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Several other artists including Muse, Weezer and Benson Boone will also take the stage at the two-day concert held in Las Vegas
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Michelle Obama and her brother Craig Robinson brought a live recording of their “IMO” podcast to SXSW London on Tuesday, discussing their career journeys and entering the podcasting space — and revealing one of their favorite guests so far. The former First Lady said that though she never expected to become a podcast host, the […]
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Opera makers have always engaged with the latest inventions while also preserving historic crafts. I believe it’s possible to look both forwards and backwards in this fast-evolving landscapeThe disquiet and distrust surrounding artificial intelligence among artists and creatives remain real and consequential, and the language used by leading arts commentators is often apocalyptic: AI will decimate the arts, it is evil, it is the devil. Like many emerging technologies, AI has been driven by the c
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The former first lady of the United States charmed SXSW London alongside her brother, Craig Robinson, for a live podcast recording of 'IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson.'
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She’s famous for sculptures that seem both solid and liquid. Now she has created a show amidst the ‘downfall of America’ inspired by a phrase from a comedy routine that came to obsess herA few weeks ago, Roni Horn, 70, was removed from her flight, just before takeoff from the US to Germany. A male steward was so irritated when he asked her to adjust her seat – and she politely refused to move it any further, since it was already as upright as she could get it – that he had the flight stopped and
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With procedures like filler and Botox becoming commonplace, audiences are lamenting the smoothed-out, uncanny faces now rampant in major picturesA few years ago, New York dermatologist Dr David A Colbert received an unexpected call from a Hollywood director. The director was shooting a film starring a high-profile actor who had plumped his face with so much filler it wouldn’t move.The director proceeded to berate Colbert, whose practice has treated famous faces such as Sienna Miller, Naomi Watts
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Iona Bell, the young British actress who’s set to appear in “The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping” later this year, has signed with Paradigm. Paradigm will collaborate with Bell’s long-term U.K representative Mark Jermin Management. Bell landed the coveted role of Lou Lou in Lionsgate’s upcoming franchise instalment, which serves as both a sequel […]
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Madeleine Thien, Sufiyaan Salam and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the commentsLately I have loved Dorothy Tse’s City Like Water, translated from Chinese by Natascha Bruce. It is an unclassifiable, sharp, ingenious, passionate novel in which the city that is dissolving is also one’s only home. I have been telling everyone to read Karen Hao’s Empire of AI so that we can understand the cost of the tools we’ve been told that we need.
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Rosamund Pike has called out a member of the audience for texting during the climatic scene of “Inter Alia,” for which the actress won an Olivier award in April. The play follows Jessica Parks, a crown court judge dedicated to challenging the legal system’s approach to sexual violence, who is forced to contend with her […]
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And then there was… one? Going into this past weekend, there were two out of nine artists booked for the “Freedom 250” concerts in Washington, D.C. that were still proclaiming an eagerness to do the gig: Vanilla Ice and Milli Vanilli’s Fab Morvan. Now that number has been halved, as Morvan, who said he was […]
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Susanna Kaysen’s cult memoir sparked a wave of 90s novels about young women in crisis. After 10 years in the making, stars Juliana Canfield and King Princess are bringing it to the stageGirl, Interrupted may seem like unlikely material for a musical. Based on a 1993 best-selling memoir by Susanna Kaysen, the slim volume chronicles the author’s approximately two-year stay inside a psychiatric facility in the late 1960s. After a decade of effort, the book’s adaptation is finally premiering off Bro
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Gillian Mosely’s film argues that Israelis are asked to accept a ‘forever war’ in part motivated by Netanyahu’s desire to defer investigation into corruption allegationsGillian Mosely has produced a follow-up film to her earlier documentary The Tinderbox, about the Israel/Palestine conflict and about how, as a Jewish person, she came to sympathise with the Palestinians. This film returns to the same subject, reiterating her argument that, since the grotesque antisemitic pogrom of 7 October, Isra
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Kristof Bilsen's film, premiering at Sheffield DocFest with a meditation, explores trauma, political and other forms of atonement, what makes a good apology and how it can change victims and wrongdoers.
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Richard Gadd’s follow-up to Baby Reindeer is a relentlessly punishing look at characters being crushed by the unending horror of their lives. At times, it feels like it was made by emo teensIf you look up Baby Reindeer on Netflix, you’ll find it categorised as a comedy series. This may come as news to anyone who has actually seen it, because they might have been labouring under the delusion that it was a terror-filled rolling panic attack of a show, sitting somewhere between psychological thrill
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For the past 25 years, Expanding the Walls program has allowed teenagers to express their identities and their lives via photography. In Expanding the Walls: Making Connections Between Photography, History, and Community on view until 8 June at the Studio Museum in Harlem, a survey contrasts the past and the now with a selection of images for an insight into the world and minds of teens in New York City Continue reading...
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Karel Och, artistic director of Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival, has unveiled a lineup of almost 40 titles in the main program, premiering at the 60th edition of the event in the Czech spa town at the beginning of July. Och said, “One of the defining characteristics of the films in this year’s main program […]
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Jurors, such as 'Sentimental Value' co-writer Eskil Vogt, and cineasts can look forward to titles from around the world, including KVIFF's first-ever Burmese, Colombian and Swiss competition titles and "a relentless search for the relationship between the artistic and the political, the intimate and the societal."
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A surprising romance is set against a backdrop of climate crisis, political instability and corporate corruption in this bleak but witty novelRosa Rankin-Gee follows her 2021 near-future climate-crisis dystopia, Dreamland, with a similar but more politically focused work. As I read My Only Boy, I kept having to remind myself that the nation it describes is not (yet) real, because, for a reader living abroad, the novel’s England seems unnervingly close to what might come next. Any political
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Sophie Fiennes’s thoughtful documentary follows director Declan Donnellan as he helps actors find their way through Macbeth’s linesDocumentary film-maker Sophie Fiennes returns with another palate-cleansingly meditative, unhurried and intelligent movie about artistic process; in this case, the process of acting – or to be more specific, rehearsing and workshopping ideas. Actors are shown developing approaches to Macbeth under the cool eye of Cheek by Jowl director Declan Donnellan.This is the pa
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The U.K. and Ireland box office witnessed a historic opening weekend as A24’s psychological horror “Backrooms” seized the top spot, grossing £4.2 million ($5.7 million). The film delivered the biggest opening weekend in A24’s history for the territory. Disney’s “The Mandalorian and Grogu” moved to second place in its sophomore frame, earning $3.5 million. The […]