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Benedict Cumberbatch is utterly convincing as Alan Turing, the mathematician who did more than anyone to defeat Hitler but who was destroyed by homophobia, writes Peter Bradshaw
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He had the biggest album of the noughties and has dabbled in musicals, movies and mentoring. But could the R&B star be at a career crossroads? ‘Music is being used as free goods,’ he tells us, before announcing that his next single will be free with Cheerios
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Stuart Heritage: Liam Neeson on his amateur boxing glories, acting into his 90s and leaving voicemail messages on his son’s phone
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Both Ellen and The Price Is Right are searching for their own resident shirtless dude with talent competitions. Is this what equality looks like?
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To celebrate its 20th anniversary, the National Museum of the American Indian is displaying 300 pieces of jewellery made by one Native American family in New Mexico. The show explores the jewellery’s historical, commercial, artistic and cultural significance and explores the meanings behind its symbolism
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Total sales of contemporary art pieces come in at $852m as separate Warhol of Marlon Brando sells for nearly $70m
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When playwright Young Jean Lee decided to write a play about identity politics, it was a very different kind of minority she had in mind
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Earthquake tours in China, Nazi massacre villages in France and genocide memorials from Rwanda to Cambodia ... Ambroise Tézenas’s unsettling images show the people drawn to honeypot dark tourism sites around the world
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Richard Flanagan's unlikely metaphors lined up against writers including Haruki Murakami and Kirsty Ward
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Shaft director Gordon Parks’s recently rediscovered images of African-American family life offer a unique portrait of Alabama on the brink of the civil-rights struggle
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Mark Lawson: Danny Boyle directed the pilot of returning Channel 4 drama Babylon, but flagging up the director, rather than the writer or star, is still unusual on the small screen. Why?
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‘Living in the East End then was a nightmare. People had a better time during the war’
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The bedtime book for frazzled parents is followed by a venture into the jungle of family dinnertime
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Gallery: Photographer Tod Papageorge documented the beautiful people he found inside glittering New York disco club Studio 54 – in all their debauchery, glamour and cool
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Coming up: the Fast and the Furious, Far Cry 4, Kelis and Breach, Adam Sandler for some reason and more, so much more. Tunes, gifs, pics, vids, trailers and all manner of internet bounty ALL THE LIVELONG DAY (ie until pubtime). We want to hear from you so get in touch @guideguardian.
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Morale-boosting songs, stirring marches and elegies for the fallen were chosen last week by the Observer’s classical music critic Fiona Maddocks. Here you suggest your 10 best…
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Former home of painter Frederick Leighton is the backdrop for billionaire’s private collection of paintings
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Actor says she hates being asked if it is time to put her feet up and does not want to be told she is too old
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Major exhibition in London next May, inspired by work of historian David Kynaston, will reflect on life in UK since 1945
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Chasing the pop culture comet like a tiny unmanned spacecraft, it’s the Guide Daily. Today’s juicy morsels include Michael Palin looking scared, the return of the Wrens and the demise of Dapper Laughs.
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Leo Benedictus: From how he likes his tea to why he announced his engagement in the Times, news about The Imitation Game actor has hit new heights this week
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Running a struggling theatre? Why not try neuro-linguistic programming?The arts council’s first head of philanthropy gives Stuart Jeffries her funding tips
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Clip: In a new documentary about the comedy revival, Eric Idle persuades the two scientists to take part in a sketch about physics
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Comedian ‘puts character to rest’ on BBC show following cancellation of UK tour dates due to outrage over rape remarks
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Today’s onslaught of TV, film and music happenings, including: Chris Packham v I’m A Celeb, Eminem v Lana Del Rey, Mark Ronson v Tame Impala and Kanye West v Lorde
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Monuments in Birmingham, London, Newcastle and Wirral upgraded to highest listing with two others raised to Grade II*
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Former Spice Girl’s engagement to Red Bull’s Christian Horner revealed in a notice in the Times
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Low pay for freelance actors and dancers urgently needs addressing, says Equity performers’ union
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This was the Guide Daily, your daily repository of enjoyable pop-cultural cack. Tunes, videos, trailers, scurrilous gossip. Ping us at @guideguardian or get at us down there in the comments. We’re here until 5.30pm, by which time the barrel will be well and truly scraped.
