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Talk is of newlywed Taylor Swift taking a break from music. Did I take a nap and wake up in the 1950s? | Laura Snapes
After exchanging vows with Travis Kelce, the workaholic pop star probably won’t be staying home to admire the wedding silverware N…
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Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce set for star-studded New York wedding
City permits point to a major, star-studded celebration at Madison Square Garden over the Fourth of July weekend, although the cel…
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‘I feel both thrilled and ruined by this’: Olivia Wilde and Edward Norton on making sex comedy The Invite
Their movie about marital bed death is this summer’s buzziest, funniest film. Its director and her co-star talk self-loathing, psy…
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Silo review – this handsomely produced sci-fi drama grapples with the big questions
Rebecca Ferguson is still excellent in this unremittingly grey-green subterranean post-apocalypse. Its political acuity makes it w…
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Taylor Swift's rumoured wedding celebrations begin with star-studded New York event
Actress Lena Dunham, model Gigi Hadid and longtime music collaborator Jack Antonoff were spotted in formal attire near Madison Squ…
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What will guests wear to Taylor Swift's wedding of the century?
Romantic, fairytale vibes could dominate Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's reported wedding event in New York City on Friday.
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Why Wonderwall has become England's World Cup anthem
Post-victory singalongs between England fans and players have become a new tradition this summer.
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New York exhibition fundraising for Venezuelan earthquake relief efforts
More than 200 works on view at Henrique Faria Fine Art are on offer to raise funds for emergency aid in Venezuela through the Worl…
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New York City’s 2027 budget includes record $323m for culture
Announced on the heels of the rent freeze, the money includes a new fund to help struggling arts organisations
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Bayeux Tapestry exhibition brings in £2.5m for the British Museum on first day of ticket sales
Tickets to view the fragile medieval tapestry, which is on rare loan from France, are now sold out through the end of 2026, with f…
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Human rights museum’s Palestine exhibition sets off feud between Canadian politicians
The country’s heritage minister criticised curatorial choices in “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present”, drawing widespread …
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Lisa Faulkner reveals she's 'all clear' after breast cancer diagnosis
The actress, presenter and food writer says she had a 'big op' but was 'feeling so much better'.
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Married at First Sight UK star arrested on suspicion of rape
It follows a BBC Panorama investigation, broadcast in May, into the hit Channel 4 reality TV show.
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‘There’s not a lot of Black stories made by Black creatives in theater’: inside Kwame Kwei-Armah’s new TLC musical
CrazySexyCool, the celebrated playwright’s new show in DC, is a vibrant love letter to the hits and sisterhood of the R&B trio…
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Artist Erna Rosenstein, whose work about memory and loss resonates today, celebrated with major Vienna exhibition
Rosenstein’s traumatic experiences during wartime run through her art, which fuses Surrealism, biomorphic abstraction and figurati…
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Breaking hearts and blowing minds: Robyn’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!
As she tours the UK, we pick the best of an artist who defined the ‘sad banger’ – but also radiates joy and strength from her perf…
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Honey by Imani Thompson audiobook review – a darkly entertaining campus thriller
Racial and gender politics are woven into a clever tale of murder and morals at Cambridge Yrsa is a young Black undergraduate supe…
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Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! Kabarett und Exil album review – Anne Sofie von Otter turns to cabaret
von Otter/Komische Oper Berlin/Benzwi (BIS) This enjoyably eclectic recital from the ever consummate Von Otter highlights the aest…
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Gary Glitter charged with historical sexual offences
The former singer, whose real name is Paul Gadd, is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 5 August.
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Graham Norton and Phoebe Waller-Bridge spotted before rumoured Swift wedding
Stars have been spotted arriving in New York ahead of Taylor Swift's wedding.
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Terence Gower: Enemies and Rascals review – so was US freedom born bad?
Artangel at the Maughan Library, London Drawing a line from the battle of Quebec to Trump v Carney, the Canadian artist’s takedown…
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Nicholas Cullinan portrait goes up at his former employer, London's National Portrait Gallery
Elizabeth Peyton's painting of Cullinan, now the director of the British Museum, is now on permanent display at the gallery
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Tristan und Isolde review – Wagner in concert performance sees Pappano and the LSO at their finest
Barbican, London Clay Hilley was a blistering Tristan and Sara Jakubiak – in her role debut – a persuasive Isolde with Pappano and…
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Historic Tallinn Art Hall to reopen this November following €13m renovation
The kunsthalle in the Baltic capital will relaunch with a survey of modern and contemporary Estonian art after its five-year closu…