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    • Saturday, 13 May, 2023
      The Weekend Essay
      The other Freddie Mercury: inside the singer’s London home

      For three decades Mary Austin has been the custodian of the Queen frontman’s art-filled house. Now she is finally ready to sell its contents

    • Wednesday, 10 May, 2023
      Music
      Onassis Foundation’s quest to spread the words of CP Cavafy

      The foundation is celebrating the poet’s work with events in Greece and beyond, including one in New York featuring Laurie Anderson

    • Friday, 5 May, 2023
      Travel
      My holiday with James Bond

      The secret agent has been travelling the world for 60 years — now fans can follow in his footsteps

    • Wednesday, 22 March, 2023
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      Agent Elvis, Daisy Jones, Swarm and TV’s twisted takes on pop culture

      New shows run the gamut from 1960s drug-fuelled mayhem to Billie Eilish as pseudo-therapist

    • Monday, 13 March, 2023
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      Paul Smith has designs on Picasso

      The fashion designer talks about being given the freedom of Paris’s Musée Picasso to put his unique stamp on its collection

    • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
      Upstream
      From Fawlty Towers to Frasier — the difficult world of the reboot

      As John Cleese revives his 1970s classic, will it offend modern sensitivities — or will it just fail to be funny?

    • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
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      That shrinking feeling: TV’s uneasy relationship with therapy

      From ‘The Sopranos’ to ‘Frasier’ to ‘Shrinking’, shows have made comedy and serious drama out of the talking cure

    • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
      HTSI
      The secrets of the Mercedes-Benz Holy Halls

      The maker opens the doors to the world’s most extraordinary car collection 

    • Saturday, 28 January, 2023
      Television
      When the BBC put cameras into viewers’ hands

      The 1970s ‘Open Door’ project gave members of the public free rein. Now the results can be seen in a London exhibition

    • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
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      Why 18th-century Versailles outstrips 1970s LA for sexual frankness

      ‘Marie Antoinette’ says more about gender and power than the violent tale of the crazily successful Chippendales club

    • Saturday, 7 January, 2023
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      1973 — the year pop culture found its dark side

      From Pink Floyd to ‘The Exorcist’, the impact of bleak albums and films is still being felt 50 years on

    • Wednesday, 4 January, 2023
      ReviewTelevision
      If These Walls Could Sing review — charming history of Abbey Road Studios

      Amid a starry cast of contributors, The Beatles loom large in Mary McCartney’s memoir of a pop shrine

    • Wednesday, 21 December, 2022
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      Space: the final frontier of TV misanthropy

      Armando Iannucci’s sci-fi satire ‘Avenue 5’ takes human narcissism beyond the earthly realms of ‘Succession’ and ‘The White Lotus’

    • Friday, 9 December, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Recycling Beauty, Prada Foundation — what the Romans did for us and what we did to them

      Classical art has been repurposed and reworked across millennia, this surprising, profound exhibition shows

    • Tuesday, 6 December, 2022
      Television
      What happens when TV intellectuals are given free rein

      ‘Simon Schama’s History of Now’ continues a tradition that is fast fading amid highly polished but predictable programming

    • Thursday, 10 November, 2022
      InterviewTheatre
      When American ideologies collide: James Graham on his play Best of Enemies

      As his Gore Vidal vs William F Buckley Jr drama hits the West End, the playwright reflects on ‘making sense of the world’ through art

    • Friday, 21 October, 2022
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      William Kentridge: ‘The history of the 20th century shows us the danger of all claims to certainty’

      The South African artist on the fallout from apartheid, being his own director, and why certainty is anathema to art

    • Wednesday, 19 October, 2022
      Visual Arts
      Jean-Michel Basquiat and jazz made the perfect combination

      A new exhibition in Montreal looks at how the artist was inspired by many genres of music, including hip-hop

    • Friday, 14 October, 2022
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      Greek artist Andreas Angelidakis: on a quest to deconstruct ancient monuments

      His new installation, now on show in Paris, playfully explores his country’s classical heritage

    • Thursday, 15 September, 2022
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      Sensation: 25 years on from the show that shook British art

      A new BBC series recalls the swagger and hubris of the Royal Academy’s infamous YBA exhibition

    • Saturday, 27 August, 2022
      Television
      Telling Mike Tyson’s story: ‘We all saw it through this negative racial lens’

      Actor Russell Hornsby, who plays promoter Don King, reflects on how the show reconsiders the boxer’s highest and lowest moments

    • Saturday, 16 July, 2022
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      Philippe Parreno on bringing to life Goya’s ‘occult, weird’ Black Paintings

      The French artist’s new work at the Prado in Madrid is inspired by the darkness of the Quinta del Sordo murals

    • Tuesday, 5 July, 2022
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      String theory: the evolution of the tennis racket

      From 16th-century makeshift paddles to today’s masterpieces of aerodynamic design — via the controversial 1970s ‘spaghetti’ maverick — they’ve come a long way

    • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
      InterviewMusic
      Jane Birkin: ‘I think you are always thinking about romantic love’

      The singer and actor on life with Serge Gainsbourg, why she’s still making ‘dangerous, provoking’ music — and the allure of Helen Mirren

    • Thursday, 19 May, 2022
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      Artist Lonnie Holley: ‘I didn’t know that what I was doing was art’

      The Alabama sculptor had an epiphany while carving a tombstone and has been undermining the rules ever since

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