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  • Sutapa Biswas, Housewives with Steak- knives, 1983-85, Oil, acrylic, pastel, pencil, white tape, collage on paper mounted onto stretched canvas, 2450 x 2220mm.

    Exhibitions
    ‘We thought we were being naughty!’ The thrilling show by Black and Asian women that rocked the art world

  • Carbon intensive … an image of the proposal.

    Architecture
    ‘Excessively wasteful and giving off Swarovski vibes’: our critic on the ‘tiara bridge’ for the late queen

More culture

  • Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso.

    Interview
    ‘Pop music can be so scared to offend’: Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso, the Argentine duo subverting machismo

  • Anselm Kiefer, Nevermore, 2014.

    Art
    Kiefer/Van Gogh review – Anselm puts the nightmare into Vincent’s sunflower visions

  • Dominique Thorne as Riri Williams/Ironheart in Ironheart on Disney+

    TV review
    Ironheart – the small screen can barely contain the energy of this Black Panther spinoff

  • Florence, Tourist damages an 18th century painting exhibited at the Uffizi to take a selfie, images taken from an exclusive video by TG1<br>3BKM39J Florence, Tourist damages an 18th century painting exhibited at the Uffizi to take a selfie, images taken from an exclusive video by TG1

    Galleries
    ‘I’ve been told off for taking snaps too’: our critic on the selfie-taking crackdown at the Uffizi gallery

  • ‘Artistically true and honest’ … from left, Jack Callan, Sam McCann, Karla Chubb and Zac Stephenson.

    Music
    ‘I get idiot men calling me arrogant’: Irish post-punks Sprints confront the mansplainers and misogynists

  • Stu Mackenzie and Joey Walker of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard performing at Lukiškiu prison, Vilnius, Lithuania.

    The Guardian picture essay
    ‘We have a high appetite for risk’: inside King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard’s historic EU tour

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News

  • People gathered round the stones at summer solstice sunrise on 21 June at Stonehenge.

    Heritage
    English Heritage chief steps down after overseeing controversial cost cuts

  • A wall in the Uffizi gallery showing a gap between two paintings where third one was hanging

    Art
    Three-hundred-year-old painting in the Uffizi damaged after visitor trips while trying to ‘make a meme’

  • Mick Ralphs Portrait Shoot<br>LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - SEPTEMBER 11: English guitarist and songwriter Mick Ralphs, founding member of the bands Mott the Hoople and Bad Company, photographed during a portrait shoot for Guitarist Magazine/Future via Getty Images, September 11, 2013. (Photo by Will Ireland/Guitarist Magazine/Future via Getty Images)

    Music
    Mick Ralphs, founding member of Mott the Hoople and Bad Company, dies aged 81

  • A visualisation of Norman Foster’s glass bridge

    Architecture
    Translucent bridge to form centrepiece of national memorial to Elizabeth II

  • The Edge

    Music
    U2 guitarist The Edge becomes Irish citizen – after 62 years in the country

  • black and white photo of a man in a three-piece suit with a pipe

    Books
    Unknown novel by writer who charted Hitler’s rise becomes German bestseller

In pictures

  • Various young men in Black panther uniform stand as the man in the centre of the black and white image speaks

    Photography
    ‘I was one of the few people able to document it’: shooting the Black Panthers – in pictures

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  • Chrisp Street Youth Club, 2005

    Photography
    ‘Youths everywhere were spitting over tinny beats playing off a Nokia’: great grime photographer Simon Wheatley

TV & streaming

  1. Dominique Thorne as Riri Williams/Ironheart in Ironheart on Disney+

    Review
    Ironheart – the small screen can barely contain the energy of this Black Panther spinoff

  2. Undated film still from Trainwreck: Poop Cruise. See PA Feature SHOWBIZ Download Reviews. WARNING: This picture must only be used to accompany PA Feature SHOWBIZ Download Reviews. PA Photo. Picture credit should read: Netflix, Inc. All Rights Reserved. NOTE TO EDITORS: This picture must only be used to accompany PA Feature SHOWBIZ Download Reviews.

    Review
    Poop Cruise – a fascinating look at a toilet disaster that still haunts passengers 12 years later

  3. The Gilded Age.

    Review
    The Gilded Age – so gloriously soapy the suds practically foam on the screen

More TV

  • Amol Rajan in Amol Goes to the Ganges, BBC One.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Amol Rajan explores grief and faith by the Ganges

  • The Gilded Age.

