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Hockney’s Pop Friends, Warhol’s American Republic, and Linder Attack Blackpool – The Week in Art | Art and design

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✨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art and design,Culture,Painting,Photography,Art,Exhibitions ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Exhibition of the weekPop revisitedDavid Hockney's brilliantly innovative prints are displayed alongside other graphic masterpieces from the 1960s by Richard Hamilton, Claes Oldenburg, Jasper Johns and others. Christia Roberts Gallery, London, from 23 July to 20 Augustalso appearLeanderFrom her cover design for Buzzcocks' Orgasm Addict to modern films and textiles, the punk artist brings her vision to Blackpool. Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, from 18 July to 3 OctoberHelen Chadwick Organic interactions between body and nature – such as peeing in…

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The best modern crime and thriller films – Review Report | books

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💥 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Crime fiction,Thrillers,Fiction,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The Runner by Scarlett Thomas (Scribner, £16.99)Part thriller, part romantic suspense, Thomas's latest novel begins in Cyprus, where 34-year-old Guy is on the run from someone who wants to kill him. Jay (not his real name) is used to evading killers: his assassination attempts began at university, when a Japanese man arrived at his apartment carrying a samurai sword. People have tried to kill him ever since, and the contract for his life has been traded as a commodity in Bitcoin.…

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Shaughraun Review – Comedic antics and sinister magic in a divided Ireland | stage

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🔥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Festivals,Ireland 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: DIon Boucicault's comic melodrama from 1874 holds a place in the history of theater for its playful upending of national stereotypes and expectations. Finding a delicious balance between whimsy and sincerity, Garry Hynes's innovative production for Druid Theater Company celebrates Boucicault's gifts as a playwright and master of the theatrical spectacle, whose creativity dazzled 19th-century audiences in New York and London.This show takes the style of miniature, with Sligo landscapes, clifftops and Gothic spiers depicted as picture book illustrations that can be…

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Amadigi di Gaula review – inflatables and appoggiaaturas as Handel takes a trip to Love Island | Opera

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🚀 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Opera,Classical music,Culture,Music,George Frideric Handel ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: IDay 7 at Melissa Island. Melissa vaccinates Hottie Amadiji but he keeps stealing her. Oriana the bird turns Amadiji's head, but Dardano the serpent tries to go after her too and she becomes nauseous. It gives toxic energy to the relationship.The absurdity of Handel's magical operas can be a headache for directors. But not for Olivia Fox, whose Amadigi for Buxton festival takes the delicate four-handed character of the composer and replaces magic with TV illusions, witches for powerful…

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“I dreamed of a show where the audience would get horny”: a Swedish doll play starring funny Barbie dolls | Dolls

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🚀 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Puppetry,Jackie Collins,Theatre,Stage,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: eRick Holmstrom holds a naked, headless Ken doll. Most of the figure is as you would expect: lean muscles, smooth skin. But underneath, something is different. Between those hairless thighs is a small plastic rod nestled in a tuft of hair. “It's real poetry,” says Holmstrom, director of Malmö Dockteater (which means "puppet theatre" in Swedish). Artist and puppeteer Kajsa Eriksson steps in Pubic “Hair,” she explains.This doll isn't just a prop for the company's new show; He's one of…

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‘No stuffiness…just good books’: Matt Hague opens bookshop in Brighton | books

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💥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Culture,Booksellers,Retail industry,Shops and shopping 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Matt Haig, bestselling author of books including Midnight Library and Reasons to Stay Alive, is opening a bookshop in Brighton.The writer plans to open the store, called Golden, by Christmas. It is located in the Seven Dials neighborhood, a part of the coastal city that currently does not have a library.“My belief, as someone who grew up in a town without a library, is that all communities should have a library, because libraries save civilization and make life interesting,”…

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Chastity, gesture and enlarged pores: will women also love Nolan’s epic? | Odyssey

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🚀 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: The Odyssey,Film,Culture,Christopher Nolan,Zendaya,Charlize Theron,Matt Damon,Samantha Morton 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: toA long time ago, almost as long ago as Homer wrote The Odyssey, I was a film critic for the Sunday Telegraph. People sometimes ask me how sexist the scene was at that time Bronze age In the mid-2000s, when male critics outnumbered female critics by about eight to one. Well, there was no sexism. It was really good and everyone was really nice.They were nice in Soho, anyway. Further, less than that. Especially some readers, when…

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Brenda Fricker, Oscar winner for My Left Foot, dies at 81 Movie

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🔥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Ireland,Culture,Europe,World news,Coronation Street,Soap opera,Drama,Television,Television & radio,Comedy films,Comedy 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Brenda Fricker, who became the first Irish woman to win an Oscar for My Left Foot, has died at the age of 81. Her agent, Phil Belfield, told the BBC in a statement: “We will never see her like her again and the world is made less and less important by missing her... It was an honor to know, love and work with her, and she will always have a place in my heart and in…

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The Hairdresser Mysteries review – Sally Phillips brings us the biggest daytime TV show ever | TV and radio

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🔥 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture,Television,Sally Phillips,TV crime drama,TV comedy ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: gPick up your rosebuds and pinch your cheeks, because there will be gurgles in the Crimean countryside. A hairdresser arrives in the fictional village of Blossom Vale armed with a blow-dry backstory (he's worked with posh types in London but now seems to want peace and quiet and "a place of my own") and the keys to a rundown salon on the high street. Lily Petal (Sally Phillips) is obsessed with buying it. “It's like a…

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The Hunt for Gollum has been criticized for its all-white cast. Blaming Tolkien is the wrong answer film

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✨ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Andy Serkis,Race,JRR Tolkien,Lord of the Rings,Books,Culture,Science fiction and fantasy films,World news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: CAsting has come a long way since the early 1980s when it was still somehow acceptable to sign Max von Sydow to play Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon in 1980, or to cast Peter Ustinov in the title role in Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen in 1981 (despite protests at the time). These days, filmmakers would have to defend an all-white cast in a medieval fantasy film,…

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