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Culture29 Jun
Tamil Nadu's 'Spectrum' and the uneven economics of South Indian cinema
Culture29 Jun
Russia's Children's Talent Circuit Draws Scrutiny as Singer Says Commercial Competitions Are Blurring the Criteria
Culture29 Jun
Rushdie's London return: a cultural honor that doubles as a verdict on literary survival
Culture29 Jun
From Caracas to the Seine: Why a Single Morning of Art-World Headlines Is Really About Geography
Culture29 Jun
Khan Younis in mourning: the death of Ellen al-Farra and the information war over Gaza's child toll
Culture29 Jun
Inside Khan Younis: the drug-trafficking economy thriving behind Gaza's siege
Culture29 Jun
Montpellier Danse 2026 pushes the body past its limits, and past the audience's
Culture29 Jun
The unfinished film Orson Welles could not kill
Culture29 Jun
A forgotten fossil, a packed stadium, a Netflix cheerleading tent: three openings on the BBC's culture desk
Culture29 Jun
Vere's Dilemma, Still: Britten's Billy Budd at Glyndebourne Trades Spectacle for a Conscience
Culture29 Jun
Mazepa returns: Zelensky installs a Cossack hero at the Lavra and proposes a central-Kyiv monument
Culture29 Jun
A vyshyvanka, a backstage in Zagreb, and the soft-power logic of Ukraine's wartime cultural diplomacy
Culture29 Jun
"Black Box: Flight 298" and the low-budget paranoia revival: a review
Culture29 Jun
Dame Penelope Keith, face of a gentler British comedy, dies at 86
Culture29 Jun
Groundhog Day as comfort cinema: a survival manual for the loop
Culture29 Jun
A 1967 Cult Film Gets the Restoration Treatment — and Kicks Off Venice
Culture29 Jun
Ed Woodham's radical pedagogy: performance art as a public commons
Culture29 Jun
Harry Styles collapses on Wembley stage as Modi prepares to gut India's regulatory state
Culture29 Jun
Glass panels, drone swarms, and export blacklists: three signals from a hardening East Asia fault line
Culture29 Jun
A 15th-century priest, an 'antic comedy', and what medieval humour owes the present
Culture29 Jun
Raveheart review: Graeme Armstrong turns the Scottish rave into a political weapon
Culture29 Jun
Ezra Collective take the Love Supreme Q&A: a London jazz story bigger than one festival weekend
Culture29 Jun
Indian courts tighten the leash on presumption: two rulings, one press
Culture29 Jun
'Toy Story 5' Holds South Korea's Box Office Crown as 'The Eyes' Takes Silver
Culture29 Jun
Busan's Asian Cinema Fund backs 12 projects in 2026, betting on a region-driven production pipeline
Culture29 Jun
A Grandmother’s Footsteps, a Munich Premiere: Helena Hufnagel’s ‘Agnes & Amir’ Goes Looking for the Feel-Good Comedy
Culture29 Jun
A dog in the rubble, a groom denied shoes: two stories from the wire that quietly track a week
Culture29 Jun
JD Vance's Communion and the gap between the man and the movement
Culture29 Jun
Western malls and Soviet collapse: Maria Stoianova's home-movie history lesson
Culture29 Jun
'Crossing' Tops China Box Office as Wartime Epic Outdraws 'Toy Story 5'
Culture29 Jun
Iranian photographer Mohammad Kochchpour dies; martyrdom narrative surfaces in state media
Culture29 Jun
Variety's Southern California sweep signals a trade press consolidating its home turf
Culture29 Jun
From mud and mayhem to mass market: how the British festival shed its countercultural skin
Culture29 Jun
A blind gaokao top-scorer and a 14% AI bet: two Chinese vignettes on the same Monday
Culture29 Jun
Three newsroom beats on a slow Sunday: Abbott, a Trump golf course, and an ICE nominee with a state-trooper résumé
Culture29 Jun
BET Awards 2026: Kehlani, Teyana Taylor and the Categories Reshaping the Ceremony
Culture29 Jun
Heritage as target: Lebanon's south loses cultural sites as Israeli strikes intensify
Culture29 Jun
Lorde Opens the Vault: 49 Demos From Virgin Land on a Dedicated Page for the Album's First Anniversary
Culture29 Jun
Vanilla Ice's Freedom 250 Concert Cancelled for Rain That Never Came
Culture29 Jun
Colombia takes the Annecy stage: what the 2027 Country of Honor pick actually signals
Culture29 Jun
When the numbers don't add up: a high-profile cancer study collapses, and the field is left to ask what comes next
Culture29 Jun
The cynic at Wembley: what a Harry Styles concert reveals about the limits of cultural disdain
Culture29 Jun
Mel Brooks at 100: a century of jokes, and the America he keeps making fun of
Culture29 Jun
A Spider That Hunts Ants by Mimicking Their Pheromones: What a Caribbean Discovery Tells Us About Behavioural Mimicry
Culture29 Jun
Why horror movies thrill some viewers and paralyse others, the psychiatry of cinematic fear
Culture29 Jun
Tver's Lemeshev competition returns: a quiet test bed for Russia's vocal pipeline
Culture29 Jun
Bad Bunny's London debut reads like a blueprint for the new global pop economy
Culture29 Jun
Domestic Hours: How the Long-Haul Novel Made the House a Literary Subject Again
Culture29 Jun
Twenty-Five Years of Camp Fireplace: Why 'Wet Hot American Summer' Still Resonates
Culture29 Jun
Sidelnikov's 'Labyrinths' resurfaces in Moscow: a Soviet symphony of myth that outlasted its censors
Culture29 Jun
‘Michael’ passes ‘Oppenheimer’ at the box office — and that is a story about who biopics are for
Culture29 Jun
Olivia Wilde's 38% film score was the catalyst. 'The Invite' is the reply.
