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European culture: art, music, film, books and ideas.
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Asian buyers now acquire half of all sold Van Goghs
Record prices for Vincent van Gogh's paintings highlight a profound shift in the global art market, as European buyers are eclipse…
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I Can Die Too review – vibrant pop songs can’t bring actor’s tale to life
Pitlochry Festival theatre Following its star through rehearsals and squabbles with her director, this is modelled on Cocteau’s La…
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New photograph marks Queen's 79th birthday
Queen Camilla is marking her birthday with a renewed commitment to supporting children's literacy.
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How Constable country is becoming a hub of artistic innovation once again
Two hundred and fifty years after the birth of its most famous painter, the East of England's art scene has never been so vital
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'The Climate Clock is ticking': new art trail in Finland shines a light on rapid Arctic warming
Artists including Rana Begum, SUPERFLEX and Ranti Bam have produced works for the initiative, which is part of the Oulu 2026 Europ…
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Andrew Motion: ‘Wilfred Owen became a kind of sacred text for me’
The former poet laureate on growing up with Lawrence Durrell, rereading Henry James and getting to grips with the genius of Alexan…
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HBO docuseries exposes governance rifts at $60m Burning Man
A new four-part documentary captures the boardroom power struggles and growing wealth stratification challenging the decommodified…
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‘I’m not into leather at all!’: John Wood on privately photographing Glasgow’s gay underground, and the comparisons with Robert Mapplethorpe
He was a telecoms engineer by day – and documented the Scottish city’s leather scene by night. Now the 79-year-old has opened his …
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Norma Winstone and NDR Radio Orchestra: A Timeless Place review | John Fordham's jazz album of the month
(Enodoc) The emotive lyricist and surefooted improvisor sounds lustrous in a 1990 recording featuring an exquisite I Loves You, Po…
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Loathe: A Stranger to You review
(SharpTone) Granite-hard riffola collides with balm-like electronics and tinkling jazz piano in a thrilling fourth album of musica…
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Heartstopper Forever review – sanitized sex scenes won’t let the Netflix lovebirds grow up
The film-length finale to the teen LGBTQ+ show has poignant moments but feels like fan service by numbers If it were up to Kit Con…
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‘At times I felt I’d bitten off more than I could chew’: Christopher Nolan on sweeping the Oscars, making The Odyssey - and getting a puppy
How do you follow Oppenheimer? By spending £250m bringing Homer’s epic poem to the big screen in Imax. Today’s most powerful direc…
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Konami entrusts dormant Castlevania franchise to French studio
Konami is reviving its dormant Castlevania franchise through a French developer, a move that underscores the growing commercial ti…
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Robert Laidlow: Reality Eaters album review
BBC Philharmonic/Havlat/Kaziboni/Piatti Quartet (NMC) Einstein’s field equations, Newton’s universal law and artificial intelligen…
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New Irish novel The Red Mouth uses bogs to frame climate dilemma
Sheila Armstrong’s second novel uses the discovery of ancient remains in Ireland’s peatlands to interrogate the tension between de…
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TV tonight: Diane Morgan and Sue Johnston’s great new sitcom
An elderly widow gets an awkward android companion in Morgan’s charming series. Plus: Sally Phillips’ camp comedy drama. Here’s wh…
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The 85-year-old living in her own art installation
After careers as a teacher, cookbook author and TV chef, Sue Kreitzman's life took a different path.
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England to screen newborns for SMA after celebrity campaign
The UK government will add spinal muscular atrophy to England's newborn screening programme from October, a policy shift driven by…
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‘I used to do acid on a Wednesday. I don’t have time for that now’: alt-pop star Steve Lacy on his struggle to follow huge hit Bad Habit
A Grammy nom at 17, a US No 1 ... then silence. With new album Oh Yeah? finally out after four years away, the genre-hopping artis…
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Kit Connor and Joe Locke: 'Making a film like Heartstopper will forever be important'
The Netflix movie brings Alice Oseman's popular screen adaptation to a conclusion.
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UK inquiry calls for decade of reading as England lags globally
A cross-party committee warns England’s decline in childhood reading is driven by policy failures, urging a ten-year intervention …
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Kris Jenner's mother Mary Jo dies aged 91
Mary Jo 'MJ' Campbell was featured on multiple episodes of Keeping Up with the Kardashians over the years.
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US bill seeks to block sale of federal buildings holding New Deal art
US Democrats have introduced a bill to prevent the destruction of historically significant New Deal murals as the Trump administra…
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Nolan's $250m Odyssey earns universal acclaim from critics
Christopher Nolan’s $250m adaptation of Homer’s epic has received near-universal critical praise, positioning the blockbuster as a…