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The history of brilliantly terrible World Cup video games

As football fans revel in the real world tournament, its digital counterparts continue to stumble in capturing the hyped up atmosphere• Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereI come with a warning to all football fans: if you’ve been enjoying the World C

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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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Garth Brooks review – swooning fans turn out for British Summer Time’s hottest ticket

BST Hyde Park, London The country star is deeply moved by the reception at this sold-out event, as a growing UK fanbase shows its love for his songsFive minutes before Garth Brooks takes to the stage at Hyde Park, a booming American voice comes over the PA to tell the crowd this

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From card game to a tool of divination: the artistic history of tarot

A new exhibition follows the unlikely route of tarot cards all the way from 15th century Italy to its association with the occult nowOnce the territory of bohemians such as Pamela Colman Smith – an intimate of William Butler Yeats whose art won the admiration of Alfred Stieglitz

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Depraved by Daisy Dixon review – a history of dark and dangerous art

From classical painting to video games, this survey of the taboo and the twisted won’t let you look awayMuseums are damned if they do, damned if they don’t. Ignore the problems of the past and they’re criticised for being problematic. Rewrite their labels according to changing po

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Ai Weiwei: Button Up! review – skeleton chandeliers, a real-life temple – and too much sil

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 Manch

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On the Mark by Florence Hazrat review – a fascinating history of punctuation

This lavishly researched book shows that dots and dashes are an essential component of style, whether you’re a medieval monk or Donald TrumpHow do you feel about exclamation marks? Otherwise known as gaspers, screamers, dog’s cocks, or shrieks. In his Modern English Usage, Fowler

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Abandoned review – this real-life mystery makes for TV that’s a wild helter-skelter ride

Now grown, three siblings search for clues as to why their parents left them at a Barcelona railway station in 1984 – and uncover a secret family history they could never have imaginedDid you know your surname when you were five years old? The more you think about it, the harder

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‘I was there!’ Writers remember legendary gigs by Beyoncé, Brian Wilson, Britney, Oasis, D

What’s it like to catch a gig so great it goes down in history? Our writers relive incredible performances by everyone from Amy Winehouse at the North Sea jazz festival to Kanye West at GlastonburyTalking Heads, the Rock Garden, London, 13 May 1977 Continue reading...

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Shahrnush Parsipur, Iranian author of Women Without Men, dies at 80

The revered writer and political exile’s publisher says her ‘legacy in literary history can’t be compared to anyone else’s’Shahrnush Parsipur, the celebrated Iranian writer whose subversive works of feminist fiction saw her repeatedly imprisoned, has died aged 80.A pioneer of wom

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Baldy Man, Gold Blend flirters and mash-mad Martians: TV’s golden age ads

As the History of Advertising Trust turns 50, our writer revels in its vast archive, remembering the bread boy on his bike, the suggestive coffee-drinkers and the Hamlet smoker adjusting his comb-over• Iconic British adverts – in picturesHanging over the toilet in the gents’ loos

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The Kiss by Katie Barclay review – a history of passion, power and puckering up

From heads of state to foot-kissing knights, Hollywood romcoms to sex, a fascinating story of the gesture that for centuries has brought people togetherIf, on a European holiday, you get flustered greeting people – should you kiss? how many times? – spare a thought for Dutch theo

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