Culture

From the Olympics to the big screen, former Team GB volleyball player Savanah Leaf has won critical acclaim for her first feature film at Sundance – and this week she also picked up ‘best debut director’ at the British Independent Film Awards. 

Billy Porter tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy about the challenges he faced due to homophobia in the music industry in the ’90s, the harsh reality of being an actor in the golden age of streaming and what success means to him, in this episode of Ways to Change the World.

Ukraine is seeking to build closer ties with Europe – from trade to culture.

When the artist David Shrigley discovered that there were so many returned copies of Dan Brown’s thriller the Davinci Code, that an Oxfam shop in Swansea was refusing to accept any more – he set out on a challenge. Mr Shrigley managed to gather about six thousand rejected copies of the Da Vinci Code. He…

It’s almost 30 years since the 25 year old star of the hip-hop music scene, Tupac Shakur, was murdered by a gunman firing into the window of the car the rapper was travelling in. Now, a former gang leader has been charged with his murder. Duane ‘Keefy D’ Davis has been arrested and is in…

Claudette Johnson is one of the founding members of the Black British Arts Movement formed in the 1980’s, and is best known for her large scale portraits of Black people. 

Sir Ian McKellen and Roger Allam are two of the country’s best loved actors – and they’re starring together in a story of middle aged romance on the London stage. 

The writer Naomi Klein has taken a more personal turn with her latest book Doppelganger – exploring how she’s regularly mistaken for another writer, Naomi Wolf.

In some developing news tonight, Scotland Yard say they’ve received a number of sex offence allegations, following claims in news reports about Russell Brand – although no arrests have been made. 

The Scottish artist Rachel MacLean has showcased her provocative work in venues around the world. Now she’s bringing her art onto the nation’s high streets.

Almost 25 years after they first formed,the original Sugababes are back, with a one night comeback show at London’s O2. The band had to fight to win back the rights to their name – but they’ve never been shy of speaking their minds. Our culture correspondent Minnie Stephenson has been speaking exclusively to the Sugababes…

Some of the 2,000 artefacts which are thought to have been stolen from the British Museum are starting to be recovered, according to the chair of trustees George Osborne. The former chancellor apologised on behalf of the museum, but admitted more could have been done to prevent the thefts. An unnamed member of staff suspected…

A-list were out to show solidarity with their counterparts in the US who are on strike.

For centuries, western art has objectified black women, depicting them as exoticised and enslaved. Challenging that is a new photography exhibition at Somerset House called ‘Black Venus’.

The rap artist best known for the Streets made his name in the early 2000s, taking on the garage scene and making it relatable to swathes of Britain’s disaffected young people.