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Culture27 Jul
Charli xcx joins the National Portrait Gallery, and the Brat moment gets a permanent frame
Culture27 Jul
Three Indian Express items from one July day: a flooded village, a postponed Tripathi film, and a tea-timing note
Culture27 Jul
Nolan's Odyssey sets a second-weekend record while IMAX courts India
Culture26 Jul
When the headline is a quiz, a manhunt, and a pizza pan: three Indian Express dispatches from 26 July 2026
Culture26 Jul
Bolshoi closes the season with Madama Butterfly, as Sevastopol ballet corps
Culture26 Jul
A geisha in red: Bolshoi closes its season on a Madama Butterfly staged for the screen age
Culture26 Jul
Nolan's Odyssey, Musk's counter-Odyssey, and the streaming economy behind a 680% surge
Culture26 Jul
Polymarket Adds a Trump Approval Contract to Its Two-Day Slate
Culture25 Jul
Three X posts, three Odyssey claims, and a streaming number with no first-party source
Culture23 Jul
Zach Cregger's 'Resident Evil' Trailer Puts Austin Abrams Alone in the Frame
Culture23 Jul
Pulp's new film asks the question a comeback usually avoids
Culture21 Jul
Beijing's first-in-class approval, and what it actually proves about Chinese biotech
Culture21 Jul
Universal parks Christopher Nolan at the summit. Hollywood takes the hint.
Culture21 Jul
Jordanian figures demand US troop withdrawal as regional pressure mounts
Culture21 Jul
Chelsea Wolfe Returns with The Dark, a New Album and a 2026 Tour Built Around It
Culture21 Jul
Snoop Dogg gets the biopic treatment. Universal is betting the man outgrew his most polarizing years
Culture21 Jul
Under Moscow's Sky Again: Gnesinka's Summer Festival and the Soft-Power Geometry of Russian Classical Music
Culture21 Jul
"All Night Wrong" trailer: Voltage Pictures aims a Maria Bakalova vehicle at the indie-comedy middle
Culture21 Jul
The Odyssey Isn't Nolan's Yet: How 3,000 Years of Homer Keep Getting Rewritten
Culture21 Jul
Two Bond Giants, One Owner: What the Film Finances–Media Guarantors Merger Means for Indie Production
Culture21 Jul
The Micro-Influencer Has Entered the Theatre: How SGG Media Rewrote the Hollywood Ground Game
Culture21 Jul
Smithsonian leadership faces Congress over patriotism, gender, and diversity
Culture21 Jul
Liam Neeson's 'The Fix' leans on a tired action template, with a trailer that tells you everything except the why
Culture21 Jul
Ava DuVernay returns to nonfiction with a film about the 14th Amendment
Culture21 Jul
Thirty-Six Years Late: How 'After Dark, My Sweet' Finally Found Its Audience
Culture21 Jul
St. Petersburg's Ring Cycle returns: the Mariinsky bets on Wagner at the close of season 243
Culture21 Jul
Charli XCX hands Vincent Cassel the camera and steps behind it
Culture21 Jul
Vince Staples turns a Tiny Desk into a memorial: Cry Baby, the Panthers, and the weight of an 'I'm sorry'
Culture21 Jul
NVIDIA's DLSS 5 push draws a sharper line between artist intent and machine inference
Culture21 Jul
A Drilled Human Tooth, Worn on a String in Prehistoric Serbia
Culture21 Jul
Country music's quiet handover: Andy Schuon takes the ACM's top job
Culture21 Jul
Statham's Bike Heist Picks Up Three More Riders
Culture21 Jul
Ava DuVernay’s ‘14th’ Documentary to World Premiere at New York Film Festival
Culture21 Jul
Nolan's 'The Odyssey' remake is doing what prestige cinema rarely does: pulling a generation back to the source text
Culture21 Jul
Robocop returns: Amazon Prime Video bets eight episodes on a Detroit cyborg in an age of algorithmic policing
Culture21 Jul
Charli XCX stages herself, and the camera, in the Vincent Cassel-led "Camera"
Culture21 Jul
When a tanker parks, a flight doesn't: the small visa row inside Ben-Gurion's bigger standoff
Culture21 Jul
Wayans horror, rebooted: how 'Scary Movie' ended up back on screen in 2026
Culture21 Jul
‘Evil Dead Burn’ heads to Halloween Horror Nights, betting a 45-year horror brand can still move crowds
Culture21 Jul
Sony drops the third 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' trailer and puts Hulk in the frame
Culture21 Jul
Greg Freeman returns with a second album and the long road to it
Culture21 Jul
Sony and Marvel drop the third trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, leaning on a console game for its visual grammar
Culture21 Jul
Ukraine takes the Liutyi air-to-surface, putting a cruise-style punch on a drone airframe
Culture21 Jul
Yash's 'Toxic' keeps selling itself: another teaser, another bet on star power alone
Culture21 Jul
Kaylee Hottle, the young star behind Jia in the MonsterVerse, dies at 18
Culture21 Jul
A joke about Trump and sex trafficking, cut from a Kennedy Center gala, exposes what streamers now decide audiences get to see
Culture21 Jul
Sphere bets on a marketing chief who speaks tech and travel
Culture21 Jul
A canceled night in São Paulo, and what tour 'illness' actually signals
Culture21 Jul
Dakota Gorman anchors a stripped-down Shudder survival horror in 'Hellcat' trailer
Culture21 Jul
Sylvan Esso bring it back home with Ow, their first record on Psychic Hotline
Culture21 Jul
London's culture ministry enters a quieter chapter: what Keir Starmer's reset means for arts funding
Culture21 Jul
Hong Kong's shrinking shelves: mainland muscle, local indie squeeze
Culture21 Jul
NVIDIA's DLSS 5 lands as the first real test of whether "AI in games" stays a feature or becomes a filter
Culture21 Jul
A Loom on the Lake Floor: How Italian Archaeologists Pulled an Ancient Textile from the Waters of Gran Carro
Culture21 Jul
The cult songwriter who built a cathedral nobody could see
Culture21 Jul
Burnham's first reshuffle keeps Nandy at Culture, hands Narayan a new AI portfolio
Culture21 Jul
The citizenship question India keeps re-opening
Culture21 Jul
Anurag Kashyap at MIFFest: a jury president hunting for a cinematic language that hasn't been colonised
Culture21 Jul
Mainland publishers fill the floor as Hong Kong's indie booksellers are pushed out
Culture21 Jul
Kash Patel's planned Moscow trip puts the FBI inside a diplomatic lane it has rarely walked
Culture21 Jul
Russia's Mariinsky Closes Its 243rd Season With a Beethoven-Flavoured Bet on Cultural Continuity
Culture21 Jul
Merz, Merkel and the quiet politics of Bayreuth's 2026 opening
Culture21 Jul
"The Fires" turns Iceland into a disaster set, and the country's tourism board into its first investor
Culture21 Jul
Patel's planned Moscow trip lands inside an awkward gap in US-Russia diplomacy
Culture21 Jul
Jake Johnson's late-career pivot: from New Girl to pickleball, with the actor still fighting to be taken seriously
Culture21 Jul
Colson Whitehead closes the Harlem Trilogy with the gleeful hustler's novel New York deserved
Culture21 Jul
A Telegram channel turns a year old, and the classical music industry keeps asking how to count its audience
Culture21 Jul
Baroque Routes and Festival Ecologies: Reading Spain's VI Music Festival as an Industrial-Scale Heritage Bet
Culture21 Jul
Patel's planned Moscow trip puts the FBI inside Russia's frame
Culture21 Jul
A.R. Rahman bets the headset is the next concert hall: ARR Immersive lands on Apple Vision Pro
Culture21 Jul
Spain's parade and the BBC's rout: the day after the 2026 World Cup
Culture21 Jul
Spain lands in Madrid: a World Cup, a million supporters, and a coach who keeps his nerve
Culture21 Jul
Simon Pegg's The Undeclared War returns to Channel 4 as British cyber-thriller genre crowds the schedules
Culture21 Jul
Vijay's final bow opens with a Rs 15 crore advance, but the numbers say Tamil cinema's star economy is already rewriting itself
Culture21 Jul
A teen's lie, a chatbot's odds: the soft geopolitics of attention in 2026
Culture21 Jul
Kyoto's blame game and Moomoo's Tokyo test: two faces of China's Japan play
Culture21 Jul
Moffat heads to Barcelona as ‘Number 10’ moves from rumour to schedule
Culture21 Jul
Nolan's $250M 'Odyssey' was written off before a frame was shot. The receipts are uglier than the trolls.
Culture21 Jul
The Airbender problem: why Paramount's sequel film is a test of nostalgia economics
Culture21 Jul
Apple Crumble is a murder mystery you solve by reading grandma's texts
Culture21 Jul
Chloe Fineman lands her post-‘SNL’ footing at Netflix with a Harlan Coben adaptation
Culture21 Jul
An FBI director in Moscow: why Kash Patel's planned October trip is rattling Washington
Culture21 Jul
The scout who became the story: a Greenwich indie turns the location department inside out
Culture21 Jul
Comic-Con's quiet power shift: Variety's Google-backed Interview Studio lands in San Diego
Culture21 Jul
Nolan's IMAX bet pays in week one
Culture21 Jul
Horror in a single eye: the short film that shoots its entire story in a reflection
Culture21 Jul
The five-year gap: why Kurosawa's last film crossed the Pacific in slow motion
Culture21 Jul
Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ Meets the Homerist: Why the Epic That Invented the Hero Is Now a Culture-War Set Piece
Culture21 Jul
Avengers: Doomsday opens the betting market at 67%, and the studios are watching
Culture21 Jul
A former Trump counter-terrorism chief says the US cannot defeat Iran. The statement is louder than the job title
Culture21 Jul
Spain's football déjà vu: what the 2026 triumph repeats, and what it doesn't
Culture21 Jul
Arca's XXXXX lands as the artist tightens the distance between album and event
Culture21 Jul
Nolan's Odyssey picks its fights with Homer, and leaves the rest off the page
Culture21 Jul
John Glacier returns to the club on "Bond Girl," the first single from her album "Lack of Joy is Death"
Culture21 Jul
Kash Patel, the World Cup, and a 38% Bet: Reading the FBI Director's First Year Through a Prediction Market
Culture20 Jul
Patel's planned Russia trip lands in a Washington already running the tape on his tenure
Culture20 Jul
Nolan's Odyssey and the Cost of Squeezing Homer into Three Hours
Culture20 Jul
TIFF 2026 Adds Cannes Heavyweights to Galas and Special Presentations Lineup
Culture20 Jul
Moland Returns to Hamsun: What Beta Cinema's Toronto Bet Says About Slow Cinema's Market
Culture20 Jul
TIFF leans on star power and a Rocky biopic to anchor a turbulent 2026 lineup
Culture20 Jul
Hellboy's afterlife: Mignola and Sniegoski's supernatural podcast 'Grim Death and Bill' heads to television
Culture20 Jul
'Point Break' Returns to Theaters for Its 35th Anniversary, and the Timing Says Something
Culture20 Jul
AI-made cinema hits a new register: a fart joke, with budget behind it
Culture20 Jul
Bong Joon Ho’s animated gamble: a director known for austerity takes ‘Ally’ to global buyers
Culture20 Jul
Netflix hands ‘A Different World’ sequel its first frame
Culture20 Jul
Deon Taylor to Direct Biopic on Streetball Legend Grayson ‘The Professor’ Boucher
Culture20 Jul
Brunello Cucinelli Docufilm Crosses Borders Before It Reaches the U.S.
Culture20 Jul
A pirate yarn shot for the cost of a used car: 'The Peril at Pincer Point' and the micro-budget frontier
Culture20 Jul
Rapinoe's next play: a podcast built on the question athletes rarely get to ask
Culture20 Jul
Nolan's $264 million Odyssey: what the director kept, cut, and invented
Culture20 Jul
Jerusalem's Festival Director Asks Palestinian Filmmakers Back to the Room
Culture20 Jul
A mountain idyll that turns into a cage: Lisa Polster's Out of Sight and the architecture of European deportation
Culture20 Jul
‘Satluj’ and the Film That Punjab Could Not Finish Watching
Culture20 Jul
Ten injured, no fatalities reported in Kermanshah earthquake as Iran tallies midday toll
Culture20 Jul
Iran's southeast takes the second hit: earthquake in Kermanshah follows attacks in Sistan and Baluchistan
Culture20 Jul
The professional lurker in the executive suite: Todd Howard, Reddit, and the new studio feedback loop
Culture20 Jul
An Iranian film about martyrdom wins at a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation festival, and the gesture travels with it
Culture20 Jul
A tutor-free gaokao admission and a 29% Polymarket line land on the same week
Culture20 Jul
Ernest Alaverdyan's Myaskovsky Mission: A Moscow-Trained Clarinetist Steps Onto the Conductor's Podium
Culture20 Jul
Iranian cinema takes the SCO stage, and points the award at home
Culture20 Jul
Reading Schöningen again: new pollen and fauna data reopen a 300,000-year-old argument about Europe’s first hunters
Culture20 Jul
Venice Critics' Week bets on debut voices and a Colombian AI experiment
Culture20 Jul
James Gray's Locarno honor caps a decade of auteur drift from New York mythmaking
Culture20 Jul
China's consumer slowdown meets a thicket of small dramas, and a plastic-to-jet-fuel breakthrough
Culture20 Jul
Flavours of Iraq review: an exiled French-Iraqi journalist turns memory into animation
Culture20 Jul
David Thomson's century-long argument for cinema
Culture20 Jul
Iran's oil calculus: Tehran signals a strategic-reserve lever against Washington
Culture20 Jul
Kung Fu Soccer Rules China's Box Office as Animation Steps Into Second
Culture20 Jul
‘Hope’ storms the Korean box office, and the local survival-thriller engine keeps running
Culture20 Jul
A library reopens in Moadamiyat al-Sham, and the question of what Syria is rebuilding
Culture20 Jul
Regev's airport huddle, and the flight-cancellation question hanging over Ben-Gurion
Culture20 Jul
US strikes hit Iranian provincial capitals Tabriz and Urmia at dawn
Culture20 Jul
A Spanish title and a Palestinian sketch: how Gaza received a World Cup final it never watched
Culture20 Jul
A festival inside a war: how Ukraine's classical-music circuit is programming around the long night
Culture20 Jul
Natalie Imbruglia, the accidental icon who stopped apologising for being a pop star
Culture20 Jul
Forty years on, Aliens is still the sequel that wrote the rules
Culture20 Jul
The bus is still leaving: what the 'Into the Wild' cult gets wrong about escape
Culture20 Jul
Nolan's Odyssey opens to $51m Friday as IMAX and premium formats carry the load
Culture20 Jul
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch turns 101: the last Auschwitz orchestra cellist, and what the surviving instruments remember
Culture20 Jul
The $5 chip and the 75 million bot tracks: a week in platform power
Culture20 Jul
Samantha Morton's Circe Steals Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' in a Single Scene
Culture20 Jul
The Director's Cut Industrial Complex: How 'Manhunter' Became the Case Study
Culture20 Jul
A century on, the Grand Ole Opry still owns the broadcast week
Culture20 Jul
Alabama Shakes come back swinging: Brittany Howard on quitting, Trump, and the album that took a decade
Culture20 Jul
Anders Danielsen Lie steps into Bill Evans's shoes in a trailer that treats silence like a horn line
Culture20 Jul
A police band, a press gag, and a statehood chorus
Culture20 Jul
The Peplum Is Back: How Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ Is Dragging the Sandal-and-Sword Genre Out of Retirement
Culture20 Jul
4DX, the Premium Format Quietly Winning the Multiplex
Culture20 Jul
Kelsey Grammer Walks a Sci-Fi Tightrope with 'Lars Shrike Walks the Night'
Culture20 Jul
Nolan's Two Decades on Screen: Who Carries the Films Now
Culture20 Jul
When the uniform is the brand: Himachal police orchestra mired in misconduct claims, and a Gurugram 'doctor' on bail for a Rs 30-crore Ponzi
Culture20 Jul
Jingye's last stand: a Chinese steelmaker tests the limits of UK industrial sovereignty
Culture20 Jul
China's culture wars: a 2,000-year-old board game, a plagiarism scandal, and the AI race at the top of Polymarket
Culture20 Jul
Nolan's Odyssey crosses a Rotten Tomatoes threshold the boycott never dented
Culture20 Jul
Nolan's Odyssey opens to $264m and lands its first fight: AI as a 'Trojan horse'
Culture20 Jul
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced sells 3 million in a week, then asks fans to clear space on the calendar
Culture20 Jul
Netflix writes a $587 million cheque for Affleck's AI studio, and Hollywood's room reads the room
Culture19 Jul
Black Flag Resynced sells three million in a week, and its missing combat mechanics tell a bigger story
Culture19 Jul
Shapiro's 'Odyssey' reversal exposes the porous border between outrage and endorsement in right-wing film criticism
Culture19 Jul
Nolan's Trojan Horse: an ancient siege, a modern special-ops film, and the AI line the director couldn't resist
Culture19 Jul
FIFA's anti-discrimination arm warns against transgender ban at 2031 Women's World Cup
Culture19 Jul
How a single Russian milblogger post became a Western headline, and what that says about the war's information layer
Culture19 Jul
A 35-crore Malayalam actioner and a patriarch's exit: what the wire says about Mollywood's mid-2026 moment
Culture19 Jul
Kyiv overnight strike kills one and injures seventeen as Russia returns to the capital's skyline
Culture19 Jul
IAEA weighs in on Darkhovin strike, Tehran reads the restraint
Culture19 Jul
Brazil's Export Pipeline: Gramado Hands the Headlines to Mello and Cândido
Culture19 Jul
Ukraine's Drone Industrial Base Hits a Production Dispute It Can't Ignore
Culture19 Jul
Spotify's 75 million-track purge and the new shape of streaming fraud
Culture19 Jul
Ajay Devgn's Dhamaal 4 crosses Rs 125 crore as Pentagon's testosterone-testing plan draws medical pushback
Culture19 Jul
A Kyiv factory, a Russian missile, and the civilian cost of striking at Ukraine's drone supply line
Culture19 Jul
The two stories about AI this week: table tennis in Shanghai, water bills in Virginia
Culture19 Jul
Gaza's graveyards are running out of ground
Culture19 Jul
A festival finds its moment: MIFFest opens in Kuala Lumpur with ASEAN record in hand
Culture19 Jul
Tehran turns a memorial into a stage: foreign students gather at Qom to mourn Khamenei
Culture19 Jul
A six-minute trash planet, and the slow economics of independent sci-fi
Culture19 Jul
Netflix's $587 Million Bet on Ben Affleck's AI Startup, and What It Signals About Hollywood's Next Merger Wave
Culture19 Jul
Matt Damon at 50: A Career Built on Restraint
Culture19 Jul
Olivia Dean graduates to arenas, and the industry has to keep up
Culture19 Jul
Two visions of scale: Packham's prehistoric canvas and Nolan's turn at Homer
Culture19 Jul
Magnitude 5 Quake Shakes Khuzestan Village as Tehran Seismology Centre Reports Tremor
Culture19 Jul
Hannah Waddingham's late, loud arrival at the top of Hollywood
Culture19 Jul
Nolan's box-office gravity bends the July calendar around him
Culture19 Jul
Mariinsky brings St Petersburg to Sirius as Russia’s cultural diplomacy courts a new audience
Culture19 Jul
Kurdish opposition HQ in Erbil comes under attack as Tehran-Baghdad phone diplomacy tries to draw a line
Culture19 Jul
Kyiv wakes to fire after Russia's overnight barrage hits Lukianivka
Culture18 Jul
CPAC London stages the new conservative international, with One Nation's Pauline Hanson as guest of honour
Culture18 Jul
A million on the streets of Baghdad: reading Iran's martyr-funeral frame
Culture18 Jul
Tehran reaches for Baghdad: Araqchi's call frames a regional choreography
Culture18 Jul
Iran and Iraq try to keep their conversation above the noise
Culture18 Jul
Million-Strong Baghdad Funeral Re-stages Iran's Regional Script
Culture18 Jul
Sheridan's Call of Duty puts a screenwriter-turned-showrunner at the centre of the franchise's next phase
Culture18 Jul
Article 370 and Amaran take the night as India's 72nd National Film Awards choose the political and the procedural
Culture18 Jul
Khamenei's gratitude note to the 'epic creation' is a closing of ranks, not a victory lap
Culture18 Jul
Article 370 and a Savarkar biopic take top honours at India's 72nd National Film Awards
Culture18 Jul
Ankara's Defender-in-Chief Says Europe Has Stopped Being the West
Culture18 Jul
Netflix's 17-minute AI experiment and the 11% plunge that followed
Culture18 Jul
Twenty minutes on the line: how cheap autonomy is rewriting the cost of an infantry assault
Culture18 Jul
'Article 370' takes best feature as India's National Film Awards reset the conversation about Bollywood and the state
Culture18 Jul
Ankara's Drone Diplomat Lays Out the Case Against Europe's Waning Edge
Culture18 Jul
Trumps World Cup joke, RatifCliff's warning, and the case for treating 2026 as a polite war
Culture18 Jul
India's National Film Awards at 72: who actually wins, and what the jury picks tell us
Culture18 Jul
Hormozgan knocked offline: 116 telecom towers lost in US strikes, repairs under way
Culture18 Jul
One tunnel back open on Iran's Bandar Abbas–Sirjan axis, but the other is still dark
Culture18 Jul
Strikes on Hormozgan: what Tehran's own wires say, and what they leave out
Culture18 Jul
Federal judge says warrantless phone seizure of Palestinian activist crossed the constitutional line
Culture18 Jul
A gold-coin lottery and the quiet infrastructure of Iranian household debt
Culture18 Jul
India's 72nd National Film Awards arrive under a weather cloud, with the ceremony still set for 5:30 pm IST
Culture18 Jul
Biren’s silicon-photonics play and the 9% Polymarket line on Chinese frontier models
Culture18 Jul
Shiraz reopens to Dubai as Fars province widens its Gulf aviation bridge
Culture18 Jul
Ratcliffe puts a number on the China–Russia gap, and the West is still arguing about the wrong one
Culture18 Jul
Ratcliffe's 20-minute recruit and the reshaping of the frontline
Culture18 Jul
Apple TV's 'Cape Fear' Reopens a Scorsese Case File, This Time as Serial
Culture18 Jul
A Sydney Winner Heads to Paris: What Inwave's Pickup of 'Time and Tide' Signals About Hybrid Documentary's Sales Future
Culture18 Jul
'Mortal Kombat 2' Lands on HBO Max as the Game-to-Screen Bet Keeps Paying
Culture18 Jul
Southern giant cuscus: a one-kilo marsupial that flutters, rather than flies
Culture18 Jul
Emile Hirsch returns to indie horror with 'Woozy,' a gross-out supernatural title that knows its market
Culture18 Jul
Raghav Juyal steps into the leading-man frame, and a city asks its mayor to sleep on the heat
Culture18 Jul
A Bollywood Hit Walks Into Wembley: What the ‘Saiyaara’ Anniversary Tour Says About India’s Soft-Power Play
Culture18 Jul
Daniel Radcliffe turns up on a comedian's album. Why it says something about the collapsing middle of pop.
