Culture
European culture: art, music, film, books and ideas.
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‘Everything indicates’ murder of Russian dissident artist in Poland was a political killing
The Polish prime minister said the murder of Robert Kuzovkov would “constitute an act of state terrorism” if Russia was found to …
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Mexican authorities urge Sotheby’s to stop sale of two pre-Columbian artefacts
The objects, a stone mask and an intricate ceramic figure, are scheduled to be auctioned Thursday morning in New York
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MI5 boss declares himself a Slow Horses fan
Sir Ken McCallum says he is a fan of the show that has been described as the anti-James Bond.
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Dealer David Nahmad given 30 days to return Nazi-looted Modigliani painting
The $30m work has been the subject of almost a dozen years of legal battles
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Memphis Art Museum reveals opening date and inaugural exhibitions for new building
Entry to the institution’s new Herzog & de Meuron-designed mass timber home along the Mississippi River will be free to local resi…
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Cao Fei: ‘The scenarios in many of my works have come true later’
In her first solo exhibition in Switzerland, at Kunstmuseum Basel Gegenwart, the artist’s films and installations chart the evolut…
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Group show explores where technology meets spirituality and folklore
The exhibition at Basel’s HEK showcases artist whose work responds to “unstable and apocalyptic” times, drawing on religion, myth …
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'Christopher Wool’s "Bad Dog" was a wonderful way to start a collection': Gitti Hug on what she collects and why
The lawyer and president of the friends of the Kunsthaus Zürich discusses her enduring love of Philip Guston’s work and her regret…
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Right-wing politician’s complaint against Masp dismissed in Brazil
A member of Jair Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party attempted to censor the artist La Chola Poblete’s show, alleging religious offense
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Jesús Carmona: UnYdos review – flamenco delivered with flourish and fire
Sadler’s Wells, London The annual Flamenco festival kicks off in spectacular style, with a show of serpentine grace and rhythmic p…
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From penalties to Pavarotti and Beckham to Bruckner: classical music and football are closer than you might think
As the World Cup gets underway, we look at the music that has soundtracked the beautiful game - and the composers who have loved i…
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Toy Story 5 splits critics, but most praise its 'cautionary' message about tech
The fifth instalment of the animated franchise sees Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Joan Cusack return.
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BBC announces 550 job cuts as first part of £500m savings plan
In an email to staff, the corporation laid out proposals for the initial 200 job losses in the news division.
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How Liste has moved beyond its reputation as Basel’s ’young fair’
As the market catches up with the ultra-contemporary art championed by Liste Art Fair Basel for decades, the fair includes artists…
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Midsummer morris dancers and their mysterious goat Caprihorn: Hollie Fernando’s best portrait
‘I wanted to celebrate the women who are reinventing morris dancing. They took me to a pub and gave me a pickled egg mashed up in …
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Lily Allen review – West End Girl’s marital collapse is superbly evoked at arena scale
Utilita Arena, Newcastle Expanding on her recent theatre tour, Allen’s one-woman performance of her zeitgeist-dominating album is …
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Adhesive, the key to completing Sagrada Familia’s central towers
Loctite technology bonds stone and steel in the temple’s 826 panels. Now over 172 metres tall, it is the world’s highest; last wee…
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Killing Anna review – the amazing catfishing operation that flushed out Syria massacre perpetrator
Haunting documentary tells how Syrian academic Annsar Shahoud created an online persona to contact the suspected perpetrator of th…
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Disclosure Day is great. But Spielberg overestimates our capacity for empathy
Spielberg’s sci-fi blockbuster starring Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor may be spectacular, but it misjudges how much abuse of group…
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TV personality Ashley Cain accused of using sexist and misogynistic language
The former footballer is known for presenting BBC Three's Ashley Cain: Into the Danger Zone.
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‘There’s a kind of magic to her work’: Maren Hassinger’s one-of-a-kind sculptures
The artist has her most significant retrospective to date in a new exhibition that encourages attenders to take part For 50 years,…
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‘That’s when the shark fins appeared’: your horrifying holidays – from natural disasters to missile threats
With Two Weeks in August and the return of The Four Seasons, TV dramas about nightmare getaways are having a moment. Here are Guar…
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‘It goes so hard in both directions’: John Early and Kate Berlant on making you laugh and cry in new influencer satire
In his directorial debut Maddie’s Secret, Early plays a food influencer with bulimia in a wild flip on the modern melodrama They d…
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Your Fault: London review – British-set remake of Spanish step-sibling romance lacks passion or fizz
A second helping of the English-language adaptation of Mercedes Ron’s trilogy sustains little chemistry between its supposedly bes…