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Although NYPD reports 24% increase in complaints about graffiti, proponents of street art say police and gentrifiers are resisting a growing art form
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Costume designer Eulyn Womble on how her poor upbringing in Cape Town inspired the zombies’ outfits – and why period drama bores her
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Actor’s rendition of Blackalicious on Jimmy Fallon is the latest in a long list of well-known names attempting to rap - from Gwyneth Paltrow to Natalie Portman
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Chadwick Boseman has been cast as Black Panther, Marvel’s first ever lead black superhero. It’s a breakthrough moment for a genre that’s been steadily maturing – but can it avoid tired exotic imagery?
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The Triumph of the Eucharist reveals four of the artist’s tapestries and the newly restored paintings they were taken from, in a landmark exhibition
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Blockbuster author reveals his spiritual side in lengthy Q&A to launch new novel that deals with a minister’s loss of faith, writes Alison Flood
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From the eternally enthralling tale of Dracula, to femmes fatales spooking in the name of feminine sexuality, horror author Lauren Owen selects her favourite vampiric tales
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Shooting for Vogue and Vanity Fair in the 20s and 30s, father of fashion photography Edward Steichen devised a mode of portraiture that set the template for style magazines
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New systems aim to limit number of tourist visits, while providing better illumination and preserving artworks
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A film detailing a music professor’s theory that Bach’s second wife Anna Magdalena composed one of his most famous works is causing a classical stir
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Studio unveils next tranche of superhero films at fan event in Hollywood, including Chadwick Boseman as first non-white lead
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Boasting dazzling colours, utopian visions and – of course – a dollop of elephant dung. See some images from Chris Ofili’s retrospective at the New Museum in New York
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Richard Preston’s The Hot Zone, which has returned to the bestseller list, now seems sensationalist and out of date. But a short science book provides the facts and reassurance we need
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New musical work celebrates Nat Nakasa, a journalist who was exiled from South Africa and whose life ended suddenly in Harlem
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The star of Parks and Recreation shot the breeze about rapping, pickup lines and why she should play Penelope Cruz for the rest of her life
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Welcome to the pleasure dome. Hold on to your hats we’ve got non-stop trivial pop nonsense coming at you hard and fast. We’ve got: Daniel RAD-CLIFFE impressing us with his rap skills, plus the best of the night’s US telly as well as all the usual daftness. Get in touch @guideguardian.
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English Heritage announces Grade II listing for east London’s the Rom, signifying skateboarding’s cultural importance
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Hollywood’s favourite song-and-dance man may be remaking Britain’s Saturday Night Takeaway, but today’s viewers compile our own variety shows from YouTube
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We’re back with more pop culture than you can shake Nicki Minaj’s tush at in one scrollable place. Benedict Cumberbatch to star in film! Russell Brand to do everything! OK Go make mindblowing music video! All that plus maybe some stuff you didn’t know. Also coming up: new trailers, tunes and stuff. Tweet us your nonsense @guideguardian
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As Halloween approaches – and as the British Library hosts a Gothic literature exhibition – we look through the Guardian archive for tales of horror and suspense
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Sweltering city hosts festival featuring more than 40 recycled refrigerator art installations dotted around Darwin
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Annotated pop charts, enumerated images of Bill Nighy and new Rick Ross music, we had it all in Guide Daily
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Comedian denies he may try to succeed Boris Johnson: ‘If you want a daft comedian running London, leave things as they are’
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Over 100,000 fans attended Comic-Con London this year. From Pikachu onesies to Superman capes, comic and movie enthusiasts had a chance to dress-up as their favourite character for the day. Some outfits are hand-made, others bought online. How do the costumes in real life compare to the comic versions?