Culture18 Jul
Josh Fox's new climate doc bets that human stories can outrun the political weather
Culture18 Jul
Colman Domingo and Robert O'Hara set sights on Disney's Princess Tiana
Culture18 Jul
Detroit's air tops the world's polluted-cities list, and a Netflix slide puts a culture-sector week on edge
Culture18 Jul
Nolan's Odyssey gambles on a hero who already knew the way home
Culture18 Jul
Lorde vs the Algorithm: When Spotify’s AI Starts Writing the Liner Notes
Culture18 Jul
Leon Bridges Hands the Reins to Two Strangers, and Gets a Quieter Kind of Joy
Culture17 Jul
Two hundred and fifty years on, the Proms lets America set its own terms
Culture17 Jul
The two Chinas that crossed the wire on 17 July
Culture17 Jul
Janus Films revives a forgotten French sci-fi parable: why 'Gandahar' matters again
Culture17 Jul
Khibla Gerzmava's two-night stand in Moscow, and the question Luca Debargue keeps asking
Culture17 Jul
Svetlanov Orchestra Closes a Season in Moscow, and a Question Hangs Over Russian Classical Music's International Future
Culture17 Jul
The Emmys Just Trimmed Their Own Mirror: Five Categories Cut From the NBC Telecast
Culture17 Jul
Suncatcher picks up Tessa Blake's 'If I Tell You,' giving Carol Kane her latest quiet stage
Culture17 Jul
Anatomically correct Barbies, Swedish puppetry, and the erotics of audience complicity
Culture17 Jul
Armenia gets the Cannes treatment: Critics' Week turns its Next Step lens on a country at a crossroads
Culture17 Jul
Netflix returns to Macondo: a second pass at a hundred years
Culture17 Jul
Whitewashed Middle-earth? The Hunt for Gollum casting row and the limits of Tolkien's text
Culture17 Jul
The Fertility Convergence: How Family Size Stopped Tracking Culture
Culture17 Jul
Nolan's 'The Odyssey' opens with a $17.6M preview, but the road to Homer took a year
Culture17 Jul
Irish and U.K. acting schools are planting flags in U.S. cities. The flow of talent is going the other way.
Culture17 Jul
Animation carries Hollywood's box office. The industry still treats it like a side project
Culture17 Jul
Sitges looks south: a Spanish genre festival plants a flag in Latin America
Culture17 Jul
Virginia rebuffs a school‑board drug‑testing push, and Netflix quietly inks AI into 300 productions: two votes on where the boundaries are being drawn
Culture17 Jul
Two India Cyber-Fraud Cases, One Worrying Pattern: Ex-Servicemen in the Crosshairs
Culture17 Jul
The mayor who stayed: Mykolaiv's wartime exit after five and a half years
Culture17 Jul
Iko Uwais heads to ‘Jakarta’: Alcon bets on a multi-generational Indonesian crime saga
Culture17 Jul
A rupee in plastic: what India's polymer note trial really tests
Culture17 Jul
DHS tightens the clock on foreign students and journalists, and opens welfare data to visa reviewers
Culture17 Jul
Hormuz in the crosshairs: Birol's warning and the choreography of global energy risk
Culture17 Jul
Netflix's AI documentary bet lands on a choppy tape
Culture17 Jul
Bethesda bets the next decade on Elder Scrolls, with Fallout 5 waiting in the wings
Culture17 Jul
Netflix's live play is no longer a sideshow. It's the story.
Culture17 Jul
Moscow detains ex-Ministry of Industry official in import-substitution fraud case
Culture17 Jul
Homer's women: what the male critical class missed in Nolan's Odyssey
Culture17 Jul
A missionary, a Pacific island, and the camera: how 'Mussau' is rewriting who gets to tell Pacific stories
Culture17 Jul
Netflix's AI bet lands. The question is who's training the model.
Culture17 Jul
Tinashe Bets on a Popstar Moment, and on Crunk
Culture17 Jul
The 20-minute soldier: what Ratcliffe's casualty claim says about Russia's war economy
Culture17 Jul
Standing on the Corner return with a second, slightly altered version of themselves
Culture17 Jul
Tinashe Announces New Album 'Popstar,' Leans Into Crunk on Lead Single 'Crash Out'
Culture17 Jul
Echo and the Bunnymen announce first album in 12 years, a memorial to Clem Burke
Culture17 Jul
Coachella's Parent Firm Plants a New Flag on Santa Monica Sand
Culture17 Jul
Carly Rae Jepsen's Long Goodbye Arrives Early
Culture17 Jul
Modi flags off India's first hydrogen train as a culture of cleanliness gets the speechwriter treatment
Culture17 Jul
Netflix's 300-title AI bet arrives before the contract fight
Culture17 Jul
Iran and Iraq Move to Smooth the Arbaeen Crossing at Mehran
Culture16 Jul
Lorde pushes back on Spotify’s AI song summaries. The fight over interpretation has begun.
Culture16 Jul
Iran strikes a US base in Kuwait: what two state channels put on the record, and what they didn't
Culture16 Jul
Tehran pushes back on rumour of US strike on Kish Island as regional temperature climbs
Culture16 Jul
Netflix hits its Q2 numbers and still can't catch a bid
Culture16 Jul
Netflix pulls back the curtain, once a year
Culture16 Jul
Netflix crosses 300 generative-AI productions, and quietly redraws the line on craft
Culture16 Jul
Cable, Helmet, Camera: How a Pakistani Rescue Crew Became the Documentary Year's Strangest Hero
Culture16 Jul
Luca Debargue and the long, slow case for being heard
Culture16 Jul
Nolan wanted the biggest canvas. IMAX had already moved on.
Culture16 Jul
Hollywood's Mid-Summer Rebound Runs on Fewer Screens and Quieter Audiences
Culture16 Jul
'Our Effed Up World' teaser lands: indie sci-fi comedy asks what an alien invasion would actually cost
Culture16 Jul
Shia LaBeouf, still in pieces: what 'The Rooster Prince' tells us about the cost of staying visible
Culture16 Jul
Dudamel and the New York Philharmonic book the World Cup final: a cultural export with a flag still to be chosen
Culture16 Jul
Doctors' Lounge podcast bets on a healthcare-policy bench for its summer run
Culture16 Jul
A boy, a stove, a Vespa: 'Olmo' and the gentle radicalism of coming-of-age cinema
Culture16 Jul
Ava DuVernay's return to documentary, with birthright citizenship in the frame
Culture16 Jul
'La Bola Negra': Spain's Movistar rolls out a triptych that treats memory as a three-room house
Culture16 Jul
EA and X Games turn a fictional skate city into a four-day sponsorship bazaar
Culture16 Jul
Nolan's Odyssey sails into critical harbour: five stars from the broadsheets, one question over the runtime
Culture16 Jul
The Invisible Gatekeeper: How Casting Director Nancy Nayor Shapes Modern Horror
Culture16 Jul
Terrence Howard, Kate Bosworth join legal thriller built on a lawyer's memoir
Culture16 Jul
Box Office 2026: The Hits That Put People Back in Seats
Culture16 Jul
Sameera Reddy’s skin-lightening remark lands in a Bollywood reckoning that was already underway
Culture16 Jul
Rose Byrne and Jenna Ortega to star in Mary Bronstein's 'Nasty' for Warner Bros.' Clockwork banner
Culture16 Jul
'American Pachuco' and the Long Apprenticeship of Luis Valdez
Culture16 Jul
Petraeus sounds the alarm on a drone gap Ukraine never asked the West to win
Culture16 Jul
Ukraine's Drone Math Forces a Reckoning in Washington
Culture16 Jul
Pergolesi's Lost Opera Surfaces in a Jesi Theatre, and Refuses to Sound Like a Museum Piece
Culture16 Jul
Russell Tovey gives grief a feathered shape in Max Porter's audiobook oddity
Culture16 Jul
Hungary lifts brake on film-production rebates as Magyar government doubles down on Hollywood-friendly industrial policy
Culture16 Jul
Netflix's 'I Suck at Girls' lands Konkle and Burns as series regulars, signalling a quieter sort of star vehicle
Culture16 Jul
Netflix takes another swing at gaming with a Stranger Things-tinged minigolf title
Culture16 Jul
Andrew Garfield's Peasants' Revolt: How Paul Greengrass's 'The Uprising' Aims to Convert England's Deadliest Insurgency Into a Modern Warning
Culture16 Jul
Denshattack! and the strange commute of a dystopian Japan
Culture16 Jul
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Washington moves to put foreign students and journalists on a leash
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Culture16 Jul
Raindance Veterans Launch Casa Leo PR, Betting Latin America's Film Boom Needs a Native Press Voice
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Krasnoyarsk stages a transnational violin festival while the city's cultural footprint grows
Culture16 Jul
Holden Caulfield at 75: why a 1951 novel about one bad weekend keeps getting read
Culture16 Jul
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Culture16 Jul
Arundhati Roy on AI, the Beatles and the limits of the indie auteur
Culture16 Jul
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The set that ate a people: Nolan's Western Sahara gamble
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Culture16 Jul
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Culture16 Jul
California's Film Fix Won't Be Found at the Permit Counter
Culture16 Jul
Nolan's The Odyssey arrives as a serious bet on the theatrical epic
Culture16 Jul
Watching without playing: how China built a World Cup audience Beijing couldn't deliver on the pitch
Culture16 Jul
The Odyssey lands in theatres, and on the same week, an AI studio announces it will remake the whole poem
Culture16 Jul
Taiwan bets on a local LLM to keep its language out of Beijing's mouth
Culture16 Jul
Strikes on Semnan airport test the seam between wartime Israel and a cornered Iranian republic
Culture16 Jul
HDFC Bank's first headcount drop in nine years tests India's private-sector growth story
Culture16 Jul
Lana Del Rey says a Stove companion album is a month out, and the rollout is the point
Culture16 Jul
Andy Serkis on the new ‘Lord of the Rings’: ‘I don’t think we’ll be doing a politically correct casting-for-the-sake-of-casting version’
Culture16 Jul
Potsy Ponciroli's 'Motor City' and the return of the dialogue-free crime film
Culture16 Jul
Dead Meat's 'Fresh Meat' is the latest proof that horror's grassroots is cannibalising the mainstream
Culture16 Jul
Tarantino's tenth and last: what the director's retirement pledge reveals about Hollywood's auteur problem
Culture16 Jul
The Odyssey bets on AI: a 56% market and a cinema experiment the studios didn't sanction
Culture16 Jul
Honda's electric gamble lands in Vietnam, and Asia's small-bike map redraws itself
Culture16 Jul
Dry Cleaning quietly expands Secret Love with two new tracks, six months on
Culture16 Jul
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Culture16 Jul
Actress returns with 'Radical Frame,' his first solo LP since the pandemic-era hiatus
Culture16 Jul
Taiwan's local-AI push becomes a digital sovereignty question
Culture16 Jul
Nolan’s 'The Odyssey' tops his own critical record on Rotten Tomatoes
Culture15 Jul
Netflix bets on Las Vegas with 'The Roman,' a casino drama built for the streaming wars
Culture15 Jul
Hollywood Goes to the Élysée: Macron Confers the Legion of Honor on Lucas, Foster, Weaver, and Meledandri
Culture15 Jul
Paramount bets that a one-week theatrical window can rescue a streaming-first franchise launch
Culture15 Jul
Zelenskyy taps Naftogaz chief Koretsky to be Ukraine's next prime minister
Culture15 Jul
Tehran summons Britain's envoy over IRGC proscription
Culture15 Jul
Tehran summons UK envoy as IRGC terror designation lands
Culture15 Jul
Tehran reads the call: Trump's deal talk meets an Iranian audience that has heard this before
Culture15 Jul
Fedorov steps down as Ukraine's defence minister, citing team trust
Culture15 Jul
Nolan's 'The Odyssey' opens to a 98% Rotten Tomatoes score, his career best
Culture15 Jul
Moscow's human-rights envoy calls Iran a model of resistance to the West
Culture15 Jul
A Filipino caddie, a country club, and the class wall the trailer dares to name
Culture15 Jul
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Culture15 Jul
The ‘no-makeup makeup’ premiere and the new economics of celebrity beauty
Culture15 Jul
Nolan's 'The Odyssey' lands as a career-defining epic, and a meditation on power
Culture15 Jul
Costa Rica's film crews stop chasing tax breaks and start chasing producers
Culture15 Jul
Cannes competition, Comic-Con floor: Na Hong-jin's 'Hope' lands in San Diego
Culture15 Jul
Rutgers's Zimmerli Museum Lands a 70-Work Gift, and a Quiet Argument About Who Pays for American Art
Culture15 Jul
Kevin Hart’s ‘Cold as Balls’ swims into Netflix, and the talk-show format keeps getting colder
Culture15 Jul
Meshell Ndegeocello's 'Synonym' brings a 30-year collaborator's network into one Blue Note frame
Culture15 Jul
Hamaguchi Returns: Neon's ‘All of a Sudden’ Sets a Thanksgiving Weekend Date With American Audiences
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How one animator tried to kill his own show over AI and ended up fielding death threats instead
Culture15 Jul
Two wires, two futures: an actress rewatches herself, a streamer teaches its app to listen
Culture15 Jul
Gotham waits again: 'The Batman: Part II' pushed to February 2028
Culture15 Jul
Beck Returns After Seven Years With 'Ride Lonesome' and a Familiar Crew
Culture15 Jul
Zombies, gore and creepy kids: why we cannot stop playing horror games
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'Drive it like you stole it' one more time: Lionsgate lines up a 4K revival for Sing Street
Culture15 Jul
Songs of exile, songs of home: Sulayman and Shibe build a programme of returns at Wigmore Hall
Culture15 Jul
Scary Movies returns to Lincoln Center, with Porter and McKee's most disturbing inheritances restored
Culture15 Jul
Spotify's AI assistant lands in the middle of India's streaming wars
Culture15 Jul
Damascus opens the IAEA door, and the diplomatic room behind it
Culture15 Jul
Ten AI-Native Shorts Land at Raindance. The Real Question Is Whether Festivals Are Ready to Judge Them
Culture15 Jul
Aeschylus in three parts: Stone's Bridge Oresteia pushes the epic form past its own seams
Culture15 Jul
George Lucas tells AI sceptics to get out of the way
Culture15 Jul
Koreeda's live-action 'Look Back' gets a second teaser. The harder question is who gets to read it.
