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European culture: art, music, film, books and ideas.
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Bayeux Tapestry exhibition brings in £2.5m for the British Museum on first day of ticket sales
Tickets to view the fragile medieval tapestry, which is on rare loan from France, are now sold out through the end of 2026, with f…
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Human rights museum’s Palestine exhibition sets off feud between Canadian politicians
The country’s heritage minister criticised curatorial choices in “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present”, drawing widespread …
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Lisa Faulkner reveals she's 'all clear' after breast cancer diagnosis
The actress, presenter and food writer says she had a 'big op' but was 'feeling so much better'.
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Married at First Sight UK star arrested on suspicion of rape
It follows a BBC Panorama investigation, broadcast in May, into the hit Channel 4 reality TV show.
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‘There’s not a lot of Black stories made by Black creatives in theater’: inside Kwame Kwei-Armah’s new TLC musical
CrazySexyCool, the celebrated playwright’s new show in DC, is a vibrant love letter to the hits and sisterhood of the R&B trio…
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Artist Erna Rosenstein, whose work about memory and loss resonates today, celebrated with major Vienna exhibition
Rosenstein’s traumatic experiences during wartime run through her art, which fuses Surrealism, biomorphic abstraction and figurati…
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Breaking hearts and blowing minds: Robyn’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!
As she tours the UK, we pick the best of an artist who defined the ‘sad banger’ – but also radiates joy and strength from her perf…
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Honey by Imani Thompson audiobook review – a darkly entertaining campus thriller
Racial and gender politics are woven into a clever tale of murder and morals at Cambridge Yrsa is a young Black undergraduate supe…
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Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! Kabarett und Exil album review – Anne Sofie von Otter turns to cabaret
von Otter/Komische Oper Berlin/Benzwi (BIS) This enjoyably eclectic recital from the ever consummate Von Otter highlights the aest…
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Gary Glitter charged with historical sexual offences
The former singer, whose real name is Paul Gadd, is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 5 August.
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Graham Norton and Phoebe Waller-Bridge spotted before rumoured Swift wedding
Stars have been spotted arriving in New York ahead of Taylor Swift's wedding.
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Terence Gower: Enemies and Rascals review – so was US freedom born bad?
Artangel at the Maughan Library, London Drawing a line from the battle of Quebec to Trump v Carney, the Canadian artist’s takedown…
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Nicholas Cullinan portrait goes up at his former employer, London's National Portrait Gallery
Elizabeth Peyton's painting of Cullinan, now the director of the British Museum, is now on permanent display at the gallery
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Tristan und Isolde review – Wagner in concert performance sees Pappano and the LSO at their finest
Barbican, London Clay Hilley was a blistering Tristan and Sara Jakubiak – in her role debut – a persuasive Isolde with Pappano and…
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Historic Tallinn Art Hall to reopen this November following €13m renovation
The kunsthalle in the Baltic capital will relaunch with a survey of modern and contemporary Estonian art after its five-year closu…
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President and general manager of leading Marseille art institution Mucem suspended amid workplace allegations
Pierre-Olivier Costa and Véronique Haché have both been suspended after reports of rising staff discontent and harassment claims a…
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‘A female Minion would be the beginning of the end’: Pierre Coffin on creepy memes, decoding Minionese and farting bananas
The French animator, director and voice of those lurid yellow assistants to the despicable answers your questions Could we please …
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Support floods in for influencer Nara Smith after daughter's cancer diagnosis
In an emotional video, Nara Smith reveals toddler Whimsy Lou was diagnosed with cancer late last year.
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Calendar Girls: The Musical review – heartfelt and hilarious, with nimbly handled nudity
Stephen Joseph theatre, Scarborough This celebratory show by Tim Firth and Gary Barlow delivers emotional openness alongside crack…
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19th century bronze Laocoön leads London Old Master auctions, selling for £13.6m at Sotheby's
Work achieved the second highest price ever for a pre-Modern sculpture at auction, while Thomas Lawrence's portrait of the Duke of…
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Long Wave By Daisy Johnson review – a sublime novel of motherhood and loss
Covering three generations, this tangled story of secrets, childhood, abandonment and care might be her best work yet In 2018 Dais…
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Alabama Shakes review – US rockers’ first UK gig in a decade is suffused with hope for the future
Millennium Square, Leeds As they tee up a long-awaited third album, the deep south band are variously slick and raw as they rumina…
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'Terrible judgement': Queen Camilla faces backlash after royal meeting with J.K. Rowling
Queen Camilla recently spent time with J.K. Rowling to mark the start of Royal Week in Scotland. This has sparked criticism, leadi…
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Germany news: Coalition agrees package to boost growth
Chancellor Friedrich Merz says his coalition has cleared a reform package as pressure grows to deliver growth. Meanwhile, a top co…