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‘In Thailand for the shoot, I was told to keep my distance from John because he was unstable’
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The inevitable has happened: after it emerged people on social media were shouting ‘Parklife’ at Russell Brand, the man himself has made a parody video
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Perth will host Royal de Luxe’s giant marionnettes, the Australian premiere of Anthony Minghella’s last production Madama Butterfly and a phone in from Hilary Mantel
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Sherlock star tipped for an Oscar for his portrayal of codebreaker Alan Turing says sketching and family time keep him grounded
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Heir to the throne recalls disastrous 1977 TV interview, saying while there are warnings not to work with animals or children ‘no-one prepared me for Molly Meldrum’
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‘It is time for parents and publishers to stop dumbing down the tales for children,’ says editor of uncut edition
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A team of artists complete what could be the largest sandcastle ever built in Niteroi, Brazil
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The home of the Corleone clan in the 1972 classic film demands respect, with five bedrooms and a kitchen ‘to die for’
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Hasbro, the second-largest toy company in the US, is set for a merger with DreamWorks’ animation arm, potentially leading to a deluge of cash-in movie hybrids, from Bop It! to Jenga
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The Bible garnered 37% of public vote, while On the Origin of Species received 35%, writes Alison Flood
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Actor says she hates being asked if it is time to put her feet up and does not want to be told she is too old
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David Renshaw: As the chat show says farewell to its first season, we choose its best moments, from doggy supreme court to a typical Thursday for Vladimir Putin
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Daniel Day-Lewis may have won an Oscar for his bow-legged, Selleck-moustached performance, but don’t be fooled: Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic drama was truly awful, writes Peter Walker
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The producers of Gravity have released a version with no music at all. It could help. Which films do you think need better soundscapes, asks Stuart Heritage
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News: Lego will manufacture Big Bang Theory sets designed by fans, while it is considering a pair of Doctor Who designs – and could approve X-Men and Ghostbusters in the coming months
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Let us know who you think could breathe new life into a classic duet
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Richard Flanagan's unlikely metaphors lined up against writers including Haruki Murakami and Kirsty Ward
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Rapper says she would never condone Nazism, but clip’s director refuses to apologise for film that is ‘not a sappy tearjerker’
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Former New Yorker writer signs a book deal in the same week New Republic plagiarist Stephen Glass may have been forgiven by colleagues
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Parks protection group says in federal lawsuit that proposed ‘Lucas Museum of Narrative Art’ violates various aspects of US constitution
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Amazon, which earlier pulled several of Hachette’s books from its inventory, will resume selling all of Hachette’s catalogue
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Boyd’s new short story, The Vanishing Game, was not only commissioned by the firm but is ‘an act of homage’ to the 4x4, writes Alison Flood
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Sydney theatre’s associate director will take over from Ralph Myers with focus on new talent and Indigenous theatre
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Plane was coming in to land in the German capital but the Irish singer was never in any danger, Berlin airport authorities say
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Former home of painter Frederick Leighton is the backdrop for billionaire’s private collection of paintings
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The screenwriter is to adapt the memoirs of skier turned poker entrepreneur who shares name with Ulysses heroine
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Daniels to tackle tale of basement known as ‘portal to hell’ in Indiana
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Two years after being kicked out of a similar facility, the Libertines frontman is hoping once more to quit heroin and ‘help other struggling addicts’
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Foos singer Dave Grohl says that Emily Eavis has yet to call the group about playing Glastonbury, despite them being favourites to headline
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Thomas’s mother-in-law had ordered that the notebook be burned; her servant saved it for posterity in a paper bag
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War Cry, by the rapper turned activist, references Missouri governor Jay Nixon and other authority figures in song about Ferguson protests
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Major exhibition in London next May, inspired by work of historian David Kynaston, will reflect on life in UK since 1945
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Smith’s novel, which has won the £10,000 award for mould-breaking works, comes in two versions: one starting with a Renaissance fresco painter, one with a modern-day teenager in mourning
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Bruce Munro returns for third year to create sculptural installations through National Trust property’s gardens
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Plane was coming in to land in the German capital but the Irish singer was never in any danger, Berlin airport authorities say
