New room would give thousands of daily visitors better experience, says museum presidentThe Mona Lisa, the world’s most famous portrait, could get a room of its own in the Louvre, the museum’s president said.Such a move would give visitors, many of w...
Singer’s attorney says agreement gives his client the ‘freedom’ that ‘she desired’Britney Spears and her estranged father have agreed to settle a legal dispute that continued between them even though it had been more than two years since a court had...
A magnetic central performance from Bayan Layla as a young woman balancing cultural identity and female sexuality lights up Milena Aboyan’s fine debut feature“I wish we had German vaginas.” On a stolen evening at a nightclub, away from the gaze of th...
The politician and lawyer on Salman Rushdie’s remarkable new memoir, Manchester’s magnificent music students and powerful depictions of wars both real and imaginedThe human rights lawyer and campaigner Baroness Shami Chakrabarti was born in Kenton, n...
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Roundhouse, LondonCharles Hazlewood’s boundary-breaking ensemble guide the Suede singer and special guests through an elegiac evening grown out of the pandemicDressed all in black, Brett Anderson is channelling the elliptical yearning of Echo and the...
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Royal Opera House; Wigmore Hall; Milton Court, LondonA fearless central performance anchors Katie Mitchell’s busy yet insightful Donizetti revival. And two chamber concerts serve as a vibrant prelude to this year’s BBC Proms…“Agency” is a current buz...
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It’s four decades since the comedy drama detailing the exploits of British migrant workers in Germany burst on to our screens. As they stage a live show, its writers and stars let us in on how they constructed a classicIn November 1983, a new televis...
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The Clash are the touchstone for a story that stretches back to the 50s, told in interviews with many campaigning rockersThere’s no better time than now for a documentary on popular music’s role in the fight against racism and fascism. And in true pu...
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(Total Pleasure/Virgin)Recreating the noises in her head, Annie Clark’s first fully self-produced album ranges across styles and emotions, and is her most direct yetWorth remembering: Annie “St Vincent” Clark’s college band was called the Skull Fucke...
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With four million copies sold and three books in adaptation, the Beach Read author is riding high. She talks about hope, TikTok tropes and escapismA few weeks after Emily& Henry’s second romance novel, You and Me on Vacation, was published in May 202...
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They had only been married for 11 months when the world-famous novelist was attacked by a frenzied knifeman. His wife remembers the intense drama of hearing the news, and the traumatic aftermathI woke early and alone on the sunny morning of Friday 12...
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From manicured, exclusive retreats built on slave money to common ground in which to seed utopian dreams, gardens occupy a fertile space in our lives and imaginationsI have a dream sometimes. I dream I’m in a house, and discover a door I didn’t know...
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Two teenage boys come of age in a divided and radicalised London in this politically charged debutThe perilous porousness between& our online and offline worlds is the spark for Nicolas Padamsee’s tinderbox thriller about two teenage boys. Deeply ast...
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The further this show leans into its silly side, the better it becomes. It is about an echidna space warrior helping his pal get to a bowling tournament, after allGiving a supporting character their own spin-off is a risky business. For every brillia...
Focus / Culture - 18 hours ago
An immersive documentary about the band’s founder, who left the group to live in solitude. Plus: more explosive drama in Traces. Here’s what to watch this evening Continue reading...