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‘He was a born member of the underground’: how Peter Hujar captured the New York demimonde

He only published one book – and it was hardly noticed. Now his portraits of drag queens, poets and artists are seen as vital documents of a vanished world. As they go on show, the photographer’s favourite subjects recall his genius

The Guardian - UK

Best art history books for honing your cultural knowledge

Discover the vibrant tapestry of the art world and its pioneers

Evening Standard

Kristen Stewart praises LGBTQ+ representation in Hollywood and film industry

Kristen Stewart defends her bold photoshoot cover while discussing her latest movie, Love Lies Bleeding, and breaking stereotypes in the industry.

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Gwyneth Paltrow: is her life a work of performance art?

How else do you explain the $15,000 vibrator, rectal ozone therapy and vaginal steaming? Perhaps the actor is giving her greatest performance yet ...

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Peter Hujar: new exhibition celebrates his unflinching photos of gay life

At a new exhibition, the photographer’s work within the queer community of 70s and 80s New York takes center stage

The Guardian - US

Age cannot wither her – and now, for just £495 a month, it won’t wrinkle her

It’s no wonder 30,000 women are awaiting a cream that claims to make skin actually younger

The Guardian - UK

Capturing the Moment: a Journey Through Painting and Photography at Tate Modern - all killer, no filler

Sure, the substance of this show is a little lightweight, but with banger after banger it’s totally forgiveable

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On Women by Susan Sontag review – some sister she was…

This new collection of 70s journalism exposes a sexist and wrongheaded essayist with an unwarranted reputation

The Guardian - UK

On Women by Susan Sontag review – the reluctant feminist

Susan Sontag’s mixed feelings towards the movement that propelled her career

The Guardian - UK

Is Eurovision finally cool? That depends on your definition – 'cool theory' expert explains

With an aesthetic dependent on novelty and spectacle, and a structure that’s both disjointed and drawn-out, Eurovision – for some – cannot fail to fail. In its “failed seriousness” (the phrase writer Susan Sontag used to describe “camp”), the song contest has all the exaggerated expressiveness that audiences associate with…

The Conversation

Top 10 badly behaved biographies

Life writing is usually a conventional business, but these writers take on the job by discarding the rules, with thrilling results

The Guardian - UK

What currently brings me joy: Roadside Americana

A giant gorilla holding a Volkswagen … the World’s Largest Chest of Drawers … US highways bristle with idiosyncratic wonders

The Guardian - US

Kristen Stewart is set to star as iconic feminist writer Susan Sontag in a biopic

Alert the literati — Susan Sontag is getting a biopic and Kristen Stewart is set to play the late writer-provocateur.

Los Angeles Times

Tourists in our own reality: Susan Sontag's Photography at 50

This year marks 50 years since Susan Sontag’s essay Photography was published in the New York Review of Books. Slightly edited and renamed In Plato’s Cave, it would become the first essay in her collection On Photography, which has never been out of print.

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Nurse! My pen! Hanif Kureishi’s hospital musings and the art of sickbed writing

The author has published 10,000 words since being left paralysed – about the able-bodied, sexual positions and racist taunts. From Hilary Mantel to Audre Lorde, we look at how illness changes a writer

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‘For gays, this is our moon landing’: the unadulterated camp joy of Real Housewives

Lisa Rinna leaving the franchise sparked a wave of communication from concerned friends, while asking which version someone prefers is the perfect ice-breaker. Welcome to Real Housewives obsession

Los Angeles Times

TikTok's addictive anti-aesthetic has already conquered culture

If Franz Kafka were to reconceive "The Metamorphosis" for our era, he might decide to ditch the novella in favor of a series of surreal TikToks — Gregor Samsa as eyes and mouth green-screened onto a picture of a roach jacked from the web.

Salon

Thanksgiving, but make it camp

In theater, camp can equal freedom as an actor. I think it can offer the same in your holiday kitchen

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‘A more anarchic city’: Darryl Pinckney on New York literary life in the 1970s

The novelist’s memoir evokes the ambition and thrill of writing alongside Gore Vidal, Susan Sontag, James Baldwin and his mentor Elizabeth Hardwick

The Guardian - UK

To romanticise or demonise – not the only ways to frame working-class lives

A Chris Killip and Graham Smith retrospective from the 70s and 80s captures an absence of hope still felt today

The Independent UK

Jean-Luc Godard: Master of French cinema who pushed boundaries

At his best, the Franco-Swiss film director and Young Turk of the New Wave was responsible for some of the most sublime moments of 1960s screen time

The Guardian - UK

Margaret Keane obituary

The Guardian - US

Is it possible to be a mother and pursue a creative life? Yes, but it is never easy

A new book explores how pregnancy and motherhood affected the lives of artists including Audre Lorde and Susan Sontag. At our current moment, the questions it raises take on additional urgency

The Conversation

Friday essay: grey-haired and radiant – reimagining ageing for women

Ageist thought patterns and reactions are so embedded in Australian culture that even educated people, people who otherwise insist on political correctness, will open their mouths and deliver a hurtful, hateful judgement.

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Class, queerness and illness in the ‘post-crisis’ era: rewriting the narrative of HIV

I often read a book’s acknowledgments to see who an author thanks for supporting the creation of their work and how they go about thanking them.

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