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European culture: art, music, film, books and ideas.
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Rapper Mystikal sentenced to 20 years in prison for third-degree rape
The Louisiana musician has now been sentenced, having pleaded guilty to the charge in March The rapper Mystikal has been sentenced…
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‘Addiction is proof there is a devil. Recovery is proof there is a God’: Irish rockers Bleech 9:3 on struggle, sobriety and their stunning debut
After two friends sponsored each other in Alcoholics Anonymous, they started making music. As they gear up for a summer of 40 fest…
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Uganda’s Umoja Art Gallery team forced to cancel attendance at Africa Basel fair after visas denied
The situation faced by the gallery—which has still sent works to the fair despite its representatives not being present—adds perti…
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UFC 6 review: a bloody, brilliant MMA fighting game
PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S; EA Vancouver/Electronic Arts Micromanaging your fighter is a little tedious, but the action is thr…
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Jeremy Clarkson shares ‘aggressive’ prostate cancer diagnosis
Presenter warns viewers of ‘sombre news’ before release of Clarkson’s Farm episodes, shot last year, in which he goes for operatio…
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In Pictures: highlights from Art Basel’s Unlimited section, focused on monumental projects
Curated this year by MoMA PS1's Ruba Katrib, Art Basel's large-scale sector has a monumental air
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Anish Kapoor: Art on the edge
His art challenges our perception: Forms vanish and perspectives shift. Anish Kapoor leads the viewer to the edge of the abyss — a…
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New exhibitions for Anish Kapoor: Art on the edge
His art challenges our perception: Forms vanish and perspectives shift. Anish Kapoor leads the viewer to the edge of the abyss — a…
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'It's easy to romanticise toxicity' says star of film about step-siblings' romance
The stars of Your Fault: London discuss their film's BookTok fandoms, online fame and toxic relationships.
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Collapse by Édouard Louis review – coming to terms with a brother’s death
In the latest autofictional instalment of his family saga, the French writer makes sense of his sibling’s violent homophobia and s…
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Art Basel Diary: mouse in the house, Kanye at Unlimited, and Cattelan's banana gets supersized
Plus: P•P•O•W's stand stays hydrated and Katharine Grosse's fabulous football
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Maze Design Basel fair returns for second edition with more exhibitors—and art
This year's fair, in the Offene Kirche Elisabethen, also features works on its walls
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First Swiss edition of Zero 10, Art Basel’s digital art initiative, opens
Co-curated by the artist Trevor Paglen and the digital art director Eli Scheinman, the new strand, which debuted at last year’s Mi…
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Win a Warhol for $12: dollar bill by Pop artist included in raffle at Basel Social Club
Zurich gallery suns.works is offering a chance to win the signed work, which features a drawing of a Campbell soup can, in aid of …
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Buyers snap up blue-chip works at Art Basel’s opening day
A $35m Picasso led first-day sales, while galleries reported strong seven-figure results across both historic and contemporary mat…
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I Will Find You review – seen one maddeningly watchable Harlen Coben adaptation? You’ve seen them all
Severance’s Britt Lower stars in Netflix’s latest lot of cobblers. It’s an eight-part saga of fists and mumbling, with a script ma…
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Lost for years, the music of The Tiger Who Came to Tea author’s mother is heard again
Descendants of Julia Kerr gather for recital at Einstein’s summer house near Berlin where revived opera was set Albert Einstein th…
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A Fine Idea review – international development drama laden with number-crunching
Arcola theatre, London Despite some strong satire, there is too much telling and not enough showing in Christine Bacon’s play expl…
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Silent carnivals, kabaddi players and home videos: Jarman award shortlist announced
Only four artist film-makers have been selected by the jury this year, for bringing their ‘deeply grounded lived experience’ to st…
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Cactus Pears review – tender and subtle story of forbidden love and a poignant awakening in India
The strictures of family and class stand between two young men and their humble dreams of happiness in an assured directorial debu…
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Morbid by Saul Justin Newman review – why everything you think you know about longevity is wrong
Is Japan really full of centenarians? And what about ‘blue zones’? A brilliant skewering of ageing secrets and lies There is a spe…
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‘It’s stronger than a drug!’ Transcendent portraits from Montreux jazz festival – in pictures
From Quincy Jones to Sam Smith, Raye to Santana, Anoush Abrar has been taking mesmerising photographs of the festival’s stars for …
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'It's very Bond': Fashion experts on the England squad's off-pitch look
What experts make of the men's team's official off-duty fashion as they prepare for their first World Cup match.
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Jeremy Clarkson reveals cancer diagnosis in show
The former Top Gear presenter did not clarify what type of cancer he had been diagnosed with.