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  • Artist Tschabalala Self kneels beside a bronze sculpture, with colorful paintings behind her

    Art
    ‘I’m not nervous, I’m ready’: Tschabalala Self on racist vandals and her bold striding woman for the Fourth Plinth

  • A man with dark hair and a moustache and a stars and stripes t-shirt, cuddling a woman with long blond hair wearing a blue and red jumper

    Music
    The extraordinary untold story of Freddie Mercury: Mary Austin on her best friend – and love of her life

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  • Hayley Mills looks warily at Alan Bates in a barn

    How we made
    ‘The whistling on the theme tune? That’s Dickie Attenborough!’ Hayley Mills on Whistle Down the Wind

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    In pictures
    Costumed carnival-goers in Notting Hill

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  • Kettama raises both arms above a DJ deck on stage, red lights behind

    Music
    Reading and Leeds festival review – post-GCSE blowout shows how dominant dance music now is

  • Melissa Chan and Badiucao in Chippendale, NSW, Australia.

    Books
    Gen Z ‘Chinamaxxers’ fantasise about life in China. This journalist and this artist can never go back there

  • On the Babylon Berlin set, actors in period costume sit watching intently, with crew nearby

    Television
    Goodbye to Babylon Berlin, the 1920s TV drama that has eerily foreshadowed real-life politics

  • Peter Thiel

    British Museum
    British Museum hosted Palantir founder Peter Thiel in private viewing of Bayeux tapestry

Autumn arts preview

  • Statue of Crouching Aphrodite (left) and an Eddie Otchere photo of Metalheadz Sunday Sessions.

    Art and design
    Monet’s Riviera, 90s nostalgia and Bayeux à gogo! The best art and architecture of autumn 2026

    A self-confident woman strides on to the Fourth Plinth, Nan Goldin captures sex, cats and death and even the Turner Prize shows promise this year
  • Culture Preview Autum – Games – There are no ghosts at the grand and GTA 6

    Games
    Gems, ghosts and GTA VI: the biggest video games for autumn 2026

  • Culture Preview Autum 2026 - Stage - Kevin Bridges, Tilda Swinton in Manfred Karge’s Man to Man

    Stage
    Tilda Swinton’s blast from the past, Kevin Bridges at large and a deepfake ballet: theatre, comedy and dance to see this autumn

  • Willem Dafoe in Last Fame, Zendaya in Dune 3

    Film
    Tom Cruise, Olivia Colman and the return of Rocky: the best films of autumn 2026

  • Culture Preview Autum 2026 - Music - Kehlani, Noah Kahan

    Music
    The best music of autumn 2026: Johnny Marr, Phoebe Bridgers, Rachel Chinouriri and more

  • David Tennant in Time, Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer in Bladerunner 2099

    Television
    The 50 best TV shows to watch this autumn

  • Simon Callow as William Beveridge stands at a desk in a book-lined study, looking down

    Film
    Beveridge revisited: Simon Callow film celebrates the radical co-founder of Britain’s welfare state

  • Wendell BerryFILE - Author Wendell Berry talks with a reporter at his home in Port Royal, Ky., March 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke, File)

    Books
    Wendell Berry, US author, farmer and environmentalist, dies aged 92

  • Duane Davis glances over his shoulder during his murder trial, framed by blurred courtroom figures

    Music
    Duane Keith Davis found guilty of 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur

  • FILE PHOTO: Dolly Parton attends a red carpet gala event honoring her as the MusiCares person of the year in Los AngelesFILE PHOTO: Dolly Parton attends a red carpet gala event honoring her as the MusiCares person of the year, ahead of the Grammy Awards, in Los Angeles, California, U.S. February 8, 2019. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/File Photo

    Music
    Dolly Parton laid to rest in private Nashville funeral

  • a man in a suit holds a microphone

    Museums
    Met Gala exhibition honoring John Galliano is cancelled after backlash

  • Mariah Carey performing during All I Want For Christmas Is You Tour in New York

    Music industry
    Anthropic sued over alleged theft of ‘tens of thousands’ of songs

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  • Gerald Finley as Méphistophélès in Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust, conducted by Jakob Lehmann.