Culture15 Jul
A 4K Mahabharata Returns to the Screen, and to a Longer Argument About Whose Stories Survive
Culture15 Jul
Bet the Farm, Then Shoot the Western: Nathan Grubbs and the Economics of 'Cowboy'
Culture15 Jul
Twenty-five injured in Pamplona as the bulls come home
Culture15 Jul
FSB 'bio-drone' arrests point to a quieter war of payloads and proxies
Culture15 Jul
Iran's mourning week for Khamenei: a managed public square, a regional signal
Culture15 Jul
Orwell, but with a happy ending: the new Animal Farm that strips the bite
Culture15 Jul
Iran moves to inscribe Khamenei's funeral on national heritage list, urging unity
Culture15 Jul
Meta accused of weaponising workplace AI to flag disability and medical leave for layoffs
Culture15 Jul
At a Madrid peace conference, Israeli and Palestinian activists share a stage the news cameras rarely visit
Culture15 Jul
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Culture15 Jul
Wallace, Gromit and the quiet defiance of stop-motion
Culture15 Jul
A Singapore wuxia lands in Locarno: what Nelson Yeo's Moon says about where Asian genre cinema is heading
Culture15 Jul
Piss Christ at 40: what the 1989 culture war still gets wrong
Culture15 Jul
The $5.6 million settlement and the cultural-prescription study: two American stories that don't quite line up
Culture15 Jul
Locarno puts its 2026 jury in the hands of a Belgian genre-bender
Culture15 Jul
A transgender American's asylum bid collides with the Netherlands' culture war
Culture15 Jul
Peacemaker in the cross-hairs: how a missile deal reopened the Republican split over Ukraine
Culture15 Jul
China's cheap AI is winning on price. American startups are paying attention
Culture15 Jul
An Israeli lawmaker walked into a Jerusalem school. What he said there is now the story
Culture15 Jul
A $50,000 film fund, and the question it dodges
Culture15 Jul
A Vietnamese Director’s Second Feature Has Quietly Become Locarno’s Hottest Property
Culture15 Jul
Pins & Aces and the pop-culture pitch: how a golf apparel upstart turned movie nostalgia into its best-selling lane
Culture15 Jul
'Little House' rides again: why a 1970s prairie drama is Netflix's latest unlikely escape hatch
Culture15 Jul
Sam Neill's last interview: Gillian Armstrong on the man who ran off with her film
Culture15 Jul
Hong Sang-soo's Day She Returns drinks the same wine, finds a stranger vintage
Culture15 Jul
Avni Doshi's second novel turns the mother-daughter story inside out
Culture15 Jul
Tehran Book Garden offers a window onto Iran's culture of reading, and its contest with the West
Culture15 Jul
A24 turns the lens on a French chef's death, and on the industry's appetite for them
Culture15 Jul
Rooftop Films widens its 2026 summer map across New York's parks
Culture15 Jul
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Culture15 Jul
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Culture15 Jul
Bells, bits, and balance sheets: a Chinese lord, a $71B AI unicorn, and the soft-power ledger
Culture15 Jul
'Julian' arrives in US cinemas: a Belgian love story that puts marriage on trial
Culture15 Jul
Bregenz, the Floating Stage, and the Quiet Reordering of European Opera
Culture15 Jul
Superblue Lands in Mumbai: Why the NMACC Partnership Matters Beyond the Blockbuster
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Ecosexuality's Longest Pitch: Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens Want the Planet in Bed
Culture15 Jul
Anya Taylor-Joy runs for her life in Apple TV’s ‘Lucky’, a glossy neo-noir that knows its conventions
Culture15 Jul
A decade after 'Train to Busan', Korea's zombie film still leads a global genre
Culture15 Jul
Paramount bets on TikTok-era sketch sensibility with Almost Friday's Tyler Falbo
Culture15 Jul
Cooking, protest and prayer: a grassroots peace gathering threads Israeli and Palestinian voices together
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Jess Williamson Heads South with A Mile South of Heaven
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Roscosmos and NASA extend ISS partnership to 2030 as a fresh Soyuz crew lifts off
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Culture14 Jul
Andy Serkis returns to Middle-earth as cameras roll on 'The Hunt for Gollum'
Culture14 Jul
Half-time score: the albums that defined 2026 so far, judged by the people who actually buy them
Culture14 Jul
Sydney Pollack's Long Shadow: A New Collection Argues the Director's Method Was the Film
Culture14 Jul
De Niro, Adam Scott and the algorithm: what Netflix's 'The Whisper Man' trailer tells us about streaming's true-crime bet
Culture14 Jul
‘Gone With the Wind’ Gets Its First 4K Treatment, and a Restoration Debate Reopens
Culture14 Jul
Simple Town's leap from sketch feed to slasher: how a New York comedy troupe turned its own anxiety into 'Big Break'
Culture14 Jul
Hawkins, bound in linen: Assouline turns Stranger Things into a $195 shelf object
Culture14 Jul
Netflix's 33-year wait: Alan Ritchson circles 'Maelstrom' as action-vehicle economics reset
Culture14 Jul
Fantasia at 30: Montreal's genre festival doubles down on the weird as the streaming era reshapes discovery
Culture14 Jul
Nolan's 'Odyssey' Turns Film Stock Into a Pilgrimage
Culture14 Jul
Alex Gibney’s Rushdie documentary finds its release path as Sundance sales accelerate
Culture14 Jul
Variety's Actors on Actors earns two Daytime Emmy nods, and a quiet structural shift in celebrity journalism
Culture14 Jul
Tubi rehires from Netflix as Fox's ad-tier streamer tightens its Hollywood muscle
Culture14 Jul
Carey Mulligan boards Focus Features' Bell Jar as Billie Eilish's screen debut
Culture14 Jul
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Culture14 Jul
Netflix bets on a true-crime veteran for its next big autumn swing
Culture14 Jul
A Welsh oddball washes ashore: 'The Incomer' and the small-isle comedy revival
Culture14 Jul
FX's 'The Shards' trailer bets on Bret Easton Ellis nostalgia, and on Ryan Murphy's appetite for excess
Culture14 Jul
Tony Gilroy's 'Behemoth!' arrives with a teaser built on a single cello line
Culture14 Jul
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Culture14 Jul
‘Project a Black Planet’: how the Barbican is screening the archive of pan-Africanism
Culture14 Jul
Memorial squares for Russia’s war dead move from TV screens to city streets
Culture14 Jul
'Ferine': An Italian Debut Hunts Grief Through the Italian Wilds
Culture14 Jul
A Russian cultural centre opens in Manama. The Gulf's quiet courtship of Moscow is now public.
Culture14 Jul
The quiet erasure: how East Jerusalem's Palestinian cultural life is being dismantled
Culture14 Jul
A third Odyssey lands this month, and this one wasn't made by humans
Culture14 Jul
Refn's comeback and the politics of festival taste: Fantasia turns 30
Culture14 Jul
Jess Williamson readies a second album that opens with the songwriters’ oldest weapon
Culture14 Jul
Albanese bets a single office can keep Australia's AI boom from blowing back on the country that paid for it
Culture14 Jul
Oskar Lehemaa's 'Birth' finds a Tallifornia backer for a body-horror spin on parenthood
Culture14 Jul
Isaac Ezban's time-travel road movie finds its producing partner
Culture14 Jul
The BBC closed a record year arguing it can no longer fund itself
Culture14 Jul
Sam Neill's final bow: Jane Campion and a career that outgrew its frame
Culture14 Jul
Marc Isaacs' AI doc wants you to feel the machine watching back
Culture14 Jul
Kit Fan's Chinatown elegy: a chef's reckoning with migration, memory and the city that raised him
Culture14 Jul
André Holland carries a Washington DC boxing film that earns every bruise
Culture14 Jul
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Culture14 Jul
Linnea Berthelsen crosses the Atlantic: from Hawkins to the Bush Theatre
Culture14 Jul
'Just a local': rural New Zealand fondly remembers Sam Neill, its everyday star
Culture14 Jul
Locarno-bound 'The Chilean' turns a miner's escape into a referendum on exilic cinema
Culture14 Jul
Hong Sang-soo's quiet pilgrimage lands at Cinema Guild
Culture14 Jul
A Bergman adaptation lands on Sky: how 'Faithless' handles inheritance, regret, and the Swedish summer
Culture14 Jul
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Culture14 Jul
San Juan bets on a Central American pivot as Costa Rica takes the spotlight at Puerto Rico's 17th film festival
Culture14 Jul
Allison Russell Turns the Hour of Chaos Into a Duets Album, and Refuses to Soften It
Culture14 Jul
AFI's Directing Workshop for Women Reopens Its Doors, and the Pipeline Question Returns
Culture14 Jul
A 95-year-old orchestra closes a season and looks ahead
Culture14 Jul
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Culture14 Jul
Tye Blue joins the 'Dance Moms' parody stage, and the bigger fight over who owns a reality-TV footnote
Culture14 Jul
The Album Art Music Left Behind: Two New Books on How Sleeves Shape the Ear
Culture14 Jul
Netflix's $2 million Monopoly: a streaming giant plays a board game the rest of the industry is already losing
Culture14 Jul
The Producer Who Opened Hong Kong Cinema: Shi Nansun’s Quiet Industry Legacy
Culture14 Jul
Mattel bets on ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ dolls as Netflix-toy pipeline deepens
Culture14 Jul
Sam Neill remembered: a candid witness to cinema, and a life that preferred the farm
Culture14 Jul
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Culture14 Jul
Ellison's Quiet Lobby: A Federal Film Tax Credit and the Shape of American Production
Culture14 Jul
Sony bets on Drac again: a fifth 'Hotel Transylvania' is coming in 2027
Culture14 Jul
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Culture14 Jul
Mastodon Return With Marrow Deep, Their First Album Since Brent Hinds's Death
Culture14 Jul
Brussels Pulls €2 Million From Venice Biennale Over Russia's Pavilion
Culture14 Jul
Zaslav Cashes Out Again as State Lawyers Sue to Block the Paramount Deal
Culture14 Jul
Sam Neill, the actor who made New Zealand cinema visible to the world, has died at 78
Culture13 Jul
Daytime Emmys 2026: Clarkson, Sherri and the End of an Era
Culture13 Jul
Disney’s ‘Moana’ Live-Action Remake Stumbles, and the Multiplex Story Behind It
Culture13 Jul
Twelve arrests, one country estate: the UK’s right-wing terror case that cut a Muslim gathering short
Culture13 Jul
Side gigs, second wives, and the long paper trail of Indian political muscle
Culture13 Jul
Paramount Calls States' Antitrust Suit a 'Shield' for Netflix and Big Tech
Culture13 Jul
A nine-year manhunt, a Beijing-to-Houston pipeline, and the new face of Chinese cross-border fraud cases
Culture13 Jul
'Ladies First' earns critical pans but lands an argument the genre keeps avoiding
Culture13 Jul
A teaser and a toupée: 'Forelock' bets that Superman's curl still sells
Culture13 Jul
De Niro Returns to Rome for the 50th Birthday of a Film Italy Hasn’t Fully Reconciled With
Culture13 Jul
Tom Cruise goes absurdist: reading the trailer for Alejandro G. Iñárritu's 'Digger'
Culture13 Jul
New York Comedy Festival Returns, With a Lineup That Reads Like the City's Itself
Culture13 Jul
Flamenco lands at the Globe: how a Spanish art form became the Globe's answer to Shakespeare
Culture13 Jul
Flanagan's long road to Carrie: what Amazon's first-look really tells us
Culture13 Jul
San José Rolls Out the Red Carpet for Central America's Young Directors
Culture13 Jul
London Pride 2026 brings record turnout and a familiar fight over the audience
Culture13 Jul
A medal before the meeting: Zelensky decorates Macron on the eve of the Coalition of the Willing
Culture13 Jul
Hormozgan Shutters Offices as Province Braces for Two-Day Closure
Culture13 Jul
A Mother and Daughter on One Set: Costa Rica's Istarús Anchor Tres Tigres' 'Quemada'
Culture13 Jul
Costa Rica bets a Netflix of podcasts and a MrBeast producer can reset its media export economy
Culture13 Jul
A Norwegian island, two realities, and the indie film that wants you to notice
Culture13 Jul
BlackStar at 15: Philadelphia bets on a cinema of the global majority
Culture13 Jul
Gracie Abrams' third album reaches for goth turbulence and lands on sugar
Culture13 Jul
Women in Fan LatAm launches at Costa Rica market, betting regional genre cinema can scale past its gatekeepers
Culture13 Jul
Mastodon return with Marrow Deep, a first album written without Brent Hinds
Culture13 Jul
Detention of US lawmaker becomes a US-Israel credibility test
Culture13 Jul
A South African thriller is Netflix's quietest global breakout of 2026
Culture13 Jul
The pen as pulpit: how PressTV frames Khamenei as architect of Iran's intellectual and construction revolutions
Culture13 Jul
Sam Neill, screen diplomat: a career that outlasted the roles
Culture13 Jul
Ahmadinejad under IRGC house arrest: what the Mossad-recruitment story actually says
Culture13 Jul
Sam Neill, 78, leaves a screen career measured in decades and continents
Culture13 Jul
Costa Rica’s Incendio Cine lands new co-production backing for Fantastic Lab winner ‘We Won’t Let the Goat Die’
Culture13 Jul
Sam Neill, 78, leaves a screen career calibrated to the long take
Culture13 Jul
Ali G at Centre Court: Sacha Baron Cohen's Wimbledon stunt is a pitch for a new movie, and a bet that satire still travels
Culture13 Jul
Sam Neill, who carried a generation's idea of danger into a calmer register, dies at 78
Culture13 Jul
Our Hero, Balthazar: a Manhattan of grievances, shot through with satire
Culture13 Jul
Andrea Bajani's 'The Anniversary' lands in English: a measured Italian family saga that dares to be dull
Culture13 Jul
Russia Says It Stopped More Drone Sabotage Plots. The Pattern Is the News.
