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European culture: art, music, film, books and ideas.
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Paul O'Grady play set for national tour
Savage will open in Leicester in February 2027 and visit cities including Liverpool and Birmingham.
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‘This will be timeless’: what art can we expect from Chicago’s $850m Obama Presidential Center?
Original works by 30 artists have been commissioned by the Obamas alongside vital pieces of memorabilia for visitors to appreciate…
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Hold to This Earth review – an explosion of anger as Indigenous America shakes up Yorkshire
Yorkshire Sculpture Park Neons and videos mix with weaving and beadwork to address subjects as diverse as stolen land, ancestral t…
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Newsreader Tina Daheley to leave Radio 2 breakfast show
The move comes just a couple of weeks before Sara Cox takes over the show in July.
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Leipzig Bach festival: Encouraging dialog
Talking, debating and listening are skills we can all learn, particularly in the light of current global conflicts. The Leipzig Ba…
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‘David Bowie was a crazy workaholic’: Labyrinth at 40 – an oral history
Today, Jim Henson’s dark fairytale is seen as a classic of 80s high camp. But on release, it bombed. Here, members of the cast and…
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‘Streaming gave me a space to be myself’: Twitch creators on what it’s like to grow up on the platform
The world’s most successful gamer content creators, many of whom have spent their entire adult life on the platform, have met up a…
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Artist JR's wrapped bridge opens in Paris in nod to Christo
After a weather-delayed start, the French street artist's cavernous optical illusion takes over one of the most iconic bridges in …
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The Uses of Utopia by Joad Raymond Wren review – can the ideal society ever exist?
This fascinating intellectual history of imagined paradises takes us from Thomas More to Ursula K Le Guin By definition, utopia ca…
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Girlfriends review – love and growing pains in queer coming-of-age tale that goes from Hong Kong to Taiwan
A trio of actors play one woman from high school to her mid-30s in Tracy Choi’s thoughtful romantic drama It can stretch credibili…
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Basel satellite art fair June pauses following withdrawal of corporate partner
The boutique dealer-run fair intends to return for 2027
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Art Basel Diary: the carnival comes to town, art of the algorithm and Mum's the word
Plus a museum interrogation and fairs tip population over the edge
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Beyond the banana: Maurizio Cattelan presents new wall work at Basel Social Club
The artist best known for his banana and duct-tape creation brings five works to the satellite fair
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Sculpture by Edi Rama, Albania's prime minister, features at Art Basel
The bronze work is presented as part of Parcours, the fair's public art section
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In pictures: the best of Art Basel’s city-wide Parcours exhibition
The exhibition's curator, Stefanie Hessler, picks out some of this year's highlights
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Bonnie Tyler out of induced coma but still in serious condition
The 75-year-old Welsh singer has been in intensive care at Faro Hospital since early May following emergency surgery for a perfora…
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Surprise! New Art Basel initiative, Basel Exclusive, brings back the art of anticipation to the fair
More than 200 galleries have held back works that will only be unveiled to the public on the fair’s opening day
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Alienated by Disclosure Day? You are not alone
Audiences have propelled Spielberg’s alien thriller to the top of the box office. Yet some exiting the cinema appear to believe th…
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Free as a bird: the Mexicans redefining gender – in pictures
From gymnasts in kitten heels to lovers stalked by a devil, Pieter Henket’s dazzling portrait series, Birds of Mexico City, can fe…
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Natural Disaster by Lisa Owens review – the last day of maternity leave is a comic rollercoaster
Parenting is represented in all its hilarious, moving and truthfully plodding detail, in the story of a mother and her two little …
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Wannabe despot, dashing diplomat or boring back-office swot? Greece’s founding father divides opinion
He built modern Greece from the ground up, but Ioannis Kapodistrias remains a controversial figure. A new biopic throws light on t…
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Trust in news hits a new low, research suggests
The Reuters Institute records its lowest trust figures since the annual research began in 2015.
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Married at First Sight Australia allegations 'disturbing', says country's watchdog
The claims also prompted a response from UK media regulator Ofcom, who called them "deeply concerning".
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OnlyFans: Inside the Machine review – monumentally grim and unsexy TV
Amber Haque’s preposterously bleak film shows how hordes of men have turned the ethical answer to sex work into a sleazy nightmare…