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  • ‘We were very careful about keeping their performances’ … Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones in The Brutalist.

    Film
    The Brutalist and Emilia Perez’s voice-cloning controversies make AI the new awards season battleground

    Two leading contenders for Oscars this year have revealed use of artificial intelligence in the editing suite – will it affect their chances?
  • ‘She was loved for good reason’ … Hélène de Beauvoir at work.

    Art
    ‘Jean-Paul Sartre hid at her house!’ The forgotten brilliance of Hélène de Beauvoir, sister of Simone

    She was a painter ‘ahead of her time’, counting Picasso as a fan. But Hélène de Beauvoir was always overshadowed by her famous sister. Now, with a show opening in Britain, the artist is finally receiving her due
  • Nuanced and compelling … Mona and Beth in the shower, Ward 81, Oregon State hospital, US, 1976.

    Art and design
    ‘Women we might have been’: sisters and psychiatric wards – in pictures

    These two breathtaking shows by women artists – one shot in Oregon State hospital, the other a collaboration between siblings – helped challenge the photographic establishment
  • John Sykes playing guitar on stage

    Music
    Thin Lizzy and Whitesnake guitarist John Sykes dies aged 65

    Whitesnake’s David Coverdale and Slash of Guns N’ Roses pay tribute to musician described as an ‘exceptional talent’
    • ‘We had to aim our guns and say, “Bang! Bang!”’ … Sally Knyvette, Gareth Thomas and Jan Chappell in Blake’s 7, which launched in 1978.

      How we made
      ‘When Star Wars came out, one of our directors was close to tears’: how we made Blake’s 7

    • The essence of bright … Claire van Kampen at the opening night party for Farinelli and the King on Broadway in 2017.

      Stage
      Claire van Kampen: a world-class theatre composer and bright star of Shakespeare’s Globe

    • David Hockney’s After Blake: Less is Known than People Think

      Art and design
      David Hockney unveils unseen work for major Paris retrospective

    • American novelist Edmund White at his residence in Chelsea , New York Monday 2nd December 2024 New York , NY Amir Hamja for The Guardian

      Books
      Edmund White on lust, love and literature: ‘I’d had sex with 3,000 men. A peer asked: “Why so few?”’

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  • Nelly<br>FILE - Rapper Nelly approaches the stage for a concert in Erbil, northern Iraq, March 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Seivan M. Salim, File)

    Music
    ‘This isn’t politics’: Nelly defends decision to perform at Trump inauguration ball after backlash

    Rapper says he is honoured to perform for the US president after he and other acts, including Village People and Billy Ray Cyrus, faced criticism
  • Tataloo

    Music
    Iranian court sentences pop star Tataloo to death for blasphemy

  • Mark Rylance and Claire van Kampen attending the Olivier awards in 2017

    Stage
    Claire van Kampen, theatre director and composer, dies aged 71

  • Architecture
    Experts hope The Brutalist will revive interest in UK’s modernist buildings

  • Film
    Don’t Look Up director says ‘half a billion people’ have now seen film despite critics

  • Music
    TikToking on heaven’s door: Bob Dylan joins social media app as US ban looms

  • Music
    Lady Gaga and Billie Eilish to perform at LA wildfires benefit concert

  • Film
    Trump names Mel Gibson, Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone as Hollywood ‘special ambassadors’

  • Film
    Justin Baldoni sues Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds for $400m

2025 culture preview

  • Clairo and Tyler, the Creator – two of the artists touring the UK this year.

    Music
    Billie Eilish, Sex Pistols and Beethoven’s skull: music to listen out for in 2025

  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

    Games
    Games to look forward to in 2025: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

  • stage

    Stage
    Chills, chuckles and Cate Blanchett in Chekhov: the best theatre, dance and comedy coming in 2025

  • music

    Film
    Toyboys, divas and Bridget Jones: the films to look forward to in 2025

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Reviews

  • With a torn picture of ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad, top, a Syrian fighter helps a woman outside the palace of justice in Damascus, Syria, Monday, Dec. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

    Book of the day
    Prosecuting the Powerful by Steve Crawshaw – from the Nuremberg trials to the pursuit of Putin and Assad

  • Joyena Sun in Grafted.

    Film
    Grafted – Face/Off-style skin-graft horror has layers of punky attitude

    A Chinese student arrives in New Zealand and continues her father’s experimental research in Sasha Rainbow’s cosmetic chiller
  • Katie Price and Carl Woods

    Television & radio
    Katie Price: Making Babies – truly repugnant TV

    This documentary about Price and her partner’s attempt to have a child may have spawned acres of coverage, but there is no delving into the agonies of infertility, which makes it depthless, thoughtless and downright offensive
  • He stands between two railway lines with the camp entrance in the background

    Television & radio
    What Happened at Auschwitz – this urgent documentary is a small step back towards enlightenment

  • Sunray: Fallen Soldier

    Film
    Sunray: Fallen Soldier – staple guns pressed into service in brutal payback thriller

  • Martin Clunes

    Television & radio
    Out There – Martin Clunes waving a shotgun is an unexpected January treat

  • Mother Father Sister Brother Frank.

