Culture

How the Chinese YouTube sensation has seduced urban dwellers worldwide

Thomas Vinterberg’s latest film about a group of middle-aged men finding happiness through the habitual consumption of alcohol is sentimental and without complexity

The author’s latest book, See/Saw: Looking at Photographs, condenses over 100 years of history into selected moments

‘Organic Music Societies’ shows the nomadic world the late American jazz icon and Swedish artist created for their friends, collaborators and children, Neneh and Eagle Eye Cherry

In his new film, White Cube, the artist – again – perpetuates the very form of exploitation he is criticizing

'Crocodile Cradle', a collaborative project in the London gallery's window, collages together new and found texts by 51 artists, reflecting on how the pandemic has stratified society

The artist speaks with Olamiju Fajemisin on the legacy of Rock Against Racism in the UK

The most exciting works of the first online edition of the festival look at strategies of care and ways of refusing neoliberalism

Curtis’s new BBC series, Can’t Get You Out of My Head, depicts the repetitive bleakness of individualism, but how can we collectively envision an alternative?

Ahead of his 13th feature film, Saint Narcisse, the cult film director speaks with Michael Bullock about the importance of self-love and self-exposure 

A.S. Hamrah on the portrayal of ‘red America’ in Hillbilly Elegy, Rebuilding Paradise and Nomadland

The UK-based poet speaks with frieze editor Andrew Durbin about her debut collection of poems from Granta

Skaka King's film on the life and assassination of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton exceptionally examines the ever-present interplay between race and capital

The debut novel, sugar-dusted with zeitgeist signifiers, satirizes the 21st-century urban bourgeoisie – but who is the joke actually on?

A Sundance highlight, the director’s debut is a nuanced exploration of lives either side of the ‘colour line’

The artist’s first feature film depicts a mother-daughter pair of grifters trying to stay afloat through financial recession 

Shon Faye pays tribute to the pioneering musician and producer whose generation-defining music will live on in the exultations of the dance floor 

Despite a brilliant performance by Carey Mulligan, the post-#MeToo thriller is an anti-climax 

As the iconic reality series airs its 20th and final season, and amongst rumours of ‘Kimye’s’ divorce, Alissa Bennett explores how the Kardashians changed American culture – and themselves

The films and books that kept us afloat in a calamitous year