    Review
    Les Siècles/Lehmann La Damnation de Faust – vivid colour, soaring solos and a sharp-suited demon

  • A soprano sings passionately in a pink gown beside a conductor leading an orchestra

    Review
    Met Orchestra/Nézet-Séguin – messy bonbons and a hero’s triumph in a classy all-Strauss lineup

  • A soloist plays a red bassoon at the BBC Proms, surrounded by seated cellists

    Review
    Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Marquise Gilmore – bassoon earns its spotlight in Thea Musgrave’s Out of the Darkness

  • Angel Blue performs alongside conductor Jonathon Heyward and Chineke! Orchestra.

    Review
    Chineke!/ Heyward/ Angel Blue – belated premiere for forgotten Black composer

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  • A person harnesses a team of sled dogs beside a wooden sled on snow, with icy cliffs behind, in the Arctic Circle

    Scaring monkeys? Detecting bedbugs?
    Meet the elite working dogs

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  • Rio de Janeiro’s Ballroom Scene: Performance, Kinship and BelongingRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL — 9 JULY 2023: Lua Brainer vogues during Ocupação Noite das Estrelas, an artistic project celebrating LGBTQIAPN+ memory and presence in Maré. Brainer, a femme queen, is a co-creator and leader of Ballroom na Maré, an initiative that strengthens ballroom culture within the favela.

    The Guardian picture essay
    Performance and belonging: Rio de Janeiro’s ballroom scene

  • Raygun leans back dramatically under a spotlight, kicking one leg up on stage

    Review
    Raygun: Breaking Badly – the ridiculed Olympic B-girl gets the last laugh … and it’s a total joy

  • Liv and Mim stand by a window, one wearing a black leather cap and jacket

    Review
    Love Cheats – one romance scam is so hideous that a woman takes it to parliament

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    Review
    Vigil – this police thriller is twisty, explosive … and so boring

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  • Two boys sit in the dock at court.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: join the jury as a teenager goes on trial for murder

  • Comedian Lara Ricote, with dark wavy hair and a yellow scarf, smiles looking upward

    Autumn arts preview 2026
    ‘I’m not even an actor – I was just grieving!’ Rising star Lara Ricote on the heartache behind her new breakup comedy

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    I avoided restaurants after a disastrous job as a waitress. Then I watched The Bear …

  • A man with a beard and in a black jacket wearing a bow tie. One woman in a stripy orange dress. the other in a red dress.

    Review
    Dalliance – a rare drama so beautifully written you will be instantly devoted

  • Author Anita Brookner holds a cigarette, seated in a striped armchair, looking intently at the camera

    Book of the day
    Anita Brookner by Hermione Lee – an enigmatic literary great given her due

  • Chloe Benjamin

    Review
    Under Story by Chloe Benjamin – this time-reversal melodrama is quantum hokum

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  • Gordon Brown, with white hair and a light blue shirt, stands before a pink outdoor backdrop

    Review
    The Future Starts With Us by Gordon Brown review – the ex-PM’s recipe for beating populism

  • Illustration of a person walking past a bookshop while tiny people try to promote the books

    Report
    How to make a bestseller: insiders reveal the tricks of the book trade

  • Emma Cline.

    Review
    Switzy by Emma Cline – this Booker-listed account of a man’s last days is profoundly moving

  • illustration of two books chatting

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  • The Extractor Press publicity film still

    Review
    The Extractor – Indonesian hostage-rescue thriller has surprising thread of gentleness at its core

  • An actor stands at the end of a pier as the sun sets, while a another stands in the foreground near the sea, looking to the left, in a still from the film Pin de Fartie.