    Review
    The Gilded Age – so gloriously soapy the suds practically foam on the screen

  • ‘We don’t want to give you that’ … Tarrant in action in 2010.

    How we made
    ‘We had therapists on standby’: Chris Tarrant on making Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

  • Olivia Rodrigo is all set to headline Glastonbury 2025.

    No camping required!
    It’s the ultimate Glastonbury TV watch-along guide

Books

More books

  1. Hal Ebbott.

    Review
    Among Friends by Hal Ebbott – how to blow up your life

  2. picture of a snail

    Book of the day
    Endling by Maria Reva – a Ukrainian caper upended by war

  3. A spider spins a web early in the morning in a rice field in Kathmandu, Nepal

    Poem of the week
    The Song of Arachnid by Gillian Allnutt

  4. Charlotte Runcie

    Book of the day
    Bring the House Down by Charlotte Runcie review – the joy of the hatchet job

Film

  1. Sparring partners … Maxine Peake as Anna Politkovskaya and Jason Isaacs as her husband.

    Review
    Words of War – Maxine Peake leads line as murdered Putin-critic journalist Anna Politkovskaya

  2. Sudan, Remember Us

    Review
    Sudan, Remember Us – vividness and vibrancy in intense account of Khartoum uprising

  3. Reconstruction

    Review
    Reconstruction – teens re-enact crimes for state-driven pantomime in communist Romania

More film

  • Kenny and Kerry’s wedding in a still from Love & Trouble.

    Review
    Love & Trouble – raw study skilfully unpeels the PTSD that threatens to wreck a marriage

  • Melissa McCarthy in Spy.

    My feelgood movie
    ‘Full of delightful surprises’: why Spy is my feelgood movie

  • Two girls take a selfie

    Documentary films
    ‘Have you heard of this BDSM trend?’ What I learned recording thousands of hours of teens on their phones

  • ‘There were three different sharks and three different crews that worked the shark and it was all a disaster’ … behind the scenes of Jaws in 1975

    Film
    ‘It put the fear of God in the audience’: the incredible story of how Jaws changed Hollywood

Stage

  • Jamie Lloyd

    Theatre
    Everybody’s talking about Jamie Lloyd: the explosive rise of superstar director masterminding Evita

  • Cliff Cardinal's As You Like It: A Radical Retelling

    Edinburgh festival 2025
    20 theatre shows to see this summer

Stage reviews

  1. Luke Brady as the title hero in Hercules.

    Theatre
    Hercules – Disney musical is fun, finely sung but not quite fit for the gods

  2. Kieran Hodgson at Soho theatre, London.

    Comedy
    Kieran Hodgson: Voice of America – meek Brit meets his star-spangled States

  3. Company of The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs at Kiln Theatre (c) Mark Senior (2)

    Theatre
    The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs– exuberant musical drama wriggles its way into your heart

  4. ‘Every number is a hit’ … Lovestuck.

    Comedy
    Lovestuck – superb dating disaster musical inspired by unfortunate toilet accident

Music

  1. The Edge

    News
    U2 guitarist The Edge becomes Irish citizen – after 62 years in the country

  2. Mick Ralphs Portrait Shoot<br>LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - SEPTEMBER 11: English guitarist and songwriter Mick Ralphs, founding member of the bands Mott the Hoople and Bad Company, photographed during a portrait shoot for Guitarist Magazine/Future via Getty Images, September 11, 2013. (Photo by Will Ireland/Guitarist Magazine/Future via Getty Images)

    News
    Mick Ralphs, founding member of Mott the Hoople and Bad Company, dies aged 81

  3. A pop star operating at the highest level … Charli xcx, who will headline the Other stage on Saturday night.

    Glastonbury
    Charli xcx and Neil Young to Juan Atkins and the Asian underground: what to see at Glastonbury

Pop, rock and more

  1. Kraftwerk at Forever Now festival at Milton Keynes Bowl.

    Festival review
    Forever Now – timeless stars shine among grab bag of 80s nostalgia

  2. Little Simz and the Chineke! Orchestra at Royal Festival Hall, London.

    Live review
    Little Simz & Chineke! Orchestra – rap-classical crossover is spectacularly realised

  3. The wait is over … Brandi Carlile.

    Review
    Brandi Carlile review – country for the marginalised excels on the big stage

