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Penis-inscribed tables and parking meter chairs: the lost queer genius of House of Beauty and Culture

Boy George bought their provocative furniture; fashion giant Martin Margiela embraced deconstruction after visiting their loose change-strewn shop. So why is the groundbreaking 80s design collective so little known?

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‘It’s a radical act to garden’: different queer generations find common ground in nature drama

Coral Wylie’s play Lavender, Hyacinth, Violet, Yew follows a teenager discovering themselves through horticulture and memories of an old family friend, played by Omari Douglas

The Guardian - UK

‘He was unforgettable’: the mesmerising star of cult documentary Andy the Furniture Maker

He used to fish for oysters but he fled to the hedonism of London, where he was taken under the wing of Derek Jarman. But Andy Marshall was also a creator of dazzling furniture – and the star of a pioneering film about gay life

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Oscar-winning costume designer Sandy Powell becomes CBE

The British costume designer was previously made an OBE for her prolific work in film.

Evening Standard

Let it show: find an event for every day until Christmas with our culture advent calendar

From The Nutcracker in Glasgow and the Human League in Cardiff to Messiaen in Manchester and Maggie Mistletoe in Farnham, our critics pick the best cultural events in the run-up to Christmas

The Guardian - UK

Why the Dungeness landscape is so inspirational for writers and artists

Writers and artists are often inspired by the landscapes they encounter or inhabit, and one of the most distinctive is Dungeness in Kent, on England’s south coast. This headland is punctuated by converted lookout towers, fishermen’s cottages, tanneries and wood-panelled artists’ studios, turquoise crab nets and rusted anchors.

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Iranian artist Maryam Tafakory wins the 2024 Film London Jarman award

Tafakory’s blend of reality and fiction is ‘a compelling exploration of displacement, memory and resistance’ according to the judging panel

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Gilbert McCarragher talks about his photo story on Derek Jarman's eclectic home

Architectural photographer Gilbert McCarragher invites you into Prospect Cottage, the personal sanctuary of artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman

Digital Camera World

Pedro Almodóvar: ‘There should be the possibility to have euthanasia all over the world’

The Spanish director’s latest film, The Room Next Door, in which Tilda Swinton plays a journalist with cancer who decides to end her own life, premieres at the Venice film festival

The Guardian - UK

‘I wish my parents were alive so I could tell them I’m a concept’: Tilda Swinton and Julio Torres on elves, slaps and giving dignity to toilets

Comedy auteur Torres’s surreal new opus, Problemista, is also the basis for a friendship with arthouse queen Swinton. Cinema’s oddest new couple talk South Park scatology, mortifying restaurant behaviour and cutting-edge queerness

The Guardian - UK

Shakespeare goes pop: the best of the Bard’s work updated on screen

A new season of films celebrates how different directors have found a way to bring Shakespeare’s work forward, from Baz Luhrmann to Derek Jarman

The Guardian - US

Hacked Game Boys and horseplay! Jarman award shortlist celebrates thinking outside the box

Video artists Larry Achiampong and Rosalind Nashashibi are among those nominated for the prestigious £10,000 prize – which has a strong record of spotting UK art talent

The Guardian - UK

Embrace the pebbledash: Hollie Bowden's guide to giving your home an exterior makeover

My attempts to cultivate kerb appeal have been a revelation — now I’ve joined the residents’ association to encourage the neighbours

Evening Standard

Standing stones, urban hellscapes and male nudes: Derek Jarman’s glorious Super 8 short films

The easy freedom of this medium allowed the artist to range over subjects as diverse as Tarot, male nudes at Fire Island and a friend’s flat – and offer clues to his more public feature films

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The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing review – earthly paradise

A vivid account of bringing a garden back to life underlines the importance of outdoor space for all

Evening Standard

See inside Derek Jarman's home for the first time as interiors of Prospect Cottage revealed in photographs

The artist and queer activist’s home was saved after a celebrity-backed campaign. Now a photography book offers a rare glimpse of how Jarman lived and loved

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Derek Jarman's House: Inside Prospect Cottage

A new book shines a spotlight inside Derek Jarman's Dungeness 'escape house'

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Christopher Hobbs obituary

Production designer who worked on Caravaggio and The Garden for Derek Jarman and provided the sets for the BBC’s Gormenghast

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The Guardian - UK

Michael Powell and Britain’s deeply conflicted attitude to cinema

Letter: Prof Ian Christie on why the film-maker found it challenging to get backers for some of his projects

The Guardian - UK

Streaming: the best films about artists

From Wim Wenders’ recent Anselm Kiefer documentary to Kirk Douglas’s tortured Van Gogh and Derek Jarman’s erotic ode to Caravaggio, cinema loves a brush with genius

The Guardian - UK

‘I am all for strangeness’: Tilda Swinton on artistic integrity, acting and the afterlife

The Oscar-winning Scottish actor answers questions from Observer readers and famous fans including Pedro Almodóvar, Wes Anderson and Elton John

Evening Standard

Radical Landscapes at the William Morris Gallery review: a provocative but disjointed show

From the right to roam to Greenham Common, this exhibition is about access to and the ownership of land

The Guardian - UK

Of Thomas Hardy and PJ Harvey: on the trail of Dorset’s inspirational powers

The county’s people, landscapes and villages have provided material for generations of writers, prompting not only great literature but social reform

The Guardian - UK

Julian Sands obituary

Actor whose blond hair and fine-boned looks saw him cast equally as dandy, devil or – in A Room With a View – heart-throb

The Guardian - UK

Surveillance, swimming and sexy slugs: 2023 Film London Jarman award nominees announced

The shortlist for the prestigious prize includes boundary-pushing stories about migration, capitalism … and technicolour cocktail bars

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