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Exclusive: Experts say Albrecht Altdorfer’s 1520 landscape is ‘one of the most exciting discoveries imaginable’ An exceptionally rare painting, described as one of the earliest landscapes in western art, goes on auction in London next month. It was completed around 1520 by Albrecht Altdorfer, who is widely regarded as Europe’s first pure landscape oil artist. Continue reading...
Read moreDaukes was an outgoing 10-year-old when he met boys’ club leader John Phillips. As an adult, he lived through years of chaos and self-sabotage, while repressing his experiences. Then he found out his brother had been abused by Phillips too
Read moreRiverdale’s KJ Apa gives surprisingly solid performance but this corny look at iconic actor’s life is missed opportunity
Read moreAs GTA 6 looms, we look at the films that have influenced Rockstar’s creatives, from Heat to Bonnie and Clyde, via Boyz n the Hood and Speed Grand Theft Auto is arguably the most cinematic video game series ever made. Over the past three decades, the games have studied and stolen the themes, conventions and visual dynamism of great gangster and action movies, applying them to open worlds filled with low-life characters and grand set-piece possibilities. Here then are the movies (and TV show) that have shaped the GTA experience, from the 1996 original to this year’s inescapable instalment. Cont
Read moreSurreal, mysterious and with an outlandish origin story, Jan Potocki’s The Manuscript Found in Saragossa has amassed a cult following that includes Salman Rushdie and Jerry Garcia. But it’s the book’s global humanism makes it relevant now, say the curators of a new exhibition A young Walloon officer called Alphonse van Worden travels through the Sierra Morena on his way to Madrid to join the Spanish army. Along the way he has an erotic encounter with two demonic Moorish sisters, falls foul of shape-shifting apparitions and is tested by a Jewish Kabbalist attempting to use mystical formulas to
Read moreApocryphal plans to send an arousing morale booster to troops battling the Nazis make scant sense, and nor does the resulting movie
Read moreExternal advisors have been brought in to review the club’s culture following August’s Melbourne hotel incident and Tom Papley’s alleged positive roadside drug test
Read moreSeries two of this rambunctiously entertaining espionage drama might be implausible. But it’s a magnetically acted tale of friendship, with moments of genuine poignance Is Helen Webb Britain’s busiest mum? Or Britain’s least busy mum? On the one hand, she’s got two kids, is the wife of the recently promoted prime minister and also a deep cover spy, who spends her days passing information about her husband’s work to a shady intelligence organisation and her nights on covert missions which often involve acts of bloody slaughter. Yet the reason she can do all this is that nobody expects her to do
Read moreSome now suggest a monthly dose of art can boost wellbeing. But the last thing we need is another item on our to-do lists, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes
Read moreA Korean family is willing to sacrifice everything for their children’s education, in the third book in Lee’s Diaspora Quartet
Read moreHeartfelt real-life drama follows the late activist whose groundbreaking struggle helped build a rainbow alliance with gay action groups and the Black Panthers
Read moreFrom women floating across the shore to magical patches of Irish land, this year’s exhibitions are full of fantastic yet confounding photography Continue reading...
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