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Initiation stones, buried recordings, and Ringo Starr’s drumkit: inside the visionary worl

The late production genius’s chaotic reputation has always preceded him. But could two new books, a posthumous album and a flurry of classic reissues change all that – and put the focus back on his music?David Katz’s introduction to the world of Lee “Scratch” Perry was bewilderin

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Ai Weiwei pushes Manchester’s buttons, a ceramicist makes it personal and frames get refra

The Chinese artist goes large on colonialism, a group show tackles a fun theme and Xanthe Somers’ stoneware fools the eye – all in your weekly dispatchAi Weiwei: Button Up!If any artist can fill the vast home of Factory International, it’s Ai Weiwei, with an installation about wo

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The week around the world in 20 pictures

The earthquake in Venezuela, a brutal heatwave in Europe, the resignation of Keir Starmer and the World Cup – the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalistsWarning: this gallery contains images some readers may find distressing Continue reading...

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Colossus review – masses of dancers, masses of fun in a show that goes whoosh!

Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonFull of surprises, Stephanie Lake’s 2018 piece is a feat of logistics as 60 performers display split-second timingMass movement can have a walloping impact. Whether in military parades or Olympic opening ceremonies, Busby Berkeley routines or the corps

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Jonathan Baldock: Held review – lick me, trap me, pull me in

Arnolfini, Bristol The English artist has created a tense world of folkloric psychedelia and pagan aesthetics that is weird, threatening – and utterly compellingArms are spread, hands are grasping, lips are puckered: everything in Jonathan Baldock’s eerie, uncomfortable, strange

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Communion by JD Vance review – a strange, poignant book about faith and the modern world

JD Vance’s Christian vision is thoughtful – but impossible to square with the political company he keepsAt the heart of this strange, perhaps rather poignant, book is the biblical question: “What must I do to be saved?” Not in the crude sense of how to secure a place in heaven, b

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Elon Musk promotes ‘anti-migrant’ Armie Hammer film with free download on X

Citizen Vigilante, which follows a businessman taking bloody revenge on immigrant criminals, was posted by the tech trillionaire in the wake of damning reviewsA German film starring Armie Hammer that was allegedly denied a certificate by the German ratings board for “inciting vio

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‘I thought of her as a volcano’: the triumphant art and very troubling death of Ana Mendie

Her shocking performances and stunning images made Mendieta the talk of the art world in the 1970s and 80s. Then she fell from a New York apartment block in 1985 – and her husband was charged with murder. As a major exhibition comes to London, her friends discuss her genius and t

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Lily Allen defends length of West End Girl shows: ‘I don’t want anyone to feel ripped off’

Singer has likened live show to theatre rather than a conventional concert but fans have criticised the performances and lack of crowd interactionLily Allen has defended the live tour of her latest album West End Girl, after fans complained about feeling short-changed by the 55-m

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‘Hugging is forbidden’: women jailed for life – in pictures

Former public defender Sara Bennett spent 13 years photographing women convicted of homicide. She traces their lives in prison – and what happens as they re-enter the outside world Continue reading...

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The week around the world in 20 pictures

Russian airstrikes on Kyiv, the aftermath of the earthquakes in Venezuela, a brutal heatwave in Europe and Harry Kane at the World Cup – the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists Continue reading...

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Susanna Clarke: ‘I had been ill for 11 years. I felt like I was about to fall off the worl

One hundred years after Virginia Woolf explored the limitations of language in On Being Ill, the Piranesi author reflects on the power of storytelling to shape our experience of sicknessIn October 2016 I was in hospital. I had been ill for 11 years with something I called chronic

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