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DARK SECRETS: 2 | Vintage Vibes

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

The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

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

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

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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

Evening Standard

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

The Guardian - UK

The best theatre to stream this month: Blues for An Alabama Sky, Macbeth and more

Our roundup of drama to enjoy at home includes the National Theatre’s Pearl Cleage revival and David Tennant taking on the Scottish king for the first time

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: August in England; Blue Now; The Vortex – review

Lenny Henry draws his audience deep into the life – and its shattering – of a Windrush evictee; Derek Jarman’s final film is reverentially revisited; and Lia Williams and son ignite Noël Coward at his darkest

The Guardian - UK

Blue Now review – remarkable retelling of Derek Jarman’s final film

Searing collection of diary excerpts from the time, brought to life by prominent queer voices, recalls the devastation of Aids with fury and frankness

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‘It’s Shakespeare – as important as any modern piece of work’: Derek Jarman’s Blue comes to the stage

Russell Tovey, Simon Fisher Turner, Travis Alabanza and Neil Bartlett are teaming up to reimagine the director’s final film – a narrated meditation over a static blue screen – as a ‘thank you’ to the LGBTQ+ hero

The Independent UK

‘I had shame that stayed with me and damaged me’: Russell Tovey on sex, death and Derek Jarman

As he stars in a live version of Derek Jarman’s ‘Blue’, about the artist losing his sight as he died of Aids, the actor talks to Adam White about the traumas of Section 28, playing ‘gay’ and the show that ‘broke’ him

Manchester Evening News

Artist stages stunt at Manchester Art Gallery in face of venue shutdowns and 'civilisation falling apart'

Belshah insists the stunt wasn't targeting the Art Gallery directly, but highlights that ‘these spaces shouldn’t be gatekept’

The Independent UK

Protests, sainthoods and unapologetic queer joy: The secret history of the secular LGBT+ nuns

There are currently more than 3,000 secular LGBT+ nuns around the world whose mission – as part of a network known as the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence – is to promote joy and liberation. And corner the market in crude puns. Rachel Flynn meets some of them

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The best contemporary art books to enjoy now

From maverick memoirs to topical tomes, turn over a new leaf with the Wallpaper* arts desk’s pick of new releases and all-time favourite art books

The Conversation

David Bowie: five must-have items for the V&A's new centre

The Victoria and Albert Museum in London has announced the opening of a new David Bowie Centre for the Performing Arts in 2025 at V&A East Storehouse in east London. This follows the news that the museum has acquired – through donation – the artist’s fabled archive.

The Guardian - UK

Don Mousseau obituary

Other lives: Manager of musicians, including the composer Michael Nyman and the violinist Nigel Kennedy

The Guardian - UK

Frankie goes to Bethlehem: how The Power of Love became an unlikely Christmas anthem

Holly Johnson insisted Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s 1984 hit wasn’t a festive song. But he was up against label ZTT’s plans for a nativity video …

The Guardian - UK

‘You might as well be on the moon’: the authors taking residence in Derek Jarman’s home

Deborah Levy and Juno Dawson are among the writers and artists who have stayed at the film-maker’s cottage in Dungeness. On a rare tour of the property, Laura Barton hears how the project came about

The Guardian - UK

Beyond Movietown: Derek Jarman’s lost ‘novel’ echoes through his oeuvre

Published for the first time, Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping, chimes with many of the obsessions the director carried through his films

The Guardian - US

From Nighthawks to Tangerine: Guardian writers on their favourite LGBTQ+ movies

For the release of Billy Eichner’s groundbreaking studio gay rom-com Bros, Guardian writers discuss their best LGBTQ+ movies

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