    Film
    Mother Father Sister Brother Frank – frantic night of murder, mayhem and family bonding

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Regulars

  • A portrait of Naomi Alderman.

    Naomi Alderman
    On my radar: Naomi Alderman’s cultural highlights

    The author of the bestselling The Power on her favourite video game, the courses she takes with the Open University, and why she is addicted to George Saunders’s substack
  • Prod DB A© Ciby 2000 - Walt Disney - Picture Story / DR UNE HISTOIRE VRAIE (A STRAIGHT STORY) de David Lynch 1999 USA / GB / FRA avec Richard Farnsworth tondeuse a gazon, voyage, road-movie<br>PP3C8P Prod DB A© Ciby 2000 - Walt Disney - Picture Story / DR UNE HISTOIRE VRAIE (A STRAIGHT STORY) de David Lynch 1999 USA / GB / FRA avec Richard Farnsworth tondeuse a gazon, voyage, road-movie

    David Lynch
    From Mulholland Drive to Twin Peaks via Lost Highway: all David Lynch’s films and TV shows – ranked

  • ‘I accidentally got into acting – I’m still not sure how’ … Billy Bob Thornton.

    Film
    Billy Bob Thornton: ‘I didn’t want Johnny Cash to catch me looking in his fridge in my underpants’

  • FKA twigs
    ‘In her own out-there world’: FKA twigs’ 20 greatest songs – ranked!

  • My best shot
    Maria at the beach on a perfect summer day: Carol Allen-Storey’s best photograph

  • How we made
    ‘Our computer sampler cost more than a house!’: how the Korgis made Everybody’s Got to Learn Sometime

Staying in

  • Pop! … Ollie is scared of balloons in The Fear Clinic: Face Your Phobia on Channel 4.

    What's on tonight
    TV tonight: people face their phobias in a therapy room

  • Amy Adams in Nightbitch.

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    Nightbitch to Back in Action: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    The ever excellent Amy Adams excels as a bored mum turning into a dog, while Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx head up a caper about two married ex-CIA operatives dragged back into the spy game
  • Leo Woodall in Prime Target.

    The seven best shows to stream this week
    Prime Target to High Potential: the seven best shows to stream this week

    Leo Woodall plays a mathematician about to unlock the secrets of the universe, plus Kaitlin Olson stars in a comedy about a cleaner with an IQ of 160 who starts solving crimes
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Pictures & video

  • Nuanced and compelling … Mona and Beth in the shower, Ward 81, Oregon State hospital, US, 1976.

    Photography
    ‘Women we might have been’: sisters and psychiatric wards – in pictures

    These two breathtaking shows by women artists – one shot in Oregon State hospital, the other a collaboration between siblings – helped challenge the photographic establishment
  • Three roda polo players on e-wheels on a sports field near Buenos Aires

    Photography
    Off your high horse: Argentina’s new sport of e-wheel polo – in pictures

  • In high spirits … Maria, from the series Defying the Myth.‘Defying the Myth’ is a personal photographic project which I have been working on for the last 10 years. It chronicles the untold stories of three families headed by single mothers, who are the prime carers, creating safe and enduring worlds for their progeny living with severe disabilities. Their world is little known nor understood by the general public.

    My best shot
    Maria at the beach on a perfect summer day: Carol Allen-Storey’s best photograph

  • Art and design
    Seeing stars: meet the amateur astronomers

  • Photography
    Trumpland: carnival to insurrection

  • Portraits
    ‘I had to transcend my fear’: LGBTQ+ lives – in pictures

  • Photos of the day
    Solar sculpture and winter landscapes

  • Music
    ‘Is it sexual? Or violent?’: the year’s best record sleeve art

  • Crime
    Chasing the mafia: the wild, Vespa-riding life of Letizia Battaglia

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  • ‘He didn’t analyse, he felt’ … Lynch filming Wild at Heart.

    Film
    ‘David Lynch altered our brains’: directors, friends and fans remember a titan of cinema

    His unique, twisted visions shocked and seduced generations of filmgoers. Paul Schrader, Abel Ferrara, Coralie Fargeat and more pay tribute
  • ‘She sort of glowed’ … Joan Plowright photographed in 1999.

    Stage
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  • Adrien Brody holding a set of architectural plans.

    Architecture
    Lights, camera, concrete! How Hollywood is playing a part in brutalism’s redemption

  • ‘My son does not want to fight’ … Krichman.

    Film
    ‘I was waking up five times a night’: how film-maker Mikhail Krichman escaped from Russia

  • Grace Delaney, Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh in We Live in Time.

    Most romcoms don’t dare ask what women in their 30s really want. We Live In Time does

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