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Writer & actress Annie Davison performs her one-woman show "Bairns" in Soho this week, providing a "touching and amusing portrait of surrogacy".

Is silliness serious? Is pop political? The question that increasingly follows is, why has poptimism become so popular again so quickly?

Primavera Sound 2026 was a love letter to glamour and grunge, with unforgettable performances by the likes of The Cure, Olivia Rodrigo, Ethel Cain and Kneecap. We take a look at the festival’s highlights.

Martin Parr’s aggressively colourful depiction of British life sparked enormous debate about what it meant to be British, and how as a deeply classist country we understand our own relationship to visualisations of class. We reflect on his

Lee Miller’s sprawling odyssey of a life is a profound achievement. She changed the world as a model, artist and journalist during World War II, leaving a deeper mark on all three disciplines than most people could hope to achieve in a lifetime. We take a look at her tour-de-force career.

Would you consider provocation an intentional part of your songwriting process, either lyrically or sonically? Definitely, there's aspects of Machine Girl that are meant to be provocative. I've always loved art that shocks, provocative art and stuff…

Congolese artist Léonard Pongo’s first solo show in the UK, Apophenia, explores ways of knowing a place as rich and complex as the DRC. He interprets the land as a reactive entity in an attempt to show that a living body of knowledge is a valuable

Hoepker was the defining photojournalist of the past century. He took arguably the most prescient photo of 9/11 still in the collective conscience and worked with a clarity that cut through some of the most complex political events of the 20th

Iwona Blazwick OBE, former director of the Whitechapel Gallery and creator of the Turbine Hall commissions, returns to the gallery space after years of monumental desert curation. She’s begun conceptualising a new exhibition that’s much more

Because I’m Young, Arrogant, and Hate Everything You Stand For, New York based band Machine Girl declares in the title of their 2017 album. The group’s popularity has skyrocketed in recent years and has tapped into a growing discontent in a…

We spoke to head of Guest Editions Publishing, Thomas Coombes, about his process of selecting and reifying digital work into physical artbooks. Thomas’ work has been the subject of ZERO.NINE multiple times, with Zed Nelson and Juan Brenner having

Alana S. Portero’s transgender coming-of-age novel Bad Habit recently celebrated its second anniversary after runaway success. Praised by director Pedro Almodóvar and recently featured on Dua Lipa’s ‘Service95’ book club, Portero’s book speaks to a

Penn’s Still Life work, one subsection of an eminent career in photography and the arts, speaks to the power of a genre rarely viewed as gripping. A staple of the arts world for generations, and the throughline through all of Penn’s work, Still Life

British photographer Zed Nelson has just been awarded ‘Photographer of the Year’ for his series ‘The Anthropocene Illusion’. His work focuses beyond the destructive human impact on the natural world, examining the sterile environments humans have

Baltic ATM, the annual programme from North London’s Baltic Studios, supports eight emerging musicians with pro-grade recording tools, mentoring, and industry connections. The 2025 edition just ended, and we talked to studio founder Orlando Leopard and all eight artists to find out why initiatives l

Elias Yannas Tsigounis is the winner of the inaugural ZERO.NINE Award, selected at the Cluster Photography & Print Fair 2025. His series Elegos focuses on Elias’ understanding of death as a transformative experience, following his attempt to understand his father’s passing. Elias’ work is dreaml

Magaret Bourke-White was one of the most fearless, intrepid photographers that has ever lived. To call her anything else would be an understatement for a photographer whose work confronted some of the greatest injustices of the 20th century. Some put her capacity to be in these places at the right t

Landy’s fundamentally political eye reflected the cultural landscape of the 1960’s better than most others. He understood that musicians like Jimi Hendrix’s anti-war sentiment were a line in the sand against the increasingly oppressive Vietnam war,

Imogen Cunningham created some of the clearest images photography has ever seen, dissecting botanicals and people into their most discrete parts. She has a grasp and focus on clarity that’s hardly been replicated over a century later, something that was trained over a primarily scientific education.

Peter Lindbergh’s fundamentally subversive shooting style, capturing untouchable celebrities at their most vulnerable, changed the course of fashion photography. He created a space in which women were able to genuinely be themselves, even when this felt fundamentally dangerous. After his passing thi