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Arts

  • Elisabeth Moss, eyes closed, cuddles a baby who is sucking her thumb

    Television
    ‘It normalises the abhorrent’: is The Handmaid’s Tale the most frustrating show on TV?

  • Noah Wyle in The Pitt

    Television
    The doctors will see you now! It’s the all-time top 20 TV medical dramas

  • Mick Jagger, Shaun Ryder and Kiss’s Paul Stanley.

    Music
    ‘I’m burping? At least I didn’t fart!’ Ten things I’ve learned about ageing rockers

  • a group of young people hang their windows outside of a car

    Film
    ‘Pure sugar-rush mayhem’: why I Wanna Hold Your Hand is my feelgood movie

Talking points

  • ‘Multiplying paradoxes’ … Prince

    Film
    From Prince to Michael Jackson: why are the most controversial documentaries getting canned?

  • five people standing in a doorway looking ahead

    Film
    Marvel’s Thunderbolts* tops US box office with $76m opening

  • Lady Gaga performing on stage.

    Music
    ‘Like a religious thing’: free Lady Gaga concert draws 2.1m to Rio

  • seal saying national endowment for the arts' on the outside of a building

    Art
    Arts agency terminates dozens of grants after Trump proposes eliminating NEA

People

  • Lady Gaga MAYHEM On The Beach: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil<br>RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - MAY 3: Lady Gaga performs at Copacabana Beach on May 3, 2025 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Live Nation)

    Music
    Two arrested over bomb plot targeting Lady Gaga concert in Rio attended by millions

  • man and woman smiling on stage

    Television
    Saturday Night Live: Quinta Brunson is a reliable host for decent episode

    • Peggy Seeger, who will be answering your questions

      Music
      Post your questions for folk music legend Peggy Seeger

    • Anoushka Shankar

      Music
      ‘I was the only person who didn’t know the words to Coldplay’: Anoushka Shankar’s honest playlist

    • older man wearing a pink suit and matching hat looks ahead

      Music
      Eccentric musician Swamp Dogg at 82: ‘There’s no sympathy for octogenarians’

The big picture

  • Airborne … a Mexican Charro executes a rope drill on top of his horse.

    Cliff-divers, floating drinkers and billion-dollar flies: everyday moments on Earth – in pictures

    From daredevil swimmers in Tunisia to a rope-tricking Mexican horseman and a family get-together at a Californian river bar, the magic of everyday moments is celebrated in LensCulture’s New Visions awards

Reviews

  • Property and homes destroyed by a wildfire in Celista, British Columbia, Canada.

    Books
    Red Pockets by Alice Mah – finding hope amid the climate crisis

  • (Left to right) Marco Calvani, Colman Domingo, Tina Fey and Will Forte in The Four Seasons.

    Television
    The Four Seasons – Tina Fey’s midlife comedy is properly funny and heartbreaking

    • Kendrick Lamar performing on stage for the Grand National tour

      Music
      Kendrick Lamar and SZA – powerhouse duo make their mark in Atlanta

    • A cacophony of colliding systems … Skin Deep.

      Games
      Skin Deep – kitty rescue immersive-sim is slapstick fun in a cartoony playground

    • Sayaka Murata.

      Books
      Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata – a future without sex

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Pictures & video

  • Airborne … a Mexican Charro executes a rope drill on top of his horse.

    Photography
    Cliff-divers, floating drinkers and billion-dollar flies: everyday moments on Earth

    From daredevil swimmers in Tunisia to a rope-tricking Mexican horseman and a family get-together at a Californian river bar, the magic of everyday moments is celebrated in LensCulture’s New Visions awards
  • ‘It could be a self portrait’ … Arlene Gottfried’s photographer of a gospel singer

    Photography
    Sing for your snapper: a life-affirming view of New York

  • Red Crown Crane Feeding, Tsurui, Hokkaido, Japan. 2005

    Black and white
    ‘A form of meditation’: a photographic haiku to Japan

  • Street photography
    Shot from the hip! A street level view of 1970s New York

  • Music
    ‘Filling in these gaps’: Paul McCartney’s recently rediscovered photographs

  • New York
    Keith Haring, Kanagawa and Georgia O’Keeffe: highlights from NYC’s Photography Show – in pictures

  • Travel
    ‘Monks, politicians, drag queens – all life is here’: a trip to Japan’s Kyotographie festival

  • Stage
    Puttin’ on the Fitz! The Great Gatsby: A New Musical – in pictures

  • Magnum sale
    Braying donkeys, kissing clowns and Marilyn’s dress mishap – in pictures

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