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Gulf Today
27-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Gulf Today
House of Wisdom highlights ‘Kalila wa Dimna' at SCRF
Visitors are excited to see the classical fables of 'Kalila wa Dimna' through interactive technologies and once again dive into the ever-lasting wonders of classical stories. The classical stories of 'Kalila wa Dimna' are being presented at the exclusive stall of House of Wisdom (HoW) which takes part in the 16th Sharjah Children's Reading Festival (SCRF), running from April 23 to May 4 at Expo Centre Sharjah, with a special focus on the timeless fables of Kalila wa Dimna. Originating in ancient Sanskrit and later translated into Middle Persian, Kalila wa Dimna entered the Arabic literary tradition through the 8th-century translator Abdullah Ibn Al Muqaffa, a key figure in Abbasid-era literature. The beloved work is now being brought to life for young readers through a series of interactive experiences and storytelling sessions at the HoW booth. The initiative aims to present the classic tales in a fresh, engaging format that blends play with learning-encouraging critical thinking and helping children explore universal values through symbolic narratives. Renowned for their moral and philosophical depth, the stories of Kalila wa Dimna have played a significant role in shaping educational and literary traditions across cultures. Their continued relevance today underscores the enduring power of storytelling in cultivating wisdom, empathy, and imagination. Marwa Al Aqroubi, HoW Executive Director, said: 'Kalila wa Dimna is a brilliant example of allegorical storytelling at its finest-timeless wisdom told through animals in a style that is both elegant and accessible. Ibn Al Muqaffa gave these tales new life in Arabic, enriching them with moral and educational depth.' She added: 'These fables remain a cornerstone of Arabic literature and cultural exchange. Through our participation in the SCRF, we're reimagining them in a modern, interactive way-inviting children to explore their meaning, reflect, and grow.' House of Wisdom's booth features main stations, beginning with a Manuscript Display showcasing two rare digital copies of Kalila wa Dimna from the collection of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The first is a unique illustrated manuscript titled The Hare and the Elephant, dated 1222 CE. Comprising 18 chapters and 89 exquisite miniatures, this edition presents animal-led fables interwoven with proverbs and wisdom in a tone that is both witty and profound. The second manuscript dates back to the 14th century Mamluk era and is believed to have originated in Egypt or Syria. It features six tales attributed to the sage Bidpai, complete with a decorative index and striking visual elements that reflect the refined artistry of Islamic manuscript tradition. The second section of the booth, Meet the Characters, invites children on an engaging journey of self-discovery. Through interactive storytelling, young visitors get to know the fable's most iconic characters-like the clever hare, the brave lion, the cunning fox, the mighty elephant, and the vain tortoise. This experience encourages children to reflect on their own traits and connect them with the values each character embodies, combining fun with thoughtful exploration. Visitors will then embark on a unique interactive journey powered by AI, where children can discover which Kalila wa Dimna character best reflects their personality. By answering simple, life-inspired questions, young participants are matched with their spirit animal from the tales. A personalised short story then appears on the screen, tailored to the child's traits and adventures. These stories can be printed or emailed as a meaningful keepsake, inspiring children to create their own tales. The HoW booth also hosts a range of engaging activities and workshops for children, including the interactive Shadow Theatre. This time-honoured storytelling art revives the classic tales of Kalila wa Dimna, immersing children in exciting performances that highlight the ethical lessons within these stories. The experience concludes with a special gift shop offering a curated selection of books, plush toys, educational games, and artistic merchandise inspired by the Kalila wa Dimna world. To celebrate the launch of the SCRF, HoW is offering a 10% discount on its Regular, Premium, and Digital memberships throughout the event.
