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Culture03 Jul
A Dog in the Center of a Cup: How a 2,500-Year-Old Athenian Scratch Found Its Way Onto a T-Shirt
Culture03 Jul
Ukrainian cinema prices and the refugee arithmetic that doesn't add up
Culture03 Jul
Iran's 'Resistance Front' Stages a Visible Funeral — and Reasserts a Cross-Border Network
Culture03 Jul
Olivia Wilde and Edward Norton on The Invite, marital bed death, and the summer's most uncomfortable comedy
Culture03 Jul
Cultural tributes in Latin America to the martyred leader of the revolution
Culture03 Jul
Spanish and Latin American cultural figures pay respects to Khamenei as Iran's foreign-policy posture hardens
Culture03 Jul
Madonna's 'Confessions II' leans into the club — and finds the sharpest pop of her late career
Culture03 Jul
Malayalam cinema's mid-year reset: how a smaller, hungrier industry outpaced its own stars
Culture03 Jul
China's new Ethnic Unity Law takes effect, and the projection on the consulate wall says the rest
Culture03 Jul
China's Ethnic Unity Law takes effect under protest, signalling a new phase of coercive assimilation
Culture03 Jul
Empire State Building climb: a stunt, a Netflix deal, and the question of who monetises spectacle
Culture03 Jul
India's LPG lifeline runs through a chokepoint it does not control
Culture03 Jul
A World Cup halftime mystery, a record-breaking car carrier, and the fans the cameras miss
Culture03 Jul
‘Peluru Senja: The Ghost & the Gun’ Locks Independence Day Weekend Slot in Malaysia
Culture03 Jul
Sandfall signals a sequel push — and a deliberate break from Clair Obscur's playbook
Culture03 Jul
When dystopia stops being science fiction: a new book reads the politics of the page and the screen
Culture03 Jul
Indie horror-comedy 'Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant' leans into gooey gross-out as Umbrella Entertainment unveils trailer
Culture03 Jul
A Downtown Gallery Closes. The Question Is What It Closes With.
Culture03 Jul
MFA Boston's 250th-anniversary reinstall puts the everyday in the same room as the imperial
Culture03 Jul
A Boris Mikhailov Photograph Is Stolen From a Lithuanian Museum, and the Question of Who's Buying
Culture03 Jul
Emmys 2026: Pluribus and The Pitt Set the Pace as Netflix Plays for Volume
Culture03 Jul
A Plagiarism Complaint at Manifesta 16 Asks What the Biennial Is For
Culture03 Jul
"Young Washington" and the quiet normalisation of generative AI in prestige film production
Culture03 Jul
James Turrell's Danish light, Raven Chacon's new album, and a Black radical reading of 1776: notes from this week's required reading
Culture03 Jul
Rupert Grint and Seidi Haarla anchor Shudder's parental-dread horror 'Nightborn'
Culture03 Jul
London's National Gallery Acquires a Major Kauffman History Painting — and Asks What Comes Next
Culture03 Jul
'Cannibal Holocaust' at 46: Bob Murawski on Building the Definitive Cut Without Surrendering the Film's Brutal Edge
Culture03 Jul
Venezuelan Artists Turn to Sales, Prints and Zines to Fund Earthquake Relief
Culture03 Jul
Swiss Institute's Bowery Move Reshapes Lower Manhattan's Cultural Map
Culture03 Jul
Tirzepatide pulls ahead of semaglutide in real-world weight loss data
Culture03 Jul
Jorja Smith's Third Act: A Quiet Pivot Toward the Global South
Culture03 Jul
British Museum faces fresh scrutiny over provenance disclosures as older UK fridges buckle in heatwave
Culture03 Jul
The Taylor Swift wedding spectacle, an MSG rumour, and what the AC temperature debate reveals
Culture03 Jul
Marina Herlop's Self-Release Bet Signals a Quieter Path Around the Streaming Gatekeepers
Culture03 Jul
A Staircase Climb, a Court Appearance, and the Question of What Counts as Art
Culture02 Jul
Jodie Foster on F1, AI, and the creeping sameness of Hollywood blockbusters
Culture02 Jul
5,000 yo-yos at once: Wilco, the Breeders, and the slow death of spectacle
Culture02 Jul
Shudder's 'Nightborn' leans into a tired horror formula — and that's the most interesting thing about it
Culture02 Jul
Lyles & King, a Lower East Side Fixture for Eleven Years, Will Close in September
Culture02 Jul
"Prosecution" and the limits of the German legal thriller
Culture02 Jul
Anne Hathaway walked out of 'Knocked Up' over a birthing scene. The episode explains more about modern comedy than the trade press admits.
