Culture reporting: music, film, art and the people making it.https://www.theartistree.fm/en-gbFri, 04 Sep 2026 06:30:53 GMTeditor@theartistree.fm (The Artistree)editor@theartistree.fm (The Artistree)Copyright 2026 The Artistree60https://www.theartistree.fm/gloria-steinem-s-last-book-arrives-as-posthumous-testament-not-press/https://www.theartistree.fm/gloria-steinem-s-last-book-arrives-as-posthumous-testament-not-press/An Unexpected Life was meant to send the 92-year-old feminist icon back on the road; instead it lands as her final word, days after her death.Fri, 04 Sep 2026 06:30:53 GMTThe ArtistreeBookshttps://www.theartistree.fm/art-garfunkel-goes-back-on-the-road-at-83-but-the-reconciliation/https://www.theartistree.fm/art-garfunkel-goes-back-on-the-road-at-83-but-the-reconciliation/The Sound of Silence singer describes a five-year absence from touring and a late-life reckoning with mortality, though the promised Paul Simon rapprochement gets little airtime.Fri, 04 Sep 2026 06:30:31 GMTThe ArtistreeMusichttps://www.theartistree.fm/mary-austin-opens-freddie-mercury-s-lost-lyric-archive-but-to-what-end/https://www.theartistree.fm/mary-austin-opens-freddie-mercury-s-lost-lyric-archive-but-to-what-end/Thirty-five years after Mercury's death, his closest confidante reveals she has finally unsealed trunks of handwritten lyrics - though what happens to them next remains unclear.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:30:54 GMTThe ArtistreeMusichttps://www.theartistree.fm/tschabalala-self-brings-a-striding-black-woman-to-the-fourth-plinth/https://www.theartistree.fm/tschabalala-self-brings-a-striding-black-woman-to-the-fourth-plinth/The US artist's new Trafalgar Square commission follows the racist defacement of her sculpture Seated at Bexhill-on-Sea in 2022 - and she says she isn't backing down.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:30:27 GMTThe ArtistreeArthttps://www.theartistree.fm/yayoi-kusama-dead-at-97-the-artist-the-market-loved-more-than-the/https://www.theartistree.fm/yayoi-kusama-dead-at-97-the-artist-the-market-loved-more-than-the/The Guardian's obituary coverage of the polka-dot superstar reopens an old argument about whether spectacle and substance were ever the same thing in her work.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:31:09 GMTThe ArtistreeArthttps://www.theartistree.fm/autumn-s-tv-arms-race-broadcasters-bet-big-on-nostalgia-nature-and/https://www.theartistree.fm/autumn-s-tv-arms-race-broadcasters-bet-big-on-nostalgia-nature-and/The Guardian's seasonal guide reveals less about what's good than about how nervous British broadcasters have become about holding an audience.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:30:38 GMTThe ArtistreeCulturehttps://www.theartistree.fm/green-man-survives-the-flames-it-couldn-t-light/https://www.theartistree.fm/green-man-survives-the-flames-it-couldn-t-light/Wildfires forced organisers to cancel the festival's signature burning ceremony, but the Welsh institution's economics look sturdier than its bonfire this year.Tue, 25 Aug 2026 06:31:25 GMTThe ArtistreeMusichttps://www.theartistree.fm/the-artist-who-testifies-lawrence-abu-hamdan-s-sound-evidence-for-the/https://www.theartistree.fm/the-artist-who-testifies-lawrence-abu-hamdan-s-sound-evidence-for-the/The Turner Prize winner runs an NGO that reconstructs killings and torture through acoustic analysis - and insists the work belongs equally to the courtroom and the gallery wall.Tue, 25 Aug 2026 06:30:26 GMTThe ArtistreeArthttps://www.theartistree.fm/rachel-cusk-s-life-of-m-turns-the-celebrity-memoir-inside-out/https://www.theartistree.fm/rachel-cusk-s-life-of-m-turns-the-celebrity-memoir-inside-out/A new Cusk novel toys with a Natalie Portman-shaped subject and the fraught economics of writing someone else's fame.Fri, 21 Aug 2026 06:31:28 GMTThe