Culture13 Jul
"A Year in London" leans into old-school lesbian romance, and arrives just as the genre is going soft
Culture13 Jul
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Culture13 Jul
Hilda Hidalgo turns inward: Costa Rica's most-admared woman director eyes a third feature on sexual abuse
Culture13 Jul
A footballing gag lands a $73.6m jab: how 'Kung Fu Soccer' is rewriting China's domestic box office
Culture13 Jul
Sam Neill dies at 78: the New Zealand actor who turned a herpetologist's khakis into a global uniform
Culture13 Jul
Bogotá bets on the soundstage: TIS Studios opens Stage 7 in push for Latin American production share
Culture13 Jul
The last shared TV moment: why one writer's tweet about ads became a quiet eulogy for scheduled television
Culture13 Jul
Jack White’s ‘Frozen Charlotte’ leans hard into the riff, and refuses the second-album truce
Culture13 Jul
The Odyssey is having another moment, and Hollywood keeps reaching for the same poem
Culture13 Jul
A four-hour delay at Yankee Stadium and the question of who actually runs a live-music night
Culture13 Jul
A recall and a streaming rumour, in one weekend: what Cuisinart's 1.7 million-brush withdrawal and Netflix's live-channel plans say about consumer trust in 2026
Culture13 Jul
The Dating Columnist Who Wrote Herself Out of Anonymity
Culture13 Jul
Alison Bechdel's queer memoir musical returns to Manchester, and the room is doing the crying
Culture13 Jul
China's upside-down meritocracy: where smart graduates go to government, not the garage
Culture13 Jul
Manhunter rides again: why a 1986 serial-killer thriller gets a 4K send-off in 2026
Culture13 Jul
Michael clears $1 billion: a biopic finally beats the box-office curse
Culture13 Jul
The Ingalls Come Back: How Netflix's 'Little House' Revival Quietly Rewrote Itself Around Ma
Culture13 Jul
Disney's live-action Moana hits the rocks: a $200m question for the remake machine
Culture13 Jul
Disney's Live-Action Moana Opens Soft Overseas as Toy Story 5 Prints $879 Million Worldwide
Culture13 Jul
Mariinsky's summer calendar leans on premieres as Stars of the White Nights lights up St. Petersburg
Culture13 Jul
MGASO closes an 83rd season with a Tchaikovsky centenary at the centre
Culture13 Jul
Madonna's 'Confessions II' lands at No. 1, a reminder that legacy pop acts still move the chart
Culture13 Jul
Gergiev, a Russian youth orchestra, and a Tchaikovsky concerto the West can no longer ignore
Culture13 Jul
Wai Ching Ho, the steady presence behind Marvel's Chinatown, dies at 82
Culture13 Jul
A Bulgarian Heist Film Surfaces at Karlovy Vary, and the Festival Quietly Remakes Itself
Culture13 Jul
Dead channels: what Netflix's always-on pivot and Lagos's phantom council have in common
Culture13 Jul
The meme that outran the market: how a Telegram graphic became the internet's favourite case for buy-and-hold
Culture12 Jul
HIMARS footage out of Kuwait puts Gulf hosts inside the Iran war picture
Culture12 Jul
'Evil Dead Burn' and the case for the dog
Culture12 Jul
Kash Patel, a market for his ouster, and a senator's death the FBI says it is investigating
Culture12 Jul
Two killed as gunfire erupts at a Toronto music festival
Culture12 Jul
Karlovy Vary's New Filmmakers Get a Pep Talk, Not a Roadmap
Culture12 Jul
Two stories, one city: how South Asia's middle classes keep absorbing the headlines
Culture12 Jul
Marco Bellocchio and Sally Wainwright Take Top Honors at an Italian Festival That Could Not Quite Hide the Industry Crisis Underneath
Culture12 Jul
Marvel's Doomsday draws Doom: the mask that quietly reorders the superhero economics
Culture12 Jul
Lindsey Graham dies at 70: a three-decade Republican career cut short
Culture12 Jul
Two dead in Toronto street shooting as Spain's wildfire belt counts its losses
Culture12 Jul
FBI joins probe into the death of Senator Lindsey Graham, a figure who long divided the Senate
Culture12 Jul
A senator dies, a director eulogises: the South Carolina shock and the politics of grief
Culture12 Jul
UAE on maximum alert as Qatar presses for a U.S.–Iran halt, and a Gaza strike is caught on camera
Culture12 Jul
A car, a monowheel and a dog: Moscow's viral summer of small, strange rebellions
Culture12 Jul
Armed vehicle found outside Paris prompts 300-person evacuation
Culture12 Jul
Ukrainian wartime police shake-up meets a regional cinema listings channel: a snapshot of the Monexus news wire on 12 July 2026
Culture12 Jul
Armed car in Sarcelles: how a suburb became the test site for France's newest threat
Culture12 Jul
A Strait, a Metaphor, and the Currency of Threat: Rezaei's Hormuz Warning
Culture12 Jul
When the lecture hall becomes a courtroom: criminalisation as the new campus settlement
Culture12 Jul
Zelenskyy moves to renew the Cabinet and reassign diplomacy by portfolio
Culture12 Jul
A peace festival asks whether music can carry what diplomacy cannot
Culture12 Jul
The emir who stepped aside: Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and the Qatar he reshaped
Culture12 Jul
Alia Bhatt's Alpha clears Rs 50 crore in India while New Delhi tracks a maritime attack off Oman
Culture12 Jul
Hollywood Stopped Owning Its Own Past: Why Physical Media Is Now a Cultural Survival Question
Culture12 Jul
A scarred face in Milan, a Wimbledon final in London: Italy's two stories on 12 July 2026
Culture12 Jul
Milan assault and the fractures inside Italian public television
Culture12 Jul
South Korea turns up the volume on ticket touts as new penalties near
Culture12 Jul
Moscow opens the door, narrowly, to NATO talks
Culture12 Jul
A Punjabi film, a river, and the vote: why 'Satluj' is rattling Punjab's politics
Culture12 Jul
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Culture12 Jul
A Memoir Reopens in Reel: The Quiet Politics of "Reading Lolita in Tehran" on Screen
Culture12 Jul
A leaked exam paper, a lost shoe, and the price of public trust
Culture12 Jul
A New Map of Animal Navigation: How Two Brain Signals Combine to Steer the Body
Culture12 Jul
Disney's live-action Moana sails into the same cultural waters the animation charted
Culture12 Jul
Lizzo and the limits of pop-star apologetics: what three years of legal and public exposure did to a career built on body-positive affirmation
Culture12 Jul
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Culture12 Jul
The one-sitting revival: a Booker judge's reading list and what it tells us about a stretched-reading public
Culture12 Jul
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Culture12 Jul
S Janaki and the State Called Akashvani: Two Indian-Express Obituaries, One Listening Republic
Culture12 Jul
In Sri Ganganagar, a probe finds a hotel that set rates for a trafficked child, and a film argues Indian cinemas still have a future
Culture12 Jul
A Moscow chamber recital in a Lopukhin manor: the political patience of Russian concert life
Culture12 Jul
Moana's live-action turn tests whether representation can survive the remake economy
Culture12 Jul
Two dead in Toronto shooting as gunman remains at large after Salsa on St. Clair festival
Culture12 Jul
Two dead in Toronto festival shooting as police hunt for active gunman
Culture12 Jul
Two dead, three injured as shooter opens fire at Toronto's Salsa on St. Clair festival
Culture12 Jul
Salsa on St. Clair festival shooting leaves two dead as Toronto confronts a familiar pattern
Culture12 Jul
Two killed in shooting at Toronto's Salsa on St. Clair festival, police search for suspect
Culture12 Jul
No Japanese acts, no shortage of merch: the China–Japan anime economy that won't wait for diplomats
Culture12 Jul
Hideki Noda brings a Japanese reckoning with science to a London stage
Culture12 Jul
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Culture12 Jul
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Culture12 Jul
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Culture11 Jul
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Culture11 Jul
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Culture11 Jul
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Culture11 Jul
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Culture11 Jul
Logan Browning lands in Harlan Coben's Atlanta: 'I Will Find You' and the quiet recalibration of Netflix's thriller pipeline
Culture11 Jul
A Myanmar film wins Karlovy Vary, and reframes what a queer story from a closed country can sound like
Culture11 Jul
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Culture11 Jul
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Culture11 Jul
Yemen's Houthi-run airport authority signals Sanaa-Tehran air corridor will stay open
Culture11 Jul
Kashmir's syllabus police: from school desk to lecture hall
Culture11 Jul
Belgium's golden generation exits the stage: what the trophy drought actually says about modern football
Culture11 Jul
Meg Mason on grittiness, and a Delhi University admissions logjam
Culture11 Jul
Nolan's Odyssey, Holland's nerves, and the India question Hollywood keeps dodging
Culture11 Jul
Nolan takes the long road to Troy: The Odyssey arrives as a theatrical event, with a cross-cultural halt in India
Culture11 Jul
Nolan's Odyssey arrives already mid-argument: what the filmmaker's own framing tells us about the next twelve months of cinema
Culture11 Jul
India's new FCRA rules and Nolan's India moment: a country rewrites the rules of civil society while courting the world's filmmakers
Culture11 Jul
Diljit Dosanjh's Satluj lands in Punjab theatres after a release held up for years
Culture11 Jul
Spotify's Release Radar opens up. The listeners' algorithm is now their own to tune
Culture11 Jul
After Phantom Thread, Vicky Krieps Goes to Court in Love Me Tender
Culture11 Jul
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Culture11 Jul
The Stunt Question: Prithviraj's Injury, a Year of Delay, and What Indian Cinema Still Won't Say
Culture11 Jul
Nolan's 'The Odyssey' lands its first reviews: scale, diversity, and a director at war with inherited framing
Culture11 Jul
A New History of Print Finds Democracy in the Workshop
Culture11 Jul
Tilly Norwood and the quiet rewrite of who counts as a performer
Culture11 Jul
A German fantasy novel, a Hollywood voice, and a push-me-pull-you over who gets to remake children's classics
Culture11 Jul
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Culture11 Jul
A 1998 Film Is the Surprise of the Summer: Tsai Ming-liang’s ‘The Hole’ Returns in 35mm
Culture11 Jul
Morgan Spector in Talks to Lead Netflix's Robert Langdon Series as 'The Secret of Secrets' Moves to Camera
Culture11 Jul
Netflix's 'Little House' reboot makes room for the original — and a horror cameo nobody saw coming
Culture11 Jul
A film, a panel, and a proposed rule change: India rewrites its censorship script
Culture11 Jul
The Satluj dust-up: what an eight-minute film says about India's content rulebook
Culture11 Jul
Against the machine: a New York festival finds its Luddite moment
Culture11 Jul
Letterboxd at the crossroads: two suitors, one indie platform
Culture11 Jul
A Russian summer detour: Chopin festivals and the new map of European classical music
Culture11 Jul
Melius's multi-agent canvas lands the same week Polish cinema leans on the algorithm
Culture11 Jul
Nolan, the Odyssey, and the algorithm's quiet verdict on AI
Culture11 Jul
Four Tet's Wingdings project lands on streaming after a month of vinyl-only silence
Culture10 Jul
India's OTT censor and the film Punjab tried not to forget
Culture10 Jul
Netflix's 'Little House' reboot hands the prairie back to the people who were there first
Culture10 Jul
Ten years on, Lin-Manuel Miranda is still smiling — and still working
Culture10 Jul
France Télévisions bets on prestige adaptation and a MeToo drama to anchor 2026–27 season
Culture10 Jul
Patrushev revives the 'bin Laden was an American asset' claim — and the timing is the story
Culture10 Jul
Disney's Live-Action 'Moana' Bets That Scale Travels Without a Songbook
Culture10 Jul
Ariana Grande exits American Horror Story as the tour wins her calendar
Culture10 Jul
Why Christopher Nolan dedicated ‘The Odyssey’ to the man who taught Hollywood to think in IMAX
Culture10 Jul
Louis Theroux's 'Life Support' premieres in London, a rare Western gaze at Gaza's medical collapse
Culture10 Jul
Reports of Bolshoi chief's hospitalisation expose the fragility of Russian cultural rumour
Culture10 Jul
Arles 2026: why the world's most prestigious photography festival is betting on the unknown
Culture10 Jul
A Black fantasy epic lands in Martha's Vineyard: Prince-Bythewood and Mbedu bring 'Children of Blood and Bone' to opening night
Culture10 Jul
A King Lear at Pitlochry that keeps the throne room out of the frame
Culture10 Jul
Hollywood's Runaway Production Fight Returns to the Capitol — and to the States
Culture10 Jul
A Letter That Says Nothing, and Means Everything: '& Sons' Trailer and the Inheritance Drama That Won't Go Away
Culture10 Jul
Ngozi Onwurah's 'Welcome II the Terrordome' Returns: A 1995 Dystopia, Re-Issued for a New Cycle of Policing and Race
Culture10 Jul
From festival floor to platform feed: how 'Obsession' became Peacock's next micro-budget bet
Culture10 Jul
Locarno bets on curated eccentricity as a smaller festival fights for relevance
Culture10 Jul
The Last Casting Director Who Vetoed a Black Bond
Culture10 Jul
Disney's live-action "Moana" opens with $4.5 million in Thursday previews — a deliberately modest launch ahead of a holiday weekend
Culture10 Jul
Horror Inc.'s Jason Voorhees revival: a franchise factory testing how much IP a streaming market can absorb
Culture10 Jul
India's FEMA net tightens around a Mumbai trader as Europe's migration fight stops being about passport queues
Culture10 Jul
Letterboxd at a quarter-billion: what Netflix actually thinks it is buying
Culture10 Jul
At the UN Security Council, Moscow runs interference for Tehran
Culture10 Jul
Letterboxd is for sale, and Netflix is reportedly circling
Culture10 Jul
Indie horror and the two-headed doll: 'She Saw Us' and the economics of low-budget genre cinema
Culture10 Jul
Nicholas Meyer looks back on the long shadow of 'Wrath of Khan'
Culture10 Jul
A Moscow Festival Tries to Reframe Russia's Wartime Cultural Story
Culture10 Jul
A shrine, a film, a feed: how Iranian state media staged the visual language of mourning
Culture10 Jul
Mashhad reopens its shrine courtyards: a quiet test of Iran's managed-revival politics
Culture10 Jul
Aung Phyoe's 'Fruit Gathering' brings Myanmar's quiet rebellion to Karlovy Vary
Culture10 Jul
Vertical Video Comes of Age: How Short-Form Aesthetics Are Rewriting the Visual Language of Film and Television
Culture10 Jul
Psychic Fever Refuse the Box: Inside the Boy Band's Second Album and Its Anti-Conformity Pitch
Culture10 Jul
Wildcard's First Year: How a Dublin Production Outfit Bought Itself an Instant Catalogue
Culture10 Jul
Stolen Velour, Floco and Aria SL: the south London trio rewriting the club track from the flat up
Culture10 Jul
Five books, one hinge: how 2026's strangest fiction is reading the present
Culture10 Jul
Israel and Egypt hold rare security talks in Cairo as World Cup detente plays out on the sidelines
Culture10 Jul
Latin American Foto Festival lands in the Bronx, pointing the lens at the periphery
Culture10 Jul
France returns 23 Syrian antiquities after 15-year Paris sojourn: a small restitution, a larger argument about provenance
Culture10 Jul
Iraq's medical association sends a thank-you to the government — and the message lands differently than it reads
Culture10 Jul
A young pianist carries a Russian repertoire into the Moscow Conservatory's grand hall
Culture10 Jul
A young man's Mahler: Signum's early-song collection finds the future symphonist hiding in plain sight
Culture10 Jul
Baby Rose turns the wreckage inward on 'Yearnalism'
Culture10 Jul
Strikes on a rail bridge in Iran point to a corridor the US has begun treating as a target
Culture10 Jul
The Bayeux Tapestry lands in Britain, and the politics arrives with it
Culture10 Jul
Heartstopper's final frame: what Netflix's queer teen drama got right about growing up on camera
Culture10 Jul
Anthony Hopkins, Composer: A Late-Career Turn From Screen to Score
Culture10 Jul
"The Invite" and the rise of the unscripted drama
Culture10 Jul
In Johor, the durian thief exposes a fault line running through Malaysian politics
Culture10 Jul
Rent control keeps winning the argument it keeps losing
Culture10 Jul
Notes on a small hall: Schubert and Brahms in the Lopukhin estate
Culture10 Jul
Honolulu Museum of Art Taps David Odo as Director, Drawing a Southeast Asia Curator Into the Pacific Conversation
Culture10 Jul
Arabic-script Tattoos Move From Subculture to Studio Mainstream in New York
Culture10 Jul
Guy Ritchie returns to the country estate: Netflix's 'The Gentlemen' season two teaser leans into the chaos
Culture10 Jul
Fifty-Nine Objects, Three Continents: What New York's Latest Repatriation Tells Us About the Antiquities Trade
Culture10 Jul
Rent control keeps winning the vote and losing the housing market
Culture10 Jul
Jennifer Garner's Grief Vacation: What 'The Five-Star Weekend' Reveals About the Limits of Rich-Woman Therapy
Culture10 Jul
Appeals Court Rebuffs Trump's Bid to Reclaim Kennedy Center Name
Culture10 Jul
A Four-Part Mystery About Listening Becomes a Conversation About Who Gets Heard
Culture10 Jul
'Sterling Point' and the streaming bet on a quieter kind of young-adult drama
Culture10 Jul
Lionsgate's live-action 'Naruto' opens a worldwide casting search — and a quiet question about who owns the characters next
Culture10 Jul
Sarah McLachlan and Allison Russell Take the Sisterhood on the Road
Culture10 Jul
Netflix's Little House revival lands in a culture war it didn't pick
Culture10 Jul
In Kalisz, a festival rediscovers the instrument that defined the long nineteenth century
Culture10 Jul
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Culture10 Jul
Na Hong-jin's 'Hope' Lands a US Trailer: What Neon Is Betting on with Korea's Loudest Sci-Fi Return
Culture09 Jul
Stanley Tucci and Victor Belmondo team up for a family-run art heist in 'Masterplan'
Culture09 Jul
Inside 'Sterling Point': Why Prime Video's Quiet Lake-Country Romance Signals a Streaming Reset
Culture09 Jul
Israel's Culture Minister Goes to War With the Country's Filmmakers
Culture09 Jul
Lyndon Barrois's gum-wrapper World Cup: how a New Orleans sculptor turned football's contested history into protest art
Culture09 Jul
Netflix's 'Jupiter Island' bets that elite golf, A24 polish, and a JFK Jr.-adjacent creator can keep prestige TV's middle alive
Culture09 Jul
Four Tet's Wingdings Project Lands a Streaming Release After a Quiet Vinyl Debut
Culture09 Jul
Catalog Deals Quietly Reshape Who Owns the Money in Popular Music
Culture09 Jul
Jane Schoenbrun reunites cast from upcoming film for a one-night ‘Secretary’ reading
Culture09 Jul
Colman Domingo returns to the Bay Area as Frameline opens its 50th edition, with the actor-producer framing the festival as a homecoming
Culture09 Jul
Smithsonian's Bunch pushes back on White House report as culture-war battle over the national museum heads into public view
Culture09 Jul
Carney's Saudi courtship and the architecture of Canadian diversification
Culture09 Jul
Ezra Collective say musicians must be ‘pillars of the community’ as Love Supreme set looms
Culture09 Jul
Netflix's 'The Gentlemen' returns Sept. 3, betting that Guy Ritchie's criminal-class comedy still travels
Culture09 Jul
Hezbollah-aligned bloc rejects Beirut's US-brokered framework as unconstitutional
Culture09 Jul
Tony-Nominated Lila Neugebauer Tapped to Direct and EP Netflix's 'The Retrievals' Pilot
Culture09 Jul
David Byrne at the cinema: a 1977 stage entrance that explains why American Utopia still draws a crowd
Culture09 Jul
Cinema of the half-year: what readers say pulled them back to the theatres
Culture09 Jul
'Godzilla Minus Zero' trailer drops with a nuclear payload — and a franchise reckoning baked in
Culture09 Jul
Toho doubles down on the franchise: a second teaser for Yamazaki's 'Godzilla Minus Zero' lands ahead of November release
Culture09 Jul
Netflix's 'Little House on the Prairie' Reboot Hands a 90-Year-Old Story Back to Its Readers
Culture09 Jul
South Korea bets its biggest budget ever on a creature feature — and Cannes has already done the talking
Culture09 Jul
Karol G's cocktail contest and the new economics of fan access
Culture09 Jul
The long shadow of myth: why Hollywood keeps returning to the epics
Culture09 Jul
Juliette Binoche in Karlovy Vary: a festival hands its Crystal Globe to a French actor who keeps refusing to settle into nostalgia
Culture09 Jul
Rushdie, in London, says America is having 'a very difficult moment' with free speech
Culture09 Jul
Netflix Doubles Down on Audio With Exclusive Vox Media Podcast Deal
Culture09 Jul
Hollywood's queer footprint shrinks for a third year, GLAAD finds
Culture09 Jul
Greek cinema finds an export lane through an old taboo: trauma between two women on an island
Culture09 Jul
The West's Russia squeeze is hardening the very class it hoped to peel off
Culture09 Jul
A century on, the Schomburg Center reframes who gets to tell Black history
Culture09 Jul
Four musicals, one TV show: the race to parody 'Heated Rivalry'
Culture09 Jul
A fellowship at Karlovy Vary gives a Swiss-Korean director room to write — and a venue's quiet bid to court global cinema
Culture09 Jul
Punjab's gurdwara cinemas and a singer's confession: two stories about who gets to tell their own story
Culture09 Jul
NFTS bets on craft: Angels Costumes and John Gore Studios underwrite a new two-year costume design course
Culture09 Jul
Jack White's Frozen Charlotte and the diminishing returns of the lo-fi comeback
Culture09 Jul
Ankara's gift that keeps on giving: why Erdogan handed NATO leaders engraved revolvers
Culture09 Jul
Mashhad's silent sway: the shrine at the centre of Iran's soft-power footprint
Culture09 Jul
Arrakis Returns: Abu Dhabi Doubles Down on Dune and the Stakes of Becoming Hollywood's Desert
Culture09 Jul
Inside the Abercrombie Circle: How a Chicago 'Queen of the Looney Hearts' Kept a Generation of Magic Realists Alive
Culture09 Jul
Bonnie Tyler, the Welsh belter who outlasted her peers
Culture09 Jul
Tehran summons British envoy as diplomatic rift over 'terror networks' charge widens
Culture09 Jul
Richard Malone's Brussels takeover puts Irish craft textile on a political stage
Culture09 Jul
'3 Weeks After' and the Long Serbian Shadow Over Schoolyard Cruelty
Culture09 Jul
Valeria Sarmiento’s Late-Career Turn: A Chilean Filmmaker Confronts Her Own Silences
Culture09 Jul
Chile’s León & Cociña return with ‘Donkey Princess’ as Bendita takes global sales
Culture09 Jul
Cinetic Media Acquires North American Rights to Locarno-Bound 'Manhunt' as Aspect Ratio Picks Up International Sales
Culture09 Jul
Small Talk: a Swiss finishing school, its alumnae, and a documentary that lets the camera do the talking
Culture09 Jul
Robyn Hitchcock, 73, finds Nashville at last — and writes an album about dead English blokes
Culture09 Jul
Set, sting, courtroom: Indian entertainment's two crises land on the same day
Culture09 Jul
Murugan, NTR Jr, and the Online War Over Whose Cinema Owns a God
Culture09 Jul
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Culture09 Jul
Syd's solo turn and the quiet arithmetic of leaving Odd Future
Culture09 Jul
Tehran summons British envoy over 'baseless accusations' as Iran–UK rhetoric hardens
Culture09 Jul
Even in death, a woman is rarely her own: an Indian essay on funerals and inheritance
Culture09 Jul
A new Little House, an old America: what the reboot is really selling
Culture09 Jul
Netflix's 'Little House on the Prairie' leans into warmth — but asks a 21st-century audience to sit with the discomfort
Culture09 Jul
'AI is colonisation 2.0': Indian documentary director puts Western AI labs on trial
Culture09 Jul
Tehran's cameras roll: state cinema mobilised to record the Supreme Leader's funeral procession
Culture09 Jul
Fifteen years on, China's South Sudan footprint becomes a study in staying power
Culture09 Jul
Automattic's 'Code for the People' makes the case for an open internet before the walled gardens close
Culture09 Jul
Italy Moves on Nazi-Looted Art, but Heirs Say Two Decades of Delay Have Cost the Conversation
Culture09 Jul
Justin Baldoni Breaks His Silence on the Blake Lively Fight — and the Video Era of Celebrity Litigation
Culture09 Jul
July's horror slate leans on legacy IP — and a few audacious debuts
Culture09 Jul
Hollywood's bankability gamble: why the John Travolta-Quavo pairing in 'The Gentleman Thief' matters less than the maths behind it
Culture09 Jul
Gertrude Abercrombie and the Midwestern Surrealists Who Built Their Own Scene
Culture09 Jul
A Polish festival sets out to chart the romantic piano from Schubert to Skrzyb…wait, end of Chopin
Culture09 Jul
Henry Taylor and James Jarvaise Reunited at Hauser & Wirth — A Show That Reframes Two Eras of Black Figuration
Culture09 Jul
George Condo's Quick Return to Hauser & Wirth Says More About the Market Than the Artist
Culture09 Jul
One Frame at a Time: The Obsessive Hunt to Save an IMAX 'Star Wars' Trailer
Culture09 Jul
A Claw Grabber at the Door: How a Trash Souvenir Became the Strangest Side-Show of the Swift Wedding
Culture09 Jul
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Culture09 Jul
The FDA has the antidepressant trial data. It won't publish it.
