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  • Cragg’s work at Lisson Gallery.

    Art
    ‘People once threw food at modern art!’ Turner-winning sculptor Tony Cragg’s amazing journey to success

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    Music
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  • Stephen Lang as Quaritch in Avatar (2009).

    Film
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  • Claire Foy as Anne Boleyn in Wolf Hall.

    Television
    ‘The sword swung so close to her head!’ What it’s like to commit one of TV’s most unforgivable murders

  • From left: Alexander Skarsgård, Harry Melling and Harry Lighton in London.

    Film
    ‘I think my mum’s going to like it’: Alexander Skarsgård on his gay biker ‘dom-com’ Pillion

  • F&M: why Ireland has the most exciting indie music scene in the world right now

    Music
    ‘We’ve got to release the dead hand of the past’: how Ireland created the world’s best alternative music scene

  • Edward Gardner conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra, 2024

    Classical music
    Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius album review – Gardner and the LPO’s reading is bold and dramatic

  • Detail of Victorious Cupid by Caravaggio.

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Cupid’s dazzling arrival, Bridget Riley’s rollercoaster and a duel of two masters – the week in art

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News

  • Caden Brauch as Marty McFly in Back to the Future the Musical.

    Stage
    Back to the Future celebrates 40th with three Marty McFlys performing the musical

  • A Strictly Come Dancing logo on a glitter ball

    Television
    Strictly Come Dancing star reportedly arrested on suspicion of rape

  • Michel and Kenner in street

    Music
    Fugees rapper Pras sentenced to 14 years in prison over illegal donations to Obama campaign

  • Frida Kahlo, El Sueno (La Cama), est. $40,000,000 - 60,000,000

    Art
    Frida Kahlo self-portrait sells for $54.7m to set new auction record for a female artist

  • Dick Van Dyke.

    Film
    ‘Do you expect me to talk?’: Dick Van Dyke says he turned down playing James Bond

  • Joy Crookes plays an electric guitar.

    Music
    Joy Crookes says UK and Ireland in ‘dark time’ amid rise of far-right politics

In pictures

  • Cynthia Erivo photographed in 2015

    Stage
    On the way to Wicked: Cynthia Erivo’s stage musicals – in pictures

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    The Guardian picture essay
    ‘Bull riding is a drug’: rodeo embraces its sports science era – in pictures

TV & streaming

  1. Kelsey Grammer in Cheers.

    Callout
    Tell us your favourite late-arriving TV characters

  2. Lawyer turned whistleblower Amira Smajic in The Black Swan.

    Review
    The Black Swan – the nail-biting exposé that tore an entire country apart

  3. The cast from Stranger Things.

    Feature
    ‘It’s time for it to end’: the stars of Stranger Things open up about their final, epic season

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  • Samantha Morton in The Serpent Queen on Channel 4.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Samantha Morton’s rompy period drama about a slippery royal

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    Wild Cherry – this fun, trashy thriller seems to have spent most of its budget on clothes

  • Head and shoulders portrait of Russell Tovey

    The big interview
    Russell Tovey on pride, sexual power and politics: ‘The Green party slogan – make hope normal again – is what we need’

  • Film-maker James Blake in Men of the Manosphere.

    Review
    Men of the Manosphere – a truly terrifying hour

Books

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    Children's book roundup
    The best new picture books and novels

  • Jenny Erpenbeck @Ute Mahler-Ostkreuz 1 copy

    Review
    Things That Disappear by Jenny Erpenbeck – a kaleidoscopic study of transience

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  1. Viola van de Sandt

    Review
    The Dinner Party by Viola van de Sandt – a formidable debut

  2. Salman Rushdie

    Ranked
    Memoirs, myths and Midnight’s Children: Salman Rushdie’s 10 best books

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    Feature
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  4. David Szalay poses for photographers with the trophy after winning the Booker Prize 2025

    Booker prize
    Winner Flesh ignites debate about state of masculinity

Film

  1. Benedict Cumberbatch in The Thing With Feathers.

    Film
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  2. Film still: La Tour de Glace | The Ice Tower Country: FRA, DEU 2025 Director: Lucile Hadžihalilović Photo description: Marion Cotillard Section: Competition 2025 Berlin film festival 2025 © 3B-Davis-Sutor Kolonko-Arte

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    The Ice Tower – Marion Cotillard focus of obsession and idolisation in death-wish fairytale

  3. two people look at each other

    Review
    Champagne Problems – Netflix’s latest Christmas romcom lacks fizz

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  • Sam Rockwell in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die.

