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European culture: art, music, film, books and ideas.
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‘Loving our country sounds like an abused spouse saying they love their abuser’: Robert De Niro leads crowd in rallying cry against Trump
The actor starts chant after president said he doesn’t ‘think about Americans’ financial situation, not even a little bit’ Robert …
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The art world honours David Hockney, “who flew the flag higher than any other British artist”
From Tracey Emin to Nicholas Serota, tributes have poured in for the painter since his death at 88 years old on 11 June
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Savage, a play about Paul O’Grady’s rise to national treasure, to premiere in February
RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Danny Beard to step into Lily Savage’s heels in Jonathan Harvey’s play Few showbusiness careers begin in…
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Mr Monopoly vs Mr Burns: The Simpsons take over Monopoly Go
Bart and co’s latest video game venture involved the show’s writers, animators and voice talent – plus a showdown between the two …
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The man who bought Diane Keaton’s nail clippers also owns Whoopi Goldberg’s teapot: ‘It will have her fingerprints on it’
The recent auction of the star’s belongings included designer outfits and her iconic bowler hats, but a box of assorted pins prove…
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Familiar Touch review – Kathleen Chalfant is wonderful in subtle, sensual memory loss drama
Director Sarah Friedland brings impressive attention to detail to an audacious debut feature about a woman moved into a retirement…
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Linkin Park ignore the noise with triumphant set at Download Festival
Limp Bizkit and Guns N' Roses were the other headliners at this year's metal and rock extravaganza - we went along.
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From Bloombsbury to Whitehall: new play reimagines life of John Maynard Keynes
The Standard of Living by James Graham traces economist’s influence on British politics and culture UK politics live – latest upda…
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Award-winning investigative journalist Roger Cook dies aged 83
The New Zealand-born reporter was credited with having invented the doorstep interview technique.
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Death in Venice: Willem Dafoe thrills theatre biennale with adventurous shows about ghosts and rebirth
From a Noh Othello that puts Desdemona centre stage to a requiem for a family killed in the Rwandan genocide, the theatre at this …
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‘He understands soft power’: why Andy Burnham put music at the heart of his political identity
Oasis and Elbow have soundtracked Burnham’s byelection campaign and he got Liam Gallagher doing Manchester’s tram announcements. W…
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‘It gets me every time’: why Jerry Maguire is my feelgood movie
The latest in our series of writers calling attention to their go-to mood-lifting films is a celebration of Cameron Crowe’s unconv…
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‘It’s about the power of music and art’: Glyndebourne stages its first ever L’Orfeo
We go behind the scenes at rehearsals for William Kentridge’s new staging of Monteverdi’s 1607 opera l’Orfeo ‘L’Orfeo is an opera …
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Angel’s Egg review – Mamoru Oshii’s dazzling 1985 anime is an eerie philosophical adventure
Christian theology becomes an unsettling and visually ravishing mystery in early film from the Ghost in the Shell director This 19…
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Wash by Erica Wagner review – vivid portrait of a monumental American
The life of the Brooklyn Bridge’s chief engineer inspires this multifaceted novel Washington Augustus Roebling, or “Wash”, was the…
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US musician Oliver Tree dies in helicopter collision in Brazil
The singer-songwriter is among six people presumed dead in air crash over Rio de Janeiro on Sunday.
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Photographer Don McCullin to focus on Vietnam for his final book
Exclusive: The work will feature some of the photographer’s most powerful images from his 70-year career After more than seven dec…
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Togetherness by Rowan Hooper review – a stunning portrait of cooperation in nature
This corrective to our habitual emphasis on competition had me writing ‘wow’ in the margins again and again When Charles Darwin pu…
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'Idris Elba punched me and it was great fun'
Delilah O'Riordan, 14, says it was "great fun" filming stunts with the Hollywood star.
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‘More relevant now than ever’: how Virginia Woolf recaptured the cultural zeitgeist
With an adaptation of Night and Day hitting cinemas, the pioneering author’s work continues to inspire audiences She’s long been a…
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‘His last kiss to the world’: David Hockney’s return to Yorkshire triggered a glorious reawakening
When the artist came home from LA, it seemed like a retirement. But it heralded an astonishing new chapter. Our critic remembers t…
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‘I’m setting myself free from shame’: Laverne Cox on her brutal childhood and life as a trans woman in Trump’s America
Before Orange Is the New Black made her a star, Cox endured bullying, abuse, harassment and violence. She talks about the bad old …
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Tyra Banks sues Netflix over America’s Next Top Model documentary, alleging defamation
Lawsuit claims interviews were manipulated to support false narrative that she allowed a contestant to be sexually assaulted Tyra …
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Free Nelson Mandela review – this gripping documentary pulls no punches
A revelatory look at the sprawling tale of the decades-long struggle against apartheid. It’s a nuanced tale that brutally emphasis…