Art

Bird Bites update: ‘A night of knowing nothing’, Payal Kapadia; ‘The Long Goodbye’, Riz Ahmed and Aneil Karia; Lubaina Himid, first Tate Modern solo show and Amrita Dhallu

IT’S BEEN a busy time of late and we just wanted to signpost a a few items that are coming…

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Sophie Taeuber-Arp: 20th century designs – hugely influential artist gets first major UK retrospective…

Creative, brilliant and completely unique for her time, this artist had much to say about the 20th century and her…

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Manchester International Festival 2021: Zoe Iqbal, actor and poet on her part in ‘I love you too’ and reads ‘Happiness’ (video)

More than a hundred residents were involved in contributing reflections about love in a book which can now be purchased…

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Manchester International Festival 2021: Imtiaz Dharker on ‘Poet Slash Artist’ and her new artwork/poem ‘My Breath’ (video)

One of Britain’s best-loved poets spoke to us about her latest work which is part of the curated strand ‘Poet…

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Sunil Gupta: ‘A Life in Pictures – From Here to Eternity’ London exhibition and book document love and politics…

Subversive, impulsive, personal and political, photographer’s retrospective presents a rich and powerful picture of an artist’s life… By Suman Bhuchar…

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The White Tiger film artwork – Chila Burman on tigers, ice cream vans and her Dad’s journey from Punjab to Liverpool and themes… (video)

After mocking up Tate Britain, she’s mashing up a car for Netflix… Few ice creams vans in the UK had…

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The White Tiger film artwork – Inkquisitive (Amandeep Singh): ‘I have never painted on a car’ and going from being a ‘bedroom artist’ to a social media sensation… (video)

ACV talks to the British artist Inkquisitive/Amandeep Singh about his artwork inspired by the film, ‘The White Tiger’, and commissioned…

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Patricia Rozario, Naga Munchetty, Charlie XCX, Jameela Jamil and Tabu lead women’s success at the Eastern Eye Arts, Culture and Theatre Awards (Acta)…

A celebration of South Asian creative talent… SHE MIGHT not be a Dame in the official sense but Opera singer…

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Are you a really an ‘asianculturevulture’? Test your knowledge with our festive annual quiz 2020 – Answers page…

Do you know your Dev Patel from your Riz Ahmed? Or your Nitin Sawhney from your Anoushka Shankar? Read on…

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Our cultural highlights of 2020 – what are yours?

It’s been a strange and challenging year in many ways but many of us did find solace in arts and…

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