ArtistreeBookshttps://www.theartistree.fm/almod-var-plays-the-villain-in-bitter-christmas-but-the-real-risk-is/https://www.theartistree.fm/almod-var-plays-the-villain-in-bitter-christmas-but-the-real-risk-is/The Spanish auteur's 24th film promises a reckoning with autofiction, Trump and Netflix, though the interview itself offers more sty than substance.Fri, 21 Aug 2026 06:30:33 GMTThe ArtistreeFilmhttps://www.theartistree.fm/tupac-shakur-murder-trial-opens-in-las-vegas-after-nearly-three/https://www.theartistree.fm/tupac-shakur-murder-trial-opens-in-las-vegas-after-nearly-three/Prosecutors say Duane 'Keffe D' Davis directed the 1996 drive-by killing as payback for an attack on his nephew, but the case rests on one man, decades on.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:31:04 GMTThe ArtistreeMusichttps://www.theartistree.fm/stones-shrapnel-and-larkspur-what-charlotte-higgins-s-new-book-asks/https://www.theartistree.fm/stones-shrapnel-and-larkspur-what-charlotte-higgins-s-new-book-asks/A new book on art under Russian bombardment is being praised for its detail, but the trade of writing culture out of catastrophe deserves scrutiny too.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:30:33 GMTThe ArtistreeBookshttps://www.theartistree.fm/hayden-panettiere-36-the-child-star-who-made-a-network-rewrite-the/https://www.theartistree.fm/hayden-panettiere-36-the-child-star-who-made-a-network-rewrite-the/The actor behind Heroes' regenerating cheerleader has died, prompting a reminder of how rare it is for a performer to bend a show's entire arc around them.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:57:12 GMTThe ArtistreeFilmhttps://www.theartistree.fm/pole-dance-goes-fringe-from-strip-clubs-to-serious-theatre-at-serious/https://www.theartistree.fm/pole-dance-goes-fringe-from-strip-clubs-to-serious-theatre-at-serious/Pole dancers are storming Edinburgh's theatre stages this year - the artistry is undeniable, but the source material is thin on what performers are actually paid to get there.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:56:47 GMTThe ArtistreeStagehttps://www.theartistree.fm/the-diplomat-emmy-nominations-2026/https://www.theartistree.fm/the-diplomat-emmy-nominations-2026/Netflix's Washington drama collected a spread of acting and writing nominations for the 78th Emmys on 14 September. Its lead has eight nominations and no statuette, which is a fact about the Academy more than about her.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:30:00 GMTThe ArtistreeFilmhttps://www.theartistree.fm/how-the-other-half-loves-old-vic-2026/https://www.theartistree.fm/how-the-other-half-loves-old-vic-2026/Alan Ayckbourn's How the Other Half Loves runs at the Old Vic until 19 September, with Roger Allam and Adam Gillen. A theatre chooses a fifty-seven-year-old comedy for reasons the design makes plain.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:30:00 GMTThe ArtistreeStagehttps://www.theartistree.fm/grassroots-music-ticket-levy-first-500k/https://www.theartistree.fm/grassroots-music-ticket-levy-first-500k/The LIVE Trust has handed out the first money raised by the voluntary £1 levy on big shows. The interesting part is not the total, but how thinly it has to spread and who is holding the collection tin.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:30:00 GMTThe ArtistreeMusichttps://www.theartistree.fm/s4c-board-appointments-2026/https://www.theartistree.fm/s4c-board-appointments-2026/A literature chair and a sports lawyer join the Welsh broadcaster's board for four years, at £9,650 a year. What a board is picked for says what the organisation thinks its problem is.Sat, 15 Aug 2026 10:00:00 GMTThe ArtistreeCulturehttps://www.theartistree.fm/dcms-400m-theme-park-subsidy/https://www.theartistree.fm/dcms-400m-theme-park-subsidy/A subsidy watchdog has just closed its file on DCMS's grant to UDX Development Company Limited. The route the money takes is the part worth reading.Sat, 15 Aug 2026 08:30:00 GMTThe ArtistreeCulture