Telegraph
15-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
‘Once shown, they'll have to be kept in the dark for years': the secret drawings of Victor Hugo
Juliette Drouet, the lover of Victor Hugo for half a century, enjoyed one great consolation for his absence when he was at home with his wife: his visual art. As she put it in a letter to Hugo in 1847, written in anticipation of the novelist's next visit: 'While I wait for the happy moment, I look at the array of beautiful drawings you have done at my house and I open my gob really wide and my eyes as wide as the Porte Saint-Denis.' The Royal Academy's new exhibition of Hugo's drawings and other artworks is indeed an eye-opener – and a jaw-dropper. As the creator of characters who have become immortal – Jean Valjean and Inspector Javert in Les Misérables, Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre-Dame – Hugo remains vividly alive as a novelist. Yet not many of us know that he was also a visual artist of great power. Few of Hugo's drawings were exhibited in his lifetime (1802-85), but his readers would not have been surprised to learn of his artistic talent: his pictorial sense is apparent in his writing. Vincent van Gogh declared that after he had read Les Misérables, landscapes started to strike him as resembling 'a page from Hugo'. The Dutch artist's description, in a letter to his brother, of the 'astonishing things' conjured by Hugo's hand provides the title for the new exhibition, curated by the Royal Academy's Sarah Lea. For Lea, Hugo's drawings 'really are the most extraordinary things when you see them face-to-face. Once the drawings are shown, they then have to be kept in the dark for a minimum of five years, because the inks and the papers are so vulnerable to light.' Many of the drawings have been lent by Maisons Victor Hugo, which administers the museum based in his former home in Paris, as well as Hauteville House in Guernsey, where he lived as a political exile for 14 years from 1856. Other items come from the Bibliothèque nationale de France, while the handful of Hugo drawings in UK collections – held by the British Museum and the John Rylands Library in Manchester – have also been loaned. The drawings span many different styles and modes. Ecce Lex (1854), a grim representation of a hooded man hanging from a gibbet, was Hugo's response to the 1854 execution in Guernsey of the murderer John Tapner; he allowed a print of it to be circulated, and such was its impact on public opinion that no criminal in Guernsey was executed ever again. Five years later, he had the print recirculated under the title John Brown, as a protest against the hanging of the US abolitionist. It is just the type of tendentious piece one would expect of a man who had agitated against capital punishment since his first novel, The Last Day of a Condemned Man (1829). And yet his more abstract and ephemeral-seeming sketches can be just as compelling. There are more than 70 drawings in the exhibition, a tiny fraction of more than 4,000 known to exist. 'He did retain all these often very marginal sketches, scraps really – obviously they were meaningful to him,' says Lea. She observes that 'his drawing was really a way of thinking and expressing himself'; he did not follow any fashion or school. His most memorable foray into criticism was to ask why Courbet, if he claimed to be a realist, did not include dog muck in his street scenes. One might have thought that an artist as accomplished as Hugo would have illustrated his fiction, just as his English contemporary W M Thackeray, a far shoddier draughtsman, insisted on providing his own awkward drawings to accompany Vanity Fair and other books. But, for most of his career, Hugo was content for his novels to be illustrated by other hands. Nevertheless, the British author Graham Robb – whose biography of Hugo is acknowledged even by French critics as definitive – takes the view that 'a lot of the drawings look like they could be illustrations for his novels and poems. They make me think of Mervyn Peake: the writings and artwork are not always directly connected, but recognisably the work of the same man.' Hugo became friends with many artists as, precociously, he rose to fame in his 20s; Delacroix designed some of the scenery for his early plays. But for many years, although he enjoyed dashing off caricatures, he showed no interest in producing serious art himself. In his mid-30s, he embarked on a series of trips to the Rhineland, partly to cash in on a vogue for travel writing, partly to spend time with Drouet away from his wife. He began to sketch the landscapes he encountered there, with a particularly sharp eye for medieval castles (a keen medievalist, he had kickstarted a revival of interest in gothic architecture with The Hunchback of Notre-Dame in 1831). The death of his daughter Léopoldine in 1843 left him too grief-stricken to travel, and he began to spend more time drawing at the home of Drouet, either reworking his Rhineland sketches or inventing his own buildings and monuments. La Tour des Rats (1847), a large-scale version of a sketch from 1840, is more atmospheric and technically ambitious than the original, with charcoal used to cloud much of the picture in a minatory darkness, and ink pulled with a cloth to depict teeming rain. Other work from this period is positively surreal. In 1850, the year before his opposition to Napoleon III forced him to flee France, he produced an extraordinary depiction of a giant mushroom with a human face visible in its stem, standing in a desolate landscape. 