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‘This is honest art. Like Dostoevsky’: Tim Allen and Tom Hanks on Toy Story 5, tech peril and the joy of rusty nails
Pixar’s new film tells young viewers that technology has stolen their childhood and that parents need to wise up fast. Its stars a…
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Dani Dyer returns to Strictly a year after pulling out with broken ankle
"Hopefully this time around I can actually make it to week one," the TV and social media star says.
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‘Dangerous for being free’: Mon Laferte on calling out injustice as Chile’s biggest pop star
The musician opens up about her mental health, government corruption and why conservative backlash won’t stop her speaking her min…
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Influential art world figure Joe Hage moves from the shadows to take top billing
The founder of Heni art services is behind a major Barbara Hepworth show at London's Courtauld Gallery
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‘Now they can’t afford me’: Steven Spielberg was turned down to direct Bond – twice
Film-maker says he approached producer ‘Cubby’ Broccoli after Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind were hits, but was knock…
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‘Marks that speak across time’: rock carvings and drawings discovered in Oman
A newly discovered archaeological site has revealed a massive rock face covered in art that is believed to be ancient
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From Vecna to Mr Burns: TV’s greatest ever villains
Violent drug barons, brutal monarchs, interdimensional murderers … television has no shortage of horrifying baddies. Here’s our pi…
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Stop! That! Train! review - RuPaul-led zany drag comedy is a riot
With a whip-smart drag queen cast and celebrity cameos, Adam Shankman’s film is a refreshingly kooky twist on the summer movie cap…
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Kelsey Lu: So Help Me God review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week
(Dirty Hit) Aided by Jack Antonoff, Kim Gordon, Sampha and more, the cello-playing singer-songwriter’s abstracted yet tuneful seco…
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‘She slept in the hallway on a lawn chair’: how Bettina’s astonishing art outgrew her Chelsea Hotel room
The reclusive figure spent decades filling every surface of her apartment at the legendary New York hotel with artworks that rose …
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Paris exhibition explores the vanishing worlds of photographer Madeleine de Sinéty
Survey at the Jeu de Paume shows the prolific photographer's images of rural life and urban gentrification in France and the US
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The best games of 2026 so far
If you fancy roaring around Japan’s open roads, scaling impossible mountains and playing with post-apocalyptic Pokémon, this year’…
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‘Life has always managed to crawl through’: docuseries takes us back to mass extinction events
Co-creator of Walking with Dinosaurs returns with Surviving Earth, a blockbuster new series that shows ‘how life bounced back’ fro…
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Patrick Bruel free but under judicial supervision after indictment over sexual violence
The artist is accused by more than twenty women of sexual violence. Indicted in four cases from 2018–2019, he avoided pre-trial de…
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Comment | Georg Baselitz's final exhibition is a warning that history is repeating itself
Since the opening of the late German artist's Venice show, events at the Biennale and the result of the UK's council elections hav…
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After 144 Years, Pope Leo XIV blesses the completion of Sagrada Familia's tallest tower in Barcelona
The pontiff praised the new Tower of Jesus Christ at Barcelona's Sagrada Família in a ceremony attended by around 120,000 people, …
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Sex doll art sparks debate at German president's residence
Beyond a headline-grabbing bronze, contemporary artworks draw attention to political power at an exhibition held at Bellevue Palac…
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Strictly Ballroom review – Baz Luhrmann’s dizzying, dance-tastic swirl of fun is a classic ugly-duckling tale
Luhrmann’s goofy and lovable film is reissued for generations who don’t know where TV’s Strictly Come Dancing got part of its name…
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The Evil Lawyer review – gripping, twisty and ludicrously hammy
The lead character in this Thai courtroom drama may have more than a whiff of pantomime villain about her, but this a fun, very wa…
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‘They kissed, and the audience roared’: the new musical about gay activists and striking miners
In 1984, an unlikely coalition was formed between London LGBTQ+ campaigners and Welsh miners. Now their story, as told in the 2014…
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Germany news: Merz pushes sweeping reform agenda
Chancellor Friedrich Merz is outlining the German government's position on a range of issues ahead of a key EU summit. Lawmakers a…
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Inside DATALAND: The world’s first AI art museum will let visitors see, hear and smell art
Los Angeles is set to open DATALAND, the world's first museum dedicated to AI-generated art. Created by digital artist Refik Anado…
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From Japan With Love: London exhibition explores how NIGO reshaped fashion, music and hype culture
The exhibition, NIGO: From Japan With Love, brings together over 700 objects from his personal archive, charting his evolution fro…
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‘Audiences no longer laugh if you call their town crap’: can Phil Wang heal divided Britain?
He’s the perfect comedian to cool down these incendiary times. As Philly Philly takes his Uh Oh standup show on tour, he talks abo…