Culture09 Jul
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Culture09 Jul
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Culture09 Jul
Southeast Asia braces for a steel glut as Chinese supply keeps flowing
Culture09 Jul
King Gizzard's Studio as a Closed Loop: What the Alien Metal Pivot Actually Says
Culture09 Jul
Three Veterans, One New Project: Hug Is the Band Devendra Banhart Says He Has Wanted to Make for Years
Culture09 Jul
Asher White's 2026 Output Doubles Down: A Second Album Inside Five Months
Culture09 Jul
Mastodon releases short film honouring Brent Hinds, reframing how a metal institution mourns a single member
Culture09 Jul
Denis Villeneuve's 'Dune: Part Three' Trailer Drops, Closing the Director's Arrakis Cycle
Culture09 Jul
Dakota Fanning Returns to Indie Roots in Joe Swanberg's Alaska-Set 'The Sun Never Sets'
Culture08 Jul
France's culture wars go streaming: quotas, theatrical windows, and a French content exception at war with itself
Culture08 Jul
The FDA's antidepressant data, and a European Union that has lost the plot on packaging
Culture08 Jul
George Condo's Return to Hauser & Wirth Tests the Megagallery Loyalty Model
Culture08 Jul
John Slattery, Groin Kicks, and the Curious Endurance of the Frat-Pack Comedy
Culture08 Jul
Rushdie Draws the Line at AI: Originality, He Argues, Is Not a Technical Problem
Culture08 Jul
Araghchi's 'vulgarity with action' line frames Tehran's diplomatic posture as the US rhetoric hardens
Culture08 Jul
Henry Taylor and James Jarvaise, reunited: Hauser & Wirth opens a two-anchor show that asks what the LA painter still owes the New York gallery that first showed him
Culture08 Jul
Cheetah Girls reboot confirms Raven-Symoné, and a Generation Now Has to Decide Who Its Sequels Belong To
Culture08 Jul
Art Basel's Reckoning Spills Into Summer: Pittman Fires Back, a $35 Million Picasso Changes Hands
Culture08 Jul
High Line Art opens public consultation on 62 plinth proposals — including Kelly Akashi, Anicka Yi, Kevin Beasley, and Anthea Hamilton
Culture08 Jul
Academy Museum Bets Big on Horror for Its Next Blockbuster Blockbuster
Culture08 Jul
Indie Producers Tell Variety the Money Math Has Changed — and Festivals Are Now Part of the Equation
Culture08 Jul
Iran's top diplomat turns a Trump insult into a civilisational statement — and a diplomatic opening
Culture08 Jul
Belgium's World Cup jersey finds a new audience — and a 1938 painting is doing the talking
Culture08 Jul
Wes Anderson's Elevator at the Academy Museum: A 30-Year Reunion in One Hundred Square Feet
Culture08 Jul
Nashville's Next Power Broker: A Belmont Dean Steps Into the Country Music Association's Top Seat
Culture08 Jul
Matt Brittin, the licence fee and the future of the BBC: what the parliamentary grilling actually settles
Culture08 Jul
Zendaya, Anne Hathaway and the New Geography of the Blockbuster Premiere
Culture08 Jul
Dune: Part Three trailer lands — Villeneuve closes the Arrakis cycle on his own terms
Culture08 Jul
Iran's foreign minister draws the line: 'vulgarity with action, not words'
Culture08 Jul
Trump's name stays off the Kennedy Center: a court tells the president his own brand is not a fact
Culture08 Jul
HBO Max's Emmy Bet Pays Off as 'The Pitt' and 'Hacks' Reshape the Streaming Race
Culture08 Jul
Mastodon Marks a Year Without Hinds with a Short Film Built Around the Music
Culture08 Jul
Andreas Angelidakis on grief, RuPaul and the pavilion he wants to burn down
Culture08 Jul
Janus Films Revives 'Unzipped' — and the 1990s Fashion Documentary Finally Catches Up to Itself
Culture08 Jul
Alaska, jealousy, and the indie-trailer economy: what the Dakota Fanning drama says about the post-studio pivot
Culture08 Jul
Sundance and FIPRESCI Launch a New Jury for First-Time Foreign Directors — and the Timing Says Something
Culture08 Jul
David Howard Thornton Steps Into a Slasher Heritage With ‘Behind the Mask II’
Culture08 Jul
Gaga's 'Dead Dance' lands an Emmy nod — and a fifth career nomination for a singer who keeps collecting TV rooms
Culture08 Jul
New York's Natural History Museum Returns 2,700 Hair Samples Taken From Native American Cadavers in the 19th Century
Culture08 Jul
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Culture08 Jul
Sébastien Vaniček's 'Evil Dead Burn' rewires the franchise's family horror for a French register
Culture08 Jul
A Moscow stage, a Russian pianist, and the question of who still listens
Culture08 Jul
David Chase Looks Past New Jersey: What an Italian-American Migration Story Says About a Saturated TV Landscape
Culture08 Jul
Beckham and U2 join Street Child United for a World Cup final short film — and a quiet test of celebrity philanthropy
Culture08 Jul
Tony Rayns, the British Critic Who Reframed East Asian Cinema for Western Audiences, Dies at 78
Culture08 Jul
Warhol Foundation Puts $5.2 Million Behind 78 Arts Groups, With a Third of Recipients Receiving Grants for the First Time
Culture08 Jul
Andrij Parekh Directs Netflix's 'The Retrievals': What the IVF Scandal Series Signals About Streaming's Long Bet on Procedural Prestige
Culture08 Jul
A Quiet Frame in the Pamirs: Daniel Malikyar's Best Photograph
Culture08 Jul
M3GAN Spinoff Soulm8te Bypasses Theaters for Digital Release, Marking a Quiet Recalibration at Universal
Culture08 Jul
A manor, a piano, and a quiet argument about the romantic repertoire
Culture08 Jul
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Culture08 Jul
Cemre Paksoy on 'Night Nurse' and the Limits of Turkish Erotic Cinema
Culture08 Jul
Airbnb's Lollapalooza Backstage Bet: When Live Music Becomes an Inventory Class
Culture08 Jul
Sotheby's Stages a Late-Summer Botero Show as the Latin American Market Resets
Culture08 Jul
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony Cement Their Place on Hollywood Boulevard as the West Coast Catches Up to Its Own History
Culture08 Jul
'Rose of Nevada' and the Quiet Math of the Indie Specialized Box Office
Culture08 Jul
Brussels's Kanal museum suffers rooftop fire months before opening
Culture08 Jul
A Whitney Intervention and the Question of Where a Museum's Authority Ends
Culture08 Jul
Booyakasha again: Sacha Baron Cohen reportedly wraps a new Ali G film, 24 years after Staines met the West
Culture08 Jul
Pirates, again: how a 2013 video game became the surprise hit of the 2026 summer slate
Culture08 Jul
Constable's Four Seasons, a New Museum Director, and the Surrealist on a Soccer Jersey
Culture08 Jul
Spain's 'business as usual' reply to Trump's trade threat exposes a transatlantic asymmetry
Culture08 Jul
Mubi acquires Eleanor Coppola's Marie Antoinette documentary, marking a 20-year anniversary of Sofia Coppola's original
Culture08 Jul
Sterling Betancourt and the steelpan road the UK never quite paved
Culture08 Jul
Trump declares Iran ceasefire 'over,' drawing warning from Madrid
Culture08 Jul
'Finding Mojo' and the Southeast Asian Rom-Com Bid for a Global Footprint
Culture08 Jul
A Czarina's Libretto Returns: Catherine II's Opera Stages Its First Modern Hearing at Regensburg
Culture08 Jul
Pawlikowski Returns to Sarajevo: 'Fatherland' Opens a Festival That Refuses to Pick Sides
Culture08 Jul
Yashasvi Juyal Brings a Highway That Disappears to Karlovy Vary
Culture08 Jul
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Culture08 Jul
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Culture08 Jul
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Culture08 Jul
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Culture08 Jul
Netflix's 'I'm Not Afraid' turns a rural Mexican mystery into a study of how childhood ends
Culture08 Jul
A disposable camera, a Ukrainian fighter, and the slow turn toward presence over production
Culture08 Jul
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Culture08 Jul
RSS registration fight lands in Karnataka: Priyank Kharge's challenge and the political logic behind it
Culture08 Jul
Sarajevo bets on the audience: a new audience-voted prize joins Europe's mid-summer film calendar
Culture08 Jul
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Culture08 Jul
Netflix taps a Colombian veteran to lead its content push in Bogotá
Culture08 Jul
Universal's Britney Spears biopic lands a writer — and the timing is the news
Culture08 Jul
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Culture08 Jul
How a Former Chief Minister's Bungalow Became Delhi's New Cultural Wedge
Culture08 Jul
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Culture08 Jul
Belgium’s Magritte-Backed World Cup Shirt Plays the Long Game Between Art and Spectacle
Culture08 Jul
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Culture08 Jul
Bleecker Street Acquires U.S. Rights to Rachel Zegler–Penn Badgley Thriller 'NDA'
Culture08 Jul
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Culture08 Jul
Venice Biennale Becomes the Stage for a US–Italy Diplomatic Confrontation Over Gaza
Culture08 Jul
Mariinsky brings La Gioconda back into rotation as Russian opera courts its home audience
Culture08 Jul
Louisiana Museum Lines Up a Major Remedios Varo Show for Autumn 2026
Culture08 Jul
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Culture08 Jul
Jon Erwin's AI Playbook for Biblical Epics: Collaboration, Cost, and a Production Crisis Hollywood Isn't Naming
Culture08 Jul
Netflix's gaming play, the console retreat, and the slow consolidation of interactive entertainment
Culture08 Jul
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Culture08 Jul
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Culture08 Jul
The Smithsonian Report and the New Vocabulary of Cultural Warfare
Culture08 Jul
Japan's autism rates and the limits of Western diagnostic culture: a paper that won't sit still
Culture08 Jul
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Culture08 Jul
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Culture08 Jul
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Culture08 Jul
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Culture08 Jul
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Culture08 Jul
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Culture08 Jul
New Museum Taps Massimiliano Gioni to Succeed Lisa Phillips
Culture07 Jul
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Culture07 Jul
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Culture07 Jul
Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ Stakes Its Claim on Plain English, and a 2,700-Year-Old Question
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Caribbean and Central American voices break the silence on Cuba's blockade at the UN
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India's Stamp Duty Reset Lands on Bank Guarantees as a Pune B-School Director Faces an Embezzlement FIR
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Japan's autism numbers, and what Western critics keep missing
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Luísa Cunha, who turned the hum of language into sculpture, dies at 77
Culture07 Jul
Pitchfork Festival lands in Mexico City with an American Football reunion at the top of the bill
Culture07 Jul
In Iranian state media's framing of the 'Martyred Leader,' culture is the unifier
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Two reported killed in Sabra strike as Gaza City death toll climbs on 7 July
Culture07 Jul
Gaza morning strikes: another day of death-count reporting in a war that has normalised daily tolls
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David Chase, between LSD and MKUltra: a Sopranos creator turns to the secret history of American counter-culture
Culture07 Jul
Gilla Band announce Pugnello, return to the form that made them dangerous
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Dwayne Johnson Rides Into a Dementia Drama: What Artists Equity's 'Free Byrd' Tells Us About the Mid-Career Pivot
Culture07 Jul
MrBeast, Kaling and the ‘Diary of a CEO’ Host Walk Into ‘Shark Tank’: What Season 18’s Guest Lineup Says About the Deal-Flow Economy
Culture07 Jul
Massimiliano Gioni takes the New Museum in New York — succession, not reinvention
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Harold & Kumar 4 inches forward as producer Greg Shapiro tells CinemaCon 'everybody's back'
Culture07 Jul
IndieWire's 'What No One Tells You' Heads to Netflix as Digital Publishers Chase the Streamer Door
Culture07 Jul
U2 Returns With 'Street of Dreams,' a First Single After Nine Years and a Long-Awaited Signal That the Band Is Still Recording
Culture07 Jul
U2 crash a stranger's apartment in the new video for "Street of Dreams" — a quiet pivot back to scale
Culture07 Jul
Netflix pulls Penske's publisher lineup onto the platform — and quietly redraws the streaming-video map
Culture07 Jul
The Artist Pension Trust collapse: why more than 40 UK creators are calling it an 'epic betrayal'
Culture07 Jul
A leader's death in Tehran, and a republic reshaped by grief
Culture07 Jul
Physical media, digital loyalty: why "Obsession" is selling Blu-rays to a generation that never owned a DVD player
Culture07 Jul
Paramount pulls 'Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender' forward to July, signalling a stacking summer
Culture07 Jul
California's $71m animation carve-out signals where the production tax credit is heading
Culture07 Jul
TIFF 2026 leans on activism and stage-to-screen drama for its 51st edition
Culture07 Jul
Ncuti Gatwa Steps Behind the Camera for ‘Passing Through,’ Backing a ‘Doctor Who’ Co-Star’s Directing Debut
Culture07 Jul
Gucci dynasty returns to the screen: Sky Italia's 'Game Over' stakes a rival claim to the House of Gucci
Culture07 Jul
TIFF returns to Toronto for a 51st edition signalling a festival still betting on the big screen
Culture07 Jul
Alabama Shakes return: 'I Must Be Dreaming' ends an 11-year wait
Culture07 Jul
Hamas Frames Khamenei as Martyr, Re-anchoring the Palestine File Inside a Shrinking Iranian Order
Culture07 Jul
India's coal question is no longer whether to phase down, but how to phase down honestly
Culture07 Jul
Shahrnush Parsipur, Iranian novelist who made exile into a literary language, dies at 80
Culture07 Jul
At the Edinburgh fringe, a Dracula puppet show built to unsettle adults
Culture07 Jul
Aniplex's New President Says Anime's Center of Gravity Has Moved — and He's Betting the Studio Can Hold It
Culture07 Jul
At Rio’s BAM, a Brazilian debut stakes its claim on a regional industry that no longer waits for São Paulo
Culture07 Jul