'I think of it maybe as a commentary on the environment; Hugo's been discussed as being a proto-environmentalist,' says Rose Thompson, assistant curator at the RA. 'Or perhaps it's something to do with the political anguish he was feeling in Paris at the time.' Rejecting Napoleon III's offer of amnesty to political exiles in 1859, Hugo did not return to France until 1870. He spent his time at Hauteville House, writing endlessly – and drawing. I ask Robb if he thinks Hugo found drawing to be a form of relaxation. 'More a kind of contemplation, I think, which is perhaps the opposite of relaxation,' he says, 'a contemplation of the interconnected universe in which all things have spirit and soul, and the prayerful aspect of putting yourself in the hands of chance, allowing the universal forces to act on your work.' Chance played an increasing role in Hugo's compositions: more and more, he would stain pieces of paper with ink and tease shapes out of the blotches, or indulge in a process of automatic drawing akin to the automatic writing he had learnt about when he fell under the spell of spiritualism after Léopoldine's death. His choice of medium was sometimes dictated by whatever he had to hand: coffee grounds, soot and toothpaste all variously served as substitutes for ink. 'Although we have a sense of his great books as monolithic, there's also something very throwaway and reckless about everything he did,' says Robb. 'He would scatter sheets of manuscript down into the garden below when he was writing in his 'Look-out' at the top of Hauteville House. And we see it in the spontaneity of valuing slips of the pen, and using bits of food, saliva and goodness knows what else in these drawings. Even quite recently, French critics in particular thought it was a bit embarrassing that he should do something so apparently flippant and childish. But he liked to provoke. Almost every aspect of his career was revolutionary in some way – against the tide.' Hugo did finally consent to illustrate one of his own novels, Toilers of the Sea (1866); the exhibition includes his fine ink and wash rendering of the killer octopus from that book. But drawing remained largely a private pursuit for him and, like much of his writing, contained elements suggestive of a strong sense of personal mythology. Just as he calculated the date on which he had been conceived – 24.6.01 – and used that figure as Jean Valjean's prison number in Les Misérables, so he often hid his name or initials in his drawings. Not until 1888 – three years after Hugo had died, a French national hero with two-million people turning out for his funeral – was there a proper exhibition of his drawings, and widespread recognition of his talent. 'From that exhibition onwards, you have the symbolist poets, and artists associated with them, being interested in the more poetic and mystical aspects of his drawings,' notes Lea. 'And later, the surrealist generation: Breton owned two drawings; Max Ernst was always taking techniques that Hugo had trialled and exploring them to make entire series of work. Today, his fans include Antony Gormley and Tacita Dean – two very different artists. But they appreciate his very instinctive and intuitive way of working, I think.' Finally, she sees Hugo's drawings as expressing a part of himself that he could not give vent to in his writings. 'For me, there is often an undercurrent of threat or violence, even in the romantic drawings of the castles. He lived through very violent times and if in his novels the message is all about hope and belief in humanity, maybe his drawings were somewhere he could explore the darker side of human nature, including his own.' Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo is at the Royal Academy of Arts, London W1 ( from March 21 to June 29
Euronews
10-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Euronews
Ex-007 star Pierce Brosnan weighs in on Bond's future after Amazon takeover
