Latest and Breaking Arts and Culture News and Top Stories - July 4
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Adrian Searle hunts for a glimmer of hope in a bewildering journey across the city There are always good things in the Liverpool Biennial but often not enough, and the themes have often seemed trite and irritating catch-alls. This time, ...
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Last weekend was the twenty-fifth anniversary of the release of Spike Lee’s 1989 Brooklyn masterpiece, “Do the Right Thing.” The movie was celebrated all over the country: in Los Angeles, with a screening at LACMA and a...
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Cheers to Independence.
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The internet? Yeah, we invented that.
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He's finished.
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Peter Baker talks about Ms. Clinton’s memoir, and Jeff Shesol discusses two new books about the Supreme Court.
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Peter Baker talks about Ms. Clinton's memoir, and Jeff Shesol discusses two new books about the Supreme Court.
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Yearning for the days of training wheels.
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Sometimes a deal is just too good to be true. One London gallery owner learned the hard way when a treasure trove of work apparently by artists including Andy Warhol and Keith Haring appeared for sale on eBay.
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"East Los High" (Hulu). A welcome second season for this Web-based Latino teen drama, set in East Los Angeles, begins this week, following some gap-bridging prequels. Originally created with an educational ulterior motive, specifically t...
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The man himself.
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LeVar Burton is swimming in millions.
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Dang homie, your eyes are playing tricks on you.
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A French judge awarded Scarlett Johansson about $3,400 in a suit over a novel with a character who resembles her.
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A French judge awarded Scarlett Johansson about $3,400 in a suit over a novel with a character who resembles her.
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The Times’s critics offer their takes on the week in film.
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The Times’s critics offer their takes on the week in film.
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Fledging London designer is at it again.
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Ben Ratliff and the poet Michael Robbins discuss the current state of metal and the music’s perhaps surprising similarities with poetry.
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Ben Ratliff and the poet Michael Robbins discuss the current state of metal and the music’s perhaps surprising similarities with poetry.
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Allegations of industrial cyber-espionage and mass electronic snooping have been flying hot and heavy between Washington and Beijing recently, but director Michael Mann’s upcoming cyber-thriller imagines an American and a Chinese army of...
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To post or not to post?
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Artist Zak Smith says he can easily spend all of his waking hours at the drawing table. To anyone who knows his work, that should come as no surprise. Ten years ago, he created a drawing for every last page of Thomas Pynchon's labyrinthi...
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The third in our summer reading series recommends what books to pack
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Koko the Gorilla , who celebrates her 43rd birthday today, keeps pretty down-to-earth company for a celebrity. While others court the paparazzi with their public canoodling and high profile Twitter feuds, Koko’s most comfortable ha...
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Chitown pride.
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For at least an hour, one of the biggest stars on the planet was the center of attention at the premiere of CBS' science-fiction drama "Extant" at the California Science Center in Exposition Park. Hundreds of invited guests sampling appe...
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Pier Paolo Pancotto on Carla Accardi (1924–2014)
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Playwright Edward Bond has criticised Arts Council England’s decision to axe its entire funding for theatre in education company Big Brum, labelling the cut an “immeasurable debt that society will have to pay”. Bond –…
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EVERYTHING in America has gotten bigger since 1776 but the sentences. Were Thomas Jefferson writing today, the baggy monsters with which he opens the Declaration of Independence would be hacked to bits by editors and spin doctors mindful...
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All the big hitters of the art world were at the 1959 Documenta exhibition: Kandinsky, Pollock, Magritte and Mickey Mouse. From polka-dotty punters to super-serious nuns, Hans Haacke's stunning photos capture the crowds who lapped up the...
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Hollywood's largest union representing actors and other performers has secured a new film and TV contract that will provide modest pay hikes for its approximately 165,000 members.
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What does it mean to cry over a book? It’s a question that has been in the foreground lately, thanks to “The Great Y.A. Debate of 2014”—the conversation, sparked by Ruth Graham last month in Slate, about the merit...
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Davidson, one of the original cast members of the groundbreaking sketch comedy show "In Living Color," has shows at Goodnights Comedy Club in Raleigh July 10-12. Click to Continue »
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Andrew Berardini on the opening of Gavlak Gallery in Los Angeles
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Positive education is an educational approach which aims to develop student well-being and promote happiness. Growing evidence suggests it can lower…
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Nick Payne's one-man play gives us death through an Instagram filter, says Matt Trueman
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La marque de papier japonaise Takeo a demandé à 15 créateurs de s’exprimer sur le thème du terme « subtile » dans le cadre du Takeo Paper Show 2014. Des créations d’une grande qualité, jouant sur le papier...
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Blurred Lines dominated record sales in 2013, but Robin Thicke's poorly-reviewed new album Paula is unlikely to exceed 20,000 sales in its first week
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Richard Wilson gives a faultless performance, says Dominic Cavendish
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How many clips can you recognise?
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A soundproof metal box and a death metal band called 'Unfathomable Ruination'. The group are participants in a unique piece of performance art…
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Argentine painter Leandro Granato has the eye of an artist. He has developed a new and unusual artistic technique. Granato takes the paint up…
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'Deliver Us From Evil' is a supernatural chiller based on a New York cop who teams up with a Jesuit priest schooled in the arts of exorcism. Actor…
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Aaron Katz and Martha Stephens discuss a scene from their film.
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Aaron Katz and Martha Stephens discuss a scene from their film.
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How the former TV presenter showed his dark side in art, plus psychedelic gifs, Google knuckles and Bitcoin crotches all in your favourite weekly dispatch Liverpool Biennial A "dazzle ship" that pays homage to the modernist cam...
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Forwarded for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles County Museum of Art / Kimono for a Modern Age The Pavilion for Japanese Art July 5, 2014–October 19, 2014 A blend of the traditional and the modern characterized life and dr...
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Discover the best of London theatre with The Telegraph's reviews of the plays to see
