Culture
Culture
European culture: art, music, film, books and ideas.
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Happy Days review, Beckett’s bewitching heroine buries her existential fears
Pitlochry Festival theatre In what feels now like a premonition of the climate crisis, Siobhán Redmond is compelling as the everyw
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Painting the French Riviera review, about as erotic and glamorous as a wet day in Margate
Royal Academy of Arts, London They’ve marginalised Matisse and given Picasso the cold shoulder, and what’s left seems more informe
Restorers expose trove of 16th-century nude murals in Rome that were covered by disapproving nuns
‘Should have garnered the actor an Oscar’: why Liar Liar is my feelgood movie
India: LPU suspends classes after violent protests over alleged campus rape
Range by Dorthe Nors review, an astrophysicist at odds with reality
Just Play Dead review, Samuel L Jackson and Eva Green punch up switchback crime caper
Taylor Swift breaks record for most MTV VMAs as Madonna also wins
‘I’ve never watched a whole episode of Peep Show’: Matt King on surviving a stroke and reviving Super Hans
What would Francis of Assisi make of his fame today?
Obama and Tom Hanks have an inspirational chat: best podcats of the week
Kikuyu Land review, the colonial-era misery behind our morning cup of tea
TV tonight: Michael Palin encounters ‘recycled chicken’ in the Philippines
‘My husband has to remind me: You’re not a real cop!’ Siân Brooke on the perils of playing a tough Blue Lights ‘peeler’
MTV VMAs 2026: Taylor Swift and Madonna win at awards dominated by female artists
News media must stay relevant or 'society will struggle', says World News Day organiser
Mighty Sparrow, the Trinidad and Tobago singer known as the ‘calypso king of the world’, dies aged 91
Tru, review: a five-star performance of a three-star script about the life of Truman Capote
Eva Longoria: Searching for France review, this lovely travel show radiates charm