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At KidZania, children can do ‘work experience’ as everything from vets to firefighters and dentists, and earn points to spend or save in return. The Tokyo park has been fully booked every day since it opened in 2006 – and the UK version is set to open in London’s White City
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The comedian talks to Kathryn Bromwich about Patton Oswalt, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s films, out-there animations and the pleasures of Highgate Cemetery
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Mail on Sunday reports that comedian and author is considering a bid to succeed Boris Johnson
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Launched in 1992 as an alternative to the Brit Awards, the prize was originally sponsored by Mercury Communications
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British Summer Time is over, the clocks go back tonight
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The latest in a series of shows based on comic books, Constantine suffers by being overly reverential to its lead character – who, let’s face it, is kind of a jerk
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As Halloween approaches and with scary clowns in the news, we select the most fearsome examples of red-nosed entertainers gone very bad indeed
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The Flash is going gangbusters, Bad Judge is clinging on and it looks like curtains for Selfie. We assess the winners and losers of the fall TV season
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Behind the scenes of the drama's infamous "tread lightly" moment, with showrunner Vince Gilligan discussing Hank and Walter's confrontation in the garage
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Actor reveals he ‘didn’t want’ the part of Michael Corleone and thought Francis Ford Coppola ‘a bit mad’ for offering it to him
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The Geneva-based laboratory for particle physics has released a vast archive of photographs dating back to the mid-1950s. The problem is that many of them have no captions – so scientists at Cern are asking the public for help
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Hollywood’s favourite song-and-dance man may be remaking Britain’s Saturday Night Takeaway, but today’s viewers compile our own variety shows from YouTube
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The scariest beast in Nabokov’s Lolita isn’t the perverted Jimmy Savile figure Quilty, but the evasive, smug Humbert
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Powerful and deeply uncomfortable new painting expresses the anger and humiliation inspired by ‘stop and search’ at a time when the issue has never been more talked-about
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Alex Hess: a slasher flick that swaps self-consciousness for societal fears and sadistic gore
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A party where you can pay to have verse read to you in a bordello-style setting is packing in the punters – but are poetry and sex work really comparable? asks Sarah Theeboom
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Ben Child: Of all the big names in the hat, only Cumberbatch has both the scene-chewing intensity and the capacity for weird this operatic Marvel character demands
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Taylor Swift’s new album is the latest holdout from the streaming music service, and Spotify isn’t happy. By Alex Hern
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‘Photobomb’ may have its legacy assured through the ages, but there are some even more egregious neologisms that didn’t make the cut. We list them here in the hope they disappear for ever
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The French playwright’s comedy has been packing audiences in worldwide for 20 years. What is the secret of its success, asks Michael Billington
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Is it gore and horror that keeps your late-night pages turning, or something more insidious? Let us know your favourites
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Christos Tsiolkas has opened his new short story collection with a bang. But, Johanna Leggatt asks, is an explicit first page likely to turn off readers?
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JA Bayona's 2007 horror flick still makes me scream like a banshee after three viewings, as much for its real human terror as for its supernatural shocks
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See the Center of Investigative Reporting’s graphic novel
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The final leg of the New York music showcase saw insouciant punks, emo revivalists and noise rockers among the bands
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It’s wonderful to see black actors in 1913 dancing, romancing and strolling like they don’t have a care in the world, writes Steven W Thrasher
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From Rod Stewart to Robbie Williams, and now Lady Gaga and Annie Lennox, pop stars keep hopping on the jazz bandwagon but just can’t ride the rhythm
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Edinburgh hip-hop group’s debut album, Dead, beats 11 other nominees, including Damon Albarn, to take coveted prize
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Dead is an anomalous album, but a bewitching and alluring one – just the sort of music these awards should be honouring
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Although NYPD reports 24% increase in complaints about graffiti, proponents of street art say police and gentrifiers are resisting a growing art form
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Chadwick Boseman has been cast as Black Panther, Marvel’s first ever lead black superhero. It’s a breakthrough moment for a genre that’s been steadily maturing – but can it avoid tired exotic imagery?
