Jonathan Jones on artArt and designHolbein's dead Christ delivers a shockThe German artist's vision of death will scare and depress you, but it's well worth the pilgrimage to BasleThe dead man's grey-green face tilts towards you, stiff dry hair spilling over the stone block covered with a white shroud, beard pointing up at the low roof of the sealed box in which this corpse lies interred. Blackened feet lie close to the wall of the stone enclosure. Read More...
Art This article is more than 11 months old‘Hopefully some people hate it’: the immersive film about capitalism coming to MelbourneThis article is more than 11 months oldStarring Cate Blanchett and Giancarlo Esposito, Julian Rosefeldt’s Euphoria is coming to Australia after Rising festival’s co-artistic director was compelled by it in New York
Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email A monstrous conductor, an ethereal elf, the Norse goddess of the dead and even Bob Dylan: Cate Blanchett is admired for her ability to step into seemingly any role with ease. Read More...
‘I’m angrier about certain things than men are’ … Karin Smirnoff, whose novel is called The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons. Photograph: Janerik Henriksson/TT News Agency/AFP/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreen‘I’m angrier about certain things than men are’ … Karin Smirnoff, whose novel is called The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons. Photograph: Janerik Henriksson/TT News Agency/AFP/Getty ImagesCrime fictionInterview‘It’s time the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo grew up’: Karin Smirnoff on her shocking sequelElla CreamerThe Swede is the first woman to write a Lisbeth Salander novel. Read More...
