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Arts Newsletter
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The London Book Fair was a huge success, hosting a line-up of some of Mexico's most exciting writers. Among the many highlights was a talk by journalist and activist Lydia Cacho, who spoke about the dangers faced by Mexican investigative journalists. In a recent interview with the Guardian, she recounted her own harrowing experiences of oppression and violence both at the hands of criminal gangs and the Mexican authorities.
Read the Guardian interview
View The London Book Fair 2015 photo gallery
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Gig-going is becoming increasingly popular with younger deaf and disabled audiences, leading to increased pressure on venues to improve accessibility and inclusivity for audiences with a range of needs. Chief executive of Attitude is Everything Suzanne Bull makes the case for venues, whatever their size, to step up and invite disabled audiences into the live experience.
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Have a listen to the latest Selector, the show that brings you up to date with everything that is going on in new British music. Goldierocks returns with another packed show this week. There’s a ‘BBC Introducing’ live session from Lisbon, DJ and producer Himalia is In The Mix, plus the usual earful of new British music from Leftfield, Skepta, Parma Violets and Laura Marling.
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For the last 10 weeks, residents of Austin, Texas have been 'waking up' their street furniture as part of London-based experience design company PAN Studio's international public art project Hello Lamp Post. The project, which invites the public to strike up conversations with objects on their city's streets through a playful SMS platform, lands in
Tokyo, Japan tomorrow. Hello Lamp Post was first commissioned for Watershed’s Playable City Award 2013 and ran for 8 weeks in Bristol, UK.
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In 2013, British documentary photographer Nick Danziger travelled to North Korea to capture rare glimpses of the world's most militarised society. The resulting exhibition, Above the Line: People and Places in the DPRK, offers a largely unreported view of the everyday lives of North Koreans, and is currently on show at Hong Kong Arts Centre in Wan Chai until 28 April. In this interview with the South China Morning Post, Nick describes some of his surprising encounters with the people of this secretive communist state.
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Home to the Lut Desert - officially named as the hottest place on earth - Iran presents a particular challenge for its architects, who have emerged as international leaders in designing buildings to keep the country's people cool over centuries of sophisticated design. In this blog, co-founder of Studio Integrate Mehran Gharleghi explores how Iranian architects have tackled the problem of stifling heat through innovative combinations of aesthetic design and function, elements that often work against rather than with each other in architectural practice.
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A new study has highlighted the ‘huge inequality’ between the incomes of big-name novelists such as JK Rowling or Ian McEwan and the majority of writers. The research, commissioned by The Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society, found the top 5% of writers earned close to half of all the income received by professional authors in 2013. The median income for professional writers is less than the minimum wage.
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