The first ever Tracey Emin exhibition in Italy, a tribute to Paris' 19th century poster art, Stephen Graham's intense new Netflix drama, and hip-hop band clipping. returns. Here's what's on this week's cultural agenda. ADVERTISEMENT It's almost spring and hopefully the sun is shining wherever you are - but even if not, there's hopefully plenty in this week's recommendations to brighten your days (and nights!) From British conceptual artist Tracey Emin's raw expressions of existentialism in Italy, to late night museum visits in Brussels, a new hip-hop album by clipping., and the return of Michael Fassbender to the big screen, you could say we're blooming excited for what's ahead. Anyway, enough Spring puns. Let's get to it, shall we? Exhibitions 'Roma Pittrice: Female artists at work between the 16th and 18th centuries' 'Roma Pittrice' Monkeys Video Lab Where: Museum of Rome at Palazzo Braschi (Rome, Italy) When: Until 4 May 2025 Rome is revered for its great art, but many of its most talented female artists have been overlooked for centuries. 'Roma Pittrice' - curated by by writer Ilaria Miarelli Mariani and art historian Raffaella Morselli, in collaboration with historian Ilaria Arcangeli - hopes to rectify this. A stunning display of 130 works, many of which have never been seen by the public before, brings attention to 56 female artists that created and studied - often with great struggle - in Rome between the 16th and 19th centuries. Their stories, much like their works, unlock an integral part of Italy's rich cultural history, never again forgotten. 'Tracey Emin: Sex and Solitude' Tracey Emin, 'The End of Love' (2024), acrylic on canvas. Credit: Tracey Emin/White Cube Where: Palazzo Strozzi, (Florence, Italy) When: 16 March - 20 July 2025 Turner Prize-nominated British artist Tracey Emin makes her Italian debut with an exhibition showcasing over 60 works under the themes of sex and solitude. Paintings, sculptures, photography, drawings, neon installations and more capture a raw narrative that's both deeply personal and universally tangible, bringing to light reflections on desire, vulnerability, love and loss. Renowned for her ability to produce audacious art that confronts the very ugliest remnants of existence, Emin's career has been shaped by an honesty that is both sad and beautiful - but always mesmerising to behold. 'Art is in the Street' 'La Rue' by Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, 1896. Credit: Bibliothèque nationale de France Where: Musée d'Orsay (Paris, France) When: 18 March - 6 July 2025 A defining aesthetic of the Belle Époque, illustrated posters were more than just advertisements for theatre and products; they revolutionised the public's relationship with art through accessibility. Paris' Musée d'Orsay, in collaboration with the Bibliothèque nationale de France, have brought together over 300 of these original works to spotlight the social phenomenon, including masters of the craft such as Chéret, Bonnard, Grasset and Toulouse-Lautrec. It's a fascinating dive into the history, development and impact of a culture shifting medium that's now synonymous with the ambience of Parisian culture. ADVERTISEMENT Events St. Patrick's Festival St. Patrick's Day celebrations will soon begin... Canva Where: kilkenny, Ireland When: 14 - 17 March 2025 Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona duit (Happy St. Patrick's Day)! Well, almost. The annual holiday in honour of the Patron Saint Of Ireland officially takes place 17 March, but celebrations begin from Friday as shamrock-decorated revelers take to their local Irish drinking establishments for a pint (or three) of Guinness and communal merriment. While places all over the world take part, the festivities within Ireland itself can't be beaten - especially the city of Kilkenny, where costumed musicians, artists, performers and more enliven the medieval streets with creativity and charming hubbub. It's also the perfect opportunity to fully embrace the beauty and breadth of authentic Irish culture. ADVERTISEMENT Nocturnes Where: Brussels, Belgium When: 13 March - 24 April 2025 Twit twoo, night owls - Brussels is calling. Returning for its 24th edition, the annual Nocturnes event awakens the city's cultural gems for visitors to explore after hours. Not only handy for those that usually struggle to make events during the work week, it also provides a uniquely intimate ambience through the secrecy of nightfall. Many of Brussels' museums take part, staying open until 10pm. It's the opportunity to explore educational spaces in a new light, and a vibrant tribute to cultural heritage. Find the full list of participating venues here. ADVERTISEMENT Movies Black Bag Where: European cinemas When: 14 March When your entire identity is defined by secrecy, how can you trust anything - or anyone? This philosophical quandary sets the pulse for Steven Soderbergh's new erotic thriller, starring Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett as married spies whose relationship takes a turn after Blanchett's character becomes the prime suspect in a plot against the UK. True to Soderbergh's style, it's slick, sexy and strongly character driven, exploring betrayal and the limitations of loyalty. ADVERTISEMENT The Ugly Stepsister 'The Ugly Stepsister' Shudder Where: Norwegian cinemas (and theatres near you soon) When: Now One of our Top Ten Films at this year's Berlinale, this sinister re-telling of Cinderella focuses on the perspective of the princess's stepsister via a gruesome deconstruction of fairy tale values and female beauty standards. In a similar vein to Coralie Fargeat's body horror hit The Substance, it's a no holds barred squirm fest, including feet mutilation, eye surgery and the ingestion (and excretion) of tapeworms. In his