arts
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John Carney goes back on negative comments made about working with the two-time Oscar nominee on Begin Again by issuing an apology on Twitter
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Jay Z repurposes the ubiquitous meme in Pusha T’s new single – joining Drake, Kanye West and Nicki Minaj to inextricably fuse rap and internet pop culture
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The evil don of 00s-era reality TV returns as a host on America’s Got Talent. But the spoon-faced Brit was like Superman after eating a bowl of kryptonite
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The genre is ever expanding, open to adaptation, and a refuge for established artists as they grow up – small wonder Beyoncé is tipping her cowboy hat
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They stole food, drank all night, and formed bands that couldn’t play. The guitarist relives the clothes, clubs and drug-fuelled chaos she was lucky to survive
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Their lead singer almost lost his voice, his pet chameleon met a nasty end and the band sing about killing each other. We got in the van with the K9 rockers
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the citadel
people
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The six-episode docuseries on the couple’s engagement and Chyna’s pregnancy is the latest in the network’s ever-expanding Kardashian universe
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The Who frontman says ‘musicians are getting robbed every day’ thanks to music streaming and that he won’t give his music away for free
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the big picture
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Magnum photographer David Hurn has documented his native Wales for decades, in a celebratory series that turns the mundane into something profound
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The cameo-crammed mockumentary hits all the right notes as Andy Samberg’s group the Lonely Island turn up the pop satire to 11
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With gay panic jokes, a topless elderly woman and house keys found up a corpse’s backside, Sandler serves up the same old stuff in his second Netflix film
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pictures & video
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The ebb and flow of oceans around the world reveal the planet’s daily dance in the sloshing of billions of tonnes of water. Hugh Aldersey-Williams examines the collision of immovable object and irresistible force at the boundary between land and sea
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After his triumphant Palme d’Or win at this year’s Cannes film festival, a new documentary is looking back on the vast career of the acclaimed British film-maker
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The New York artist has made a career out of her self-portraits that act as highly exaggerated and oft times grotesque character studies
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After winning the world’s largest cash prize for children’s literature, the Astrid Lindgren memorial award, Meg Rosoff has become a literary superstar in Sweden. Here is her account of her whirlwind tour of a country which takes its children’s books seriously
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Over two historic terms, official White House photographer Pete Souza has chronicled the most intimate, candid and comical moments of Barack Obama’s presidency
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Eye-catching design didn’t begin with Apple, as a new, digitally-aided photography series illustrates
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Shakespeare Solos
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Joanna Vanderham performs Juliet’s speech from the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet
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Samuel West speaks Henry V’s soliloquy on the night before battle, in which he reflects upon the public’s expectations of the king
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Daniel Mays speaks Macbeth’s lines from Act II, Scene 1, in which he sees a murder weapon in a hallucination
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Laura Carmichael speaks Portia’s lines from the courtroom scene in The Merchant of Venice, in which she tells the moneylender Shylock to be merciful
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David Threlfall speaks Prospero’s speech in which the sorcerer contemplates the end of life – and the playwright, perhaps, considers the end of his career
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Damian Lewis performs Antony’s funeral oration for Julius Caesar in Shakespeare’s tragedy – one of a new set of films to mark Shakespeare 400
US television X-Men set for the small screen with Downton Abbey star Dan Stevens