Human harps, massive bananas and dogging: the 20 best Busby Berkeley dance routines – ranked!
To mark 50 years since the director and choreographer’s death, we count down his best fantastical, kaleidoscopic…
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It’s going to be a blast: why 100 tubas are heading for a garden in Haddington
Faced with a new concert venue – a vast and beautiful walled garden – John Harris and the Lammermuir festival had to…
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Is this world-class, free gallery Cambridge’s best-kept secret?
Maggi Hambling, Paula Rego, Bridget Riley … Murray Edwards College houses the Women’s Art Collection, featuring some of…
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Sky’s the limit! Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater – in pictures
The always revelatory dance company is at Sadler’s Wells in London this month with two programmes, celebrating their…
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South Park – I mean, South America – is back, with no Donald Trump in sight (yet)
After adopting the president’s fondness for renaming things ‘America’, the season 29 premiere sees Trey Parker and Matt…
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TV tonight: romance scams to make your blood boil
A new series picks apart some shocking cases. Plus: a rival vet arrives in the Dales in All Creatures Great and Small.…
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‘I thank God for killing me and bringing me back’: Nicolas Winding Refn on the heart surgery that inspired his new sci-fi horror
Notorious for ultra-violent movies like Drive and The Neon Demon, the Dane had lost the will to direct until ‘the Tom…
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The secret of Mozart’s genius unlocked – has a teenager succeeded where generations of musicologists have failed?
US student Linus Chen-Plotkin has analysed music by four canonical composers looking for patterns. Turns out Mozart’s…
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Previously unseen drawings by Moomins author Tove Jansson to go on show in London
Exclusive: Exhibition focusing on Finnish writer and artist’s illustrations will include original art from her first…
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A naked performance artist in the garden with her mum: Rona Bar and Ofek Avshalom’s best photograph
‘Lois and her mother Carey are artists and their house is full of art, which seems to spill out of them. The way they…
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Battle of Chile director Patricio Guzmán dies aged 85
Passionate documentary maker won international acclaim for unsparing but poetic films exploring the impact of the…
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‘We thought death could do with a bit of dancing’: welcome to Sondering, the arts festival with its own funeral march
A brush with mortality inspired sisters Sophia and Camilla Minden to create a death-themed event featuring live bands,…
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: New Works review – a heavenly night
Sadler’s Wells, London Skill, craft and beauty infuse pieces including Lar Lubovitch’s Many Angels and Judith Jamison’s…
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‘Who do they dream of becoming?’ Teenage girls in America – in pictures
As a child from a small Belgian farming town, Eva Verbeeck could only imagine what it was like growing up as an…
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TV tonight: Bafta-winning documentary makers follow far-right protesters
A depressing look at the anti-immigration movement in England ‘Til I Die. Plus: Kevin McCloud is back with Grand…
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‘We weren’t shy. We were queers in leather!’ Sunil Gupta on his momentous photographs of gay life
From Delhi to New York, from the street to the bath house, he has captured clandestine moments, risked his freedom –…
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The lion, the witch and the warblers: behind the scenes of Handel’s Alcina at the RBO – in pictures
The colourful and larger-than-life staging of the opera about an enchantress who transforms her lovers into beasts…
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‘She went to her studio every day and no one was allowed near it’: the glorious nature paintings of Yasmin David
Her father was Laurie Lee, her mother the bohemian Lorna Garman, and the full extent of her talent wasn’t apparent…
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No Big Deal review – is this how AI ends humanity … with a sitcom so bad it bores you to death?
The characters are dead-eyed waxworks which speak with all the nuance of a satnav. But this AI-created workplace comedy…
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James McNeill Whistler review – painter’s work shines through attention-grabbing life story
The latest Exhibition on Screen documentary does a good job balancing the famous scandals with the subtle brilliance of…
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The Rouse by China Miéville review – a mighty achievement from the ‘new weird’ author
Twenty years in the writing, this paranormal epic of cold war espionage and family tragedy is a quantum leap in terms…
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Premature review – sunny charm provides screwball energy for surprise-pregnancy comedy
First-time director Kevin Walls creates a film sweet-natured enough to cancel out some comedy misfires as flatmates…
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Through the looking glass: female stereotypes examined – in pictures
Taking the women of the 1950s as her role models, Jo Ann Chaus shoots compelling self-portraits that exhibit both…
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Benedict Cumberbatch on his Earth-saving eco film: ‘We are in the last grab of the extraction era’
From Obama’s chef to a big cat obsessive, the actor has gathered experts from all over the world for a film about how…
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‘A double entendre in every crevice’: what, beyond near-naked tennis, is Sydney Sweeney’s game?
With her new, semi-nude advert for sports site Novig, the actor cements her reputation as the anti-woke poster girl.…
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Sunday in the Park With George musical cancelled, after Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey both drop out
The star-studded Sondheim musical has hit the buffers after a second star, Jonathan Bailey, joined his Wicked colleague…
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Ancestors review – messy but moving ghostly drama about the Aids crisis
Toronto film festival: Saipan standout Éanna Hardwicke is a soulful gay man looking for a missing friend in a striking…
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Touring can take musicians to isolating, anxious extremes. Access to therapy on the road is a vital support
I know from our early days how high-pressure road life can be. While big tours often hire therapists, grassroots acts…
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Barrio Triste review – raw and dynamic portrait of anarchic slum life in 1980s Medellín
Bad Bunny collaborator Stillz’s debut feature shot using Betacam focuses on vibes over plot Best known as the creative…
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End Times Fascism by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor review – the fightback starts here
A sharp analysis of the damage wrought by the reckless super-rich, and a progressive toolkit for repairing it The more…
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A great time with Uncle Junior from the Sopranos: best podcasts of the week
Fans of the show will not want to miss this revealing new series with Dominic Chianese and his son. Plus, a political…
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We Are Family: photography from Images Vevey 2026 – picture essay
We visited the idyllic Swiss lakeside town of Vevey for its 10th Biennale of photography. Global head of photography…
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Frances Stonor Saunders obituary
Author and documentary-maker best known for her 1999 book about CIA-funded cultural espionage Who Paid the Piper? The…
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NAZA director says 'it's important Israelis watch this film' after win at Venice festival – video
NAZA, a new film directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor and produced by the Guardian, has been awarded the special…
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‘He would have been the center of everything’: the art exhibition imagining if Emmett Till lived
Dedicated to the boy whose lynching partially ignited the US civil rights movement, the new exhibition celebrates Black…
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Last Night of the Proms review – musical chaos ensues in near four-hour finale
Royal Albert Hall, London The evening features everything from a rendition of an inscrutable Samuel Barber concerto to…
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