review, Euronews Culture's resident film critic David Mouriquand called it 'a fully-formed triumph that heralds a bold and ambitious new cinematic voice'. We also had the pleasure of interviewing its director, Emilie Blichfeldt, whose fascinating insights you can read here. ADVERTISEMENT Television Adolescence When: 13 March Where: Netflix Anything starring Stephen Graham (Boiling Point, This is England) is sure to be gritty, compelling and absolutely nerve shredding. This new four-part series stars the actor - who also co-wrote it with Jack Thorne - as a dad whose teenage son (Owen Cooper) is accused of murdering a school friend. Much like Boiling Point, every episode was filmed in one long continuous shot, offering no reprieve from its sense of all-consuming panic and claustrophobic tension. While admittedly not one to wind down to after a long day, it's powerful viewing with incredible performances that tackle the insidious societal issues affecting young men. ADVERTISEMENT Music clipping.: Dead Channel Sky When: 14 March American experimental hip-hop band clipping. are due to return with their fifth full-length album, a follow-up to 2020's darkly conceptual 'Visions of Bodies Being Burned'. Early release singles like 'Change the Channel' suggest ear-drum dizzying sonic bedlam ahead, the band taking inspiration from William Gibson's sci-fi novel "Neuromancer" in a collection set to be imbued with fizzling dystopic, cyberpunk vibes. Stay tuned for our full review on Friday (14 March). In the meantime, check out our interview with clipping. for their previous album. Album anniversaries: March 2025 ADVERTISEMENT Album anniversaries – March 2025: Kendrick Lamar, M.I.A., Céline Dion. Copyright Top Dawg Entertainment, XL Recordings / Interscope Records, Columbia ...And finally, what better way to begin the week than with a re-visit (or discovery) of some brilliant albums. Every month we handpick a trio celebrating milestone anniversaries, with March featuring a modern hip-hop masterpiece, Canada's greatest export since maple syrup and some UK dancehall-grime-funk. Grab your headphones, settle in, and find out more here.
Euronews
10-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Euronews
Culture Agenda: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe
The first ever Tracey Emin exhibition in Italy, a tribute to Paris' 19th century poster art, Stephen Graham's intense new Netflix drama, and hip-hop band clipping. returns. Here's what's on this week's cultural agenda. ADVERTISEMENT It's almost spring and hopefully the sun is shining wherever you are - but even if not, there's hopefully plenty in this week's recommendations to brighten your days (and nights!) From British conceptual artist Tracey Emin's raw expressions of existentialism in Italy, to late night museum visits in Brussels, a new hip-hop album by clipping., and the return of Michael Fassbender to the big screen, you could say we're blooming excited for what's ahead. Anyway, enough Spring puns. Let's get to it, shall we? Exhibitions 'Roma Pittrice: Female artists at work between the 16th and 18th centuries' 'Roma Pittrice' Monkeys Video Lab Where: Museum of Rome at Palazzo Braschi (Rome, Italy) When: Until 4 May 2025 Rome is revered for its great art, but many of its most talented female artists have been overlooked for centuries. 'Roma Pittrice' - curated by by writer Ilaria Miarelli Mariani and art historian Raffaella Morselli, in collaboration with historian Ilaria Arcangeli - hopes to rectify this. A stunning display of 130 works, many of which have never been seen by the public before, brings attention to 56 female artists that created and studied - often with great struggle - in Rome between the 16th and 19th centuries. Their stories, much like their works, unlock an integral part of Italy's rich cultural history, never again forgotten. 'Tracey Emin: Sex and Solitude' Tracey Emin, 'The End of Love' (2024), acrylic on canvas. Credit: Tracey Emin/White Cube Where: Palazzo Strozzi, (Florence, Italy) When: 16 March - 20 July 2025 Turner Prize-nominated British artist Tracey Emin makes her Italian debut with an exhibition showcasing over 60 works under the themes of sex and solitude. Paintings, sculptures, photography, drawings, neon installations and more capture a raw narrative that's both deeply personal and universally tangible, bringing to light reflections on desire, vulnerability, love and loss. Renowned for her ability to produce audacious art that confronts the very ugliest remnants of existence, Emin's career has been shaped by an honesty that is both sad and beautiful - but always mesmerising to behold. 