Sculptures by American Pop artist Jann Haworth reveal a childhood spent on film sets in Hollywood
If you're a fan of American Pop artist Jann Haworth, then an upcoming exhibition at the Pallant House Gallery in Chichester will be your first chance in the UK to see Liberty Blake’s mural, Work in Progress. The 28-foot piece is the result of a collaborative community project that celebrates women who were catalysts for change in the arts, sciences and social activism. Alongside the mural will be a display of Haworth’s sculptural and wall-based [...]
Ainsley Bowman’s atmospheric music video for The Ninth Wave’s latest single
Dark and atmospheric with a little Japanese bondage thrown in, award-winning director Ainsley Bowman is behind the music video for The Ninth Wave's latest single, Human Behaviour. Produced by Forest of Black, the atmospheric film was shot in an old shipbuilding warehouse in the band's hometown of Glasgow. It places the artists centre stage as they slowly entangle themselves with rope in a striking performance piece. "Human Behaviour struck a chord with me from the [...]
Photographs by Christine Fenzl of young people in East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall
In her new book, Land in Sonne, photographer Christine Fenzl captures young people in the areas that belonged to East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Translating as 'Land in Sun', her series takes a look at the generation of 'Wendekinder', the children of German reunification, focusing on the neighbourhoods of Hellersdorf, Marzahn, Lichtenberg, and Hohenschönhausen. For their parents, the Berlin Wall was simply a part of life, but in their world, it [...]
Vox Sentences: California, burning in the dark
Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images California brush fires could lead to more preventive blackouts; at least 15 Chileans die in protests against transit fare hikes. Vox Sentences is your daily digest for what’s happening in the world. Sign up for the [...]
Why WeWork founder Adam Neumann is getting $1.7 billion to leave the company he ran into the ground
Sometimes it pays to be bad. | Kelly Sullivan/Getty Images for the WeWork Creator Awards This isn’t normal, but nothing about WeWork is normal. WeWork founder and former CEO Adam Neumann drove his coworking company’s valuation to a whopping $47 billion by selling investors on [...]
White UConn students were arrested for shouting the n-word. Black students say the incident is part of a larger problem.
University of Connecticut students hold signs during a campus march and rally against racism on October 21, 2019. | Screenshot/Eyewitness 3 News Students say the university needs to do a lot more to address a deeper culture of racism on campus. For more than a [...]
Read: Top State Department official’s testimony outlining Trump’s Ukraine quid pro quo
Alex Wong/Getty Images This is very bad for President Donald Trump. William Taylor, the top US diplomat in Ukraine, used his opening statement in testimony for the congressional impeachment inquiry on Tuesday to say that there was, indeed, a quid pro quo. What’s more, President [...]