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Scary beaches, folkloric visions and mysterious landscapes in Ireland reveal a secret – The Week in Art | Art and design

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✨ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art and design,Culture,Painting,Photography,Art,Exhibitions ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Exhibition of the weekSurah and the seaIf you thought 19th-century French sea paintings were all blissful Impressionism, you'll be confused, then immerse yourself in Seurat's eerie modernist shores. Read the review. Courtauld Gallery, London, until 17 Mayalso appearDelin Le Bas: Unfair GroundThe mural created for Glastonbury lies at the heart of this artist's folkloric vision of Britain today. Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, until 31 MayYinka ShonibareWith sarcasm and wit, Shonibare spans global history and puts the empire in its place.…

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Steven Spielberg, Dawson Leary’s Idol, Donates $25,000 to James Van Der Beek Fundraiser | Steven Spielberg

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💥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Steven Spielberg,Film,Culture,Zoe Saldaña,Television,Television & radio ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Film director Steven Spielberg has donated $25,000 (£18,365) to a crowdfunding organization to help the widow and six children of actor James Van Der Beek, who died this week after being diagnosed with cancer in 2023.dawson Leery, Van Der Beek's character on Dawson's Creek, the 1990s teen series that catapulted him to fame, was an aspiring director who idolized Spielberg. Show creator Kevin Williamson based the character on himself. He went on to write the horror comedy Scream…

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A Great Artist on Paper: Why Lucian Freud’s Magical Drawings Are the Key to His Great Works | Lucian Freud

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🚀 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Lucian Freud,Art,Art and design,Culture,Exhibitions,National Portrait Gallery 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: AOne evening in 1951, at his home, Lucian Freud made three drawings of fellow artist Francis Bacon. Biographer William Feffer tells the tale as Freud told it to him: Bacon stood up, unbuttoned his trousers, rolled up his sleeves and rocked his hips a little, saying: “I think you ought to do this, because I think this is rather important.”By Freud's own admission, the older painter was provocative in more ways than just this pose: "I…

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The true story behind the mysterious and tragic American icon

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🔥 Discover this trending post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: She's also the subject of a new nine-part drama from Ryan Murphy, creator of American Horror Story and American Crime Story. The first season of his latest series, Love Story, revolves around the engagement and marriage of Caroline and John F. Kennedy Jr., the son of the former president and his wife, Jackie. The show has already sparked controversy. Jack Schlossberg, nephew of the late John F. Kennedy Jr., criticized Murphy for "profiting" from his uncle's story.Subtle simplicityBessette fans were furious online over some test…

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Converge Review: Love Is Not Enough – Metalcore veterans’ rage remains fresh and angry | metal

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🔥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Metal,Music,Culture,Pop and rock 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Metalcore became a watered-down premise, associated more with bands writing processed lyrical choruses, than with the mixture of metal techno and punk rock fury that it began with. Converge's 2001 Jane Doe feat still stands the A masterpiece from the genre's pre-bastard days: as vicious as a pit bull, yet played by men unafraid to test the limits, as evidenced by the tortured 11-minute title track. The New Englanders never rested on their laurels, with subsequent releases emphasizing various shades…

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Love Story: Review by John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bissette – TV Will Bored You | television

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✨ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Culture,Ryan Murphy,John F Kennedy Jr ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A The new product from the Ryan Murphy brand is less reliable than ever. Will it be a triumph on the level of Nip/Tuck or Glee? A return to the form of an American Horror Story opener, much like his last outing The Beauty was? Or will it be something towards the other end of the scale, where everything so bad lurks, Kim Kardashian as a divorce lawyer?Hmm. The latest is A Love Story: John F. Kennedy…

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‘We thought Midnight Cowboy might end everyone’s career’: John Schlesinger’s diverse, devastating, Oscar-winning cinema | film

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✨ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,John Schlesinger,Culture,Luca Guadagnino,LGBTQ+ rights,John Major,Politics 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: MMichael Childers was a 22-year-old student in Los Angeles when a friend set him up on an appointment with John Schlesinger, a visiting British director about two decades his senior. The respected director was licking his wounds: his latest film, Far from Disturbance, which imbued its 19th-century rural characters with an outdated and subtly King's Road style, had flopped in the States.Childers approached the appointment with mixed emotions. He loved Schlesinger's previous film, The Jazzy Darling, starring Julie…

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‘Absolutely funny’: Simon McBurney on how the great clown Philippe Gaulier changed his life | stage

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✨ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Philippe Gaulier,Complicite,Simon McBurney,Stage,Culture,Clowns,Comedy,Comedy ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: MEveryone talks about a teacher in their childhood who changed them, someone who revealed to them knowledge about the world that they carry with them for the rest of their lives. I didn't have one of those. It wasn't until I was 24 and living in Paris that I stumbled upon Philippe's class almost by chance. Provocative, demanding, deliberately inappropriate and very funny, Philip taught me not to carry anything. No baggage, no ideas. Knowing nothing is all you…

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TV Tonight: Confessions and Cliffhangers in Beneath the Salt Marsh | television

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✨ Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Under the salt marsh9pm, Sky AtlanticAfter Nyssa's body is found in a landfill, local farmer Solomon (Jonathan Pryce) leaves us with an embarrassing confession - but what role did he really play in the little girl's death? While Detective Paul (Rafe Spall) questions him, Jackie (Kelly Reilly) grieves for her niece and tries to reconnect with her sister after years of guilt. The village needs to evacuate in anticipation of the coming deadly storm - but it will take more…

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“Choosing happiness is a hell of a process”: Thundercat on funk, losing friends and getting fired by Snoop Dogg (maybe) | music

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🔥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Soul,Jazz,Rap,Culture,Thundercat ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: It's an overcast Thursday afternoon at the end of January, and Thundercat is telling me about the time he tried to interest Snoop Dogg in Frank Zappa's work in the mid-1970s. He explains that he was never the Thunder at that time. He was still Steven Bruner, the hired bass player, who grew up in what he calls a "Rick James-level dumb band" backing the revered rapper, filled with L.A. jazz luminaries who would later contribute to Kendrick Lamar's "To Pimp a…

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