Culture29 Jun
Palm Springs Shortfest 2026: Five Films, $30,000, and a Window onto Short Form's Prize Economy
Culture29 Jun
Sam Worthington goes after his own ‘damsel in distress’ moment — and wins
Culture29 Jun
Britain's film censor reaches for AI, and shows where classification is heading
Culture29 Jun
Stephen Poliakoff Returns to the Big Screen at Home with 'The Order,' a Cold War-Era Political Thriller
Culture29 Jun
Noah Kahan and the Bathroom Question: A Small Story About Fandom and Predictive Markets
Culture29 Jun
United Youth Telegram channel floods feeds with white-pride training clips
Culture29 Jun
Gergiev and the Bolshoi bring a Soviet-era programme to Zaryadye as Western boycott settles into routine
Culture29 Jun
Netflix at 52-week lows: subscriber growth is not enough anymore
Culture29 Jun
Bauhaus at 107: Why a Century-Old Design School Is Now a Culture-War Target in Germany
Culture28 Jun
Bauhaus at the barricades: how Germany's design inheritance became a culture-war target
Culture28 Jun
Britain’s film censor turns to AI to rate the entire HBO Max library — and the precedent is bigger than it sounds
Culture28 Jun
Noah Kahan, the Bathroom Request, and a Spotify Bet That's Actually About Live Touring
Culture28 Jun
Gergiev and the Bolshoi Symphony Return to Moscow's Zaryadye Hall With a Soviet-Era Program
Culture28 Jun
Three Sunday Prompts, Three Different Theories of American Power
Culture28 Jun
Hugh Jackman's Brutal Transformation: Inside the Costume and Hair of 'The Death of Robin Hood'
Culture28 Jun
Sam Worthington's Resurrection: 'I Will Find You' and the Streaming Star Vehicle That Refuses to Sit Still
Culture28 Jun
Supergirl can't get off the ground: a $38m debut and a deeper warning for superhero economics
Culture28 Jun
Iran's foreign ministry invokes the chemical-weapons memory as a diplomatic instrument
Culture28 Jun
Rosalía and the Pope, in separate registers, turn their attention to Venezuela
Culture28 Jun
Gracie Abrams and the new shape of the nepotism debate
Culture28 Jun
Supergirl's soft opening exposes the limits of a saturated superhero market
Culture28 Jun
When the partner becomes the story: China's courtship of Africa meets a domestic scandal at home
Culture28 Jun
A Singaporean short takes Annecy’s top prize — and quietly resets the map for Southeast Asian animation
Culture28 Jun
Supergirl's soft opening: what a $38 million debut says about a superhero market that has run out of margin
Culture28 Jun
Tehran–Dubai flights resume after years of silence: what the reopening actually signals
Culture28 Jun
Jerusalem light rail hit by technical fault, leaving commuters stranded
Culture28 Jun
Strike videos and state control: Russia's new line on wartime phone footage
Culture28 Jun
Gergiev returns to Moscow stage with Bolshoi orchestra as cultural sanctions debate reopens
Culture28 Jun
America at 250: Beijing's framing of a 'shaken' superpower, and why the Global Times is reading the room
Culture28 Jun
Bad Bunny at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium: a stadium-scale case study in the new economics of Latin pop
Culture28 Jun
Israel formally recognises the Armenian genocide, redrawing the diplomatic map with Ankara
Culture28 Jun
Indian courts and the slow tightening of festival morality
Culture28 Jun
Inside the Clerical Framing of Pezeshkian's Presidency: A Quiet Call for Street-Level Legitimacy
Culture28 Jun
Why horror splits the room: a psychiatrist's six-year-old and the neuroscience of fear
Culture28 Jun
Tehran's Baghdad diplomacy: Araghchi threads a funeral through a fractured neighbourhood
Culture28 Jun
Araqchi's first post-war walk to Baghdad: gratitude, grief, and the choreography of Iranian diplomacy
Culture28 Jun
Araqchi lands in Baghdad as Tehran reaches for its Arab neighbours
Culture28 Jun
Mel Brooks at 100: the long joke that refuses to die
Culture28 Jun
Iran's foreign minister lands in Baghdad with relations 'at the top' of Tehran's priorities
Culture28 Jun
A Spider That Hunts by Mimicking the Web of Its Prey
Culture28 Jun
Bollywood's Oral History Boom: How Anecdote Became Asset in the Streaming Era
Culture28 Jun
Iran's judiciary chief frames economic crisis as an existential test for the Islamic Republic
Culture28 Jun
The World Cup piracy sweep and the uneven reach of broadcast rights
Culture28 Jun
'The Third Degree' Trailer Drops: A Rehearsal-Room Thriller Built on Witness and Suspicion
Culture28 Jun
The passport as portrait: Trump's America-250 design and what it signals about the pageant state
Culture28 Jun
A cinematographer's long shadow: the Robert Richardson documentary and the workaholic's alibi
Culture28 Jun
Annecy 2026: The Animation Festival That Got Business Done While Hollywood Watched
Culture28 Jun