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European culture: art, music, film, books and ideas.
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Quentin Tarantino and Kylie Minogue spotted around Wales for new film
Quentin Tarantino, Kylie Minogue and RZA are just three of the names filming a new drama set in Wales.
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Lads Club on The Smiths album cover gets status upgrade
The 123-year-old club has helped generations of boys, and later girls, with sport, art and music.
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Edge of Armageddon: why does one of the world’s top thinkers believe we’re nearing nuclear apocalypse?
In a chilling new book, theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli says we’re back on the brink – and this time, leaders chronically lack…
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Sinatra: The Musical review – life of a legend brims with hits but never gets under his skin
Aldwych theatre, London Frank swings into the West End with a swaggering turn from Joel Harper-Jackson and plenty of style yet the…
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Top Australian TV star to leave job after Tommy Robinson interview, reports say
Karl Stefanovic has helmed a popular breakfast TV show for the better part of two decades.
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Crystal Bridges, fresh off major expansion, hires Courtenay Finn as next chief curator
Finn, previously the chief curator at the Orange County Museum of Art, starts at Crystal Bridges and the Momentary in August
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New York City’s oldest library refreshes its historic home
The 272-year-old New York Society Library’s patrons have included the likes of George Washington and Alexander Hamilton
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The Other Bennet Sister to return for Christmas special
Filming is set to resume in Wales this summer for new three-part special.
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Green tuff, the stone that shaped Oaxaca’s historic centre, receives international heritage designation
Recognition by the International Union of Geological Sciences highlights how stone can reveal and preserve a city's material histo…
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Michael Barrymore TikTok videos prompt concern over filming on smart glasses
A shop worker tells the BBC he unexpectedly appeared in a video Barrymore uploaded on social media.
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Meta and YouTube’s recent losses in youth social media addiction cases may put artists and activists at risk
Recent rulings in California and New Mexico against the social media giants seem to promise greater accountability, but in practic…
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Heat wave: Alcohol can be a serious danger to your health
Summer, the FIFA World Cup and a cold beer. Sounds like a dream? Be careful, though; the combination of heat and alcohol can quick…
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Heat wave: Why you should skip that cold beer or cocktail
Summer, the FIFA World Cup and a cold beer. Sounds like a dream? Be careful, though; the combination of heat and alcohol can quick…
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‘It’s giving me carnival vibes’: how Fête de la Musique became a must-visit event for the Black diaspora
Begun in 1982, the festival is now a magnet for Black Britons, who spill across Paris enjoying genres from amapiano to zouk. But c…
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The history of brilliantly terrible World Cup video games
As football fans revel in the real world tournament, its digital counterparts continue to stumble in capturing the hyped up atmo…
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Making earwax melt and teeth rattle: the project returning music to our bodies
Listeners in the 17th and 18th centuries experienced music in a startlingly vivid – and physical – way. A fascinating academic pro…
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German war hero Annika at her farm for struggling veterans: Jan Kraus’s best photograph
‘She was in Germany’s biggest battle since the second world war, but the army took years to recognise her PTSD. Annika now runs a …
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The Warriors come out to Broadway with Lin-Manuel Miranda musical
Miranda and Eisa Davis’s concept album based on the 1979 film is to be realised for the stage, co-directed by Jenny Koons and Hami…
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Venus & Adonis review – Simon Russell Beale narrates cheeky tale of puppet passion
The Pit, Barbican, London Greg Doran directs Shakespeare’s timeless poem of seduction, told with Lyndie Wright’s gorgeous, masterf…
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Game of stones: how paintings of marble reveal a world of magical medieval mysticism
From trippy swirls to blood-soaked slabs, a new book mines gothic and renaissance art for the supernatural significance of the pre…
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Helen Cammock removes film criticising Winston Churchill from London's National Portrait Gallery following complaint
‘Persistence’ implies that the former prime minister is to blame for the 1943 Bengal famine, which historian Andrew Roberts says i…
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Turandot review – Opera Holland Park celebrate 30 years with Puccini’s grand guignol
Opera Holland Park, London A concert performance in an orchestral reduction of Puccini’s colossal final opera was stylishly led by…
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GTA 6 will cost $80 - and physical edition will not contain a disc
Rockstar has said physical copies of the game will contain a code for a digital download for the game.
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Pass the sick bag! Why I published a book on the art of the airline essential
One evoked a hellish trip from Delhi after passengers had drunk unsanitary water. Another conjoured up an era when planes were thi…