• Are electric car sales really flatlining? | Brief letters

    Are electric car sales really flatlining? | Brief letters
    Motoring figures | The power of music | Art appreciation | Friends’ joint accounts | Drummer jokes“Fresh incentives to boost a flatlining electric car market are urgently needed, according to the UK automotive industry,” you report (13 March). According to figures compiled by the Society of Motor Manufacturers & Traders, electric vehicle sales rose 18% on the previous year in 2023, a further 21% in 2024, and are up 42% in the first two months of 2025 on the same period
  • Florida mayor drops threat to evict cinema over No Other Land screening

    Florida mayor drops threat to evict cinema over No Other Land screening
    The Oscar-winning film, about a Palestinian community resisting displacement and violence from Israeli forces, has become the latest focus of a culture war in the stateAfter a week of controversy, the mayor of Miami Beach decided to withdraw his initial proposal to cancel the lease and block a small cinema’s funding due to its screening of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land.Residents packed city hall to make public comments, and regardless of their backgrounds and opinions, the ma
  • Arpita Singh: Remembering review – beautiful chaos reigns in India’s tumultuous past

    Arpita Singh: Remembering review – beautiful chaos reigns in India’s tumultuous past
    Serpentine North gallery, London
    Hugely complex and infinitely layered figurative paintings dominate in a show that feels part-comic book, part Chagall dreamscape, part folk-artEvery painting in Arpita Singh’s debut UK exhibition feels like a desperate attempt to make sense of a tumultuous past, to memorialise the endless turbulence of life, politics and history. Singh, born in 1937, matured as an artist at a time of huge social upheaval in India. Amid states of national emergency, rising
  • ‘He threw body piercing parties and lay on a bed of nails’: the wild life of body modification guru Fakir Musafar

    ‘He threw body piercing parties and lay on a bed of nails’: the wild life of body modification guru Fakir Musafar
    A new documentary explores how the pioneer of the ‘modern primitive’ subculture used painful BDSM practices to access new spiritual planes – outraging conventional societyIn the opening moments of A Body to Live in, a documentary by American film-maker Angelo Madsen, we are confronted with two black-and-white photographs. Taken in 1944 by the teenage Roland Loomis, they show him stripped to his underwear, his waist heavily restricted by a leather belt, a rope wrapped several ti
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  • ‘The colour of my skin didn’t matter’: exhibition shines light on black artists in postwar Paris

    Pompidou Centre show featuring 150 artists of African heritage is the last before the gallery shuts for five yearsFor many black artists and intellectuals, postwar Paris was a cosmopolitan hub. While colonisation, racism and segregation cast a shadow over their countries of origin, the City of Light appeared then a more liberated place where they were free to mix, study, work and create.Now, a new exhibition – the last major event at Paris’s Pompidou Centre before it closes for a fiv

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