Old faces seem to crease and crumble as we watch in Richard Avedon Immortal: Portraits of Aging, 1951–2004. Avedon was a pioneer in presenting cool, stark, tough beauty. Shades of decadence are one thing, but decrepitude? Old age is timeless as well as time-limited.
So, you think you’re an Elder Scrolls superfan? Tell me, then: What do you think of The Elder Scrolls Travels: Shadowkey? Now you can experience this obscure 2004 mobile RPG in upscaled 4K on PC, completely free and with no ancient Nokia N-Gage hardware required.
Phota Labs is a new iOS app that uses a personal AI photo assistant to turn everyday snapshots into professional-looking shots while preserving personal identity and authenticity. Founded by former Adobe employees, the startup aims to automate the editing process so anyone can easily get better photos.
The recent US elections sparked memories of a notorious press conference as this week's 15 punchlines in search of a question arrive to test your grasp of topical news, general knowledge and pop culture. Let’s be having you!
Children, and our relationships with them, are full of possibility. You don’t yet know how this one will unfold. Approach what comes next with curiosity and openness, and leave the space wide to see what fills it.
Tanuki: Pon’s Summer is a game of quiet restoration that tasks you with repairing an ancient shrine and delivering mail on a BMX. It is a reminder of how much magic video games can find in the pleasing business of putting things back together again.
We meet the unnamed narrator of Transcription on a train to Providence, Rhode Island. Ben Lerner’s novella is a thoughtful meditation on memory, storytelling and lives lived through technology. The narrator’s anxiety over his phone falls away as he engages with the world around him and with his past.
Three acts share their stories as they prepare to represent Bhutan, South Korea, and the Philippines in Bangkok for the inaugural Asian edition of Eurovision: a bar singer taking his first flight, a K-pop veteran aiming to win, and a young pop diva representing the strength of Filipinas.
More than 40 years after Jill Posener immortalised a graffitied Fiat billboard with a big fuck you to the establishment, a new retrospective celebrates a 50-year career of cheeky, feminist photography and social justice.
Whatever you thought the early 2020s were going to throw up musically, it’s highly unlikely you would have predicted the arrival of Blackhaine. Saints in the Wethouse is an experience that wrings the listener out, dragging them headlong through an unforgiving musical landscape. Whatever Blackhaine claims about copyists, he sounds pretty inimitable.
Allen follows the adult version of a manchild haunted by his childhood alien encounter. This live-action feature from Ludo Studio turns a quirky premise into a relentlessly unsubtle facsimile beholden to formula, spelling out its emotional significance so thoroughly there is little left for us to feel.
When it comes to cooking during the festive season, time is tight and the last thing you want is to be trapped in the kitchen. Get organised like a commercial kitchen and you’ll be relaxed by the time the big day arrives with these eight easy things to do now.
Maddie rings at the worst moments. It’s usually when she’s on the train and I can’t even hear her. I have a long commute, so it makes sense to call her then. Why pick up if you don’t want to speak to me?
Only 15 minutes away from the Dutch capital by train, Haarlem feels a million miles from Amsterdam, and perhaps provides a more typical glimpse of the Netherlands than trailing around the well-worn tourist trail of Van Gogh, coffee shops and red lights. Perhaps the best thing to do is just amble and get lost.
The past decade of British politics has had the dreamlike quality of a novel, a dystopian fiction where facts don't matter. Yet the sad, humbling process of watching this Brexit fantasy try to impose its rules on reality is coming to an end, as the electorate and politicians finally wish this nightmare would end.
Giulio Cesare is Handel’s most popular opera with at least 15 versions in the current catalogue. This new recording comes off the back of a European tour, thus benefiting from the experience of live performances. A lived-in quality is palpable here, from the frisson of emotional risk-taking to imaginatively decorated da capo sections.
Rich chocolate, butter, egg, sugar and flour come together in a torta tenerina that is soft, dense, velvet and sticky, or easily eaten like a pudding. Gorgeous, useful, immensely likable, this cake is at its best one to three hours out of the oven.