Anna talks to Dr. Orna Guralnik, the psychoanalyst from Showtime’s Couples Therapy, and then to Kara Swisher, the pugnacious tech journalist and podcast host, about the art of the interview, and how they get people to open up to them. Kara Swisher’s new book is Burn Book: A Tech Love Story, and you can read her 1989 Washington Post article …
Since the furious Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, prompted by the death of George Floyd, just about every cultural institution in Britain has made some sort of expiatory gesture, whether it’s offering to return artefacts or mounting a hastily organised display. Three-and-a-half years on, the Royal Academy offers its own ambitious response, putting great British artists of the past …
There is a paradox at the heart of Kara Walker's art. Racist tropes such as the contented, loyal slave Aunt Jemima – imagined long after Emancipation in the character of Mammy in the epic-novel-turned-1936-film Gone with the Wind — are Walker's stock-in-trade. Walker's 1994 debut, a large-scale wall installation of black cut-out silhouettes titled Gone was hailed by The Village …
