Arts and Culture

Russia is absent from this year’s edition of the world’s biggest international art exhibition. But the main talking point is a decisive move away from domination by white men

A new film is a landmark moment for both Irish cinema and the language more widely

Does the individual human move through some of the same stages as we have, collectively, as a society, in our attitudes to the rest of the animal world?

The Spanish spoken by descendants of the first Europeans to colonise the US diverges from that of Mexicans and Latinos

Comedian MITCH BENN on the inevitable reaction to Ncuti Gatwa being cast as the next Doctor from the inevitable quarters

BritBox's latest is a perfectly pitched and painfully funny new addition to the canon of works about Irish alcoholism

This utterly misguided take on an ancient musical will antagonise the only people it’s likely to attract

Newcomer Michael Workeye dominates this superbly written, but often intensely painful piece

In agreeing new contracts at Liverpool and Manchester City, Jürgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola are putting down roots that are rare in modern life, let alone in the ephemeral world of football

How the video social network has raised sales figures and revived forgotten titles

An exhibition highlights the wonders of the Venice serenaded by Canaletto and the dangers faced by the glorious city in the sea

This year's Tallinn Music Week has been a showcase for some of the besieged country's most defiant music acts

Everyone loved Ennio Morricone’s film scores.. except the Oscar-winning composer himself, as a documentary reveals

There’s been a significant semiotic shift on planet Kardashian - the name of the show has changed!

Europe’s most visited tourist attraction had a troubled start to life

Charting the far-flung, uninhabited countries where English was the first language ever spoken

This Polish erotic thriller is such an oddity it will make you question whether it's actually a film at all

The problem with Emlyn Williams’ story – the talented, impoverished young lad in a mining town being recognised by a plucky teacher – is that it’s been done before and better

The Killing Eve star's stage debut is an important play, brilliantly acted, written and directed and with something worthwhile to say for itself

What appears to be the inevitable tragedy of Inger Stevens began long before she arrived in Hollywood and long before she left Sweden for the US

Following a former Canary’s flightpath to Krasnodar leads to an ominous sense of history repeating itself

Asparagus is a majestic vegetable and it remains one of the few whose coming into season is duly celebrated each year

In Erik ten Hag Manchester United have appointed a manager steeped in the finest Dutch traditions

Comedy is regarded as the lowest form of writing. It should be considered among the highest

Ivo van Hove, the Bowie collaborator with a taste for the spectacular, returns with a timely, bloody war epic at the Barbican

If the kings of the Neue Deutsche Härte are calling it a day Germany will lose one of its most paradoxically valuable assets

Audrey Diwan’s powerful abortion drama Happening has completed a clean sweep of major awards for female directors. But, she says, real equality is still far away

A definitive, exhaustive exhibition of the Renaissance artist is a once-in-a-lifetime blockbuster of a show

A new Netflix film is a worthy and sometimes dazzling new addition to the canon of horrifying ballet depictions

A play about Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole is hectoring and polemical rather than a serious examination of a character and her motivations

Bertie Carvel triumphs as Trump very much in spite of Mike Bartlett’s script, rather than because of it

Even inside his own monogrammed funeral casket the writer of Don Quixote remains an enigma