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House of the Dragon review – the orgy of carnage it should always have been
After two forgettable seasons, the Game of Thrones prequel finally comes into its own – blazing back on to our screens with the mo…
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Lacma's inaugural art parade celebrates new building and Los Angeles creative community
Artists and performers of all kinds flocked to Wilshire Boulevard for the city's first Art Parade
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Clive Davis predicted music’s biggest stars like no one else | Alexis Petridis
The legendary music executive signed everyone from Patti Smith to Barry Manilow and changed the industry forever Clive Davis: musi…
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‘Artists need to be able to advocate for their own work’: new guide advises artists on navigating censorship
The free digital resource, from the National Coalition Against Censorship, comes as artists navigate an increasingly censorious cu…
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Guerrilla-style museum tours reveal the history of climate change through art and heritage in Philadelphia
The tours created and led by the artist and curator Aislinn Pentecost-Farren are part of the ArtPhilly 2026 festival
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Clive Davis, music mogul behind Whitney Houston and Bruce Springsteen, dies aged 94
The record company executive also worked with Billy Joel, Pink Floyd, Alicia Keys and Aerosmith.
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The Big Review: Van Dyck, the European ★★★★½
Structured around the artist's time in Antwerp, Genoa and London, the show at Genoa's Palazzo Ducale offers a gorgeous overview, a…
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‘Guys would think I was a girl then get aggressive when they found out my name was Brian’: how Placebo made Nancy Boy
‘I thought I could regain some power by writing a celebration of debauchery that was so brazenly sexual it would infuriate the peo…
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Bad Bunny sparks UK’s Latino moment as 100,000 fans line up to see him perform
Rapping in Spanish used to be a hard sell – but the Puerto Rican star is making the Latin American community visible At the Seven …
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75 Years of the Goethe-Institut: Germany's global cultural voice
For 75 years, the Goethe-Institut has stood for cultural exchange, education and partnerships around the globe — even under challe…
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75 years of Germany's Goethe-Institut
For 75 years, the Goethe-Institut has stood for cultural exchange, education and partnerships around the globe — even under challe…
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'Passeport' controversy explained: Why did a French town cancel a play about refugees?
A mayor's decision to cancel a play about refugees has caused uproar in France and raised concerns about the far-right's grip on c…
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Giulio Cesare review – nightmarish take on Handel has snakes, sadism and a mummy
The Grange festival, Northington, Hampshire David Alden’s blackly comic Kafkaesque production has a strong cast whose lively perfo…
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Epidaurus: 10,000-strong ovation for National Opera's 'Medea'
The production was a reconstruction of the historic 1961 production of 'Medea' with Maria Callas, staged once again in the very sa…
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Hayley Williams review – punk and R&B expertly intertwine on first solo tour for Paramore star
Roundhouse, London In her first European jaunt outside of her headbanging band, the singer uses humour to turn angsty songs into r…
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Once Upon a Time in Holyhead: Quentin Tarantino and Kylie Minogue shooting film in Porthcawl
Pair pictured ‘laughing and singing’ at Welsh seaside town’s Saltwater Inn, for post-funeral scene in film by British film-maker J…
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James Phelan: Showman review – an amazing pick’n’mix of telepathy and magic
Underbelly Boulevard, London Audience members become unsuspecting mind-readers, and numbers disappear from their memory, in this h…
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Johnny Marr to auction off dozens of guitars heard on Smiths classics such as This Charming Man
Christie’s sale in London in September carries estimates up to £150,000, with some instruments also used by Noel Gallagher and Ber…
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London’s Jewish Museum receives £1m funding boost and opens new temporary home
The Manchester Jewish Museum was meanwhile awarded £100,000
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Pitfall review – big-hole survival horror is as if cast of Friends strayed into Deliverance
Laborious and bombastic thriller set in a forest where a maniacal woodsman and a cast of irritating victims converge with gory res…
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Coffin plate of ‘the injured Queen of England’ heads to Treasure House Fair
According to dealer Mark Downer, the silver plate of the exiled monarch could be “the only coffin plate of a Queen of England that…
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A Palais de Tokyo for London? Hypha Studios to open major exhibition and studio space near Tate Modern
Opening to the public on 25 June, Hypha Gallery South Bank will feature 800 sq. m of gallery space
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Aldeburgh festival roundup – Tansy Davies and Freya Waley-Cohen premieres, plus blistering Shostakovich
Various venues, Suffolk The second weekend boasted brand new music by Davies and Waley-Cohen, the premiere of Alex Ho and Rockey S…
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Jabs, human ash and a tapeworm: behind the appetite for a new kind of disordered eating movie
Supernatural horror Saccharine and melodramatic comedy Maddie’s Secret are the latest films on body-image anxieties served up by H…