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Arts

  • New boundaries … Clairo

    Music
    The 50 best albums of 2024: No 4 – Clairo: Charm

  • Marisa Paredes

    Film
    Marisa Paredes, Almodóvar star and legend of Spanish cinema, dies aged 78

    Roles in All About My Mother and Life is Beautiful cemented her status as one of Spain’s ‘most iconic’ actors
  • black and white photo of a woman

    Film
    ‘Without a voice, she had no self’: who was the real Maria Callas?

    A new Oscar-tipped Netflix film sheds light on the later years of the opera legend, played by Angelina Jolie, and the problems she faced
  • film still of a woman smiling as she looks at a man

    Film
    Best movies of 2024 in the US: No 4 – Anora

  • The Perfect Couple. Nicole Kidman as Greer Winbury in episode 106 of The Perfect Couple. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2024

    Television
    The TV killing spree: why are so many smash-hit shows about women being murdered?

  • ‘Audacious and wonderful’ … late-period Bob Dylan.

    Music
    From Bob Dylan to Stevie Wonder: the best late-era albums by musical greats

  • A group of school students pose in front of a large painting in a museum

    Art and design
    Africa Foto Fair: ‘You don’t need to fly in somebody from outside to tell us about our own realities’

Talking points

  • a man with police behind him

    Film
    Alex Gibney to produce documentary on UnitedHealthcare CEO killing

  • five people waving on a beach

    Television
    The White Lotus: first trailer for third season suggests more satire and intrigue

  • Beautifully brittle … Róis, The Rheingans Sisters, Jacken Elswyth

    Music
    The 10 best folk albums of 2024

  • A man drives a woman, whose face is covered in blood, in a car, both of their faces with serious expressions

    Television
    How Black Doves subverts the gay best friend stereotype

People

  • John D MacDonald.

    Books
    Lost story by Cape Fear author John D MacDonald published for first time

  • ‘I want to pour gasoline on that anger’ … Michael Moore.

    Film
    ‘Yes, I condemn murder’: Michael Moore responds to Luigi Mangione’s manifesto

    • Mischa Barton.

      Film
      Post your questions for Mischa Barton

    • Lisa Kudrow.

      Film
      Lisa Kudrow says Tom Hanks movie Here is ‘an endorsement for AI’

    • Lorraine Bracco.

      Music
      ‘Uptown Funk makes me want to move, it makes me happy’: Lorraine Bracco’s honest playlist

The big picture

  • Art as therapy … images from the triptych I Wish, I Am, I Will Be, 2009

    Subversive, sensual and shocking: Erwin Olaf’s larger than life portraits – in pictures

    Marvel at Dutch photographer’s suggestive Champagne explosions and naked cyclists! But Olaf’s work could also be intensely personal …

Reviews

  • Mouthwashing game, screenshot

    Games
    Mouthwashing – 2024’s most difficult game, but not in the way you might expect

  • Two people standing on a stage with a school library as the set background

    Stage
    Eureka Day – thorny Broadway play takes on school vaccination chaos

    • Two contestants with their cake creation featuring a Slytherin snake, with Hogwarts Express in background

      Television
      Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking – this Hogwarts-themed cake show is sheer magic

    • A man hearing a microphone headset holds his glasses to his face

      Film
      September 5 – taut media procedural revisits Munich Olympics

    • Lauren Mayberry

      Music
      Lauren Mayberry: Vicious Creature – a solo statement of intent

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Pictures & video

  • Art as therapy … images from the triptych I Wish, I Am, I Will Be, 2009

    Photography
    Subversive, sensual and shocking: Erwin Olaf’s larger than life portraits – in pictures

    Marvel at Dutch photographer’s suggestive Champagne explosions and naked cyclists! But Olaf’s work could also be intensely personal …
  • Lars Tunbjörk's Office / LA Office !0111-007 B079

    Work
    Pointless jobs: the unbearable ennui of office life – in pictures

  • ©Stephen McCoy skelmersdale N34

    Liverpool
    There are places I remember: Steve McCoy’s Merseyside

  • The big picture
    Tony Kearns captures stalled time at Camden Market

  • Twenty photographs of the week
    The week around the world in 20 pictures

  • Photos of the day
    Santa on a Harley and surfers in fog: photos of the day – Friday

  • Religion
    ‘A kitschy wonder’: inside Holy Land USA theme park – in pictures

  • Photography then and now
    Floods in Valencia, Spain

  • Vintage photography
    Feeling blue: how denim built America – in pictures

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