John Perkins' best photograph " an Egyptian lion-tamer
'This is Hamada with Richard the lion. Hamada was two when he first put his head in a lion's jaws'I started photographing the Egyptian state circus when I moved to Cairo in 2007. That's wher…
'This is Hamada with Richard the lion. Hamada was two when he first put his head in a lion's jaws'I started photographing the Egyptian state circus when I moved to Cairo in 2007. That's wher…
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonThe Latin for apricot, says the very informative Armenian gentleman sitting beside me, is prunus armenicus (Aremnian plum). He's telling me this because the Globe …
A roundup of the best culture stories in the Guardian and elsewhere, plus share your arts and culture tips and linksOur top storiesA letter to Charles Dickens on his 200th birthdayClaire Tom…
Victoria Wood's That Day We Sang has been well received by critics and bloggers. Meanwhile, the unofficial fringe festival is also in full swingNewspaper critics and bloggers alike have been…
Excitement has been building around Victoria Wood's That Day We Sang at the Manchester international festival todayThe curtain is about to rise on national treasure Victoria Wood's That Day …
A roundup of some of this week's arts funding news " including a council that's bucked the trend on library closuresThis week began with an unexpected hashtag success story, as Mar Dixon's t…