Jagna and Boryna dancing in a scene from The Peasants.
Vertigo
The powerful beauty of The Peasants comes from the setting of the film against famous Polish and European paintings.
Erwitt standing in front of two of his most famous images, Dog Legs, and California Kiss.
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His witty, gentle and beautifully observed images propelled Erwitt to become one of the best-loved photographers of the 20th century.
(L-R) Bing Crosby, Phoebe Bridgers, Judy Garland and Ella Fitzgerald.
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Songs that evoked holidays “just like the ones I used to know” tugged at the heartstrings of a nation receptive to the idea of a nostalgic past rather than a fragile present.
The Tesla Cybertruck.
Tesla
The angular shape, flat surfaces and triangular roof line look like nothing else currently on sale.
Timothée Chalamet as Wonka.
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It’s a little too dark for small children and not funny enough.
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The exhibition showcases how nature coexists with Japan’s major cities.
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The series addresses the role of samurai, what life was like for women and people of mixed heritage, and violence in Edo-period Japan, with varying degrees of accuracy.
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Scotland has lost a wonderful writer and artist in the Paisley-born artist.
Bosphorus, by artist Refik Anadol, incorporates machine learning: a type of AI.
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Artists have embraced AI despite the risks to them, educators could learn from their example.
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Our academics review the finalists ahead of the announcement of the winner on December 7.
A. S. Byatt in 1999.
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In Byatt’s fiction, northern locations become emblems of the climate crisis and of how human actions have detrimental effects on the whole planet.
Damage to the Tarnavsky Museum of Ukrainian Antiquities was caused by shelling by Russian troops in 2022.
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When links with the past are destroyed, there is a loss of opportunity to continue a way of life, to live in the place one’s parents and grandparents lived.
Too Many Blackamoors by Heather Agyepong (2021).
Lakeside Arts
The exhibition celebrates and interrogates the cultural afterlives of Victorian Britain.
Men and boys, many dressed as women, attacking a turnpike gate in protest at charges at tollgates on public roads in west Wales. The Illustrated London News, 1843.
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The Rebecca riots saw Welsh farmers disguised as women destroy tollgates as a way of challenging what they believed was an oppressive taxation system.
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The success of Frozen extends beyond the box office, leaving a permanent mark on popular culture.
Waiting By The Window by Carl Holsøe.
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Hybrid flowers became a metaphor for sterility at the end of the 19th century.
Ncuti Gatwa is the new Doctor.
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Our study of five episodes across its 60 years shows Doctor Who has failed to support the idea that people should be able to advance their own climate interests
Shane MacGowan playing with The Pogues in 2014.
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The Pogues singer and songwriter Shane MacGowan revolutionised music with his fusion of Irish folk and English punk.
Jason Isaacs as Cary Grant in Archie.
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The series cuts between Cary Grant’s humble English beginnings and later Hollywood success.
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The desire to transfer the thrills of surfing on to dry land created the monumental culture of skateboarding, now vividly documented in a new exhibition.
Plato, Seneca and Aristotle in an illustration from a medieval manuscript circa 1325.
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The sheer quantity of data these processes will make available has significant ramifications for scholarship.
HBO
Old and new money come into conflict in this American ‘prequel’ to Downton Abbey.
Mother and Child by Mary Cassatt (1880).
WikiArt
From Plato to Schopenhauer, the philosophers have vastly different takes on the age old question of whether to procreate.
The Roses of Heliogabalus by Alma-Tadema (1888) depicts a feast thrown by Elagabalus.
Musée Jacquemart-André
We must be careful not to misgender or misidentify people of the past – especially if our only evidence for how they might have identified comes from hostile writers.
Paul Lynch winner of the Booker Prize 2023.
Booker Prize
The novel imagines how a society can be gripped by a slow-building authoritarian regime yet continue its mundane daily rituals.