    Week in geek
    Mind the glitch: is Hollywood finally getting to grips with movies about artificial intelligence?

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  • Jorma Tommila as Aatami looks menacing behind the wheel of a vehicle in Sisu: Road to Revenge

    Review
    Sisu: Road to Revenge – Finnish hero takes on a Red Army butcher in terrific sequel

  • The Saragossa Manuscript.

    Review
    The Saragossa Manuscript – cult Polish period-costume comedy is outrageous head-spinner

  • Director Aoife Kelleher’s documentary Testimony.

    Review
    Testimony – a devastating exposé of the Irish church’s brutal Magdalene laundries

Stage

  • Mild-wild dynamic … David Reed as Dr Watson with Humphrey Ker as Sherlock Holmes.

    Review
    Sherlock Holmes and the 12 Days of Christmas – Lloyd Webber and Rice reunite for festive felonies

  • Sam Amidon (top) in The Only Tune by Michael Keegan-Dolan, part of Marking Time at Sadler's Wells, London.

    Review
    Marking Time – Nico Muhly inspires a brilliant night of beguiling dance

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  • From left, Jack Maverick, Robyn Gilbertson, Baylie Carson and Damon Gould in Ride the Cyclone at Southwark Playhouse Elephant, London.

    Review
    Ride the Cyclone – teens sing for their salvation in cult musical

  • The cast of Precipice at New Diorama, London

    Review
    Precipice – horror on the Thames in a baffling musical dystopia

  • (from left) Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez in Merrily We Roll Along.

    Musicals
    The flop that finally flew: why did it take 40 years for Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along to soar?

  • John C Reilly as Mister Romantic

    Vaudeville
    John C Reilly wants to win hearts in Mister Romantic, a show that’s truly lovable

Music

  1. Pollyfromthedirt.

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    Pollyfromthedirt’s grey-skied Anglo ambience and the week’s best new tracks

  2. Víkingur Ólafsson.

    Classical album of the week
    Víkingur Ólafsson: Opus 109 review – pianist’s concept album opens up transcendent vistas

  3. Mulatu Astatke at the Royal Festival Hall in London.

    London jazz festival
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Pop, rock and more

  1. Vybz Kartel

    Interview
    Vybz Kartel on his legal victory, vulgar lyrics and the lasting scars of prison: ‘If I hear a key shake, it traumatise me’

  2. Taylor Swift at the Grammy awards in February.

    Taylor Swift’s silence on the Trump administration using her music speaks volumes

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  3. Striking … Robyn.

    Review
    Robyn: Dopamine – complex emotions, instant euphoria: no wonder pop’s A-list love her

  4. Jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater

    Interview
    ‘I can’t be silent. I’ve been through too much’: Dee Dee Bridgewater on singing with the greats – and confronting Maga with jazz

Classical and opera

  1. 2025.11.19 - Shostakovich’s Last Symphony - Osmo Vänskä, Helena Juntunen - Cr Jonathan Ferro (23 of 28) (17)

    Review
    CBSO/Vänskä – weird brilliance and neurotic tics in a compelling programme

  2. New York City Ballet in the world premiere of Rotunda, February 2020 – choreography by Justin Peck, music by Nico Muhly

    Classical music
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  3. James Blades in 1975

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Games

  • Arc Raiders.

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  • An unapologetic games machine … Sega Master System.

    Feature
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    Review
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Art and design

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  1. V&A East museum in London.

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  2. The Frattini Bivouac in the Italian Alps

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  3. Shrigley poses with his Exhibition of Old Rope installation

    Review
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  4. An artwork scultore showing an abstract version of a cat stretching

    Art Weekly
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Radio and podcasts

  • Natalie Robehmed examines actor Allison Mack’s path from Smallville fame to jail time for sex trafficking.

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  • Fourth Avenue Shanties, Brooklyn, 1870s. “I hear America singing,” wrote fellow Brooklynite, Walt Whitman, onetime editor of The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, where he often described the humble lives of immigrants, even paying a visit to Brooklyn’s Irish Shanties. “The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of the girl sewing or washing. Each singing what belongs to him or her and to no one else.”

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