Walker Art Center boots Cardamom after laying off workers for QR codes - MPR News

Giada Ripa’s ambitious project combines archive photography from the 1860s, a modern dominatrix – and the story of a relative who became a muse to 19th-century artists and intellectualsMichiru Okajima, Yuki Kimura, Lolita Fashion. Photograph: Giada RipaThu 22 Oct 2026 07.00 BSTRyo Nagata Yamato Transport Co Ltd, employeeThe Yokohama Project by Italian photographer Giada Ripa is a beautifully crafted body of work that bridges generations, cultures and media to explore the profound transformation of Japanese society and landscape over a century and a half through the uncovering of a photographic archive miles from its origin. The Yokohama Project by Giada Ripa is available from GOSTFelice Beato, Out for a Walk, 1868While rummaging through boxes in her family home in Italy, Ripa found an album of 53 hand-coloured photographs by the first visual narrator of Japan, Felice Beato, capturing 1860s Japanese local society. A few months later, she found an unpublished manuscript by her old relative and muse to many intellectuals, Mathilde Ruinart, who lived in Japan at the same time and befriended Beato.

Comedian Leo Reich has created the great British sitcom for generation Z. “It just feels like everything is over,” says 23-year-old unemployed Ethan, rather unbearably, as he and his best mates from uni, Abi (Emily Fairn) and Sam (Olive Gray), leave their shared house. As they bounce around London trying to figure their lives out, there are funny and sorely relatable results. Plus, cracking guest stars include Amelia Dimoldenberg, Andrew Scott and Lena Dunham. Hollie RichardsonThe Celebrity Traitors8pm, BBC OneThe end is nigh … Claudia Winkleman in Celebrity Traitors. Photograph: BBC/Studio Lambert/Euan Cherry/PADid James Acaster, Maya Jama and Kenny manage to bore poor Jerry Hall or Ross Kemp to death? It’s time to find out who was murdered in the great yawn-off. Meanwhile, how is Miranda Hart coping after losing her dear new friend Joe Lycett? And will Michael Sheen change his approach after being voted the leader of the round table? It’s the penultimate week of the competition so things are about to heat up. HRThe Pride of Britain awards 20268pm, ITV1 Carol Vorderman and Ashley Banjo host this annual celebration of remarkable Britons.

the vast red landscape behind aluminumAcross the outskirts of aluminum refineries, enormous deposits of rust-colored earth stretch for miles to form strange red landscapes visible even in satellite images. This is bauxite residue, commonly known as red mud, the alkaline waste left behind when alumina is extracted from bauxite ore. More than 150 million metric tons are generated globally each year, adding to stockpiles already estimated at over four billion tons. Most remains in vast storage facilities, despite decades of research into potential uses for the material. Amsterdam-based Studio ThusThat has been exploring what might become of this enormous industrial byproduct. Its ongoing Red Mud project transforms the residue into finely formed ceramic vessels and experimental building materials, offering an unexpected glimpse of what the waste could become.

Across some 200 booths at Art Basel Paris this year, there is a lot to take in. As the Swiss company’s French fair matures, galleries have begun to bring more and more top-tier, high-priced works, which in turn has made it less a place to discover something new than a place for six-, seven-, and even eight-figure works to be sold. And during the Avant-Première VVIP preview on Tuesday afternoon, exhibiting galleries reported quite a few sales, which they would add to by the close of business Wednesday. While the fair can be a bit market-darling-heavy on the ground floor, be sure to visit the upstairs, where some of the best works on view can be found. And if nothing strikes your fancy, you can at least look up and take in the beauty of the Grand Palais’s green-painted, steel-and-glass ceiling.

In the wings of the London film festival, a group of young influencers are discussing their personal highlights. Klara and the Sun, says one, and her colleagues agree. It’s not just that the film is still so fresh in their memory, or that they have gathered today to meet its creators and stars. Klara is funny and moving; it’s their festival favourite so far. I relay this exchange to Taika Waititi, the film’s director, who is sipping bottled water in a room down the hall. His gaze widens. He almost chokes. “Thank God!” he exclaims with just a bit too much heat. Everybody has a perfect film, just as everybody has a perfect friend, and they vary because everybody is different. In the film, sick 14-year-old Josie loves her discontinued robot doll Klara, whereas most kids her age opt for brighter, shinier models. And the young influencers love Klara and the Sun – Waititi’s adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s acclaimed novel – while most older critics vehemently, violently disagree. All of which shows that there’s no accounting for taste, that people are confounding, and that our hearts and our brains are not always in sync. That keeps life interesting. It’s partly what the film is about.

If you want anything badly enough, the best way to get it is to feign absolute indifference while pouring in 110% effort. I was telling outrageous jokes about colonialism in tiny pub rooms five nights a week alongside a rotating lineup of lunatics and sexual deviants, all the while gaslighting myself into believing it was a casual hobby and I could stop any time. What’s been one of your all-time favourite gigs? I loved performing on a lesbian cruise, despite the debilitating impostor syndrome (I’m an omnivore). I got a record number of fist-bumps from appreciative butches and met so many incredible older sapphics. One was a black witch from California who communed with my ancestors directly after the show – you don’t get that kind of service on Live at the Apollo. Can you recall a gig so bad, it’s now funny?