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A new documentary challenges an alleged 1946 mistranslation that helped lead to a justification for Christian anti-gaynessWhat if all the anti-gay, homophobic rhetoric that has come from the Christian right over these past few decades was rooted in a...
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(Nonesuch)The California-raised trumpet virtuoso provides a balming trio album to counter our information overloadThe news that Ambrose Akinmusire likes owls comes as no surprise once you start pondering the watchful patience and swooping accuracy of...
(Disruptor/Columbia Records)The gen Z contender’s debut album attempts a kind of manufactured deviance but is hampered by blunt and anonymous songwritingThe Disney-star-to-pop-star pipeline is still in full swing a good 30 years after Britney, Christ...
From plans for flying machines to philosophy – the remarkable joy of jotting things down Roland Allen loves notebooks. Why wouldn’t he? He is, after all, a writer. In his new study, delightfully subtitled A History of Thinking on Paper, he declares:...
Jasmine Jobson stars in a ghostly new drama, and a fascinating new documentary about the Lennon’s tragic death Continue reading...
From doll makers to swamp-dwellers, the Brooklyn photographer turns his unique gaze on the more dreamlike aspects of America and beyond Continue reading...
A new Channel 4 documentary shows us just how much the beef industry is harming the planet. Plus: Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks grace Graham Norton’s sofa. Here’s what to watch this evening Continue reading...
When I interviewed him last year, the late Pogues legend was truculent, moody, wilfully silent – and immensely likable. I will forever cherish our strange meetingShane MacGowan and I sat in near silence for two hours last year. We were at his home, j...
Photographer and campaigner against Sackler family tops ArtReview Power 100 listNan Goldin, the pioneering photographer and campaigner against the billionaires who fuelled the US opioid epidemic, has topped an annual ranking of the contemporary art w...
Watch Mike Birbiglia’s hit comedy about mortality, Colm and Brenda Meaney in Enda Walsh’s two-hander or choose from a flock of Swan Lakes Here’s Mike Birbiglia’s pitch for his Broadway and West End hit: “I wrote a show about mortality and I guarantee...
The singer’s new release offers not only the dazzling professionalism of the stage show but also plenty of behind the curtain action This year will go down in cinema history for Barbenheimer but 2023 has also been the year of “Tayloncé”. Just as Barb...
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The National Gallery of Australia’s exhibition contextualises the artist away from the western market, bringing us ‘the old lady’ through the prism of her country, her culture and her communityA western story is invariably grafted on to Australia’s m...
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The photographer’s storied career included defining pictures of Marilyn Monroe, Richard Nixon and a host of dogsElliott Erwitt, the photographer of American life, political history, starlets and humor, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan, his d...
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The annual summary of your listening habits has become a phenomenon – but marketing wheeze aside, Wrapped doesn’t reflect what we truly loveAs a marketing exercise, it’s hard not to be hugely impressed by Spotify Wrapped. In less than a decade, the s...
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The acclaimed company returns to Sadler’s Wells in London with a production inspired by the optical phenomenon known as a ‘lunar halo’Photography by Tristram Kenton Continue reading...