'Art is in the Street' 'La Rue' by Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, 1896. Credit: Bibliothèque nationale de France Where: Musée d'Orsay (Paris, France) When: 18 March - 6 July 2025 A defining aesthetic of the Belle Époque, illustrated posters were more than just advertisements for theatre and products; they revolutionised the public's relationship with art through accessibility. Paris' Musée d'Orsay, in collaboration with the Bibliothèque nationale de France, have brought together over 300 of these original works to spotlight the social phenomenon, including masters of the craft such as Chéret, Bonnard, Grasset and Toulouse-Lautrec. It's a fascinating dive into the history, development and impact of a culture shifting medium that's now synonymous with the ambience of Parisian culture. ADVERTISEMENT Events St. Patrick's Festival St. Patrick's Day celebrations will soon begin... Canva Where: kilkenny, Ireland When: 14 - 17 March 2025 Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona duit (Happy St. Patrick's Day)! Well, almost. The annual holiday in honour of the Patron Saint Of Ireland officially takes place 17 March, but celebrations begin from Friday as shamrock-decorated revelers take to their local Irish drinking establishments for a pint (or three) of Guinness and communal merriment. While places all over the world take part, the festivities within Ireland itself can't be beaten - especially the city of Kilkenny, where costumed musicians, artists, performers and more enliven the medieval streets with creativity and charming hubbub. It's also the perfect opportunity to fully embrace the beauty and breadth of authentic Irish culture. ADVERTISEMENT Nocturnes Where: Brussels, Belgium When: 13 March - 24 April 2025 Twit twoo, night owls - Brussels is calling. Returning for its 24th edition, the annual Nocturnes event awakens the city's cultural gems for visitors to explore after hours. Not only handy for those that usually struggle to make events during the work week, it also provides a uniquely intimate ambience through the secrecy of nightfall. Many of Brussels' museums take part, staying open until 10pm. It's the opportunity to explore educational spaces in a new light, and a vibrant tribute to cultural heritage. Find the full list of participating venues here. ADVERTISEMENT Movies Black Bag Where: European cinemas When: 14 March When your entire identity is defined by secrecy, how can you trust anything - or anyone? This philosophical quandary sets the pulse for Steven Soderbergh's new erotic thriller, starring Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett as married spies whose relationship takes a turn after Blanchett's character becomes the prime suspect in a plot against the UK. True to Soderbergh's style, it's slick, sexy and strongly character driven, exploring betrayal and the limitations of loyalty. ADVERTISEMENT The Ugly Stepsister 'The Ugly Stepsister' Shudder Where: Norwegian cinemas (and theatres near you soon) When: Now One of our Top Ten Films at this year's Berlinale, this sinister re-telling of Cinderella focuses on the perspective of the princess's stepsister via a gruesome deconstruction of fairy tale values and female beauty standards. In a similar vein to Coralie Fargeat's body horror hit The Substance, it's a no holds barred squirm fest, including feet mutilation, eye surgery and the ingestion (and excretion) of tapeworms. In his review, Euronews Culture's resident film critic David Mouriquand called it 'a fully-formed triumph that heralds a bold and ambitious new cinematic voice'. We also had the pleasure of interviewing its director, Emilie Blichfeldt, whose fascinating insights you can read here. ADVERTISEMENT Television Adolescence When: 13 March Where: Netflix Anything starring Stephen Graham (Boiling Point, This is England) is sure to be gritty, compelling and absolutely nerve shredding. This new four-part series stars the actor - who also co-wrote it with Jack Thorne - as a dad whose teenage son (Owen Cooper) is accused of murdering a school friend. Much like Boiling Point, every episode was filmed in one long continuous shot, offering no reprieve from its sense of all-consuming panic and claustrophobic tension. While admittedly not one to wind down to after a long day, it's powerful viewing with incredible performances that tackle the insidious societal issues affecting young men. ADVERTISEMENT Music clipping.: Dead Channel Sky When: 14 March American experimental hip-hop band clipping. are due to return with their fifth full-length album, a follow-up to 2020's darkly conceptual 'Visions of Bodies Being Burned'. Early release singles like 'Change the Channel' suggest ear-drum dizzying sonic bedlam ahead, the band taking inspiration from William Gibson's sci-fi novel "Neuromancer" in a collection set to be imbued with fizzling dystopic, cyberpunk vibes. Stay tuned for our full review on Friday (14 March). In the meantime, check out our interview with clipping. for their previous album. Album anniversaries: March 2025 ADVERTISEMENT Album anniversaries – March 2025: Kendrick Lamar, M.I.A., Céline Dion. Copyright Top Dawg Entertainment, XL Recordings / Interscope Records, Columbia ...And finally, what better way to begin the week than with a re-visit (or discovery) of some brilliant albums. Every month we handpick a trio celebrating milestone anniversaries, with March featuring a modern hip-hop masterpiece, Canada's greatest export since maple syrup and some UK dancehall-grime-funk. Grab your headphones, settle in, and find out more here.
