Culture
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2Argerich/Maisky/Ivanov review – legendary pianist brings her irrepressible brilliance to chamber music programme | Classical music
Any concert involving Martha Argerich is a special event. The promise of hearing the pianist doing what one suspects she enjoys most...
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4KS6: Small Forward review – Belarusian basketball star tells high-energy story of becoming a dissident | Theatre
In this new piece by Belarus Free Theatre, an Olympian basketball player relates her own story – a sporting memoir and political...
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5‘They chucked her under the bus – then reversed it back over her’: has the Emilia Pérez backlash gone too far? | Film
The dramatic cancellation of Karla Sofía Gascón, star of multi-Oscar-nominated Emilia Pérez, has left publicists frantically struggling to keep the film in...
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3Turner: In Light and Shade review – bathe in the redemptive power of landscape art | JMW Turner
This spring will see the 250th birthday of Britain’s favourite painter. Joseph Mallord William Turner was born on 23 April 1775 among...
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10Antigone [on strike] review – shades of Shamima Begum as Sophocles’s rebel royal is exiled | Theatre
The story of Sophocles’ rebel princess is clearly crossed with that of Shamima Begum’s stripped citizenship in this participatory production, written and...
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9Gino D’Acampo denies ‘dozens’ of claims of misconduct | Television
The TV chef Gino D’Acampo has denied accusations of inappropriate behaviour including using sexualised and aggressive language over a period of 12...
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8TV tonight: Bill Bailey’s incredibly moving art show | Television
7.30pm, BBC One Bill Bailey presents a surprisingly moving art show that follows the creation of portraits of remarkable people. Clare was...
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8‘I’ve never had a cinematic experience like it’: readers’ memories of Prince Charles Cinema | Film
Just off London’s heaving Leicester Square, around the corner from M&M’s World, is the cult film venue the Prince Charles Cinema. Converted...
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9The Waterboys’ Mike Scott: ‘I love Prince’s version of The Whole of the Moon. And Graham Norton’s’ | The Waterboys
Why did your new album, Life, Death and Dennis Hopper, take four years? VerulamiumParkRangerI knew Dennis Hopper as the actor in Easy...
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8The Apprentice at 20: how Trump and Alan Sugar’s reality TV baby became little more than ritual humiliation | The Apprentice
The opening scenes of The Apprentice – Lord Alan Sugar’s search for a new business partner – have become a yearly tradition...
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8Guardian writers on their ultimate feelgood movies: ‘For when humanity lets me down’ | Film
“Feelgood” movies are often thought of as big-hearted romantic comedies, comforting classics, or childhood favourites that still hold up decades later. In...
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17Olly Alexander: Polari review – Hi-NRG throwback for the Radio 2 crowd | Olly Alexander
It isn’t melodramatic to say that Olly Alexander’s debut solo album comes at a crucial moment in his career. Four years ago,...
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15‘He wanted to have a wing of the Tate named after him’: remembering the groundbreaking art of Donald Rodney | Art
For many reasons, 1981 stands as a landmark year in Black British history. That January, the New Cross Fire claimed the lives...
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10Tate Liverpool ‘flings open windows’ to first phase of £30m revamp | Tate Liverpool
“We want to fling open the windows, let the light bounce in,” said the architect Stephanie Macdonald in a building that has...
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9A wedding in a desert full of war props: Gohar Dashti’s best photograph | Art and design
I grew up in Ahvaz, a city in Iran that’s close to the border with Iraq, during the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88....
