Culture Digest

From Carmen Herrera's taste for simplicity to a history of competitive eating: what to read this weekend

The second part of this week’s Culture Digest looking at performative meals: an evening of operatics with Grace Schwindt

This week’s Culture Digest focuses on performative meals. First: the Climavore dinners series from Cooking Sections

From the art of opacity to Joan Didion on race and the problem of good intentions: what to read this weekend

A new book of photographer Luigi Ghirri's collective writing

Part two of this week’s Culture Digest continues the theme of how art can respond to Trump

How can art respond to Trump?

The Photographers’ Gallery has cleverly paired a show of feminist art by 48 women with an overtly feminist show by a man

A selection of the best articles responding to the US election result

The show ‘Punks’, and its poignancy today

This week’s Culture Digest looks at three London shows revisiting movements and revolutions: first up, the V&A’s survey of 1966-70

A new anthology of writing by Lynne Tillman shows us what narrative fiction, and criticism, can be

Barry Jenkins's new film about growing up black and gay is raw, sincere and game-changing

On Gordon Parks’s photographs and Sophie Calle’s recent demand not to be filmed

From an interview with Paul Beatty to the evolution of Midnight Spook Shows: what to read this weekend

Adam Curtis’s latest documentary unravels our post-truth world

On Jérôme Bel's Gala at HAU, Berlin 

From Claudia Rankine on whiteness to the history of the medicine cabinet: what to read this weekend

On Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake, winner of the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival

From the 'crisis of care' to René Magritte on left-wing luxury: what to read this weekend