    Review
    Pin de Fartie – spoonerist remix of Samuel Beckett’s Endgame finds fresh absurdity in Argentina

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    My feelgood movie
    ‘Sometimes you just need a good cry’: why I love Little Women

  • Beldina Odenyo in a sequined outfit sings passionately into a microphone on stage

    Review
    Bel – the powerful life force and haunting absence of a traumatised singer-songwriter

  • Samvel and Avo laugh joyfully with arms around each other on a fairground ride

    Review
    The Black Garden – haunting study of growing up in war-torn Nagorno-Karabakh

  • man and woman with arms around another man in a hallway as they look ahead

    Review
    The Whisper Man review – Robert De Niro sleepwalks through silly Netflix potboiler

  • Claes Bang and Natalie Madueno in The Secret Woman.

    Review
    The Secret Woman review – Claes Bang is dastardly gaslighter in Danish amnesia thriller

  • Paapa Essiedu as Chris Keller and Bryan Cranston as Joe Keller in tense conversation on stage

    The best theatre to stream this month
    Bryan Cranston cranks up the tension in All My Sons

  • Katie Norris, as Mother Succubus, sits regally while a man bows over her lap

    Edinburgh festival 2026
    Katie Norris: Mother Succubus review – gothic comic enters a wickedly funny new era

  • Pandora stands atop a mound of gold-painted dancers, arms raised triumphantly overhead

    Review
    Mere Mortals – a dazzling, maddening ballet for the AI age

  • Priyanga Burford, as Noor, speaks intently to another person in the foreground

    Review
    A Small and Quiet Light – fractured portrait of a remarkable wartime spy

  • Actors from Underground Monk Show embrace and laugh together in dark robes on stage

    Review
    Underground Monk Show – hysterical visions enrobed in mystery

  • In The Trials of Magnus Coffinkey, a masked woman with a torch stands behind a seated man

    Review
    The Trials of Magnus Coffinkey – time stands still at 3.43am in fairytale

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    ‘Stonehenge is a gateway into a lost world’: meet the people protecting the landmark’s legacy

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  • two women in dresses performing on stage, one playing guitar and one singing into microphone

    Review
    Daisy Chain Fields – Olivia Rodrigo’s women-led festival is electric amid extreme heat

  • A$AP Rocky in climbing gear and a helmet descends a rope in darkness, gripping equipment

    Review
    A$AP Rocky – arena spectacular has plenty of helicopters but little sense of direction

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  • Victoria Rose and Stone Rosenberg

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  • Andy Burnham jamming in a mobile recording studio near Ukraine’s front line, in Kyiv on 24 August.

    Music
    Bigmouth strums again: was Andy Burnham’s Smiths jam in Kyiv the perfect soundtrack to a Britain in freefall?

  • June McDoom.

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  • Meg White in 2003

    Feature
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  • Composer Donnacha Dennehy stands in a street with his arms folded

    Classical music
    Donnacha Dennehy: Limina album review – joyously unfettered music is a thrill in motion

  • Donald Runnicles, Conductor © Bettina Stoess (2)

    Review
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  • Jacques Forestier sits on a block holding a violin, spotlighted against a gray backdrop

    Review
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  • Portrait of Jill gomez

    Obituary
    Jill Gomez, soprano with razor-sharp articulation

  • A screenshot showing a huge bird-like creature looming over a man in a corn field.

    Games
    The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past – Geralt of Rivia returns after a decade in the sun

    Before The Witcher 4 arrives in 2028, CD Projekt Red is returning us to the world of The Witcher 3 for one last foray. Looks like wind’s still howlin’
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  • A fierce woman warrior holds two curved knives, surrounded by ancient ruins and soldiers

    Review
    Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy – picture-postcard retelling of haunting Minoan myth

  • Lawrence Abu Hamdan holds his fingers near his temples against a green textured background

    Interview
    The ear witness: Turner-winner Lawrence Abu Hamdan and his ‘sound evidence’ exposés of human rights abuses

  • Wanda Wulz's double exposure blends her face with a cat's, whiskers overlaying her features

    Photography
    The cat that fought Mussolini: how the Wulz photography sisters weaponised the family pet

  • David Elleray sends Keane off in the 1999 FA Cup semi final replay.

    Painting
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  • The Lloyd's building in the City of London.

    Architecture
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  • Francisco Garcia narrates The Mindhunter.

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