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David Hockney’s first English landscape to be shown for the first time in nearly 30 years | David Hockney

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✨ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: David Hockney,Painting,Art and design,Art,Culture,UK news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: David Hockney's first English landscape, which depicts a perfectly manicured Oxfordshire garden, is on display for the first time in three decades before being sold at auction.Sotheby's said the 1965 painting The English Garden, completed in Boulder, Colorado, was pivotal for Hockney, as well as holding an important place in broader art history.“It's a moving painting,” said Tom Edison, co-head of contemporary art at Sotheby's in London. “It really lays the foundations for everything that comes next.”The painting…

Resident Evil Requiem Review – There’s a lot of life in the undead so far | games

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🚀 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Games,Culture,Resident Evil,Action games,Role playing games ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TThere's often an undercurrent of existential exhaustion in games that look back to their legacy. The dying kingdom of Dark Souls III, and the crumbling serpent of Metal Gear Solid 4. So when Capcom showed us an aging Leon Kennedy entering the ruins of the police station that marked the beginning of his journey from rookie cop to hardened veteran, it seemed as much tinged with boredom as it did with nostalgia. This self-reflexivity of this 30-year-old series…

‘Play like a dog biting God’s feet’: Steven Isserlis on Gyorgy Kurtag’s phenomenal 100 | classical music

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✨ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Classical music,György Kurtág,Music,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: I I clearly remember my first meeting with György Kurtag. That was almost 40 years ago at the International Musicians' Symposium in Prussia Cove, Cornwall. I was sitting in the dining hall there, when a man with gray hair and an unusually enthusiastic countenance came up to me, and began talking, almost without any introduction, about my pizzicato playing in a performance he had heard of a Schubert quintet some years before, in which I had played the second part…

“Very low IQ and cries like a baby”: Donald Trump renews his attack on Robert De Niro | film

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🚀 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Culture,Robert De Niro,World news,US politics,Donald Trump,US news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Donald Trump responded to Robert De Niro's recent podcast appearance, in which he called the president an "idiot."Speaking on Monday's episode of "Best People with Nicolle Wallace," De Niro, who has long criticized Trump's politics, ethics and competence, said: "He's an idiot. We've got to get rid of him. He's going to destroy the country."He added: "I don't want everyone walking around with their flags, American flags, as if they are the only ones. We…

Perfect for the end of the world! How a nuclear bunker became television’s most important property television

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💥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Culture,Television & radio,Fallout,Underground cities 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: SAltman's got one — although Mark Zuckerberg is apparently larger. Peter Thiel is described as “huge” and is located in New Zealand. These days, it's a doomsday bunker (or, in Elon Musk's case, an "apocalypse resort"). It is necessary For any self-respecting billionaire - it's enough to make you wonder if they know something we don't.A slew of recent dramas suggest we're fascinated by such impressive underground real estate. Even more daring is Paradise on Disney+, in which…

10 of the best movies you can watch in March

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🚀 Explore this awesome post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Scientific9. Hail Mary projectIf you fancy a deeply researched story about a scientist stuck alone in space, Andy Weir is your man. His first novel, The Martian, was made into a successful film written by Drew Goddard and directed by Ridley Scott. A decade later, Goddard wrote the screenplay for another film adaptation of one of Weir's novels, the Hail Mary Project. Directed by Christopher Miller and Phil Lord (directors of The Lego Movie and producers of the animated Spider-Verse films), it stars Ryan Gosling…

Scrubs review – Silly gags and volcanic fury bring medical sitcom back from the dead | television

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🚀 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,TV comedy,Zach Braff 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: forThe sick Lawrence is on the verge of tears. This is the man who gave us Ted Lasso and Shrinking, and who is just days away from the launch of Rooster, the Steve Carell sitcom that HBO already sees as the anchor for its comedy output. At this point in his career, Lawrence could blow his nose and the contents of his handkerchief would become a beloved, heart-warming sitcom.So it's interesting that out of all the options available…

“The world is still bent and corrupt”: Our friends in the north return to the stage | stage

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🚀 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Newcastle,North of England,UK news,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IRegarded as one of the greatest British television series of all time, it explores the decline of the Labor Party, corruption, social decay, dodgy developers, injustice, and how idealism can easily turn into disillusionment and cynicism.Our friends in the North will return this year in a new guise and will be just as important, his writer believes, as they were 30 years ago.“It's not because I'm particularly perceptive in any way,” Peter Flannery told The Guardian. "That's because everything…

Tonight’s TV: A poignant film about the Dunblane massacre 30 years on | television

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🚀 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Dunblane Bars9pm on Channel 4March marks the 30th anniversary of the murders of 16 children and one teacher at Dunblane Primary School. This poignant documentary explores the day and its aftermath, when parents campaigned for a ban on handguns for private use in the UK. It's a positive ending, but the horror is inevitable and it's clear that many are still traumatized. “These children were given to my care, and I did not protect them,” says deputy headteacher Fiona Edington.…

Easy Virtue review – Trevor Nunn recreates Noel Coward’s divorce drama in style | stage

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🚀 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Noel Coward,Trevor Nunn,Greta Scacchi,Comedy 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: 'WWhat's the use of arguing and bickering like that?" a husband asks his wife in easy virtue. "It leads nowhere." He's wrong, of course: it's the kind of verbal jousting and escalating anger that would catapult 25-year-old Noel Coward to stardom.Audiences may not know this early work, but in Trevor Nunn's lavish new production they will know exactly where they stand. Simon Higlett's lavish drawing room set comes complete with a marble staircase for somber exits and dramatic…