arts
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Queen Bey has hit middle age, and it’s been a pretty glamorous journey to get here. Here’s her life so far in pictures – one for each year
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Larry Harvey discusses the lack of racial diversity at Burning Man, and the allegation that Silicon Valley bosses in luxury camps are destroying the egalitarian ethos of the festival
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Repeated next week on PBS, 25 years ago The Civil War made history live again on US TV screens, and turned the obscure historian Shelby Foote into a star
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Scott Cooper’s Whitey Bulger saga is a confident and nasty film with impressive performances from a starry cast
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The pop icon piqued online curiosity when she announced her first album in seven years, but she’ll need more than her nostalgic fame to make a comeback
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people
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The model and actor featured in Robin Thicke’s 2013 video does not know why it’s still talked about or why the female ‘naked body is so controversial’
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the big picture
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German graffiti artist Claudia Walde, aka MadC, is famous for her giant murals. Her new book Mural XXL showcases the best large-scale graffiti around the globe, from a building-high portrait of architect Oscar Niemeyer in São Paulo to a huge upside-down alligator in Atlanta
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There are parallels with Rushdie’s own experience in this fairytale that meditates brilliantly on life’s choices
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pictures & video
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Tank Man, Migrant Mother, and a young Syrian boy are proof that photographs can be the most almighty call to action
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The notorious MS-13 gang of El Salvador welcomed photographer Adam Hinton gladly into their community and their private prison
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Nigel Smith and Catherine Shoard preview this year’s Telluride film festival from a ski lift 10,000 feet up a mountain in Colorado
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Star Wars fans around the world dressed up and queued for the new range of merchandise tied to the upcoming movie Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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The Design Museum’s director, Deyan Sudjic, has selected the designs that define London for a new book. Here are 10 of his choices
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Joan Aiken died in 2004 but is still one of the UK’s most beloved children’s authors. She wrote more than 100 books and is most famed for The Wolves of Willoughby Chase chronicles and also The Serial Garden, which stars the fabulous Armitage family. Here Joan’s daughter Lizza shares some extraordinary treasures, including a snippet of The Haunted Couch which Joan wrote when she was a little girl!
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Stephen Colbert Anticipation builds as host ditches his persona for something real