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Arts

  • Episode 1. Michael Douglas in "Franklin," premiering 12 April 2024 on Apple TV+.

    ‘We were going down fast’
    How Benjamin Franklin saved America

  • (from left)( Owen Wilson, Ben Stiller and Penelope Cruz in Zoolander 2.

    Ben Stiller
    I was blindsided by Zoolander 2 flopping

  • Megan Thee Stallion pictured in 2022.

    Megan Thee Stallion accused of ‘abusive work environment’ including sexual harassment

  • Eddie Murphy was not on set when the accident occurred.

    Multiple crew members hospitalised after accident on set of Eddie Murphy film

Talking points

  • a man and a woman look at each other surrounded by people wearing white masks

    Plague masks and ambisexual witches
    Sleep No More’s immersive experience leaves behind endless gimmicky imitations

    Steven Phillips-Horst
  • A close-up, sepia-toned shot of Taylor Swift.

    From Taylor to Ariana, pop’s overreliance on gossip is choking the life out of it

    Laura Snapes
  • Taylor Swift against black background with eyes close holding her head backwards.

    ‘Like eating too much chocolate’
    Guardian readers on Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department

  • Barack Obama is greeted on stage by Jay Z in 2012.

    ‘Reagan gave us something to rap about’
    How hip-hop has interacted with US politics

People

  • George Harrison and John Lennon. Harrison is playing Lennon’s Framus 12-string Hootenanny acoustic guitar.

    Guitar played by John Lennon on Help!, lost for 50 years, going up for auction

  • Anne Hathaway.

    Anne Hathaway says she had to kiss 10 men during ‘gross’ chemistry audition

    • Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley and Helen Mirren

      Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and Ben Kingsley set for film of Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club

    • Jerry Seinfeld.

      Jerry Seinfeld says the movie business is over: ‘No longer the cultural pinnacle’

    • Celine Dion performing in 2016.

      ‘Nothing is going to stop me’: Celine Dion details life with stiff person syndrome

The big picture

  • Cool waves … Little West 12th August 28 2023 by Pelle Cass

    Subways, sphinxes and the Stones: highlights from NYC’s Photography Show – in pictures

    A cover shoot for New York magazine and the subversive work of Lee Miller join a selection from top galleries at Aipad’s photography bonanza

Reviews

  • A white woman with long brown hair, dressed in a red paisley long-sleeved blouse and maroon pants, sits at a kitchen table in front of a can of Coke and a laptop, with her legs crossed and her hand on her knee, her chin resting in her other hand.

    Mary Jane
    Rachel McAdams makes a magnetic Broadway debut

  • Johnny Cash pictured in 1987.

    Music
    Jovial, randy and anything but dark: Johnny Cash’s surprise return single Well Alright reviewed

    • Top Spin 2K25 video game screenshot

      Games
      TopSpin 2K25 – game, set and match to an engrossing tennis sim

    • Bill Skarsgård in Boy Kills World

      Film
      Boy Kills World – ripped Bill Skarsgård shows he’s got brutal action chops

    • ‘Bob always talks’ … Robert Durst in The Jinx – Part Two

      Television & radio
      The Jinx: Part Two – more bombshells from Robert Durst, the serial killer who just won’t shut up

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Pictures & video

  • Cool waves … Little West 12th August 28 2023 by Pelle Cass

    Greetings from New York
    AIPAD’s The Photography Show

    A cover shoot for New York magazine and the subversive work of Lee Miller join a selection from top galleries at Aipad’s photography bonanza
  • THRESHOLDS at the German Pavilion & La Certosa.

    Venice Biennale 2024
    A lost astronaut, looted treasure and a hit naked German

  • Eddo Hartmann, Netherlands, Winner, Professional competition, Landscape, Sony World Photography Awards 2024

    Nuclear fields and insect feasts
    The Sony World Photography awards

  • Partying with an 8ft pink panther
    Ibiza in the 70s and 80s

  • My best shot
    Sunshine at midnight on the arctic tundra

  • All aboard the ‘ding ding’!
    A wild ride through Hong Kong

  • ‘We’d wait all day for a train’
    America by rail

  • Guys, dolls and an A-list cast
    Behind the curtains at the Olivier awards – in pictures

  • The Guardian picture essay
    In Maryland, female migrant laborers face an uncertain future as sea levels rise

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