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European culture: art, music, film, books and ideas.
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T. rex skeleton 'Gus' fetches record $50.1m
A Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton has sold for $50.1 million in New York, highlighting the rapid inflation of the alternative asset mar…
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Broadway faces economic crisis as new musicals fail to recoup costs
Andrew Lloyd Webber has warned that Broadway's business model is broken after his acclaimed $18m Cats revival became the latest un…
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BBC puts Doctor Who franchise out to tender, axes Christmas special
The BBC is putting its flagship Doctor Who franchise out to competitive tender, signalling a major shift in how the publicly funde…
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Blue singer Lee Ryan loses plane assault appeal
The Blue singer was challenging a conviction for assaulting a cabin crew member on a flight.
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Licence fee collapse pushes BBC to brink, warning for European media
The BBC has warned its funding model faces "real jeopardy" after licence fee income fell by a quarter in real terms, highlighting …
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£1 tickets bring theatre to Cornish banger racers in radical arts experiment
A Cornish racetrack is staging a play for £1 a ticket, offering a model of radical cultural accessibility in a region where tradit…
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Shopaholic film highlights enduring consumer debt risks amid buy-now-pay-later surge
A retrospective look at the 2009 film Confessions of a Shopaholic reveals striking parallels between its depiction of personal deb…
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Barbican film season explores pan-Africanism's global impact
A new three-month film programme at London's Barbican centre is revisiting the complex history of pan-Africanism, exposing both th…
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New York opens $6m cupola atop historic Municipal Building
A $6m restoration project has opened the long-inaccessible cupola of Manhattan’s Municipal Building to the public, creating a tigh…
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European music fans prioritise live performance and physical media over chart success
Reader favourites for 2026 highlight a market shift where artists drive venue sell-outs and vinyl sales despite limited mainstream…
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D-topia video game challenges tech industry's utilitarian AI pitch
A new release from Japanese studio Marumittu Games uses a deceptively cosy sci-fi setting to question whether the tech sector's pr…
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Rauschenberg foundation donates sculptures to UK national collection
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has donated three major sculptures to the UK's shared national collection, adding high-value as…
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System of a Down UK show highlights live music reliance on legacy catalogues
The band’s latest performance underscores how major musical acts sustain big-ticket tours through political nostalgia amid ongoing…
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Archival Jonathan Larson songs reach London, underscoring value of legacy theatre IP
A London production featuring 18 previously unreleased songs by the late Rent composer demonstrates how archival intellectual prop…
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BBC salary list shows commercial arm shielding top stars
The BBC’s annual salary disclosure reveals a structural shift toward its commercial arm, masking the true cost of its biggest tale…
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Enid Marx exhibition spotlights mass production in public design
A new retrospective restores the industrial designer who modernised London’s public transport seating and championed mass-produced…
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Amnesty UK regrets listing JK Rowling's women's centre as anti-rights
Amnesty International UK has withdrawn a report classifying a JK Rowling-funded women's support centre as "anti-rights", an episod…
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BBC faces funding reckoning as licence fee base shrinks
The BBC has warned of an "existential threat" to its future after its annual report revealed an accelerating decline in the televi…
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Jane Campion remembers Sam Neill: ‘He was radiating peace, beaming love’
The Piano director shares her memories of the actor on set – and the last time she saw him in hospital Sam Neill’s final interview…
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Leiden University archaeologists unearth Ramesside tomb in Luxor
A Dutch-led mission has discovered a 3,000-year-old tomb in Luxor, highlighting the continued role of European academic institutio…
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Synthetic Sincerity review – Marc Isaacs’ AI interrogation grapples with identity and existence
A combination of fact and fiction leaves the celebrated documentarian’s puzzling project about software training wanting for depth…
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‘We met and two minutes later we were kissing’ – how Gavin and Stacey became Britain’s most bang tidy TV couple
To kick off Making Love, our new series in which the stars behind TV’s hottest relationships relive their romances, Mathew Horne a…
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They Fight review – boxing drama is an emotional gutpunch
Anchored by an indelible André Holland performance, the film finds tenderness and warmth amid its gritty Washington DC backdrop In…
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What happened when Lucian Freud met Kate Moss? Nothing much, according to new film
Movie about the friendship between the artist and the supermodel gets widespread drubbing from critics