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The Triumph of the Eucharist reveals four of the artist’s tapestries and the newly restored paintings they were taken from, in a landmark exhibition
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Data from the Official Charts Company show artists such as Anna Calvi, Polar Bear and Young Fathers have shifted only small amounts following Mercury nod, reports Sean Michaels
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Amid a similar dispute over pay at Picturehouse cinemas, its rival Curzon has agreed to raise its front-of-house workers’ pay to £8.80 an hour
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Blockbuster author reveals his spiritual side in lengthy Q&A to launch new novel that deals with a minister’s loss of faith, writes Alison Flood
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Actor says Mi Mandela is part of a series of ‘character albums’, with potential Luther and Stringer Bell records on the way
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News: The pop star will team with the Weinstein Company on two new shows – a behind-the-scenes documentary and a look at the mentors who have guided big names in sport, music and politics
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EDM overlord returns with his ‘most personal album’ ever, entitled Listen and featuring a host of eclectic artists
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English Heritage announces Grade II listing for east London’s the Rom, signifying skateboarding’s cultural importance
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New releases by Pink Floyd, Queen and AC/DC as labels seek music fans who still prefer buying albums to streaming tracks
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Studio unveils next tranche of superhero films at fan event in Hollywood, including Chadwick Boseman as first non-white lead
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Kindle Scout allows readers to read unpublished novels and vote whether they should be published by Amazon, with publishing deals for successful authors
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Rapper decided against joining Britney and Celine Dion as a Vegas big draw, reports Sean Michaels. Meanwhile, a demo version of Yeezus’s New Slaves appears online
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Online hit After, which takes its cues from Fifty Shades of Grey and the One Direction singer, has been optioned for a movie version by Paramount
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The action star, long rumoured for a part in the second season of the hardboiled crime drama, has confirmed that he’ll appear alongside Vince Vaughn and Colin Farrell
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The star of Parks and Recreation shot the breeze about rapping, pickup lines and why she should play Penelope Cruz for the rest of her life
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Thirty years ago, the first in Kay’s bestselling Fionovar Tapestry fantasy trilogy was published – but before that, a stint helping Christopher Tolkien assemble The Silmarillion showed him the ‘drudgery and mistakes’ that lie behind every great work. He talks to Alison Flood
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The pop star will team with the Weinstein Company on two new shows – a behind-the-scenes documentary and a look at the mentors who have guided big names in sport, music and politics
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Pink, last seen belting out hits while swinging through the air with topless hunks, has taken up country music. She tells Michael Cragg why it’s a ‘fun hang’
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EDM overlord returns with his ‘most personal album’ ever, entitled Listen and featuring a host of eclectic artists
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Rapper decided against joining Britney and Celine Dion as a Vegas big draw, reports Sean Michaels. Meanwhile, a demo version of Yeezus’s New Slaves appears online
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The New Jersey nostalgia masters tackle beautiful mundanity with third album Atlas, writes Nosheen Iqbal
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Tony and Olivier winner to play Big Friendly Giant in Spielberg’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s 1982 children’s classic
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The enduring performer talks about the emotional moment he received best actor award at Cannes for his role in Mike Leigh’s new film Mr Turner, 18 years after having to miss the festival when he was diagnosed with leukaemia, writes Xan Brooks
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A 'tipsy man in his 80s' reportedly mistook Mindy Kaling for Malala Yousafzai at a party in New York recently. Easy mistake to make, right? Er, not really
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The popular host of Reading Rainbow reads the story Go the Fuck to Sleep to delightful effect for a charity fundraiser
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Welsh wordsmith Dylan Thomas was born on October 27 1914. Celebrate the 100th birthday of the author of Under Milk Wood by testing your knowledge of his life and work
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Internationally lauded for Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum in 1997, he is now suffering a backlash. And having none of it
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With Victorian theatrics, disembodied voices and a low-frequency generating infrasound device, Dickie Beau’s multimedia seance will be felt as much as heard, writes John O’Mahony
