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Ai Weiwei: Button Up! review – skeleton chandeliers, a real-life temple – and too much silly Lego
Aviva Studios, ManchesterThe artist’s latest show is a staggering takedown of colonial history, warfare and the migrant crisis, featuring buttons by the tonne and richly perfumed tea History has repeated itself all over Ai Weiwei’s vast exhibition of monumental sculpture in Manchester. The flags of long-lost nations hang from the ceiling, bronzes looted by dead…
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Good timing? Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition is getting a physical Switch 2 release from Limited Run Games
Last year’s Tomb Raider (2013) Nintendo Switch 1/2 port didn’t get off to a smooth start, with some long-time fans declaring it a subpar refresh of the modern action-adventure classic. Over time, however, Aspyr has whipped it into shape. Now, a true physical release for Switch 2 is coming from Limited Run Games, though it’s…
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Tens of thousands rush for tickets to see Bayeux Tapestry in UK
The historic masterpiece will travel from France to go on display on UK soil for the first time.
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I Puritani review – Oropesa dazzles in Jones’s engaging Bellini staging
Royal Opera House, LondonBellini’s tale of Roundheads vs Cavaliers requires vocal gymnastics on an Olympic scale. Lisette Oropesa rises effortlessly to the challenge in Richard Jones’s detailed new productionForget Puccini and Nessun Dorma: the right opera composer for a World Cup has to be Bellini. The extreme high notes, the agility, the endurance involved as…
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Who’s been invited? Will they need to sign an NDA? Seven things you need to know about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding
The pop and football giants’ combined star wattage will be united in matrimony this weekend – probably – in an event shrouded in secrecy. But here’s what we’ve gleanedAfter an agonising 10 months’ wait, the wedding of the century is apparently here: if the reports are true, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce will be tying…
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Trump takes maiden flight on Qatar’s gold-trimmed jet as fury grows over ‘gift’ with security risks and strings attached
President Donald Trump boarded his very first flight on the self-dubbed ‘world’s most luxurious plane’ this morning, departing for North Dakota to attend an America 250 celebration.
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The ESA quietly starts walking back baffling statements about private servers being ‘illegal’, though it’s still tutting and wagging its finger
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Victor Willis, frontman of Village People, dies age 74
The co-writer of enduring hits such as YMCA and Macho Man, who struggled with drug use and legal issues for years, passed away after ‘short but aggressive illness’Victor Willis, the lead singer of the Village People, has died age 74. The group shared the news in a statement: “Victor passed on Monday 30 June 2026…
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A boy clowning around on a basketball court in a Colombian cocaine corridor: Mads Nissen’s best photograph
‘I took this in 2017, when Didiller was nine. A few years ago, I returned to the area and asked about him, but couldn’t find him. Someone told me he had been killed’I fell in love with photography when I was 19, while studying Spanish and doing voluntary work in Venezuela. Having grown up in…