  4. a woman in a white leotard

    Review
    Dua Lipa – dance-pop icon keeps the energy hotter than hell

Classical and opera

  1. Top players … Penarth chamber music festival.

    Classical music
    Penarth chamber music festival review – scaled-down Mahler’s Fourth Symphony emerges as if newly minted

  2. Alfred Brendel, the Austrian pianist, at his home in Hampstead Heath, London, 29/09/2010 photographed for the Observer by Sophia Evans

    Alfred Brendel
    ‘It is impossible to recall him without smiling’: Simon Rattle on Alfred Brendel

  3. Paula Sides as Hanna Glawari, centre, in The Merry Widow by Franz Lehár at Opera Holland Park.

    Review
    The Merry Widow – come for the big tunes, stay for the birthday cement mixer

  4. Klaus Mäkelä

    Classical album of the week
    Berlioz and Ravel – Mäkelä’s orchestra is responsive to his every move

Games

  • Licence to thrill: Milla Jovovich as amnesiac Alice in Resident Evil.

    Stream team
    Zombie dogs, martial arts and a meet-cute: Resident Evil has it all

    The 2002 adaptation of the horror video game sparked a six-film, billion-dollar franchise – and a fruitful romance between its director and his action hero
  • Death Stranding 2

    Review
    Death Stranding 2: On the Beach – a hypnotising art-house game with an A-list cast

  • Abbey Road Studios will play host to a special one-off concert featuring music from the forthcoming videogame FINAL FANTASY® XV on Wednesday 7 th September. The one-hour concert will be broadcast from Abbey Road’s iconic Studio One, and will feature live renditions of a selection of songs from the FINAL FANTASY XV soundtrack performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, with a special appearance from world-renowned composer, Yoko Shimomura.

    High scores
    From Street Fighter to Final Fantasy: Yoko Shimomura, the composer who put the classical in gaming’s classics

Art and design

  • Gallery trail template

    Photography
    PhotoEspaña 2025: chance encounters and colonial legacies in Spain’s photo festival

  • A plaster model of breasts, by Louise Bourgeois, called Tits, from 1967.

    Art and design
    Abstract Erotic review – artworks as beguiling as they are compelling

More art and design

  1. What, no swirling draperies? … Samson and Delilah by Peter Paul Rubens.

    Art
    That muscular back! Those fleshy breasts! The National Gallery’s ‘fake’ Rubens looks very real to me

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  2. A reclaimer at Robinson Deep landfill, Johannesburg's largest landfill on June 29, 2018. Reclaimers complain of not having adequate protective clothing and as a result suffering infections and other health issues.

    My best shot
    ‘At one point, I stepped on a cow’s head’: Gulshan Khan on her best photograph

  3. black-and-white photo of seven men in suits walk up stairs

    Exhibitions
    ‘Artists struggled to survive’: the devastating impact of blacklisting Americans

  4. ‘She had no idea what narrative she was part of’ … Miss Sassy, who triggered a conspiracy theory storm.

    Photography
    Meet Miss Sassy, the cat who sparked Trump’s pet-eating ravings: Taryn Simon’s thrilling election photographs

Radio and podcasts

  • Pablo Escobar’s mug shot taken by Colombia control agency in Medellín, 1977.

    Best podcasts of the week
    An astonishing tale of Lamborghinis, cocaine and the need to make a quick buck

    TJ Dominguez opens up about his extraordinary life doing drug runs for Pablo Escobar. Plus, the incredible story of Hollywood legend Hedy Lamarr
  • The 2024 Met Gala Celebrating "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion" - Arrivals<br>NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 06: Dua Lipa attends The 2024 Met Gala Celebrating "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)

    Dua Lipa launches a book club for your ears: best podcasts of the week

  • TRAIL Culture 25 Podcast From left to right; Katherine Ryan and Nova Reid

    Feature
    The best podcasts of 2025 in the UK so far

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  1. ‘We don’t want to give you that’ … Tarrant in action in 2010.

    How we made
    ‘We had therapists on standby’: Chris Tarrant on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

  2. Mr Brendel photographed at his home in North London in Spring 2005

    Comment
    A man of sense and wide sensibilities, Alfred Brendel was simply the pianist of pianists

  3. Billy Porter with his hands raised.

    Stage
    ‘What are you trying to incite?’ Billy Porter asks thorny questions with This Bitter Earth

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