arts
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Black Beatles, the song that soundtracks the mannequin challenge, has gone to No 1 in the US, and sees it join the pantheon of fad-backed hit singles
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Tom Ford’s vicious thriller, box office hit The Girl on the Train and Paul Verhoeven’s Elle align with 2016’s rise of misogyny and sexual aggression
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The Grammy-nominated prodigy, who played for Obama at the White House, talks about his musical process and attracting a younger audience to the genre
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Tributes paid to founder of The Loft, New York’s ‘first underground dance party’, which welcomed marginalised and LGBTQ audiences
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What do you do if you’ve got the tunes and the look, but can’t get gigs? France’s hottest band relive their ingenious $3,000 gamble
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No early screeners were available for Clarkson, May and Hammond’s first post-Top Gear series. But it’s easy to imagine what it might be like ...
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people
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The Full Frontal host criticized the president-elect’s rumored choices for the White House and detailed their inexperience and extreme views
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The infrastructure’s basic, corruption endemic, but the most powerful man in the country still finds time to doodle in his ministerial diary – and has a show at one of the world’s leading galleries
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the big picture
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In capturing vast skyscrapers, stadiums, museums and more, these prize-nominated pictures reflect the buildings’ ingenuity and strangeness
reviews
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The Zero Dark Thirty star prevents a sometimes ludicrous script from veering off course with her forceful performance in the role of a Washington lobbyist
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De Niro’s turn as a misanthropic weather-beaten comic who can’t seem to shake his annoying alter-ego, mixes Bad Grandpa’s puerile pathos and Louie’s darkness
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pictures & video
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The first full-length trailer for the re-imagining of the classic animation – in cinemas on 17 March 2017 – has been released
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The Azerbaijani artist specialises in throwing conventional structures into chaos, to disorienting and beautiful effect
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New York-based artist Natalie Baxter addresses America’s polarising discussions of masculinity, violence and gun ownership
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Guardian Australia sits down with David Hockney to talk about iPads, photography, politics and his latest exhibition, Current, now on at the National Gallery of Victoria
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Cursing and raging, Lear is admitted into care while he plots revenge on his daughters in a modern take on Act II, Scene 4 from Shakespeare’s tragedy
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Legendary singer, poet and novelist Leonard Cohen died aged 82 at his home in Los Angeles
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