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  • ‘The flag and the fist together are what make this so powerful’ … Trump’s first in parallel with the American flag.

    Photography
    ‘Is this what a second Trump presidency will be like?’ – our art critic on the chilling shooting image

    In the heat of the assassination attempt, the bloodied ex-president’s defiance created a picture that echoes works of frontier heroism and religious resurrection. Could it be a warning of what is to come?
  • Caught … Red Speedo, about an elite swimmer who dopes.

    Theatre
    Hope, hopelessness and heroism: why theatre is making a splash with sport

    From the Gareth Southgate play Dear England to Red Speedo, about a swimmer caught doping, dramatists are using sport to examine class, race, morality – and life in Britain today
  • Recycle and reuse … the Georges Vallerey pool, to be used for swimming training, has been fitted with a new retractable timber roof.

    Architecture
    Plastic-bottle seats and wooden pools: can Paris deliver the leanest, greenest Olympics yet?

    The Paris Olympics vowed to build as little as possible, using the city’s landmarks as a backdrop instead. Has it worked? We check out the bold new venues, upgraded old ones – and the athletes’ candy-coloured village
  • ‘There was no plan’ … Asim Chaudhry, Steve Stamp, Allan 'Seapa' Mustafa and Hugo Chegwin.

    How we made
    ‘We were smoking a lot of weed’: the makers of People Just Do Nothing look back

    ‘It took us two years to do five episodes. When we posted them on YouTube, a few students watched it. Then we got an email from the producer who had made The Office’
    • Sabrina Carpenter, Kendrick Lamar, Chappell Roan

      Music
      Song of the summer 2024 - writers pick their tracks of the season

    • Used technology to address the same dilemmas we have faced since the stone age … Bill Viola standing in front of his video installation Martyrs (Earth, Air, Fire, Water) at St Paul's Cathedral in London.

      Bill Viola made video art ask the biggest, most universal questions

      Jonathan Jones
    • Film and Television<br>No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Moviestore/REX/Shutterstock (1570850a) Heathers, Shannen Doherty Film and Television

      Shannen Doherty – a life in pictures

    • June Squibb is photographed at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year.

      Film
      June Squibb on getting her first starring role at 94: ‘I don’t have to prove myself any more’

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News

  • A person apparently covered in lightbulbs

    Art and design
    Artists should exploit AI’s capabilities, say creators of new Tate Modern show

    Exhibition traces long relationship between artists and technology, a symbiosis that is sure to continue
  • Shannen Doherty in 2019.

    Television
    Shannen Doherty, Heathers and Beverly Hills 90210 star, dies at 53

  • Bill Viola, with his hands on his chin, seen from below in a dark room, with a video showing a crowd behind him

    Art and design
    Bill Viola, ‘the Rembrandt of the video age’, dies aged 73

  • Film
    Credit at last for female screenwriter airbrushed from Hollywood history

  • Edinburgh festival fringe
    ‘Relentless losses’ leave Edinburgh fringe venues fighting to recover from Covid slump

  • Taylor Swift
    Taylor Swift’s candid talk about body image inspires fans, US study finds

  • Rust film set shooting
    ‘A botched prosecution’: Alec Baldwin’s trial gets shock ending fit for Hollywood

  • The National Trust
    National Trust imposes chandelier ‘tax’ over Only Fools and Horses jokes

  • Books
    Royal Society of Literature names 29 new fellows including Elizabeth Day, Afua Hirsch and Mick Herron

Reviews

  • Sian Edwards conducts Birmingham Contemporary Music Group playing Sonata For Broken Fingers.

    Opera
    Sonata for Broken Fingers – chamber opera of Stalin’s terror fails to grip

  • Waterloo Sunset.

    Documentary films
    Waterloo Sunset – inside an oasis of affordable living

    This highly watchable documentary spends time with the residents of an almshouse in central London – cheerfully dispelling misconceptions about ageing
  • Shirley Manson of Garbage performing at Usher Hall.

