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A flamenco ballet and black swan cygnets: photos of the weekend. The Guardian???s picture editors select photographs from around the world
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???Suggestive toothpaste tubes shooting into mouths???: David Hockney???s winking celebration of queer life. He challenged homophobia not through sexualised imagery but by reshaping ideas of beauty, intimacy and desire. The result? From posters to cushion covers, A Bigger Splash has become an essential presence in countless gay households
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???Hyper-stylised, ultra-cool visions???: 10 ways David Hockney changed art. He pushed landscape painting into the stratosphere, demolished one-point perspective, invented the Los Angeles look, embraced iPads, created dazzling stage sets for theatre and opera ???
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???Windrush is a love story too???: Renell Shaw on paying homage to Black British life in his new jazz trilogy. The Ivor Novello-winning musician has written works inspired by his family history. He talks about building music from testimony ??? and why the Windrush generation deserves new narratives
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???You escape the slaughter. But there???s a long tail of sadness???: musician Bedouine on the strangeness of Arab life outside the Middle East. With roots in Armenia, Syria and Saudi Arabia, the singer-songwriter now lives in the US. But despite her Carole King-style sound, her homelands are never far from her mind
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theguardian.com 0 views · 1w ago
Tell us: which Steven Spielberg movie means the most to you?. We???d like to hear about your favourite films made by the director and why you love them
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???Screaming girls chased me down the street???: how we made Strictly Ballroom. ???A big dude came up to me and said, ???My wife dragged me kicking and screaming to see your movie ??? and it was the best thing she???s ever done??????
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Artists are making ???anti-slop??? to rebel against AI: ???It???s been rammed down our throats???. In response to AI???s hyperrealism, artists and creatives are gravitating toward the homespun and imperfect
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???In prison, I made a little studio in my head. It kept me sane???: Ibrahim Alfa Jr, British techno???s great survivor. He moved from Nigeria to middle England and was swept up into the rave scene ??? then battled through incarceration and near-death illness. After making 500 tracks while living on porridge and lettuce, he explains how he kept going
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theguardian.com 1 view · 1w ago
???Wear something that makes you feel silly!??? Can Austin Kleon???s tips put the spark back in my life?. If you???re in a rut, kids can show you the way out. That???s the latest message from the author of the bestselling Steal Like an Artist. I asked him to help me rediscover my playful, creative side ???
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Villa Coco by Andrew Sean Greer review ??? fun in the Tuscan sun. The Pulitzer-winning author of Less has crafted a breezy confection of fish-out-of-water wit, insecurity and self-discovery set in an Italian paradise
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???My diagnosis was a blessing???: composer Sally Beamish on tackling the condition that ruined every joyful memory. As she prepares to mark 70 with a birthday concert, the musician talks about her destructive mindset ??? and the steps she took to finally make sense of her life and music???s part in it
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???The Epstein files are about more than men and money???: All the Rage, the ???guerrilla??? play fuelled by 80 furious women. Enraged at how the victims of Jeffrey Epstein are being forgotten, more than 80 female and non-binary writers united ??? to create an epic drama fusing art, activism and anger. How will it work?
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???At my funeral I want people dancing in the aisles to Madness???: David Gray???s honest playlist. The singer knows all the words to Grease and channels Kenny Rogers at karaoke. But which classic musician does he liken to Picasso?
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theguardian.com 0 views · 1w ago
Top 100 reader novels. After authors and critics chose their top 100 novels, we asked for your favourites. From Uruguay to the Isle of Skye, 3,000 readers cast their votes. Here are the titles that made your list ??? topped by a new entry at number 1
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Taylor Swift: I Knew It, I Knew You review ??? giddy up! Song for Toy Story cowgirl Jessie is Swift???s best in years. Full of handcrafted care and the rootsy soul of her country origins, this gently elated song is a reminder of what fans love about Swift ??? and the film series
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Mina the Hollower review ??? squeaky fresh fun full of vintage magic. This brilliant adventure creates a whole world from one character with a unique ability
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Kyiv picks up the pieces after another attack by Russia ??? photo essay. On Monday night residents faced the third heavy assault on Ukraine???s capital in less than a month, as Putin appears to be trying to take advantage of a shortage of US-made air defence systems
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The Misfits: Marilyn Monroe???s final film showed her capacity for playing painfully knotty characters. Written for Monroe by then husband Arthur Miller, the role of Roslyn is contradictory and complex. It signalled a potential new phase in her career
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Virginia Woolf???s Night and Day review ??? dreamy adaptation reaches for the stars. Wolf???s novel about a headstrong young Edwardian woman takes flight under Tina Gharavi???s direction, with Timothy Spall and Jennifer Saunders among the ensemble cast
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AI won???t decimate the arts. We must interrogate it, but we can collaborate with it. Opera makers have always engaged with the latest inventions while also preserving historic crafts. I believe it???s possible to look both forwards and backwards in this fast-evolving landscape
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What we???re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in May. Madeleine Thien, Sufiyaan Salam and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments
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My Only Boy by Rosa Rankin-Gee review ??? a darkly funny near-future dystopia. A surprising romance is set against a backdrop of climate crisis, political instability and corporate corruption in this bleak but witty novel
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Acting review ??? Cheek by Jowl masterclass in how to strut and fret upon the Shakesperian stage. Sophie Fiennes???s thoughtful documentary follows director Declan Donnellan as he helps actors find their way through Macbeth???s lines
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