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Arts

  • Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm’s 12th season.

    ‘Larry’s secretly a lovely man’
    Curb Your Enthusiasm stars spill the beans – for their final ever episode

  • ‘It is a museum for – and of – the world’ … the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

    ‘A crazy can-do mentality’
    What made New York’s Met one of the world’s mega museums?

    It has 1.5m artefacts, 6m visitors, 2,000 staff – and gets by on donations. Max Hollein, the Met’s Austrian-born boss, relives his first five years, when he faced accusations of hoarding, narco-philanthropy and male dominance
  • Keanu Reeves in the 1999 film The Matrix.

    Time to take the blue pill
    Do we really need a fifth Matrix film?

    For every Prey or Blade Runner 2049 there are a dozen uninspired retreads of beloved old sci-fi franchises. So a Matrix reboot may not be the best news
  • NIXON DAVIS CATTRALL PARKER SEX AND THE CITY<br>** FILE ** Cast members from HBO's "Sex and the City," from left, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis, Kim Cattrall and Sarah Jessica Parker are shown in a scene from the show in this undated promotional file photo. "Sex and the City" received 13 Emmy nominations Thursday, July 17, 2003, during the Emmy nomination announcements in Los Angeles. Parker also received a best actress in a comedy series nod. The Emmy Awards are scheduled to air Sept. 21 on Fox. (AP Photos/HBO, Craig Blankenhorn, File) ** NO SALES **

    Sex and the City is on Netflix. Perfect – gen Z are a bunch of Charlottes

    Alaina Demopoulos
  • MISSY "MISDaMEANOR" ELLIOTT<br>Rapper Missy "Misdameanor" Elliott performs while filming the Sock it 2 Me music video in New York Aug. 22, 1997. Elliott is riding high on the charts with the recent release of her first album, "Supa Dupa Fly." (AP Photo/Rick Maiman)

    ‘People are used to devouring things really quickly’
    Has TikTok killed the video star?

  • Two possessed girls with scarred faces and creepy eyes stare up at the camera as they sit back to back, their heads resting on each others' shoulders.

    ‘Good and evil are at war, and the battlefield is the female body’
    How Satanic horror has returned to haunt the age of Trump

  • Sananda Maitreya in 2024, playing live.

    Sananda Maitreya
    I hypnotised myself into believing I was a genius

Talking points

  • Yeji Y Ham, author of The Invisible Hotel.

    Books
    Horror novel sales boomed during year of real-world anxieties

  • THE FIRST OMEN<br>Nell Tiger Free as Margaret and Nicole Sorace as Carlita in 20th Century Studios' THE FIRST OMEN. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios. © 2024 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.

    Film
    The First Omen – stylish horror prequel is damned by its franchise

  • The Black Keys

    Music
    The Black Keys: Ohio Players – a little soul, a little lush, less magic

  • Looking for leads …

    Television & radio
    Sugar – Colin Farrell’s private detective drama is a disaster

People

  • ‘I had strap marks all over me like I’d been attacked’ … Hannah Waddingham as Septa Unella in Game of Thrones.

    Television & radio
    Hannah Waddingham says Game of Thrones left her with chronic claustrophobia

  • ‘Like a rock star’ … Liu Cixin

    Liu Cixin: ‘I’m often asked – there’s science fiction in China?’

    • Nick Cave

      ‘It’s against nature to bury your children'
      Nick Cave on love, art and the loss of his sons

    • 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Radhika Jones - Arrivals<br>BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 10: Martin Scorsese attends the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 10, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images)

      Martin Scorsese to host and produce religious docuseries for Fox News

    • Are you inside or outside? … A Serra work in Seattle in 2007.

      Molten magnificence
      How Richard Serra’s giant steel sculptures bent time and space

The big picture

  • Mick Jagger, USA

    Rare and raw: never before seen Rolling Stones – in pictures

    In 1981, photographer Brian Aris was invited to join the rock’n’roll legends at rehearsals in Boston. He captured their intense musical bond – but couldn’t corner Charlie Watts

Reviews

  • Author Wycliffe Hill and his ‘plot genie’ device for coming up with storylines.

    Books
    Literary Theory for Robots by Dennis Yi Tenen – the deep roots of AI

  • Luscious beige, orange and brown … the Atari 400 Mini.

    Games
    Atari 400 Mini – a fascinating adventure in the land of 8-bit

    • Tea bag being dipped into a cup

      Books
      Practice by Rosalind Brown – tea, yoga and sonnets

    • Babies

      Books
      The Price of Life by Jenny Kleeman – what’s it worth?

    • From clown prince to comedy king … Steve Martin.

      STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces
      Intimate portrait of a comedy legend

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Pictures & video

  • Mcgregor Park, Houston, Texas, 2021

    Freemasons, rodeo riders and praise dancers
    Black lives in the US south

    From bull-riders to beauty queens, photographer Rahim Fortune’s Hardtack project chronicles Black families and communities in the post-emancipation American south
  • ‘Competitors try not to show pain’ … a bout in Mittenwald.

    My best shot
    Mediumweight finger-wrestlers at the Bavarian championships

  • Perfectly soaked … Grutas Tolantongo, Mexico.

    Cracking geysers
    The world’s most thrilling hot springs

  • Photography
    Boom and bust in the industrial north-east

  • Clowns and crowdsurfers
    Manchester Punk festival 2024

  • Rare and raw
    Never before seen Rolling Stones

  • My best shot
    A naked man plays with bubbles at Glastonbury

  • ‘A bygone world of glamour’
    Hollywood and the age of couture

  • Ukraine and the Blitz
    Has sheltering underground changed?

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