CULTURE

The ultra-violent Shakespeare play that makes audiences faint
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- . April 23, 2025
Alamy Tragedy Titus Andronicus is the Bard’s goriest work, and a new production is set to be one of the

How the ‘gangster’ years of the young Joseph Stalin inspired the gritty Star Wars series
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- . April 20, 2025
Lucasfilm Ltd (Credit: Lucasfilm Ltd) It may be set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, but

Why JMW Turner’s greatest painting is so misunderstood
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- . April 17, 2025
The National Gallery, London (Credit: The National Gallery, London) As museums around the world celebrate the 250th birthday of JMW

The men behind the Great Train Robbery
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- . April 14, 2025
Getty Images Britain in the 1960s was captivated by the daring of the Great Train Robbery, and the sheer scale

Eulogy is the anthology’s most ‘heartfelt and quietly devastating’ episode ever
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- . April 11, 2025
Netflix Viewers have been “shattered” by Eulogy, an emotional new episode in the seventh season of Charlie Brooker’s series, starring

Fur is firmly back in fashion
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- . April 8, 2025
Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) It’s having a moment with celebrities, fashionistas and Gen Z. But wearing any kind of

Ken Burns on showing the dark parts of US history
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- . April 5, 2025
Evan Barlow Ken Burns’s upcoming series, The American Revolution, follows works exploring themes including the US and the Holocaust (Credit:

‘Radically different from any other show’
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- . April 2, 2025
Apple TV+ Jon Hamm excels in Apple TV+’s “emotionally real but absurdist” drama about a desperate corporate man who resorts

Why the quaint paintings of Thomas Kinkade divided the US
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- . March 30, 2025
(Image credit: The Kinkade Family Foundation) Beloved by many, despised by others, Thomas Kinkade’s quaint rustic scenes and his wholesome

The pioneering building that scandalised Paris
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- . March 27, 2025
Emmanuel Lafont/ Enrico Cano (Credit: Emmanuel Lafont/ Enrico Cano) The daring, radical Pompidou Centre was derided by many when its