Thirty-five years on, 'Terminator 2' returns to cinemas — and the future it imagined keeps arriving early
Culture07 Jul
Soft and Hairy House at V&A Dundee: how a Japan-Britain partnership rebuilt the architectural vocabulary of touch
Culture07 Jul
Bombillo Amarillo plants a flag in Spain, betting a Latin American animation model can travel
Culture07 Jul
BTS at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium: A Reunion Built on Range, Not Nostalgia
Culture07 Jul
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Culture07 Jul
Nolan's Odyssey lands in London: critics call it a best-picture shoo-in before the ink is dry
Culture07 Jul
A Russian town, a global composer, and a youth festival that refuses to be incidental
Culture07 Jul
Mariinsky revives Ponchielli's La Gioconda in a second round of premieres
Culture07 Jul
Jay-Z extends the 30-year victory lap across the Atlantic, adding London to the itinerary
Culture07 Jul
Turkish drama's global pull rests on a craft Turkey's critics keep underrating
Culture07 Jul
Colombia Quietly Becomes Latin America's New Production Stand-In as Mexico's Tax Credit Squeeze Bites
Culture07 Jul
An Irish filmmaker walks into Tehran: solidarity cinema and the framing of the Iran war
Culture07 Jul
Brazilian stop-motion 'The March of the Sunflowers' draws French and Portuguese backing as Spamflix, Autour de Minuit board the project
Culture07 Jul
Huawei to unveil world-first AI agent phone and computing cluster at Shanghai summit, as a 105-year-old Red Army veteran marks her century beyond the front
Culture07 Jul
An Iranian Self-Defense Doc Quietly Lands in the U.S. Awards Corridor
Culture07 Jul
Jude Law Sets Up a New Getaway Picture, Sans the Headlines That Usually Follow Him
Culture07 Jul
Smotrich's Jordan Valley line: a long-standing demand dressed as a security warning
Culture07 Jul
Dutch court complaint puts Israeli Knesset members under formal criminal scrutiny
Culture07 Jul
'The Last One for the Road' and the slow cinema of men who cannot get home
Culture07 Jul
Pamplona's Chupinazo becomes a stage for Basque anti-Israel politics
Culture07 Jul
Hamas chief frames Khamenei's death as 'new line' for the Islamic nation, restating rejection of Israel
Culture07 Jul
Suno's Atlantic and YouTube hires signal the next phase of AI music's industry courtship
Culture07 Jul
Handover in Gaza: What the Reported Transfer of Administration Actually Changes
Culture07 Jul
Iran stages Mashhad funeral for Khamenei as Iraq prepares Najaf reception
Culture07 Jul
Iran turns Mashhad into a stage: the funeral logistics of a state funeral, and the foreign press that came to watch
Culture07 Jul
Life Support review: a doctor’s-eye view of Gaza, told where the cameras no longer go
Culture07 Jul
Daniel Mason returns to New England roots with 'North Woods' follow-up
Culture07 Jul
Nollywood goes to the call centre: the bright, breezy economics of 'Call of My Life'
Culture07 Jul
Edinburgh fringe 2026 opens with a familiar shape: familiar names, sharper edges
Culture07 Jul
Madonna's second confession: why a 21-year-old album has become a launchpad for a new era
Culture07 Jul
Kirkuk shuts down for a day as Iraqi shrine prepares to host Iran's funeral
Culture07 Jul
Arles at 57: a photography festival elbowed by spectacle
Culture07 Jul
The Amish reality-TV test: what a TLC format in 2026 tells us about the appetite for unplugged television
Culture07 Jul
Reading lists, machine learning: African newsrooms brace for AI's limits
Culture07 Jul
A Tijuana Brass Revival at the Hollywood Bowl, 59 Years Later
Culture07 Jul
A festival man who shaped a continent's screen: Moritz de Hadeln, 1940–2026
Culture07 Jul
Bard MFA's Class of 2027 Heads to Barrytown for a Thesis Show That Doubles as a Stress Test
Culture07 Jul
Soccer, ratings, and the soft-power arithmetic of a North American World Cup
Culture07 Jul
When the Gallery Doesn't Pay: An Artist Lawsuit Tests the Plumbing of New York's Small-Art Market
Culture07 Jul
France's Museums Are Losing Their Jewels — and the Pattern Is No Longer Coincidental
Culture07 Jul
Charli xcx bets on independent theaters for a globe-spanning album rollout
Culture07 Jul
Yervant Gianikian, the Italian-Armenian Filmmaker Who Gave Armenia Its Venice Golden Lion, Dies at 84
Culture07 Jul
Yemen's London Reckoning: 28 Looted Artifacts Surface at the British Museum and Three Auction Houses
Culture07 Jul
Detroit curator's Velázquez attribution revives a half-century-old mystery
Culture07 Jul
Elizabeth I as a weapon of state: how an exhibition reads Tudor propaganda as modern power play
Culture07 Jul
The Frida Kahlo Effect: How a Mexican Painter Became a Permanent Fixture of Global Pop Culture
Culture07 Jul
Hollywood's Virtual-Production Plumbing Gets a New Address
Culture07 Jul
A French Museum Raid, Ten Months After the Louvre: What France's Soft Targets Say About Its Soft Power
Culture07 Jul
Pamplona banner turns San Fermín into a stage for the war in Gaza
Culture07 Jul
Carmelita Tropicana and the Performance of Survival: Alina Troyano on Four Decades of Lesbian Comedy
Culture07 Jul
Chelsea's Marlborough Gallery Building Sells for $7.5M to Gazelli Art House, Closing a Chapter on the Mega-Gallery Era
Culture07 Jul
Inside the Met: Staff Curators Take Their Turn in the Spotlight
Culture07 Jul
At Karlovy Vary, a Documentary Reminds Audiences Why the Cinematographer Still Matters
Culture07 Jul
Nolan's Odyssey lands with press: what the first reactions do and do not tell us
Culture07 Jul
Dior's New Couture Borrows a Sculptor's Hands
Culture07 Jul
Carmen Villain names an ambient LP after a Weerasethakul film — and the borrowing is the point
Culture07 Jul
White House Report Accuses Smithsonian of 'Anti-White Activism,' Raising New Questions Over Federal Oversight of the Arts
Culture07 Jul
Diljit Dosanjh's streaming ghost: a Punjabi film, two days, and the machinery that buried it
Culture07 Jul
Pashinyan Returns to Moscow: A Re-elected Armenian Leader Walks Back Into the Room He Spent Two Years Trying to Leave
Culture06 Jul
Amazon bets the Tomb Raider franchise on its new Lara Croft — and on a Sophie Turner series
Culture06 Jul
Behind the Glass at the Met: A New Book Hands the Microphone to the Museum's Own Staff
Culture06 Jul
Marlborough's Old Chelsea Floor Finds a Buyer, and a Gallery World Watches
Culture06 Jul
V/H/S franchise crosses into the SCP Foundation with new feature from Spooky Pictures and Image Nation
Culture06 Jul
A 'Destroy Israel' banner over Pamplona: what a single San Fermín stunt tells us about Europe's protest vocabulary
Culture06 Jul
Iran stages a farewell in Karbala as Khamenei's funeral preparations reshape Iraqi shrine politics
Culture06 Jul
A Lost Portrait, a Spanish Count-Duke, and a Detroit Museum Director's Verdict
Culture06 Jul
Ivan Ostrochovský Returns to Karlovy Vary With a Sterilization Drama — and a Plan for a U.S. Remake
Culture06 Jul
Indian cinema's heist genre gets a political edge: Parvathy Thiruvothu on I, Nobody
Culture06 Jul
Kremlin's language-as-claim doctrine meets a Ukrainian energy counter-strategy that has put 85% of Russian refining inside drone range
Culture06 Jul
Lauren Bennett, G.R.L. vocalist and 'Party Rock Anthem' voice, dies at 37
Culture06 Jul
Carmen Villain's 'Memoria' borrows its name from Apichatpong Weerasethakul — and its atmosphere from the slow-cinema tradition
Culture06 Jul
From copper to capital: Peru's slow pivot away from a single-buyer China relationship
Culture06 Jul
Dinner Party Returns: Terrace Martin, Glasper and Washington Hand Jazz's Most Ambitious Side Project Its Third Act
Culture06 Jul
Two senior women quit India's top film body, accusing it of refusing to reform
Culture06 Jul
Goa's rental Thar question: when does a tourist favourite become a public-safety problem?
Culture06 Jul
After 'Succession,' Friedman and Rasche Regroup in a Short About What Logan Roy Built
Culture06 Jul
Tehran's metro clocks return to normal hours, ending a wartime disruption residents had learned to plan around
Culture06 Jul
Sarajevo's CineLink Doubles Down on Co-Production as a €10,000 Critics' Week Tie-In Reshapes the Regional Pitch
Culture06 Jul
Alex Cox's 'Dead Souls' Rides Back into the Western, With the Director in the Saddle
Culture06 Jul
Smithsonian in the Crosshairs: How a White House Report Reopened the Politics of National Memory
Culture06 Jul
Na Hong-jin's 'Hope' drops a full international trailer — what the two-minute cut actually shows
Culture06 Jul
Iraq's Shia establishment rallies for Khamenei funeral as Tehran loses its central pole
Culture06 Jul
Sistani heir's message to Khamenei surfaces at a delicate moment in Iran's clerical hierarchy
Culture06 Jul
Baku's 'decolonial' turn: how a Baku framing of Russia is reshaping the South Caucasus information space
Culture06 Jul
A chamber ensemble closes the Moscow season with a concert the war made possible
Culture06 Jul
Inside the late-night show quietly becoming Edinburgh fringe's cult favourite
Culture06 Jul
A Gaza hospital director's last warning reaches the outside world
Culture06 Jul
Tilly Norwood lands her first feature: what an AI 'actor' signing for a starring role actually changes
Culture06 Jul
Mourning in the diaspora: Iranians and Tunisians gather for Khamenei's funeral, and a presidential misunderstanding
Culture06 Jul
‘Chewing Gum Dreams’ revival hands the lead to Lauryn Ajufo, a decade after Michaela Coel’s breakout
Culture06 Jul
Mads Mengel's 'The Guest' leans on Trine Dyrholm for a Dogme-shaped reckoning
Culture06 Jul
'The Dawn of a New World Order': Tehran stages a funeral and a manifesto
Culture06 Jul
Bogotá Audiovisual Market opens with Netflix, France and the long shadow of 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'
Culture06 Jul
Ali Fazal’s long game: from Mirzapur’s Guddu to a singular Hindi-language indie about blood and ash
Culture06 Jul
Pradeep Ranganathan's PR Show bets on directorial anthology — and a separate Indian Express essay asks why the country's footpaths are still broken
Culture06 Jul
Costner's 1990 Western rides again: a 4K 'Dances With Wolves' lands at Locarno
Culture06 Jul
Imagined flights: a half-century of art and space travel at the Smithsonian
Culture06 Jul
Akira Ikezoe's Studio of Compromised Atmospheres
Culture06 Jul
Secret Cinema bets the immersive-experience boom has further to run, with a record 'Pirates' pre-sale and a returning 'Grease'
Culture06 Jul
Two Stories, One Country: India's Public Works Puzzle
Culture06 Jul
Eggers' 'Contrapposto' and the piety of male friendship
Culture06 Jul
A Siberian summer festival and what it tells us about Russia's cultural periphery
Culture06 Jul
Comfort viewing in anxious times: why Spielberg's The Post became 2026's unlikely recession indicator
Culture06 Jul
Clooney's Venice Lion signals a festival still betting on the American star system
Culture06 Jul
Anurag Kashyap boards Bangladeshi drama 'Delupi' as presenter ahead of Rotterdam bow
Culture06 Jul
Interactive cinema makes a play for the festival circuit — and an audience that’s already watching
Culture06 Jul
India's nutrition debate turns on a single food — and the limits of that frame
Culture06 Jul
A childless couple's US$735,000 bequest and a 13% bet on Chinese AI: two readings of thrift, risk, and national capability
Culture06 Jul
Diljit Dosanjh, a banned Punjabi film, and the slow erosion of India’s informal censorship regime
Culture06 Jul
Shoot the People review: Misan Harriman's portrait, photographed against itself
Culture06 Jul
Pixar's 'Toy Story 5' Holds the Korean Box Office — But 'The Eyes' Is the Story
Culture06 Jul
A Colombian documentary on the disappeared arrives with a political warning attached
Culture06 Jul
Baghdad rehearses a state funeral: Iraq's Joint Operations Command and the politics of a sacred transfer
Culture06 Jul
'3 Weeks After' puts Bulgaria's quiet crisis of teenage violence on screen — and asks why no one intervened
Culture06 Jul
Sky buys ITV's broadcasting arm for £1.6bn, redrawing the UK's commercial TV map
Culture06 Jul
The Rolling Stones hit the studio again, and the noise around legacy rock is louder than the music
Culture06 Jul
Finn Wolfhard on growing up on Netflix, and learning to walk away
Culture06 Jul
The gig as living archive: writers recall the nights pop history turned on a single chord
Culture06 Jul
'Ran' at forty: how Kurosawa's family-suicide epic keeps surfacing in succession debates
Culture06 Jul
An Indian film disappears from a streaming platform — and Punjab's long memory finds a new precedent
Culture06 Jul
Bollywood’s action pivot: how Dhurandhar reset the ceiling for Ranveer Singh, Alia Bhatt and the Hindi box office
Culture06 Jul
Aljira at 35: how a Newark artist-led space outlasted the galleries that wanted New Jersey to behave
Culture06 Jul
Charles Seliger and the Architecture of the Invisible
Culture06 Jul
Akira Ikezoe's Frogs and Bears Aren't Cute — They're a Warning
Culture06 Jul
Vin Diesel puts 'Fast Forever' on the clock: franchise finale dated for March 2028
Culture06 Jul
A Russian digital-humanities project reads 3,000 Soviet postcards — and finds a quieter empire than the postcard promised
Culture06 Jul
Sleuthing sheep, Young Sherlock and a new Poirot: how the amateur detective quietly took over the small screen
Culture06 Jul
Switzerland's quiet fractures get a screen: Jan-Eric Mack's 'A Happy Family' and the cinema of a country that doesn't talk
Culture06 Jul
Tom Holland's first day on Christopher Nolan's 'Odyssey' felt like a firing squad — it wasn't
Culture06 Jul
Life Out There and the long loneliness of the cinematic astronaut
Culture06 Jul
An immersive werewolf game lands in Hull — and quietly tests what British regional theatre can still pull off
Culture06 Jul
Oasis reunion gets the documentary treatment: Disney+ bets the 2025 comeback still has stories left to tell
Culture06 Jul
'Minions & Monsters' opens to a franchise low, and the yellow economy is starting to sweat
Culture06 Jul
In Klin, a festival reaches for Tchaikovsky as Russia's classical music soft-power faces an exilic counterweight
Culture06 Jul
Hollywood Goes Back to the Archive: Jason Moore, 'Elle' and the Quiet Economics of IP Recycling
Culture06 Jul
A Cypriot Director Turns the Camera on Migrant Women — and on the System That Breaks Them
Culture06 Jul
Ateez's Third No. 1 Is Less About Sales Records Than About the K-Pop Industry's Centre of Gravity
Culture06 Jul
Tom Holland Thought Nolan Hated Him. The Cuts Were Doing Exactly What Cuts Do.
