Arts and Culture

With his work for the fashion brand, the late photographer and art director Oliviero Toscani took the trangressive mainstream

Little blame can be attached to André Roussimoff for exaggerating the truth of his stories because everything about the wrestler and actor was already exaggerated

At the start of the 20th century, Paris and Barcelona were united by modernist art. Then came a shocking, public suicide

Jesse Eisenberg’s film turns the darkest material into a deftly funny Oscar contender

Everyone loves cheeseburgers but, as it turns out, really nice greens can also make you feel like life is truly worth living

A proposal to make authors opt out of having their work harvested by tech giants is akin to asking shopkeepers to opt out of shoplifters

English spelling is notoriously difficult to learn; how might we benefit by reforming it – and what would we lose?

From catchy pop hits to far right death threats and knife attacks – the shocking story of the Swedish pop group

Are there really any health benefits to being hit over the head with a sword by a drunk Austrian monarchist?

In this audacious biopic, Timothée Chalamet brilliantly captures the spirit of the original disruptor, Bob Dylan

No, the Hawaiian has nothing to do with Italy. But yes, it is delicious

What happens when some of the men behind big tech – Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg – start going in a direction that makes you feel nauseous?

Louis XIV built a Xanadu at Versailles – and sealed his family’s fate. But amid the extravagant luxury was thrilling innovation

The footballer was the toast of the Viennese coffee houses, the intelligence of his play being praised in the same terms as poets

How prewar Germany turned an embassy close to Buckingham Palace into a temple to Hitler’s ideology

The Bad Sisters bad guy turns hero in William Tell – and tells us how his name is really pronounced…

UK publishing is richer than ever – yet most authors scrape to make a living, libraries are under threat and Brexit adds unwelcome red tape

There is usually a way to translate supposedly untranslatable words into English – even if it does take a bit longer

A new exhibition recalls the litany of catastrophe that has afflicted the world for centuries

Manchester pop-up Humbug is using the meat from just one animal - Maraschino the Red Poll cow

As Jesse Eisenberg’s second outing as writer-director, this plangent reflection of the legacy of the Holocaust is a tremendous accomplishment

John Crowley's beautiful film doesn't shy away from the gut-wrenching reality of cancer, instead it embraces it

Many directors might not have scaled their creative heights without Ponti’s recognition that one could make daring and challenging cinema and still turn a profit

Aberdeen may be in Scotland, but its name derives from the Welsh for river mouth. Why?

How a grumpy star, a broken piano and an improvised set added up to a timeless jazz classic recorded 50 years ago – the legendary Köln Concert

MAGA’s resurgence means that works by George Orwell, Khaled Hosseini, Anne Frank and even Agatha Christie are under threat

Rather than take part in a fad, consider spending the month eating produce from regenerative farms

Oscar-winner Asif Kapadia on his new docu-drama and the road to dystopia

Belgium is a funny old nation and that's what the most famous statue in Brussels, the Manneken Pis, represents to me

This adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel deserves – at minimum – an Oscar nomination for best picture