The great women's art bulletinArtKaron Davis’s sculptures chart the emotional and physical effects of pushing one’s body beyond its limits – and asks what it takes to be Black in a white Eurocentric industry
It begins with barre. The young girl’s left hand grips the bar, her right hand in first position, her tutu adorably upright, while she inquisitively, and somewhat nervously, looks at her reflection in the mirror.
It’s a process every dancer starts with, and it’s this image that visitors see first at Beauty Must Suffer, an exhibition by US-born artist Karon Davis at Salon 94 in New York.
MoviesObituaryClaude BerriFrench director and producer best known for his adaptation of Jean de FloretteClaude Berri, who has died of a stroke aged 74, was best known in Britain as the director of the 1986 diptych - Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources - based on the novels by Marcel Pagnol, but in France he was "the Godfather of French cinema", a prodigious producer and distributor. Berri himself said: "Out of my failure as an actor was born my desire to direct.
‘If you accept what’s not there, then you see what is there’ … Annette Herfkens in The Hague, Netherlands. Photograph: Judith Jockel/The GuardianAnnette Herfkens was on holiday with her fiance when their plane went down, killing everyone but her. Three decades later, she reflects on how the trauma changed her
by Paula CocozzaAnnette Herfkens and her fiance, Willem van der Pas, had been together for 13 years when he booked them on to a flight from Ho Chi Minh City to the Vietnamese coast.
OpinionWorld news This article is more than 5 years oldSocial media sites should focus less on nipples and more on NazisThis article is more than 5 years oldArwa MahdawiTumblr, long known as a safe space for sexual subcultures, has a new policy on ‘female-presenting nipples’. Maybe it should rethink its priorities
The war against female-presenting nipplesKeep your breasts off the internet, please! This week the social networking site Tumblr announced it was banning adult content.
Wimbledon 2023Alcaraz secures Rune showdown after battling past Berrettini in fourth roundNo 1 seed defeated Italian opponent 3-6, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3Rune beat Dimitrov 3-6, 7-6 (6), 7-6 (4), 6-3 to reach last eightMatteo Berrettini had arrived in Wimbledon at the nadir of his career after a nightmare 18 months filled with injuries and despair. As new ailments frequently sprung up and old wounds failed to heal, his body was crumbling under the strain of professional tennis.
Adrian Searle encountersArtReviewRecurring images of historical horrors – from slave killings to drowning migrants – are cut with nature in Akomfrah’s new video installations in Bristol and London. Past and present dissolve, leaving us stranded, waiting for the future
John Akomfrah’s Vertigo Sea keeps coming at you. Panoramic, oceanic even, this three-screen mix of archive film, BBC Natural History Unit footage and scenes staged by the artist is ravishing and awful, sublime and depressing.
Leading questionsSexTalking to your husband might be the trickiest bit, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. It could help to find the fun in this together
Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email My husband took many years to persuade me to go to a swingers club. I eventually said I would try it. I have a 60-year-old body but it’s OK and I wasn’t shy; I love nudist beaches, I just wasn’t sure I’d like having sex with other men.
Beards have long been in fashion among Muslim men, as can be seen in this mid-19th-century ceramic portrait of the religious and political advisers of Nasser al-Din, the king of Persia from 1848 until 1896. Photograph: AlamyBeards have long been in fashion among Muslim men, as can be seen in this mid-19th-century ceramic portrait of the religious and political advisers of Nasser al-Din, the king of Persia from 1848 until 1896.
FA CupTommy Doyle strikes to earn 10-man Wolves FA Cup replay with BrentfordBrentford were unable to bring an end to their recent awful form, nor exorcise the ghosts of a recent haunting, nor even impose themselves on opponents a man down after just nine minutes, after Wolves left west London with a deserved draw to take this intriguing tie to a replay.
Nine days previously Gary O’Neil’s side had come to the Gtech Community Stadium and torn their hosts apart, 4-1 in the Premier League.
Golden State WarriorsWarriors’ Draymond Green reinstated by NBA from suspension after 12 gamesWarriors forward reinstated by NBA from open-ended banGreen has been away from Golden State since 12 DecemberDraymond Green was reinstated by the NBA from his suspension on Saturday after the Golden State star missed 12 games for hitting Phoenix center Jusuf Nurkić in the face on 12 December.
The league said Green “demonstrated his commitment to conforming his conduct to standards expected of NBA players” during his suspension, which began on 14 December.