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Photographer Don McCullen focuses on Vietnam in his latest book | Don McCullen

Photographer Don McCullen focuses on Vietnam in his latest book | Don McCullen

✨ Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Don McCullin,Vietnam war,Books,Art and design,Culture,UK news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: After more than seven decades of covering conflicts around the world, Don McCullen will return to Vietnam and its most famous photographs in his latest book.The photographer, who started his career at the age of 23 when his photo of a gang in Finsbury Park was published in the Observer, decided to revisit the war and his 12-day mission with the US Marines during the Battle of Hue in 1968.McCullin's photographs of the battle, which include a…
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The fun and emotional pop culture show you won’t want to stop listening to: This week’s best podcasts | TV and radio

The fun and emotional pop culture show you won’t want to stop listening to: This week’s best podcasts | TV and radio

🔥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture,Podcasts ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Choose the weekClara and Monroe at thatIf the first episode is anything to go by, Clara Amfo (who has left the BBC) and activist Munro Bergdorf could be your interesting travel companions. Passionate, insightful, and with just the right amount of gossip as they unpack the latest pop culture moments — like what the raucous conversation over Olivia Rodrigo's little doll dress says about women in music. We have one complaint? Half an hour isn't long enough! Holly Richardson Widely…
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‘Anger burns every part of him’: Angry Guerrilla Art’s response to the Epstein files | platform

‘Anger burns every part of him’: Angry Guerrilla Art’s response to the Epstein files | platform

✨ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Stage,Culture,Jeffrey Epstein 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: CSocial media brings revolution? Probably not, but it was vital to the teamwork behind this theatrical event, which was conceived on a WhatsApp group for playwrights shortly after the Epstein files were published. Members of the group were angry that the world was not talking enough about the impact of Jeffrey Epstein's actions on the girls and women he abused. They were also concerned that America's war with Iran was a distraction from the violence escalating in these cases against the…
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‘His last kiss to the world’: David Hockney’s return to Yorkshire sparks a glorious awakening | David Hockney

‘His last kiss to the world’: David Hockney’s return to Yorkshire sparks a glorious awakening | David Hockney

✨ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: David Hockney,Art and design,Culture,UK news,Painting,Yorkshire,Art 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: IIt was spring in Paris, and I was floating among little green leaves and white flowers, but I was not in a garden. I was on the top floor of the Fondation Louis Vuitton beaming, immersed in several David Hockney paintings on an iPad of his garden in Normandy. In one room, this green oasis appeared in the silver light of the moon: the dark room was alive with bright white lunar discs, blue clouds and the…
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Obsessed: How the Low-Budget Horror Film Changed the Game in Hollywood | Horror movies

Obsessed: How the Low-Budget Horror Film Changed the Game in Hollywood | Horror movies

🔥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Horror films,Film,Film industry,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TThis week, the independently produced horror film "Obsession," which cost between $750,000 or $15 million depending on whether you count its actual budget or the cost of its studio acquisition, officially surpassed the most recent Star Wars film at the box office (the film has so far grossed more than $165 million in the U.S. alone).It is no coincidence that this happened on a weekday. Obsession's box office strength lies not only in its incredible weekend-to-weekend strength (including a…
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“I only had this father, and he was gone”: Wafaa Mustafa’s fight for truth and justice for the missing in Syria | film

“I only had this father, and he was gone”: Wafaa Mustafa’s fight for truth and justice for the missing in Syria | film

💥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Documentary films,Sheffield Doc/Fest,Culture,Festivals,Syria,Middle East and north Africa,World news 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WWhen Wafaa Mostafa was a child, she remembers her father playing Umm Kulthum’s music non-stop at home in Syria, harmonizing with the notes of the legendary Egyptian singer. One day, in an attempt to encourage his daughter to appreciate music, he asked her to take a pen and paper and write down the lyrics to a song she liked. Wanting to impress him, Mustafa chose a song by Umm Kulthum called “Aghrd Al-Qaq,” which translates…
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Olivia Rodrigo: You sound so sad for a girl in love – who are you singing about? Who cares when the songs are this good? Olivia Rodrigo

Olivia Rodrigo: You sound so sad for a girl in love – who are you singing about? Who cares when the songs are this good? Olivia Rodrigo

🚀 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Olivia Rodrigo,Music,Pop and rock,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WWith a certain overwhelming inevitability, the arrival of Olivia Rodrigo's third album was accompanied by a lot of deciphering its lyrics in search of references to Louis Partridge, the British actor whose relationship with the singer ended late last year. A magazine published a 1,200-word article, complete with captions, analyzing her songs for nuggets of gossip: the fourth piece she's published on the subject in recent months. A British newspaper published a news story about the fact that Rodrigo…
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‘We cannot abandon the Afghans’: Lise Doucet on the remarkable ‘people’s history’ that earned her the Women’s Prize | Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction Books

‘We cannot abandon the Afghans’: Lise Doucet on the remarkable ‘people’s history’ that earned her the Women’s Prize | Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction Books

🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Women's prize for nonfiction,Taliban,Books,Culture,Afghanistan,History books ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: toYessi Doucet first walked into the InterContinental Hotel in Kabul on Christmas Day 1988, as Soviet forces were withdrawing from Afghanistan at the end of a decade-long occupation. She expected to stay for a short time. Instead, she stayed for about a year, and the hotel became her first Afghan home.More than three decades later, it became the subject of her first book, The Best Hotel in Kabul, which has now won the Women's Prize for Nonfiction. But…
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David Hockney, pioneering British artist famous for swimming pools and portraits, dies at 88 David Hockney

David Hockney, pioneering British artist famous for swimming pools and portraits, dies at 88 David Hockney

💥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: David Hockney,Art,Photography,Art and design,Culture,Yorkshire,Painting,Bradford,UK news,Los Angeles,Sexuality,Society,Polaroid,Older people,iPad,Tablet computers,Technology ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: David Hockney, the famous British painter who cast a revolutionary outlook on twentieth-century art, has died at the age of 88.He made his name as a Pop artist during the 1960s and is perhaps best known for his paintings of swimming pools that helped define the Los Angeles aesthetic. Works such as A Greater Splash and Portrait of the Artist (A Pool with Two Figures) depict hedonistic scenes of love, lust and loss that…
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Lena Dunham’s romantic movie ‘Too Much’ convinced me to propose immediately | culture

Lena Dunham’s romantic movie ‘Too Much’ convinced me to propose immediately | culture

🔥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Lena Dunham,Television,Television & radio 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: I've been with my partner Martin for 10 years, and he always tells me he doesn't want to get married. He believes that the institution of marriage is a way for the state to control us. He also believes that marriage is inherently patriarchal – and frankly, I can't argue with him about any of this.But the truth is, I've been planning my entire wedding day in my mind since I was seven years old. When I was a…
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