Elizabeth Gilbert, BTS and K-pop, Natalia Goncharova
1940s showgirls enjoy themselves in City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, the phenomenon of BTS and K-pop, and Russian artist Natalia Goncharova.
Elizabeth Gilbert鈥檚 memoir Eat Pray Love has sold fifteen million copies around the world and was made into a film with Julia Roberts. Her new novel is City of Girls, the story of a young woman discovering an exhilarating life in a theatre in New York in the summer of 1940. She talks about why she was unafraid of writing about a young woman鈥檚 sexual desire and about the dramatic and difficult events in her personal life that shaped the writing of the book.
鈥淭he biggest thing since the Beatles鈥 has become something of a pop clich茅, but in the case of the south Korean boy band BTS it might be justified. This year they became the first group since The Beatles to earn three US Billboard number one albums in less than 12 months and this weekend they鈥檙e playing in London. Haekyung Um explains the BTS and K pop phenomenon.
Natalia Goncharova was a Russian avant-garde artist known for her large scale abstract canvases, performance art and textile and theatre design. Ahead of a retrospective of her work at Tate Modern, the show鈥檚 curator Natalia Sidlina discusses her unique style and significance today.
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Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert's book, , is published听on 04 June 2019, in hardback and eBook formats.听
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BTS and K-pop
The BTS EP, is out now.
BTS are performing at Wembley Stadium on 01 and 02 June 2019.
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Image: BTS with their听Radio One Teen Awards in 2018
Natalia Goncharova
The retrospective of from 06 June - 08 September 2019.
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