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European culture: art, music, film, books and ideas.
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Rare tour reveals hidden treasures inside Barcelona's Sagrada Familia
A rare guided tour of Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia reveals hidden symbols, sacred relics and little-known details embedded within A…
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Israeli director Nadav Lapid, angered by boycott calls, pulls out of Marseille festival
The Israeli filmmaker, a critic of Benjamin Netanyahu exiled in France for five years, wonders 'what the hell I'm supposed to do' …
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Predator: The Billionaire Football Boss review – truly skin-crawling television
This bleak investigation into allegations against the former West Ham owner and porn baron David Sullivan is incredibly valuable. …
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‘Nobody is pretending to like my work because of my fresh-faced good looks’: the pros of being a debut novelist at 51
There are some advantages to being an older debutant, including knowing what it’s like to fail and not having your new novel overs…
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Icelandair has found the 'world's worst photographer' - and is paying her $50,000
A woman named Blanche Mortemard has just been told she is the worst photographer in the world - out of 127,642 people who tried ve…
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Ariana Grande and Ethan Slater split after three years
The pair met on the set of the first Wicked movie, for which Grande received an Oscar nomination.
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Zoinks! Fans outraged over four-legged star of Netflix's Scooby-Doo live-action reboot
Some people have enough time on their hands to argue over the look of a fictional, talking puppy...
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Artists create Fifa World Cup posters denouncing presence of US immigration agents
The “No Ice in the Cup” campaign is using art to protest US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents' planned deployment to the …
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The best albums of 2026 so far
From Thundercat’s all-star funk to Kacey Musgraves’ hymns to solitude, we look at some of our favourite music of the last six mont…
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Shaken, not ‘woke’: Idris Elba says that James Bond should ‘just be Bond’
Idris Elba has stated that James Bond was “written how he was written for a reason” and suggested that some international audience…
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Flamboyance by Jack Parlett review – a serious study of the spectacular
What does it mean to push the boat out, and can peacocking be more than just a beautiful gesture? A friend’s mother once told me t…
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Seven-time F1 world champion Lewis Hamilton facing backlash over anti-billionaire comments
A three-year-old interview with Lewis Hamilton has resurfaced online, which has prompted fresh conversation about society’s wealth…
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The End of Everything by M John Harrison review – near-future visions from an SF master
This bleak but brilliant tale of enigmatic alien entities and slow social collapse exposes the terrifying insecurity of life right…
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No phones allowed: Phoebe Bridgers takes ‘The Lost Tour’ to Europe
Bridgers joins artists like Bob Dylan, Jack White and Ghost in outright banning phones from live shows.
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A century without Gaudí: Barcelona honours the architect who turned the city into art
Gaudí shaped the landmarks that draw millions of tourists to Barcelona, yet his magnum opus, the Sagrada Família, will not be fini…
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Brexit: A Very British Civil War review – TV has no right to be this much of a hoot
Yes, it’s a documentary on a sobering topic. But when you’ve got an endless stream of blockbuster names spouting irresistible goss…
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New photography museum in Cincinnati foregrounds the medium’s democratic power
The new FotoFocus Center gives the city’s popular photography biennial a permanent presence and an inclusive mandate
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Mexico City museum with world's richest collection of Kahlo and Rivera works reopens after years of controversy
The Museo Dolores Olmedo is welcoming visitors again after a six-year-long closure during which plans were floated to relocate its…
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Summer Game Fest highlights: 34 new video games to look out for, from Alien Isolation to Crazy Taxi
Hundreds of video games were shown at June’s annual bonanza. After watching more than 15 hours of showcases, our video games edito…
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Jarvis Cocker’s ‘hodge podge’: Pulp frontman to curate art exhibition
The English musician will co-organise a show at the UK's Hepworth Wakefield next year
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Legacy dealer Marianne Rosenberg unearths family archive for New York show
Giacomo Manzù: The Artist and his Dealer explores the decades-long relationship between the Italian artist and Rosenberg's father
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MoMA exhibition will examine Mondrian’s time in New York and love of boogie woogie music
The exhibition, opening in March 2027, will pair one of MoMA’s prized possessions, “Broadway Boogie Woogie”, with “Victory Boogie …
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The Sun and the Moon: Saatchi Gallery's ambitious new summer show turns its gaze to the sky
From a giant glowing Sun and immersive installations that can't be photographed, to ancient Arctic snow goggles and textiles inspi…
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Czech forest turns into Middle Earth for 750-player fantasy battle event
A forest in the Czech Republic was turned into a real-life version of The Hobbit as around 750 fantasy fans took part in a large-s…