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Naked images on the cover of Paper magazine by photographer Jean-Paul Goude hark back to his pioneering work with Grace Jones
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The singer, author and crowdfunding advocate will be online at 12pm ET on Friday to answer your questions
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The screenwriter is to adapt the memoirs of skier turned poker entrepreneur who shares name with Ulysses heroine
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While occasionally tentative, in her Broadway debut Stone delivers where it counts in a classic production of the Weimar-era musical
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Daniels to tackle tale of basement known as ‘portal to hell’ in Indiana
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The folk singer’s St James Infirmary revives the spirit of 1950s Greenwich Village on Stephen Moss’s trip to New York, despite the investment bankers and tourists
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The Fleetwood Mac kingpin on getting the old crew back together, sharing his feelings about his wife and Stevie Nicks, and his patent method for making lucky wooden testicles
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One third of the group responsible for hip-hop’s first hit, Rapper’s Delight, dies from cancer complications
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The actor’s music project Daddy to release Let Me Get What I Want, based on Franco’s Morrissey-motivated poetry
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Director David O Russell is in negotiations with the actor for a biopic about the inventor of the Miracle Mop, Joy, also set to star Jennifer Lawrence
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Architect Frank Gehry courts curves and controversy, and the deputy vice-chancellor of UTS admits to a degree of trepidation. Jermaine Chau takes a first look inside to see whether those fears were justified
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The Turkish director talks to Peter Bradshaw about the battles with distributors and fights with his wife in the creating of his Palme d’Or winning film
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When playwright Young Jean Lee decided to write a play about identity politics, it was a very different kind of minority she had in mind
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The comedian opens up about forsaking alcohol for laughs, his PowerPoint double act … and his cat
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‘I like sausages and I like Germany,’ the Glasgow-based artist tells Oliver Milman of a 400m-long coiled sausage (called Beginning, Middle and End) he has brought to Melbourne
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Running a struggling theatre? Why not try neuro-linguistic programming?The arts council’s first head of philanthropy gives Stuart Jeffries her funding tips
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The Invisible Dot star is making a name for himself with a twisted solo show, Odessa, and a Jane Austen-themed improv group. He talks to Ryan Gilbey
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Already a master of one discipline, what made the Australian actor release a self-penned album? Only a 30-year backlog of songs, he tells Monica Tan
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The woman who launched the US farmers market movement is in Australia to stir things up ahead of the G20, with supermarket monopolies, fancy chefs and school meals in her sights
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‘In Thailand for the shoot, I was told to keep my distance from John because he was unstable’
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Pulitzer prize-winning novelist wrote the lyrics for Uptown Special, the acclaimed music producer’s long-awaited return
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Bestselling novelist Sarah Waters talks to Rachel Cooke about why she has turned her attention to the stage for her next project
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The singer-songwriter has found love and inspiration in California, but her new album still floats a cloud across the sun, says Laura Barnett
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The winner of the 2013 Edinburgh comedy award talks to Alex Clark about feminism, FGM and her seventysomething fanbase
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A portrait of a working-class community on Long Island in the 1970s is shot through with melancholy yet, as Judy Chicurel tells Lucy Scholes, it still evokes fond memories
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The actress talks to Kathryn Bromwich about the old-world folk of the Unthanks, dreamy dresses and watching her partner play Richard III
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The underground Brooklynite behind label Proibito empties the contents of his psychic record bag
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M-nus | Selective Hearing | Dirtytalk Presents Sex Tags Mania Part 2 | Talaboman | Ben UFO
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Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels resume their slapstick double-act 20 years on, but despite some inspired work with a hot dog, this half-assed sequel leaves you feeling numb and number
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Segall and his band attack these garage-rock nuggets with wild glee, joyriding them like stolen cars, writes Stevie Chick
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Dancers at the One Side to the Other show will lead visitors on an intimate journey around specially chosen artworks
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Television & radio Who’s That Lebanese Man With A Beard? Hipster Or Jihadi?; 10 Moments That Made Jay-Z – review
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David Renshaw: Would-be husband stealer Jill Tyrrell is a frankly terrible human being – and a brilliant comic creation by Julia Davis
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Andrea Marcon and his singers grapple bravely with this difficult, odd and sycophantic hymn to the Holy Roman Empress Elizabeth Christine, writes Tim Ashley
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Ariel Pink can write genuinely melodic tunes when he wants to. The trouble is he just wants to get on your wick