Culture06 Jul
Rico Nasty Returns With RX, Re-Teaming With Kenny Beats on "Cupcake"
Culture06 Jul
Margo Price's Surprise 'Days of Unrest' Lands on a July 4 Weekend When the National Mood Is Already Split
Culture06 Jul
Beyoncé Drops a Lost 2006 Track — and the Reissue Calendar Just Got Interesting
Culture05 Jul
Bulgarian duo Grozeva and Valchanov return to Karlovy Vary with a film about corruption and pro-Russia nostalgia
Culture05 Jul
Harvey Keitel turns the camera on AI's 'danger,' from Karlovy Vary
Culture05 Jul
Lalique Museum in eastern France hit by €4 million jewellery heist
Culture05 Jul
Stravinsky returns to Izvara: 'The Rite of Spring' performed at the Roerich estate for the first time
Culture05 Jul
Klin's 'Tchaikovsky's Night' gala tests whether a hometown festival can still reach beyond its shrine
Culture05 Jul
Bollywood's money problem comes for the Malayalam industry
Culture05 Jul
From a martyr's funeral, an Iranian leadership opens a different chapter
Culture05 Jul
Ukraine's refinery strike campaign crosses 200 as May sets a monthly record
Culture05 Jul
Seven million Tehran metro rides, one farewell: what the funeral numbers reveal about the Islamic Republic's reach
Culture05 Jul
A funeral procession through five cities: reading the scale of Iran's mourning for Khamenei
Culture05 Jul
Parvathy Thiruvothu's contract call lands in a wider South Indian reckoning over on-set conditions
Culture05 Jul
Jesse Eisenberg won't leave America — even after taking Polish citizenship
Culture05 Jul
A hospital director's warning from Israeli detention: what Dr. Hussam Abu Safia's case exposes
Culture05 Jul
Russian and Chinese warships converge on Qingdao as 'Maritime Cooperation 2026' exercises open in the Yellow Sea
Culture05 Jul
Trine Dyrholm's Festival Return: Why a Danish Drama About a Party Crasher Matters More Than It Looks
Culture05 Jul
Viral videos and the camera-test problem: when bystander footage rewrites a police narrative
Culture05 Jul
Tauron American Film Festival Returns to Kraków for 17th Edition, Betting on Polish Post-Production
Culture05 Jul
Camera distance and the vanishing eyewitness: a UK policing test case
Culture05 Jul
Li Bai, the burnout poet: how a Tang-dressed performer became China's most unlikely office meme
Culture05 Jul
Seventy-Seven Students, One Factory Floor: What a US-China Robotics Visit Really Signals
Culture05 Jul
A Pianist's Diary Lands in Russian Print — and the Publishing House That Issued It
Culture05 Jul
A 1,000-Year-Old Embroidery and the 21st-Century Problem of Cultural Access
Culture05 Jul
Crunchyroll and Aniplex greenlight a theatrical ‘Solo Leveling’ film — and the Korean IP export keeps compounding
Culture05 Jul
Sienna Spiro's 'The Visitor' arrives with the weight of a debut that knows exactly what it is
Culture05 Jul
A 1997 Flop, a 2026 Audience: Why IndieWire Is Reclaiming Costner's 'The Postman' for July 4
Culture05 Jul
Black Parade live and Rogen's softer pivot: the week's culture, parsed
Culture05 Jul
The ballet that held: how a childhood ticket in 1960s London became an 80-year-old habit
Culture05 Jul
When the novel reads like the algorithm: AI, authorship, and the literary establishment's panic
Culture05 Jul
Perm's Diaghilev Festival leans on dance and liturgy to mark its 20th year
Culture05 Jul
The Rolling Stones' 'Foreign Tongues' review: a late-period band finds its voice against the current
Culture05 Jul
The Indie Cinema Revival Is Not a Nostalgia Story
Culture05 Jul
Taylor Swift marries Travis Kelce in Dior: a fashion-industry upset with structural implications
Culture05 Jul
Karlovy Vary's Future Frames Bets on the European Short Film as Industry Pipeline
Culture05 Jul
A Soviet-era Greek-myth cycle returns to a new Moscow hall: Yuri Favorin performs Sidelnikov's 'Labyrinths'
Culture05 Jul
Alexey Vacker Brings Solo Recital to Kyiv's Anglican Church of St. Andrey
Culture05 Jul
Eric Wong's Asian American identity is no longer a side note in finance — it is a recruiting pitch
Culture05 Jul
The silencing of Dr. Hussam Abu Safia and the slow erasure of Gaza's last doctors
Culture04 Jul
Kamal Adwan Hospital director's detention raises new questions about medical infrastructure in northern Gaza
Culture04 Jul
Britt Lower on the Quiet Horror of Harlan Coben's 'I Will Find You'
Culture04 Jul
Iran stages farewell ceremony for Khamenei as succession question moves from rumour to ritual
Culture04 Jul
Maggie Gyllenhaal's Two Films and a Century of Stereotypes: What the Karlovy Vary Honour Actually Recognises
Culture04 Jul
Jesse Eisenberg Draws a Line at Zuckerberg: Why Actors Are Renouncing the Tech Titans They Once Played
Culture04 Jul
A 7.5-hour workday and a new MEMU in the Northeast: what India's small-infrastructure stories say about the country's bigger argument with itself
Culture04 Jul
Merz pitches optimism against the cultural-pessimism lobby — and a German coalition tries to listen
Culture04 Jul
Britain's Quiet 250th: Charles's Note to Washington and the Soft Power That Travels With It
Culture04 Jul
Burnham's two-front campaign: gender parity pledge meets a £30bn fiscal hole
Culture04 Jul
Britain Treats America's 250th as a Polite Footnote — and the Asymmetry Says Something
Culture04 Jul
Ukraine's drones keep reaching Belbek: what a second MiG-29 loss tells us
Culture04 Jul
Moldova's quiet squeeze on Russian cultural institutions reaches the top of Rossotrudnichestvo
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India's terror list and the American novel: two reads on national narrative at 250
Culture04 Jul
Capital flight, livestream crackdowns, and a wet-lab land grab: Hong Kong's three-track week
Culture04 Jul
Beijing's live-stream crackdown sends China's top influencers into the courseware business
Culture04 Jul
The week's culture ledger: a soft Rogen, a louder My Chemical Romance, and what reviewers are willing to call 'good'
Culture04 Jul
Diljit Dosanjh's 'Punjab 95' lands as 'Satluj' after years of delay, and the title swap is now the loudest part of the film
Culture04 Jul
Diljit Dosanjh's 'Satluj' arrives in theatres as Punjab 95 title change draws scrutiny
Culture04 Jul
'Chica Checa' makes a quiet political case for kindness at a festival not short on provocation
Culture04 Jul
At Mount Rushmore, Trump Recasts America's 250th as a Restoration Project
Culture04 Jul
Aban Raza's race to paint India's renamed cities before the signboards change again
Culture04 Jul
Iran Signals Red Line in Strait of Hormuz as France and UK Issue Joint Warning
Culture04 Jul
A Disciple Returns: Celina Vikram Jaitly to Play Sister Nibedita in Ram Kamal Mukherjee's Biographical Drama
Culture04 Jul
Thirty-eight years on, Iran's UN mission presses the US over a Persian Gulf shootdown that reshaped civilian-airline risk
Culture04 Jul
Ayodhya's money trail and South cinema's reckoning: two stories of institutional drift in Modi-era India
Culture04 Jul
A 250th birthday party with a presidential face on the passport: the cultural politics of America's semiquincentennial
Culture04 Jul
The Postman rides again: why a 1997 Costner flop keeps coming back
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Trump's Pardon Market and a Presidential Overture to American Culture
Culture04 Jul
Words wedded to strings: how Ali Smith's novels became a Spitalfields chamber concert
Culture04 Jul
At Sadler's Wells, –320°F turns biotech villainy into wearable theatre, and almost drowns in its own sincerity
Culture04 Jul
'Silo' Season 3 and the Quiet Politics of Dystopian Television
Culture04 Jul
Nolan's Odyssey and the new economics of the cinema blockbuster
Culture04 Jul
James Baldwin, in Paris, in the key of cinema: Strand Releasing drops the trailer for 'Jimmy'
Culture04 Jul
John Waters and Ryan Murphy sit down at Provincetown — and the conversation cuts deeper than camp
Culture04 Jul
Supergirl's stumble and the superhero fatigue nobody wants to name
Culture04 Jul
Melissa George returns to New Zealand television with 'Ms. X,' a Three TV crime comedy that flirts with convention
Culture04 Jul
Murakami returns with a family saga — and timing that says something
Culture04 Jul
France's cultural-export arm doubles down on Pélisson as streaming rewrites the terms of trade
Culture04 Jul
Olivia Wilde on the chemistry of restraint: what 'The Invite' says about the state of the indie two-hander
Culture04 Jul
Lela Rochon on Closing 'The Chi': Nostalgia, Women-Led Stories and the End of a South-Side Saga
Culture04 Jul
Cannes Lions 2026: Madison Avenue Discovers It Is Also a Tech Platform
Culture04 Jul
Egypt's knockout breakthrough lands in a Texas hotel lobby
Culture04 Jul
When British Parliamentarians Square Off Against a Cartoon Bear: The 'Masha' Episode and the Politics of Soft-Power Anxiety
Culture04 Jul
Mamdani pushes a $323.8m culture budget into a heat-battered July 4th weekend
Culture04 Jul
5,000 Yo-Yos at Solid Sound: How Wilco and the Breeders Spun Their Way Into the Record Books
Culture04 Jul
Jorja Smith Sets August Release for Third LP, Pairs with Wizkid on New Single
Culture03 Jul
Beijing reframes the Indo-Pacific: free, open, and on Beijing's terms
Culture03 Jul
In Kuala Lumpur, an AI Exhibition Rehearses the Question of What a 'Digital Organism' Actually Is
Culture03 Jul
England's World Cup weekend: a 5 a.m. pub licence, a storm threat, and a still-secret halftime act
Culture03 Jul
Hoffman at Karlovy Vary: A Lifetime on Screen, Reframed in a Single Sentence
Culture03 Jul
Murakami's first female-led novel lands as Indian cyber-fraud cases expose the cost of digital trust
Culture03 Jul
The queue for Khamenei: how a Tehran funeral became a stage for Global South diplomacy
Culture03 Jul
'The Chi' Closes: Lela Rochon, Final-Season Nostalgia, and What the End of a Black Network Drama Actually Costs
Culture03 Jul
Tokyo turns red, white and blue: Japan lights up for America's 250th
Culture03 Jul
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Culture03 Jul
Margo Price Drops Surprise Protest Album 'Days of Unrest' Ahead of July 4
Culture03 Jul
Iran's farewell to Khamenei draws a coalition of Axis-aligned delegations
Culture03 Jul
Tucker Carlson's break with the GOP, a Chinese napping survey, and an 11% AI bet: a snapshot of a fragmenting information order
Culture03 Jul
Two North-East Photographers, Two North-Easts: Tish Murtha and Kuba Ryniewicz at Baltic
Culture03 Jul
Melissa George returns to a New Zealand accent for 'Ms. X,' a Three comedy about the woman behind the meth empire
Culture03 Jul
'Frame' on ZEE5: Manjule and Wagh's Marathi social drama goes from Goa to streaming
Culture03 Jul
After Supergirl, the superhero mid-tier is no longer carrying the genre
Culture03 Jul
Three years after Toronto pulled it, ‘Satluj’ reaches a global audience uncut
Culture03 Jul
Iran's regional position after the 12-day war: stronger, fractured, or both?
Culture03 Jul
Hideki Noda's '-320°F' turns Sadler's Wells into a biotech fever dream, and leaves its message behind
Culture03 Jul
Shah Rukh Khan at 60: how Bollywood’s biggest star became the connective tissue of Indian cinema
Culture03 Jul
Rico Nasty reboots with RX, a self-titled record built to outlast the algorithm
Culture03 Jul
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Andy Burnham's Manchester machine and the long road back to Westminster
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Kursk in the classroom: how Russia is rewriting its school history to include North Korean troops
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Moscow moves to enshrine North Korean role in Kursk history books
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Pezeshkian's Islamabad trip: what Tehran wants from a one-day Pakistan visit
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Iran's leadership transition: what a Khamenei funeral announcement tells us about the succession question
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Culture22 Jun
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Culture22 Jun
Tehran Holds the Line on Cannabis as Opium Remains the Dominant Drug of Use
Culture22 Jun
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The General Who Came From a Family of Generals: A Note on Russian Command Culture
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Culture22 Jun
Millions gather in Najaf and Karbala for the funeral of a cleric Iran calls a martyr
Culture22 Jun
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Culture22 Jun
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Culture22 Jun
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Culture22 Jun
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Culture22 Jun
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Iran puts oil sanctions on the table at Swiss talks, signalling potential recalibration
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Iran pushes IAEA chief out of US negotiations, asserting control of the room
Culture21 Jun
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Iran stages state funeral for slain revolutionary-era leader as pharmaceutical authorities coordinate logistics across three cities
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Culture21 Jun
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Iran readies pharmaceutical supply for state funeral of a 'revolutionary martyr leader'
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Tehran commemorates a martyr-president and the scientist who shaped Iran's missile programme
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Culture20 Jun
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Iran's culture ministry turns a political funeral into a state message: commemorating 'martyr' Ali Larijani
Culture20 Jun
France pulls the corks on Fête de la Musique as heatwave tightens
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Iran's state broadcaster turns on its own MP, in the middle of negotiations
Culture20 Jun
Iran's state broadcaster sues a sitting MP for criticising its nuclear negotiators on air
Culture20 Jun
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Culture20 Jun
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Iran's parliament pushes back on state TV after MP's Khabar Network appearance
Culture20 Jun
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Culture20 Jun
Tehran presses its UN argument: Israeli envoy's conduct as proof of diplomatic impunity
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China's night economy gets a Dragon Boat Festival lift — and a structural test
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Culture20 Jun
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Culture20 Jun
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Culture19 Jun
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Culture19 Jun
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Russia moves to formalise the writer as a regulated profession
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Iran offers IAEA access as Witkoff tells Congress a deal is in sight
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Trump and Iran announce a deal; Khamenei publicly rejects it
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Ukraine puts a maritime drone on the Paris showroom floor
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Obama Presidential Centre opens in Chicago as a 'living celebration of community'
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Italian unions reopen eastern Cuba solidarity drive as solar gap deepens
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UN sounds alarm as hate speech against gender equality spreads online
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Pezeshkian's regional tour turns cultural: Tehran courts Dushanbe and the Islamic world on the same day
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Strikes on Moscow, broadcast in Paris: Ukraine turns Eurosatory into a messaging stage
Culture18 Jun
A Russian caricature of power ends in a Polish killing: the death of Semyon Skrepetsky
Culture18 Jun
Dushanbe's framing of Pezeshkian phone call puts Tehran-Tajik rapprochement in plain language
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Damascus and Baku formalise a diplomatic training pact — and signal a wider realignment
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Iran's English-language TV targets BBC Persian, framing it as a British intelligence tool
Culture18 Jun
French restrictions, full aisles: Israeli defence firms crowd into Eurosatory despite Paris posture
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Putin leans on ASEAN for a post-dollar energy script
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Polish police arrest suspect in killing of Russian artist Semyon Skrepetsky in Lublin
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IAEA chief joins Iran–US track in Geneva, signalling that verification, not politics, will decide the next phase
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IAEA chief says agency ready to verify any US–Iran deal as reports of near-agreement multiply
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Culture18 Jun
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Culture18 Jun
Shanghai reopens its skyline to cinema as SIFF 2026 and STVF frame the year's Asia-Pacific screen agenda
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Qalibaf frames negotiation as battlefield by other means as Iran's parliament head claims diplomatic wins
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Tehran's speaker takes a victory lap: Qalibaf frames the ceasefire as Iran's diplomatic conquest
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Qalibaf's victory lap and the architecture of the Iran–US deal
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Qalibaf reframes Iran's security doctrine: domestic strength over the Security Council
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A Kyiv hospital scandal and the quiet politics of military medicine
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Peter Thiel's invite-only 'Dialog' society exposed in data leak
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A Russian artist in Polish exile: the killing that ends a protest and a life
Culture17 Jun
Berlin Philharmonic's Kirill Petrenko redirects Denmark's top music prize to Ukraine
Culture17 Jun
Peru denounces destruction of 1,000-year-old geoglyph in Nasca
Culture17 Jun
In Gatchina, the dead keep surfacing: Russia searches for its own wartime missing
Culture17 Jun
Russia lays down the nuclear submarine Murmansk at Sevmash
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The Dialog leak: a peek inside the most exclusive network in Silicon Valley
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Iran marks a wartime anniversary with a short film — and a quiet argument about who owns the frame
Culture17 Jun
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Culture17 Jun
Two cubs vanish from Iran's last wild-asiatic-cheetah refuge
Culture17 Jun
Warsaw frames Skrepetsky killing as a political hit; the case now tests how the West treats exiled Russian dissidents on its soil
Culture17 Jun
Cuba's land law rewrite aims at the food crisis — and the private farmers it spent a decade squeezing
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Caricaturist of the Kremlin: a Russian exile's murder in Poland
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Trump pulls Jay Clayton's intelligence nomination, clearing runway for Bill Pulte to lead ODNI
Culture17 Jun
A delay at the intelligence gate: Trump pulls back Clayton's confirmation as DNI
Culture17 Jun
Shanghai's 28th film festival leans into a global stage, and a softer form of cultural projection
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Kyiv's new 'Stugna' hub opens as GUR turns outreach into a soft-power instrument
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Five million followers, one stethoscope: how a former PLA dog handler built China’s most-watched pet-care channel
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Britain's grooming gangs: a religious defence and a security failure
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China's Cultural Memory and Its Cooling Consumer: Zheng Yuxiu and the May Retail Slide
Culture17 Jun
Ukraine's Fire Point signs German missile deal at Eurosatory as Kyiv's defence industrial base goes on the offensive
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St Petersburg's 'Antique': the arrest of Ilya Traber and the limits of untouchability in Putin's Russia
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Foreign Policy essay frames US Iran war as a 'strategic defeat larger than Vietnam'
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Trump's Georgia play: Mike Collins wins runoff, sets up November fight with Ossoff
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The Louvre's $100m heist wasn't the crisis. Funding was.
Culture17 Jun
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Iran unveils poetry collection attributed to teen asteroid discoverer, as Tehran turns science outreach into cultural showcase
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A Su-24M crash in mid-June: what Ukraine's Air Force has confirmed, and what it has not
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Iran's pre-revolutionary cinema loses a quiet architect: Behrouz Razavi dies at 74
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Abdullah Ibrahim at 91: A Cape Town pianist and the long argument over what counts as South African culture
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Iran's Health Ministry puts a community-participation frame on resource rationing
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Behrouz Razavi, the 'eternal voice' of Iranian state broadcasting, is laid to rest in Tehran
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UFC at the White House, paid in Trump family stablecoins — and a foiled drone plot the FBI says was aimed at it
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Rickey Kej and the case for classical music as India’s soft-power export
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Senate war-powers vote exposes the new center of gravity in US foreign-policy fights
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India's Most Wired Campus Just Pulled the Plug on Telegram — and IIT Madras Won't Say Why
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Rain as inheritance: National Library exhibition traces how water made Scotland
Culture17 Jun
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Iran's Foreign Minister Tells Foreign Envoys That 'Unequal War' Has Been Survived — And That Diplomatic Legitimacy Is the Prize
Culture17 Jun
Solapur well tragedy, Sonu Nigam's health disclosure, and the fight for India's mountains: three Indian stories the culture desk is watching on 17 June 2026
Culture17 Jun
Tehran's wartime ambassador reception and the diplomatic framing of an 'unequal war'
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Tehran moves to script the mourning of Khamenei before the fact
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Race and the British prison estate: what a new Maslaha report actually says
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Citi Lawsuit Surfaces an Account Question the Bank Would Rather Not Answer
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Starmer's Glastonbury moment puts a new spin on the British political pose
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Lake Urmia’s brief revival meets the evaporation clock
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The organised community in the age of artificial intelligence: a pressenza reading
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SPLC director's alleged $1.2m payment to far-right partner lands on a prediction market — and asks a harder question
Culture17 Jun
France closes 12 Israeli stands at Paris defence expo as Gaza war reverberates through arms industry
Culture17 Jun
Moscow's biolab gambit: how a declassified file became a propaganda reopening
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A Russian exile is shot dead in Poland. The questions start with who wanted him silenced.