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The Royle Family star was jailed after the national construction workers’ strike of 1972. As a show about the ‘Shrewsbury 24’ arrives in Shropshire, he talks to Alfred Hickling
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The novelist talks to Robert McCrum about literary heavyweights, why she doesn’t like to complain, and how her current and former husbands helped her write her new book
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Actor and rapper Riz Ahmed talks to Kathryn Bromwich about his directorial debut, daytime raves and why he can’t relax
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The US-based Iranian writer Azar Nafisi talks to Viv Groskop about freedom, imagination and inequality – in Islam and the west
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The comedian talks to Kathryn Bromwich about Patton Oswalt, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s films, out-there animations and the pleasures of Highgate Cemetery
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The prog-rock pioneer talks to Jude Rodgers about his love of jazz, the thrill of meeting Bulgarian folk singers and why Pharrell Williams is as good as any of the 60s soul greats
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Keira Knightley is happier than she has been for years. Although she is busier than ever, the paparazzi no longer hassle her and even her critics have softened. So what’s changed? By Megan Conner
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The actor, 57, on money, Dickensian London, and not trusting politicians
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Ahead of his Domino debut, the deep dance producer empties the contents of his psychic record bag
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The bestselling biogeographer talks to Oliver Burkeman about dealing with the critics who condemn him as a cultural imperialist
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With its incest and gore, John Ford’s 17th-century tragedy was not an obvious choice for the director of Constellations. He talks to David Jays about the allure of the play – and the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
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Hockney, a revealing new documentary about the man voted Britain’s most influential artist is released in November. We’re interviewing him, but we’d like you to think up the questions…
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The American heavy rocker talks to Dave Simpson about the end of an era, taking fresh chances with music and the joys of beating addiction
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South London’s Kate Tempest is a ‘poet-rapper-playwright’ who hates being known as a hyphenated poet, rapper and playwright. She’s also the favourite to win the Mercury prize next week. ‘I’m petrified,’ she tells Dorian Lynskey
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Leslie Felperin: In London years ago, Shonali Bose was inspired to make a movie when her cousin, who has cerebral palsy, told her she wanted sex for her birthday. Now both women are back in town – at the film festival with the finished work
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Multi-platinum success left Damien Rice convinced people were using him. He sacked his band, retreated from music and ‘cleansed his mind’. Now, after eight years, he’s back …
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Having fallen out of love with acting, Macy has made his directorial debut with Rudderless, a drama about a middle-aged man performing his dead son’s songs. He talks to Xan Brooks about bad directors, Uma Thurman’s back flips and rediscovering his passion for the movies
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Television & radio Home Sweet Bus review: heard the one about 13 evangelical Christians in a campervan?
Days after cancelling Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, TLC debuted a seemingly far more wholesome family, spreading the Gospel in cramped conditions -
The latest from the great director features a keynote turn from his own mutt, Miéville, erratic edits, an incomprehensible plot, mesmeric moments and a reassuringly idiosyncratic world-view
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Music Damian Rice: My Favourite Faded Fantasy review – reclusive songwriter returns in icier mood
3 / 5 starsDamien Rice’s first album in eight years finds him swapping warmth and fragility for something more biting, writes Harriet Gibsone -
Dickie Beau’s ensemble seance adds flesh to voices of the dead to explore the reminders of absence in our daily lives, writes Lyn Gardner
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From fiery passages to moments of sublime quietness, the Russian pianist displayed the full range of his mercurial talent, writes Erica Jeal
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Halloween-appropriate programming of the Ghost sonata was the centrepiece of a beguiling set of Beethoven piano trio chamber music, writes Martin Kettle
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Music Finzi: Requiem da Camera, Vaughan Williams: An Oxford Elegy, etc CD review – hymns to the fallen
4 / 5 starsGerald Finzi’s previously unrecorded Requiem da Camera is the highlight of this collection of first world war-themed compositions, writes Andrew Clements -
Nudes by everyone from Warhol to Emin are enticing, disturbing, distorting, masturbatory but ultimately most revealing of us as viewers, writes Adrian Searle
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Now based in Los Angeles, TVOTR have a hookier sound, blending punk, electronica and just a dash of sentimentality, says Kate Hutchinson