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Much of the evening fell in that dodgy hinterland where classical musicians try for louche Americana but fail to pull it off, writes Kate Molleson
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Pieces by Mantovani, Schoenberg and Dallapiccola were unsweetened by anything resembling a comfort zone in a bracing, exhilarating evening, writes Erica Jeal
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Roy Williams explore the problems of an eager young policewoman in south London and finds little division between law enforcers and law breakers, writes Michael Billington
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When a naked picture circulates around a school, the battle lines are drawn, girl against girl. Is this what feminism is now? Evan Placey’s play asks uncomfortable questions
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This clever piece plays with the conventions of behaviour and control, and how they’re affected by our physical environment, writes Judith Mackrell
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Is this an exercise in revenge or self-examination? Journalist Hugo Borst tries to annihilate Man Utd’s would-be saviour. By Roddy Doyle
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Australian audiences have waited long enough for a full production of La Bayadère, and the Australian Ballet do everything right with Stanton Welch’s choreography, writes Michaela Marshall
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Books Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts review – a ‘marvellously readable’, if partial, biography
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Rebecca Nicholson: A second excursion to the landmark London store has limited charm, but watching owners trade high-value items for dirty dosh is gripping
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Even Rihanna seemed subdued at a concert that, Metallica and the Black Keys apart, was more like a memorial service than a tribute to the troops, writes Joshua Alston
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The stage is set for a thriller, but David Auburn’s play, while accurate in its portrayal of human relationships, never delivers a knockout blow, writes Alexis Soloski
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The stars of a biopic about the Enigma codebreaker tell Andrew Pulver how his sexuality forced his isolation and why his genius deserves widespread recognition
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Earthquake tours in China, Nazi massacre villages in France and genocide memorials from Rwanda to Cambodia ... Ambroise Tézenas’s unsettling images show the people drawn to honeypot dark tourism sites around the world
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American artist Nick Cave’s vast practice spans performance, fashion, music, dance and these human-sized wearable sculptures on show at Sydney’s Carriageworks
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Lost for more than 50 years since they were featured in Life magazine, Gordon Parks’s stunning images show daily life for one Alabama family in the shadow of race riots, bus boycotts and the fight for civil rights
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To mark the 30th anniversary of Like A Virgin, a new book entitled Madonna: Ambition. Music. Style will be released – it features images that chart the singer’s journey from her first photo session to the Sticky & Sweet stadium tour
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At first glance you might be forgiven for thinking that these images are supersized art work. But look a little closer and you’ll see incredible contortionists covered with intricate body art
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Clip: In a new documentary about the comedy revival, Eric Idle persuades the two scientists to take part in a sketch about physics
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Gallery: Photographer Tod Papageorge documented the beautiful people he found inside glittering New York disco club Studio 54 – in all their debauchery, glamour and cool
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This year’s Taylor Wessing photographic portrait prize 2014 has been won by David Titlow – see his work here along with the other shortlisted images, plus highlights from the rest of the exhibition – including some by Guardian photographers
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Yes, it’s the ultimate Z-list lineup (with one or two intriguing wildcards). From Tinchy Stryder to, ahem, Michael Buerk, here are the celebrities ready to rumble in the jungle
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Two-wheeled transport has come a long way over the last two centuries. Take a pictorial spin through the bicycle’s journey from the wood and iron era to the age of carbon fibre
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Before becoming Wolverine and Jean Valjean, Hugh Jackman started out as a stage actor. As he returns to Broadway in Jez Butterworth’s The River, revisit his theatrical career
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Telly addict Andrew Collins gives his rundown of the week's TV
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The Hungarian artist who pioneered photojournalism, influencing Cartier-Bresson and Brassaï, is back in the spotlight with an auction of his most moving images
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The eco apartment block One Central Park in Sydney has been named best tall building in the world, topping a list dominated by the Asia-Pacific region
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1premiere at the Odeon cinema in London’s Leicester Square was attended by scores of celebrities keen to revel in its European opening
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In Japan, like most other countries, funeral arrangements tend to left to loved ones – but the latest trend in the land of the rising sun is for the elderly to prepare their own funerals and graves
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The centrepiece of the Royal Ballet’s new triple bill is The Age of Anxiety, a world premiere choreographed by Liam Scarlett and inspired by Auden. All photographs by Tristram Kenton for the Guardian