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When the National Museum of African and African American History and Culture opens in September it will house more than 35,000 artifacts, many of which were donated from the public or found in attics, basements and closets
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BBC Culture poll of 177 film critics around the world puts David Lynch’s 2001 surrealist masterpiece in top spot
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Oscar-nominated actor refused the Napster billionaire’s request to preside over ceremony dressed in character, saying: ‘Gandalf doesn’t do weddings’
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The release of Blond threatens to overshadow that this year has been a vintage year for R&B with artists from KING to Abra pushing the genre’s boundaries
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The alt-pop duo claim that Lovato’s album track Stars features the same ‘combination of the hand claps and bass drum’ as their 2010 single Infinity Guitars
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The star of The O.C. and The Sixth Sense must pay screenwriter David Lief after choosing to holiday around Europe rather than star in comedy Promoted
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Forty years after singer’s move to city, and seven months after his death, plaque unveiled outside flat he shared with Iggy Pop
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US study suggests that the boy wizard’s fans are less sympathetic to ‘Trumpdemort’ – even less so when they have read more of the books
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the big picture
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Peter Blake didn’t stop at designing that Sgt Pepper cover, as this exhibition of rare and limited-edition works by the godfather of British pop art shows
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The country legend’s latest isn’t quite the kind of back-to-basics project that gave Johnny Cash’s late career such a boost, but it’s a step in that direction
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Angela is the girl-next-door no more, Elliot says farewell to low-key life – and Mr Robot plays the hero. What an inspiration
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Tom Hiddleston reads from John Le Carré The Night Manager
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Ronni Ancona’s Gertrude serves up a bloody homecoming dinner down the Prince of Denmark pub in the seventh of the British Council films for Shakespeare Lives 2016
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Colin O’Brien spent a lifetime photographing the lives of Londoners, capturing both change and continuity in the life of the capital. His book London Life records the final moments before transformation took place in the city
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Forget about the Disney film: Jasmin Vardimon Company’s dance adaptation, which debuts this month, is an altogether darker adventure inspired by Carlo Collodi’s 19th-century novel
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Photographer Sandrine Kerfante has had a fascination with ‘doubles’ ever since meeting her mother’s twin as a child
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The American singer-songwriter collaborated with choreographer Cass Eipper and performer Nelson Earle from Sydney Dance Company for his latest clip
Shakespeare Solos
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Camille O’Sullivan plays Constance in King John, who laments the loss of her son, Arthur, but disputes the suggestion that she has gone mad
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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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In a speech taken from the first scene of All’s Well That Ends Well, Sacha Dhawan’s Parolles stresses the importance of losing one’s virginity
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Ayesha Dharker plays Titania, the queen of the fairies, in a scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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David Morrissey speaks the opening lines from Richard III in which the scheming Richard lays out his plan to turn his brothers, Clarence and the newly enthroned King Edward IV, against each other
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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
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Jennifer Lawrence Actor tops Forbes list of highest-paid female actors with $46m