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26 December 2015
The best musician since 2005 is: Adele
In the poll asking you for your favourite artists since Arts Award started ten years ago, you voted for Adele as the best musician.
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23 December 2015
The best film of the decade is: Black Swan
The votes are in! We asked you what you thought has been the best art since Arts Award was born ten years ago. In a close race, the title goes to Black Swan.
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23 December 2015
Hermione Granger is black: what’s all the noise for?
Olivier-award winning actor, Noma Dumezweni, has been cast as the middle-aged Mrs. Granger in the stage production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Why should it and why shouldn't it be a big deal that she is black?
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11 December 2015
Golden Globes 2016: Nominees
I enjoy the Golden Globes because no other awarding body takes into full account the achievements on both the big and small screen. The nominations for next year's ceremony have been released and, as can be expected from Globes, there are a few surprises.
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9 December 2015
Who's winning the 2015 Christmas ad game?
Last year, I reported on how I felt 2014 marked the establishment of the New Wave of Christmas adverts with more adverts than ever with short form narratives and touching productions rather than flashing price tags and undulating images of products.
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7 December 2015
GRAMMYs 2016: Nominees
Kicking off awards season with an underwhelming bang, the nominations for next year's Grammy's have been announced. It's been a good year for brits and a confusing year for pop music with some exceptions. Kendrick Lamar leads with a humongous eleven nominations and Taylor Swift and The Weeknd trail behind with seven.
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7 December 2015
Alternative Festive Films: The dark side of Christmas
From the archive: I think it's fair to say Christmas isn't all fun and games when it comes to films.
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31 October 2015
What has happened in visual art since Arts Award was born?
This December, we'll be celebrating Arts Award's 10th Birthday by asking you to vote for the best of visual art from the last ten years! Here are some of our highlights to get you thinking…let us know what we've missed in the comments box.
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30 October 2015
What has happened in spoken word since Arts Award was born?
This December, we'll be celebrating Arts Award's 10th Birthday by asking you to vote for the best of spoken word poetry from the last ten years! Here are some of our highlights to get you thinking…let us know what we've missed in the comments box.
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29 October 2015
What has happened in theatre since Arts Award was born?
This December, we'll be celebrating Arts Award's 10th Birthday by asking you to vote for the best of theatre from the last ten years! Here are some of our highlights to get you thinking…let us know what we've missed in the comments box.
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28 October 2015
What has happened in music since Arts Award was born?
This December, we'll be celebrating Arts Award's 10th Birthday by asking you to vote for the best music from the last ten years! Here are some of our highlights to get you thinking…let us know what we've missed in the comments box.
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27 October 2015
What has happened in television since Arts Award was born?
This December, we'll be celebrating Arts Award's 10th Birthday by asking you to vote for the best of TV from the last ten years! Here are some of our highlights to get you thinking…let us know what we've missed in the comments box.
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26 October 2015
What has happened in film since Arts Award was born?
This December, we'll be celebrating Arts Award's 10th Birthday by asking you to vote for the best of film from the last ten years! Here are some of our highlights to get you thinking…let us know what we've missed in the comments box
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8 October 2015
BBC Music’s Ten Pieces Secondary Film Screening in Salford
The BBC filmed ten pieces of classical music for Arts Award's tenth birthday! Well no, they didn't. But Ten Pieces? Tenth birthday? It's meant to be. They made the BBC Music Ten Pieces film in order to inspire young people of secondary school age to embrace classical music and filmmaking.
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29 September 2015
Desi Rascals: The debate about how ‘desi’ it actually is
My family and I have been watching the acclaimed Sky Living, scripted reality series Desi Rascals.
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21 September 2015
Emmys 2015
This year's Emmy Awards ceremony was one of breaking records.
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17 September 2015
How Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour could save our beaten arts and culture
In short, he offers us more promise than we've seen for sixty years.
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16 September 2015
The Danish Girl: do trans roles belong to trans actors?
Last week, the first international trailer of the new film from Tom Hooper, the Oscar-machine director of The King's Speech and Les Misérables was released. His latest treat, The Danish Girl, is about one of the first people to undergo gender reassignment surgery.
Comment posted on 20 June 2018
Yeah it's massively problematic and really irks me. While the body and identity politics are worth heeding - specifically that ITV have defended their position by saying that physical appearance is NOT a criterion on which contestants, which is incredibly difficult to believe - my issue with it is more overarching and something that Iain Stirling, the voice presenter, has addressed somewhat when he said Love Island is seen to 'dumb down' the nation. As opposed to dumbing down, I think it serves as an overwhelming indictment of the superficiality of modernity. It takes love and sex and places it on an economistic platform without regard for how the men and women - who are wildly segregated, be it by choice or not - take the experience differently. It is, however, heartening (if that's the right word) to see the viewing public rally against the more problematic (at the very least) behaviour. Prime of which is throwing camaraderie out of the window for self-serving sex and ill excuses for emotional infatuation. I have watched this season to fathom out the appeal and I've moved away from my previous allegation that it's as close as you can get to porn on primetime television and towards the view that its issues are, ironically, more complex. There's also the argument that bad television has value, something you can switch your mind off to watch, but I think the spectatorial appeal around Love Island is much more sordid than that.