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Arts

  • A view of awards on display

    PEN America cancels 2024 awards after authors drop out over Gaza

  • Ciivil rights march in DC in 1963.

    The Black Tax
    Why have African Americans been cheated by the system for so long?

    In a new book, historian Andrew W Kahrl looks at the many systemic ways that prejudicial and harmful practices have affected financial stability
  • John Oliver: “It is both promising and long overdue to see people approaching this issue soberly, scientifically and perhaps most importantly, boringly.”

    John Oliver on UFOs: ‘There needs to be room for honest inquiry’

    The Last Week Tonight host looks into speculation, study and cover-ups about unidentified flying objects in the US
  • Exterior of the Black Dog pub in Vauxhall

    Taylor Swift fans flock to London pub apparently referenced on new album

  • Eliza Naranjo Morse installs A Return to Relationship, 2024; Collected earth and acrylic on drywall, 25 ft. long

    ‘Great change is possible’
    Female artists grapple with social and political upheaval

  • conan stands next to man in hot dog suit

    Hilarious, defiant and unabashedly weird
    Conan O’Brien hasn’t lost an iota of his underdog brilliance

  • ‘An exhale’ … (L-R) Mathieu Ball, Robin Wattie and Tasy Hudson of Big Brave.

    Montreal metallers Big Brave on doom, despondency and Emily Dickinson: ‘We’re sick as a species’

Talking points

People

  • Cher in October 2023 – the singer has finally been acknowledged in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

    Cher, Ozzy Osbourne and A Tribe Called Quest among 2024 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees

  • ‘It was crazy and it was freezing’ … Lil Nas X’s tastefully pixelated Industry Baby video.

    ‘I want to show more crotch!’
    Sean Bankhead on his raunchy dances for Beyoncé, Cardi B, Lil Nas X and more

    • A young rebel fighter in Liberia.

      ‘He could create beauty out of horror’
      The extraordinary life and photography of Tim Hetherington

    • The Spice Girls: Melanie B, Melanie C, Geri Halliwell, Victoria Adams And Emma Bunton

      Spice Girls reunite at Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday party

    • Salman Rushdie wearing an eye patch

      Salman Rushdie
      Author warns young people against forgetting value of free speech

The big picture

  • A detail from a portrait of an Inuit man with his child by Beverly Bennett Dobbs.

    Intimate portraits of Indigenous Alaskans – in pictures

    Photographs from the dawn of the 20th century capture a moment of cultural exchange between native people and early photographers

Reviews

  • Andrew Scott

    1984 by George Orwell audiobook
    A starry cast drive this powerful dramatisation

  • Djimon Hounsou in Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver

    Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver
    Zack Snyder’s bombastically fun sequel

    • Efficiency and wit … Taylor Swift.

      Taylor Swift: The Tortured Poets Department
      Fame, fans and former flames in the line of fire

    • Alisha Weir as Abigail in Abigail, directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett.

      Abigail
      Dracula’s daughter gets kidnapped in fun-sucking horror

    • Pearl Jam press photo

      Music
      Pearl Jam: Dark Matter – the faithful will rejoice

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Pictures & video

  • THRESHOLDS at the German Pavilion & La Certosa.

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

    From the thrice-daily Swan Lake to a tragedy in an asbestos factory, Guardian photographer David Levene went behind the scenes at the ‘Art Olympics’
  • Eddo Hartmann, Netherlands, Winner, Professional competition, Landscape, Sony World Photography Awards 2024

    Nuclear fields and insect feasts
    The Sony World Photography awards

  • Black-and-white photo of people dancing on a dancefloor, one in a leotard

    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

  • In pictures
    Exploring why we photograph animals

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