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A new show reveals the American artist’s many changes of direction, from condemning racism and violence to the calm of everyday life

Currently touring the UK, the NSOU’s Kyiv rehearsals are regularly interrupted by drone attacks

The latest reboot of Sunset Boulevard veers into self-indulgence

Born a century ago, the Italian author was the best kind of writer, because he understood what it was to be a reader

Following in the footsteps of 20th-century exiles who ran from communism, four artists are fighting their own war, from Paris

This cake from Scotland’s Twelve Triangles bakery is perfect for autumn

After WWII, Britain started building new play areas for its children – and imported its inspiration from Europe

The Swedish actress’s unhappy Hollywood experience prompted a lifelong questioning of what being herself actually meant

After Columbus made landfall in the Bahamas in 1492, as many as 40,000 Taino natives were enslaved in the Caribbean

Just as paintings once juxtaposed human skulls and fresh fruit to impress upon their viewers the transitoriness of life, so Mr Cruise has become a kind of walking vanitas

There was much more to Tove Jansson than the troll family that made her famous

Amid an explosion of young British talent, Sir Anthony Hopkins brings London’s Film Festival to tears with his performance in One Life

An adaptation of a Neil Gaiman novel makes for a startling production

Cinema's most infamous sex scene; a shattering opening sequence and a truly unforgettable finale – Nicolas Roeg's Daphne du Maurier adaptation has lost none of its power with the passing of time

Many of us now use words imported from across the pond, like ’truck’ instead of ’lorry’. But the traffic isn’t only one-way...

Few cultural figures can have combined political activism and theatre as successfully as Fo

A hit Netflix show is drawing tourists to the Azores, the archipelago where migration and magic are facts of life

It is eternally imperilled and eternally inspiring. A new book celebrates the great art made in and about the city that makes spirits float

A new translation of a novel on the rise of Nazism holds lessons for our current populist age

A new documentary delves into the life of the woman who outstoned the Stones

This is the best of Britain elevated by French technique

Here are my cultural highlights for the 2023 rentrée

Patient theatregoers will be richly rewarded with Bronagh Lagan's production of the Paul Gallico book

Putting up pictures in a new home leads to considerable pondering

In parts of Sweden and Finland, the practice of changing your surname to make it sound more learned goes back to the 1600s

Internment provided the German the perfect conditions to develop the exercise regimes that would make his name famous

Britain’s young classical musicians find their futures have been stolen as Brexit wrecks their opportunities

European fairy tales arrived on our shores 200 years ago – but the major part played by two London lawyers is all but forgotten

How the Switzerland-born contemporary artist has left his mark across the globe

Every year, a French beauty spot devotes a weekend to UK movies. An eccentric outlier or a harbinger of a new post-Brexit entente cordiale?

Here’s a superb chicken dish – a hearty hotpot for autumn

A blockbuster new exhibition interrogates the role, purpose and cost of deceit and misdirection