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John Ford’s unsettling Renaissance incest drama is lent a subtle urgency by fine acting and direction, writes Michael Billington
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Shades of Fela Kuti in Masekela’s ageless funk and fury, and in Soma’s African-inspired protest songs, says Robin Denselow
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There have been many lives of the saint, but none quite like this masterly narrative, writes Janet Nelson
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As grim as Horrible Histories and darker than Hilary Mantel’s novels – the sixth in the Shardlake series. By Alfred Hickling
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Sex and madness: the troubled playwright who released US theatre from its puritanical straitjacket. By Sarah Churchwell
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Sam Wollaston: This eight-part thriller is not mawkish, or overly sentimental; just very human, and very very sad. James Nesbitt is so very very good at pain; he doesn’t just share it, he forces it on you
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A new compilation charts how bands such as the Skyhooks, Sports and Daddy Cool were the cultural wing of the radical shifts that swept Australia in the 1970s
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Neatly allows the songs to grow out of the story, and perfectly captures Ray Davies’s mix of bloody-mindedness and innocence, writes Michael Billington
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Disney kid gone bad, then good again, nailed her collection of pop hits, keeping the gears spinning in her high-powered marketing machine
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With such a vague focus on ‘the human condition’, it’s no wonder the 10 artists at the UK’s biggest art prize exhibition have conjured such a disparate show, writes Adrian Searle
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The folk trio have moved away from the British whimsy that marked their 2012 debut – to exhilarating effect, writes Betty Clarke
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This clever pie-shop staging of Sondheim’s musical walks the tightrope between grisly and comic in its tiny chamber of horrors, writes Lyn Gardner
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Hollywood stars Anne Hathaway, Matthew McConaughey and Jessica Chastain arrive for the premiere of their film Interstellar at the Odeon in Leicester Square, in London
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The Geneva-based laboratory for particle physics has released a vast archive of photographs dating back to the mid-1950s. The problem is that many of them have no captions – so scientists at Cern are asking the public for help
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Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Kiesza reveals her love for a Brazilian martial art said to have been invented by African slaves
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Shooting for Vogue and Vanity Fair in the 20s and 30s, father of fashion photography Edward Steichen devised a mode of portraiture that still sets the template for style magazines today
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Boasting dazzling colours, utopian visions and – of course – a dollop of elephant dung. See some images from Chris Ofili’s retrospective at the New Museum in New York
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The artist Viktor Wynd is a collector with no apparent filter – taxidermy, human remains, giant beans and McDonald’s Happy Meal toys all form part of his collection
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Clip: Behind the scenes of the drama's infamous "tread lightly" moment, with showrunner Vince Gilligan discussing Hank and Walter's confrontation in the garage
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Telly addict Andrew Collins gets into the Halloween spirit in his review of the week's TV
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In collaboration with War Child, portrait photographer Tom Oldham has spent five years capturing the candid moments before and after artists perform for his ON:OFF project. Featuring Liam Gallagher, Janelle Monae and more, here’s a selection of these images, which will also feature in a forthcoming photo book
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Robbie Williams has uploaded a video of himself singing Let it Go from the Disney film Frozen as his wife goes through labour
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Soft porn, engorged limes, erect bananas – and an extra-special zebra print carpet courtesy of Kool and the Gang ... disco cover art is endlessly, brilliantly OTT
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Sting joins the cast on stage at the opening night on Broadway of his musical The Last Ship
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With roast dinners made of gemstones, planes dropping boiled-sweet bombs and a girl sipping from a brain with a straw, artist Eugenia Loli’s magical realist mash-ups are mind-bending, strange and unsettling
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Fashion duo Anna Plunkett and Luke Sales – better known as Romance Was Born – discuss the NGV's new gallery show for kids
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At KidZania, children can do ‘work experience’ as everything from vets to firefighters and dentists, and earn points to spend or save in return. The Tokyo park has been fully booked every day since it opened in 2006 – and the UK version is set to open in London’s White City
Comic-Con in London: a helluva costume drama