator wearing, headscarf-bearing king of inept Syrian pop-folk.
Newcastle: 22 May–7 June, Newcastle City Library, NE1 8AX. London: 3 July, Travel Inn, Jubilee Gardens, SE1. Manchester: 6–31 August, People’s History Museum, M3 3ER
The films of Ken Loach are being made available for the first time online on YouTube as his new film, "Irish Route", is nominated for a Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival.
The Red Stuff Shop has donated a "We are all the children of Migrants" T-shirt for a readers’ competition.
Would you say Kraken is a return to some of your earlier work?
Based on a 1952 pulp noir novel of the same title, The Killer Inside Me is set in small town Texas. Men take their hats off when they go indoors, call women "ma’am" and smoke cigars.
The Museum of London has spent three years and £20 million on five new galleries that tell the history of Britain’s capital.
This major exhibition features many maps which have never been shown before.
Based on the best-selling novel, Precious is an overweight, illiterate African-American teenager who her mother and father abuse.
This one-off television drama written by Bafta-winning Abi Morgan, is set against the backdrop of 1981’s marriage of Noddy to Big Ears (as Socialist Worker put it at the time) – Lady Diana Spencer to HRH Charles, Prince of Wales. On the day of the wedding the sun is shining and everyone is in high spirits.
This excellent series returns to the airwaves next week after a short break. It explores how labour – the action of human beings on the physical world – is the driving force of change and human progress.
