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European culture: art, music, film, books and ideas.
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Making earwax melt and teeth rattle: the project returning music to our bodies
Listeners in the 17th and 18th centuries experienced music in a startlingly vivid – and physical – way. A fascinating academic pro…
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German war hero Annika at her farm for struggling veterans: Jan Kraus’s best photograph
‘She was in Germany’s biggest battle since the second world war, but the army took years to recognise her PTSD. Annika now runs a …
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The Warriors come out to Broadway with Lin-Manuel Miranda musical
Miranda and Eisa Davis’s concept album based on the 1979 film is to be realised for the stage, co-directed by Jenny Koons and Hami…
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Venus & Adonis review – Simon Russell Beale narrates cheeky tale of puppet passion
The Pit, Barbican, London Greg Doran directs Shakespeare’s timeless poem of seduction, told with Lyndie Wright’s gorgeous, masterf…
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Game of stones: how paintings of marble reveal a world of magical medieval mysticism
From trippy swirls to blood-soaked slabs, a new book mines gothic and renaissance art for the supernatural significance of the pre…
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Helen Cammock removes film criticising Winston Churchill from London's National Portrait Gallery following complaint
‘Persistence’ implies that the former prime minister is to blame for the 1943 Bengal famine, which historian Andrew Roberts says i…
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Turandot review – Opera Holland Park celebrate 30 years with Puccini’s grand guignol
Opera Holland Park, London A concert performance in an orchestral reduction of Puccini’s colossal final opera was stylishly led by…
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GTA 6 will cost $80 - and physical edition will not contain a disc
Rockstar has said physical copies of the game will contain a code for a digital download for the game.
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Pass the sick bag! Why I published a book on the art of the airline essential
One evoked a hellish trip from Delhi after passengers had drunk unsanitary water. Another conjoured up an era when planes were thi…
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Picasso painting recovered in French drug raid was stolen ‘opportunistically’, police source says
The portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter was reportedly discovered during a search of a house in the town of Champigny-sur-Marne
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Cate Blanchett and Javier Bardem lead stars uniting to protect their identity from AI
A new free tool allows artists to decide whether to give the green light for their image to be used by artificial intelligence sys…
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Stars including Cate Blanchett and Javier Bardem unite to protect their identities in AI era
A new free tool allows artists to give or withhold consent for their image to be used by artificial intelligence.
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Consenting adults: Cate Blanchett launches project to allow artists to choose AI identities
Hollywood heavyweight Cate Blanchett is behind a new free online tool which allows artists to give or withhold permission for thei…
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Sting review – historical crimes against women spill back into the present
Young Vic theatre, London Sophie Swithinbank’s urgent drama shimmers with spark and danger as an archive researcher finds herself …
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The Last Viking review – Mads Mikkelsen thinks he’s John Lennon in Von Trier-ish prankster comedy
Danish shaggy-dog story about a man with a dissociative disorder has a fun premise but wastes it on lots of goofy, humourless viol…
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Misan Harriman to step down as chair of Southbank Centre
Harriman, accused by Telegraph of sharing conspiracy theory after Golders Green attack, says he had decided ‘way before this madne…
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Jesy Nelson 'outraged' after MPs debate muscle condition that affects her twins
The singer says children face a "postcode lottery", as testing for the disease is staggered.
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‘A mermaid brushed her hair while people put objects under her boobs’: discover the tiny secret festivals rivalling Glasto for vibes
Fed up with expensive tickets and omnipresent branding, some festival fans are creating their own anarchic, ticketless events full…
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Why Austrian author Ingeborg Bachmann remains a literary icon
A new documentary featuring Sandra Hüller celebrates the Austrian poet and author who was a literary star of her era. She would ha…
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A brush with… Anne Imhof—podcast
Anne Imhof talks to Ben Luke about her influences—from writers to musicians, and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experi…
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Paris neighborhood fighting the heatwave with with 'Ciné-clim' initiative
In order to combat the days’ highest temperature peaks, one cultural initiative in Paris has everyone asking: “Why isn’t this nati…
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London's ailing June art season is heating up, thanks to homegrown efforts
Beleaguered by Brexit, this year, record auctions and a promising crop of fairs and events are helping to boost the week
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‘Beautiful and terrifying’: the best American LGBTQ+ books, chosen by Samuel R Delany, Kaveh Akbar, Eileen Myles and more
From 20th-century classics to little-known treasures, queer authors share their favorite books about LGBTQ+ life ‘Sheer outrageous…
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Kin by Tayari Jones review – a haunting tale of motherlessness
Two friends, united by their missing mothers, come of age in segregation-era America, in a cautionary tale about the limits of lov…