    Music
    Garbage – Shirley Manson is alt-rock’s homecoming queen

    The Edinburgh-born singer is captivating and gleefully confrontational in this set from the veteran band that blends candy-coloured pop with gothic heaviness
  • On the road … Richard Roundtree and June Squibb in Thelma.

    Film
    Thelma – June Squibb is marvellous in sweet mobility scooter revenge caper

  • Frederick Douglass.

    Book of the day
    The History of Ideas by David Runciman – big thinkers with visions of a better world

  • Uncanny Me.

    Film
    Uncanny Me – exploration of cloning tech fraught with moral and ethical questions

  • Lucas Kankava and Mzia Arabuli in Crossing.

    Film
    Crossing – search for estranged trans niece becomes emotional Istanbul journey

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Regulars

  • Cressida Cowell photographed at her home in West London.

    Cressida Cowell
    On my radar: Cressida Cowell’s cultural highlights

    The How To Train Your Dragon author on the most beautiful place on Earth, an epic nature-themed fantasy and the tantalising prospect of a new Jilly Cooper TV adaptation
  • Stewart Copeland pictured in Milan, May 2024.

    Music
    Stewart Copeland: ‘The Police’s recording sessions were very dark. We beat the crap out of each other’

  • Shelley Duvall in The Shining (1980)

    Shelley Duvall
    Shelley Duvall: her 20 greatest films

  • My best shot
    A giant crucifix on an Argentinian beach – Andreas Billman’s best photograph

  • How we made
    ‘We knew a banjo house record would annoy the techno bores’: how the Grid made Swamp Thing

  • On my radar
    On my radar: Mark Leckey’s cultural highlights

Staying in

  • Hannah (Ruby Stokes) and Detective Ember Manning (Jenna Coleman) in The Jetty

    What's on tonight
    TV tonight: Jenna Coleman’s twisty thriller The Jetty

  • Petrifying … Skywalkers: A Love Story.

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    Skywalkers: A Love Story to Mean Girls – the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    An extraordinarily edgy documentary follows a ‘roof-topper’ couple on their ‘extremely dangerous and illegal’ climbs. Plus: the Plastics are back thanks to Tina Fey
  • Maximalist! … Those About To Die.

    The seven best shows to stream this week
    Those About to Die to Lady in the Lake: the seven best shows to watch on TV this week

    Anthony Hopkins is the emperor in an epic, gratuitous tale of the last days of Rome, while Natalie Portman stars in a beautiful, gritty noir about a woman on the hunt for a missing girl in the 1960s
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Pictures & video

  • First Love by Lifu Hu on show at KLIP

    Photography
    Joy, trauma and identity: themes from Kuala Lumpur’s photography awards

    The KL International Photoawards 2024 celebrates artists of all levels and genres. This year’s theme focuses on alternative realities and make-believe
  • Men in red military uniform and a goat stand to attention

    Photos of the day
    Desert blooms, Romanian blouses and Mr Afghanistan

  • New York 1946

    Art and design
    ‘I celebrate the human condition’: Louis Stettner’s real lives

  • Photography
    Latin American Foto festival

  • Photography
    On the road with a 1960s biker gang

  • Art and design
    Tokyo’s oldest train line – in pictures

  • Royal Shakespeare Company
    No rest for the wicked: The School for Scandal at the RSC – in pictures

  • NHS
    ‘We all need a place to hide’: hospital workers take a breather

  • The Guardian picture essay
    ‘Like an island separate from England’: Black joy at Glastonbury

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    Art and design
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    Film
    We’re all feeling sequel fatigue – but Hollywood’s giving us Shrek 5

  • It must be safe in the shires … couples counselling in The Archers (posed by models).

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    Art and design
    Cindy Sherman: ‘Little girls play dress-up – but I was always trying to be a monster instead of a fairy’

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    Edinburgh festival 2024: 12 tips for families

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