Culture02 Jul
A couple climbed the Empire State Building and a Netflix show found its next plot point
Culture02 Jul
Moscow's Evidence Offensive: How the Russian Foreign Ministry is Packaging War Photography for Western Audiences
Culture02 Jul
The week AI labs told us they had to hide the good stuff
Culture02 Jul
A Photograph Vanishes in Kaunas: The Pattern Behind Europe's Museum Heists
Culture02 Jul
Tehran readies farewell for Khamenei as successor race enters public phase
Culture02 Jul
Wagner without staging: Pappano and the LSO find the score inside a Barbican concert Tristan
Culture02 Jul
Culture outside of circumstances: Moscow Conservatory hosts Donbass Express school-festival opener
Culture02 Jul
Terence Gower's enemies and rascals: a Canadian verdict on the American founding
Culture02 Jul
Kawaii Went Global by Refusing to Be Translated: A Golden Melody Festival Argument
Culture02 Jul
Casetify's 'Kpop Demon Hunters' drop is the latest proof that anime-led IP has outgrown its niche
Culture02 Jul
The Song Is Not the Story: Inside Music Supervision's Quiet Power
Culture02 Jul
Canal+ pulls TF1 channels in France, Switzerland and Africa as carriage talks collapse
Culture02 Jul
The End of English: Latin Music's Quiet Reordering of Global Pop
Culture02 Jul
"Dust Bunny" and "28 Years Later: The Bone Temple" Head the Chainsaw Awards Conversation
Culture02 Jul
Robyn at 20: how a Swedish pop outsider built the template the streaming era inherited
Culture02 Jul
Seattle Art Museum Taps Smithsonian's Frank Feltens as Chief Curator
Culture02 Jul
Disney+ Bets on Anime Catalogue as Streaming Wars Shift to Library Depth
Culture02 Jul
Variety Tries to Out-Cannes Cannes at Lapérouse
Culture02 Jul
GKids takes Studio Ghibli's library to the U.K.: what an Imax 'Kiki' rollout actually signals
Culture02 Jul
León Ferrari retrospective pulled in Chile as a $200m New York arts budget lands
Culture02 Jul
'Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant': inside the indie gross-out that Umbrella thinks you might actually watch
Culture02 Jul
Hugo on French soil, again: Studiocanal unveils teaser for Cavayé's 'Les Misérables'
Culture02 Jul
Mamdani's $323.8M Culture Budget Sets a New High-Water Mark, and Tries to Make It Stick
Culture02 Jul
Blast in Damascus Cafe Kills Five, Stirs Fears of Renewed Violence in Post-Assad Capital
Culture02 Jul
Trust, uncertainty and a decade of patience: how Jolin Tsai’s ‘Pleasure’ came together
Culture02 Jul
Daisy Johnson's Long Wave: a quiet, three-generation novel that finds its power in the silences
Culture02 Jul
Pierre Coffin on Minions, memetic creep, and the franchise that refuses to peak
Culture02 Jul
A stage in parliament: what a Syrian actress's appointment tells us about al-Sharaa's transitional politics
Culture02 Jul
Venezuelan Artists Gather Around Grief and Cultural Funding After Quake
Culture02 Jul
Alabama Shakes' Leeds comeback signals a band ready to outgrow its comeback
Culture02 Jul
Museums and spiders: two notes on what zoologists are measuring right now
Culture02 Jul
Caroline Aherne, a decade on: the northern voice that made British comedy quieter, and louder
Culture02 Jul
Madonna's dancefloor return: why 'Confessions II' reads as the most coherent statement she's made in two decades
Culture02 Jul
Every pub, drawn: Lydia Wood's quixotic archive of London's vanishing watering holes
Culture02 Jul
Birds of War and the impossible camera: how a BBC correspondent and a Syria photographer turned a war zone into a love story
Culture02 Jul
Iran stages Khamenei funeral as a managed media event — and a foreign-policy signal
Culture02 Jul
Iran stages multi-day farewell for Khamenei as foreign press corps descends on Tehran
Culture02 Jul
Tilda Swinton, undressed: why a Sky Arts portrait of cinema's most elusive star lands now
Culture02 Jul
Nagraj Manjule's 'Khashaba' teaser lands: a Marathi-language sports biopic bets on a regional underdog story
Culture02 Jul
Father Tabakis and the Strange Resurrection of Greek Orthodox Doom
Culture02 Jul
Roosevelt redux: Trump's museum moment and the politics of presidential inheritance
Culture02 Jul
Why Warner Bros. is rebuilding the Ocean's franchise as period prequel — and what that says about Hollywood's IP economy
Culture02 Jul
Rosalía's Lux Tour Lands in Los Angeles as a Cross-Disciplinary Argument About What a Pop Star Can Be
Culture02 Jul
A Knicks Championship, Reframed: Travon Free Bets That the City's Story Is Bigger Than the Box Score
Culture02 Jul
Saoirse Ronan turns a teacher into a hostage in the first trailer for 'Bad Apples'
Culture02 Jul
Got Milk? Heads to Documentary+ as 'The Price of Milk' Asks Whether the Slogan Sold Out America's Dairy Farmers
Culture02 Jul
'Project Hail Mary' Lands on Prime Video: A Streaming Window Worth Watching
Culture02 Jul
Hudson Film Festival's 2026 lineup leans on Filipino and queer American indies, signals upstate festival's growing curation weight
Culture02 Jul
Goodbye, Stars Hollow: Why the Netflix Departure of Gilmore Girls Lands as a Cultural Loss for Gen Z
Culture02 Jul
Olivia Wilde's 'The Invite' sets A24's strongest specialised opening of 2026
Culture02 Jul
Will Poulter's 'Union Country' trailer lands as Oscilloscope positions the indie drama for an awards-season run
Culture02 Jul
A JonBenét Ramsey limited series migrates to Netflix — and with it, the future of prestige true-crime
Culture02 Jul
Mamdani's $323M Arts Bet: A New York That Picks Its Culture
Culture02 Jul
Norval Morrisseau forgery case deepens as expert alleges artist's children helped run a multi-thousand-work scheme
Culture02 Jul
In Yekaterinburg, eleven seasons of a festival that keeps classical music cheap
Culture02 Jul
Illumination's Minions Get a Second Wind in a 'Monsters' Throwback That Plays Against the Studio's Own House Style
Culture02 Jul
Inside the Met's Looted-Object Reckoning: A $95m Catalogue of Extraction
Culture02 Jul
Indie horror's bargain bin is producing the year's strangest cinema — and 'The Leaching' is the latest exhibit
Culture02 Jul