‘They killed my best friend for supper!’ Gunda, the farmyard film that could put you off eating meat for ever | Documentary films
[ad_1] When Victor Kossakovsky was four, his parents sent him from St Petersburg to stay with his uncle’s family in the countryside. “It was a cold winter,” he says, brrr-ing over Zoom. “Minus 30 degrees.” Warmth came from the boy’s friendship with a one-month-old piglet named Vasya. They were inseparable – until she became cutlets […]
Why are our cities built for 6ft-tall men? The female architects who fought back | Architecture
[ad_1] When Le Corbusier developed his proportional system Le Modulor in the 1940s, the great architect had in mind a handsome British policeman. His system would go on to shape the entire postwar world, dictating everything from the height of a door handle to the scale of a staircase, all governed by the need to […]
‘Odd, eerie and haunting’: behind Maya Lin’s Manhattan ghost forest | Art
[ad_1] In Manhattan’s bustling Flatiron District, 49 coastal Atlantic cedars – each around 40ft tall, leafless branches grasping at the sky – tower over Madison Square Park’s usually flat, grassy plain. The spectral forest, a new installation by the artist and architect Maya Lin, looms like a jarring holdout from winter – barren, save for […]
David Hockney on joy, longing and spring light: ‘I’m teaching the French how to paint Normandy!’ | David Hockney
[ad_1] ‘I think it looks terrific,” says David Hockney. “It’s all on one theme, isn’t it? And there’s not many exhibitions like that, really, a show all about the spring.” The 83-year-old artist is taking a look around his new exhibition at the Royal Academy in London for the first time. He seems happy with […]
‘It’s a massive injustice’: inside a film on the dangers of overpopulation | Documentary films
[ad_1] Bill Mai, a Kansas farmer, was 12 years old when his irrigation system, rigged to the Great Plains Ogallala aquifer, was installed in 1948. At the time, it was a great novelty which helped increase yield and profit. But the water has dropped about one foot every year it is in use, leading many […]
‘My energy comes from optimism’: the hopeful music of spring 2021 | Music
[ad_1] Ashley Monroe I started writing songs after my father died when I was 13. I used music to release the sadness that was flooding my heart and held on to my guitar like it was a float in an ocean. As an artist, I’ve always wanted to provoke chills, because to me that means […]
Dearth from above: aerial images of a vanishing America – in pictures | Art and design
[ad_1] Baltimore, Maryland In 1920, Baltimore was booming. With more than 700,000 people, it was one of America’s largest cities. After the Great Depression, the Federal Housing Administration created maps of every American city, and neighbourhoods deemed risky – mostly those with minority populations – were ‘redlined’, meaning they weren’t eligible for new federal-backed mortgages. […]
The girl in the massive baobab tree: Luis Tato’s best photograph | Photography
[ad_1] The vast Zinder region in Niger, west Africa, is the most populated part of the country. Its people live mostly in traditional villages, their lives relatively unchanged for decades. Yet they are now being profoundly affected by climate change. I was there in 2019, working on stories about the crisis, reforestation and resilience projects. […]
‘Do something’: an intimate look at the personal lives of climate activists | Documentary films
[ad_1] Early in the morning on 2 September 2014, Abby Brockway left her home in Seattle and, along with two dozen other climate activists, drove about a half hour north to a railyard in Everett, Washington. The group erected a massive, chained tripod over the crossed tracks, blocking a large line of oil tank cars. […]
Gunda: a wordless 90-minute animal movie of mind-blowing ordinariness – and a work of genius | Movies
[ad_1] I have ventured to the cinema twice to see Godzilla vs Kong; on the second occasion I even attended a venue where the sound is synchronised to the seats, so my butt vibrated in accordance with on-screen action. But it was another production about fantastic creatures that truly reminded me of the magic of […]