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FT profile, a 'kill list,' and the cost of naming names: the Robert Kuzovkov affair
Culture16 Jun
FBI Director Warns of Coordinated Threat From 'Individuals Outside' the National Capital Region
Culture16 Jun
Ukraine puts a 10-ton underwater drone on the Paris showroom floor
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Moscow's 103-name blacklist: how Canada's sanctions war produced a mirror image in reverse
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The Pentagon Two: How a Reported Shake-Up at the Top Could Reshape a Prospective Iran Deal
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The Father the West Invented: A Century of Idealised Manhood Comes Under Scrutiny This Father's Day
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Palestine Solidarity Campaign demands apology from Board of Deputies over leaked remarks
Culture16 Jun
JR turns the Pont Neuf into a public living room — and a quiet argument about who owns the street
Culture16 Jun
From buffer zone to burial ground: Al-Alam films the lives erased by Gaza's new wall
Culture16 Jun
Brussels faces a CRISPR reckoning: precision tool or door to a new food economy?
Culture16 Jun
The Grammys widen the door, and India's economy fight turns on a single number
Culture16 Jun
Toronto's gun-for-hire economy: how Telegram is reshaping youth violence in Canada's largest city
Culture16 Jun
A Texan abroad: how one bystander video reopened Colombia's sex-tourism debate
Culture16 Jun
Sanctions expert tells Reuters Iran secured multi-billion dollar concession from Washington
Culture16 Jun
Iran's state-aligned media turns a mourning ritual into a mobilisation script
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Iran opens a national-bank payment lane for foreign film co-productions, signalling a quiet turn toward the global festival circuit
Culture16 Jun
Iran's clerical establishment moves to script a state funeral for its late Supreme Leader
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Grammys broaden the field: five new categories and a best new artist shake-up
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JR's Pont Neuf 'Cavern' opens after weeks of delay, exposing the gap between public-art spectacle and Paris's unglamorous maintenance problem
Culture16 Jun
Tehran's ritual choreography: the symbolism behind Khamenei's commemoration campaign
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A Kremlin critic, a Polish border city, and a shooting the wire services can't yet explain
Culture16 Jun
Tehran moves to choke cheap imports and force real assembly in Iran's car market
Culture16 Jun
Inside a Ukrainian remand cell: how a corruption suspect became a weight-loss story
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Culture16 Jun
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Culture16 Jun
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Iran's cultural establishment claims a civilisational first as wartime rhetoric intensifies
Culture16 Jun
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Russian blogger Diana Shurygina placed under house arrest over pornography distribution case
Culture16 Jun
Cabinet whispers: will Trump purge holdouts from a second Iran deal?
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MetInvest CEO Ryzhenkov named to Ukrainska Pravda's UP 100 Business laureates as wartime steelmaker cements domestic standing
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Bread and circuses, but the circus is in Vienna: how a US–Iran deal landed on Trump's 80th birthday
Culture16 Jun
"The gangster of the Middle East": a Pakistani former minister's verdict on Netanyahu lands at a moment of regional realignment
Culture16 Jun
Iran and Oman reopen the Strait of Hormuz question, two days after the deal that put it back on the table
Culture16 Jun
Netflix extends its reach into Russian preschool animation with two more seasons of Masha and the Bear
Culture16 Jun
Cabinet fault lines surface over Trump's Iran negotiating posture
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Beyond the textbook: how Syrian teachers are rebuilding the exam room
Culture16 Jun
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Caricaturist Semen Skrepetsky killed in Poland; Moscow-aligned channel frames him as anti-Russian propagandist
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CIA chief's Iran nuclear warning lands as Trump's deal deadline looms
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Iran's state broadcaster maps a fibre network for a funeral it says belongs to a martyr
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China's university overhaul rewires the pipeline for an AI economy
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Moscow says Ukrainian drone assembly justified Kyiv strike on Dovzhenko Film Studio
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Iran's central bank governor heads to Moscow as sanctions architecture pushes the two economies closer
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CIA warns Trump Iran is unlikely to deliver the nuclear concessions Washington wants
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World Youth Development Forum pivots to creative economy as a policy pillar
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A Russian strike on a Ukrainian film studio, and the question of what gets called a military target
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Oliver Tree killed in Rio helicopter collision, foundation to direct estate to artist scholarships
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Iran's clerical establishment moves to choreograph a state funeral for the 'martyr leader'
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Kyiv puts long-range FP-7 and FP-9 on display in Paris, signalling a new phase in Ukraine's missile diplomacy
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G7 summit in France to weigh fresh pressure on Russia as Ukraine war enters a fourth year
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Tehran releases documentary tribute to martyred Leader, sharpening the symbolic frame around Khamenei's succession
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Palace Ukraine damaged again as Russian strikes keep cultural infrastructure in the crosshairs
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Russia strikes Kyiv's cultural and medical sites in overnight barrage, framing them as 'military-industrial' targets
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Tehran's cultural-heritage complaint lands in a wider courtroom: who gets to define a war crime?
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Shahrzad Javaheri, Iranian stage and screen actor, dies at 64
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Zaid's PAS move and the BN logo split: a quiet reshuffle of Malaysia's Malay-Muslim political axis
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Youth as cultural infrastructure: Shanghai and Wuhan host a week the West isn't covering
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India's film industry confronts its casting-couch economy
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Pro-Palestinian activists press to shut London showcase of Israeli real estate
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Nassos Vakalis's 'Dinner for Few' and the grammar of the few-percent economy
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"Dear You" and the soft-power question Beijing didn't ask for
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Britain's Muslims watch an institution of public scrutiny hollow out
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Lake Urmia rebounds past four billion cubic metres as West Azerbaijan credits rainfall turnaround
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Baghdad's stalled Hashd al-Shaabi bill tests Iraq's legislative arithmetic
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SkyFall and Airbus sign strategic-partnership memorandum at Le Bourget
Culture13 Jun
A Jewish-Israeli comedian on the world's smallest stage: reading Yohai Sponder's Instagram reel
Culture13 Jun
Tehran plays the unity card: how Iran's state media is bracing the public for a nuclear deal it doesn't all want
Culture13 Jun
Tehran's municipal arts body auctions off its own venues, and the cultural cost is the point
Culture13 Jun
Biolab disclosures and the limits of consensus: what a Russian-channel claim reveals about the information battlefield
Culture13 Jun
Max Pezzali's Turin concert lands as a quiet referendum on Italian pop memory
Culture13 Jun
"There is no death, but God exists": Simonyan's Sochi festival pitch blends RT politics with a metaphysics of mission
Culture13 Jun
The declassified reel: what Tulsi Gabbard's biolab release actually shows
Culture13 Jun
Haiti's security collapse claims its highest-ranking victim yet
Culture13 Jun
A police officer, a football and a brief, unexpected reprieve from a city that does not get them
Culture13 Jun
Havana's biennial of political humour tests the limits of satire in a state that already authors its own
Culture13 Jun
Carney pitches a Canada-Ireland-EU axis as a 'force for good' — and asks what the axis is actually for
Culture13 Jun
Carney pitches a Canada-Ireland-Europe bloc as a 'force for good' — and the framing tells you who's being asked to step up
Culture13 Jun
A Ukrainian drone maker takes the floor at Europe's biggest aerospace show
Culture13 Jun
Trump revives Augustus of the North: the restoration of 'The Arts of War' as a 250th-birthday bellwether
Culture13 Jun
Phantom Blade: Zero bets against the GTA VI hurricane — and the maths are more interesting than the bravado
Culture13 Jun
Jane Fonda's First Amendment Committee stages a celebrity concert as free-speech politics returns to the cultural centre
Culture13 Jun
When the alarm is always on: anxiety as a structural condition, not a personal failing
Culture13 Jun
ICE at the World Cup: how a tournament became a soft-power test for US immigration policy
Culture13 Jun
After a Toledo shooting that wounded 12, the harder question is what comes after the arrest
Culture13 Jun
A Russian war film lands on a domestic streamer — and the timing is the story
Culture13 Jun
Ukraine's $20 Billion Ask Lands in Europe as Kyiv Locks In an Airbus Defence Memo
Culture12 Jun
Crimea, drones and a French memorandum: reading two signals from a single Thursday
Culture12 Jun
Syria's Directorate of Antiquities opens Sergilla to visitors in a fragile first step for post-Assad heritage
Culture12 Jun
A documentary, a martyred leader, and the politics of Iranian grief on screen
Culture12 Jun
As Iran talks drift, Washington weighs a less diplomatic option for its enriched uranium
Culture12 Jun
A machine-made film about Iran's uprising lands at Tribeca — and tests what 'cinema' now means
Culture12 Jun
Washington restates a long-running claim: more than 120 US-funded biolaboratories in over 30 countries
Culture12 Jun
Washington declassifies Ukraine biolab files as Gabbard's tenure ends — but the real story is what stayed redacted
Culture12 Jun
Trump's White House UFC event survives court test — a quiet verdict with loud implications
Culture12 Jun
Zelenskyy signs Russian-language Charter carve-out: what the law actually changes
Culture12 Jun
US intelligence chief's release of foreign-lab financing files lands inside an already-loud propaganda war
Culture12 Jun
Blackcore and the French Disclosures: A Familiar Modus Operandi Comes Into View
Culture12 Jun
A year on, the death of an IRGC commander still reverberates through Iran's security politics
Culture12 Jun
David Hockney, towering figure of postwar British art, dies at 88
Culture12 Jun
IAEA's Grossi Puts Full-Scope Verification of Iran's Nuclear Programme Back at the Centre of Diplomacy
Culture12 Jun
A detained scholar, a tortured dog, and the long reach of Chinese state power
Culture12 Jun
When rescue turns to cruelty: a Chinese animal-welfare case exposes the limits of the 'caring economy'
Culture12 Jun
IAEA chief says verifying Iran's nuclear capabilities is the body's top priority
Culture12 Jun
The Nunhalan festival: a 1,000-year-old rain rite returns to Hamadan
Culture12 Jun
Zaporizhzhia plant loses off-site power, raising fresh questions about who controls Europe's largest nuclear site
Culture12 Jun
Iran's Tasnim profiles a cleric who never wore the robes: a quiet argument about who counts as a student of the faith
Culture12 Jun
Declassified Files Revive the US Biolabs Question in Ukraine — and Put the Kremlin's Old Talking Point Back in Circulation
Culture12 Jun
Six-year-old, a pencil, and a Magritte: the Israel Museum puncture and the question of how museums police the gaze
Culture12 Jun
David Hockney, the painter who turned a swimming pool into an icon, dies at 88
Culture12 Jun
Tehran army commander turns a war martyr into parable, and the framing tells a story of its own
Culture12 Jun
The Martyr as Statecraft: How Iran Frames Its Nuclear Dead
Culture12 Jun
A memorial, a music video, and the choreography of Iranian state commemoration
Culture12 Jun
Inside the solitary confinement of Gaza's last paediatrician: what the Hussam Abu Safiya case reveals
Culture12 Jun
Gabbard declassifies US biolab footprint: what the new evidence does — and does not — show
Culture12 Jun
Iran's doctors say economic war is the real emergency, demand national 'optimal consumption' doctrine
Culture12 Jun
Mariupol's Fuel Coupons and Crimea's Blockade: Inside the Slow Strangulation of Occupied Ukrainian Territories
Culture12 Jun
Syria's interior ministry signals a widening reckoning inside the former regime's intelligence apparatus
Culture12 Jun
The film Kamal Haasan passed on, and the franchise Rajinikanth built a decade later
Culture12 Jun
Baghdad says it foiled plot to kill intelligence chief, blames exiled opposition
Culture12 Jun
Baghdad assassination plot foiled: what Iraq's National Security Service says it stopped
Culture12 Jun
A Google director's resignation puts the company's Pentagon and climate bets back in the spotlight
Culture12 Jun
Ukrainian firm SkyFall signs strategic memorandum with Airbus at Europe's largest aerospace show
Culture12 Jun
In Geneva, the Syrian Arab Red Crescent Quietly Tries to Rebuild the Humanitarian Layer
Culture12 Jun
The EU's migration pact turns a corner — and the hard bargaining starts
Culture12 Jun
When the trailer outruns the film: an Indian director's mea culpa and the marketing logic behind the cut
Culture12 Jun
Salman Khan's Delhi HC move against 'Kala Hiran' puts a single line of dialogue in the dock
Culture12 Jun
David Hockney at 88, still painting: a century spent remaking the picture
Culture12 Jun
Khomeini's afterlife, on film: Tehran re-cuts the founder for a younger republic
Culture12 Jun
Two Bombay High Court orders, two different theories of Indian justice
Culture12 Jun
David Hockney, painter of Californian light, dies at 88
Culture12 Jun
Twenty years of Taylor Swift: how a Pennsylvania songwriter rewired the economics of pop
Culture12 Jun
Hamas accuses Israel of dragging Gaza cease-fire as occupation rhetoric hardens
Culture12 Jun
Moscow's soft-power reboot in Damascus: what the Russian House reopening actually signals
Culture12 Jun
Cairo talks, Gaza violations, and the quiet collapse of another ceasefire framework
Culture12 Jun
Tehran stages Khamenei memorial missile display as the IRGC's aerospace record is repackaged for a post-Khamenei Iran
Culture12 Jun
Hockney at 88, still finding new surfaces: the artist's half-century flirtation with consumer technology
Culture12 Jun
A grass-roots act of political theatre — and the police probe it triggered on Washington's National Mall
Culture12 Jun
338 metres, one tower: the spectacle of Russia Day in Moscow City
Culture12 Jun
Kronstadt showcases two non-nuclear submarine projects aimed at export markets
Culture12 Jun
The governor, the actor, and the audience: Manoj Bajpayee's 'Governor' leans into a familiar Indian political strain
Culture12 Jun
Patrick Schneider's democracy argument puts Deutsche Bahn back at the centre of German politics
Culture12 Jun
A century on, the Harlem Renaissance is still being argued over
Culture12 Jun
Drone racing comes to the Donbas: how Ukraine's front-line pilots are borrowing a civilian hobby
Culture12 Jun
Kenya's Anti-Counterfeit Authority Faces Scrutiny After Nairobi Boutique Raid Raises Questions of Due Process
Culture12 Jun
A Norwegian museum of children's art may be running out of runway
Culture12 Jun
A Name on the Wall, a Court Order, and the Politics of Federal Architecture
Culture12 Jun
Tribeca breaks the AI-film taboo: a 12 June 2026 precedent that reorders festival politics
Culture12 Jun
A tree on set, a panauti for life: Bajpayee's old anecdote about Nawazuddin Siddiqui resurfaces
Culture12 Jun
Iran’s petrol rationing warning lands in a country already rationing trust
Culture12 Jun
Crimea stages exhibition of Sevastopol panorama fragments after reported Ukrainian strike
Culture12 Jun
A Cambridge anthropologist goes live with China's youth: what Alan Macfarlane's CGTN dialogue really signals
Culture12 Jun
A coming Haberman-Swan book revives the Epstein question for a White House that wants it closed
Culture12 Jun
'Escalation Blues': Why a US-Iran De-escalation Reads as a Ceasefire, Not a Settlement
Culture12 Jun
England's cultural hotspots are getting pricier — and the buyers pricing locals out are no longer who you'd expect
Culture12 Jun
Belfast unrest exposes a European pattern of far-right convergence, researcher warns
Culture12 Jun
In Gilan's hills, a festival revives the games Iran's provinces nearly forgot
Culture12 Jun
Moscow's Tehran message of 'continuing to strengthen' ties lands as both capitals recalibrate under Western pressure
Culture12 Jun
Trump declares Iran deal close; Tehran says no final agreement reached
Culture12 Jun
Trump taps Jay Clayton for Director of National Intelligence, blending Wall Street and spy-shop tenure
Culture12 Jun
Iran's top cultural figure invokes a 1,400-year-old constitutional principle — and the regime's own language does the rest
Culture12 Jun
An Italian gelato school is selling Russia its own national dessert
Culture12 Jun
Raqqa’s ‘Buildex’ exhibition bets on bricks-and-mortar revival in a post-ISIS governorate
Culture12 Jun
'Backrooms' review: Kane Parsons turns internet horror into cinema, with restraint
Culture12 Jun
Six Georgians in a Paris dock: how a Pushkin heist became a transnational rare-books case
Culture12 Jun
IMF chief says Russia has 'lost standing' even as oil windfall masks the damage
Culture12 Jun
A CEO's 16-day digital fast goes viral, and exposes a labour question the corner office has not answered
Culture12 Jun
The Kennedy Center name fight is a quieter test of executive reach — and the arts are the proxy
Culture12 Jun
India's Innovation Deficit: Why a 38% Rally for VA Tech Wabag Can't Outrun a Structural R&D Problem
Culture12 Jun
Shanghai double-header: SIFF and STVF turn Lujiazui into a festival city
Culture12 Jun
Peddi's box-office march past ₹350 crore signals a maturing Telugu theatrical economy
Culture12 Jun
Tehran and Moscow sign a three-year tourism roadmap, betting visitors can outflank sanctions
Culture12 Jun
India's R&D shortfall, the Air India crash aftermath, and a missing probe file: three threads from a stretched state
Culture12 Jun
From SEC chair to spy chief: Trump's plan to put Jay Clayton at the top of US intelligence
Culture12 Jun
Trump's pick of Jay Clayton to lead the intelligence community blurs the line between Wall Street and the spy apparatus
Culture12 Jun
Jay Clayton's second act: from Wall Street prosecutor to Trump's intelligence chief
Culture12 Jun
KuCoin's 1.4 million USDT Crypto Cup: a small token war in a larger exchange race
Culture12 Jun
The benchmark gap: why enterprise AI keeps stalling at the demo wall
Culture12 Jun
Deezer's playlist sniffer turns a streaming-industry blind spot into a public map of AI music
Culture12 Jun
Context compression finally works in production: a quiet shift in how AI handles memory
Culture12 Jun
Trump taps former SEC chair Jay Clayton for Director of National Intelligence
Culture12 Jun
Iran's state-aligned documentary circuit returns to Soleimani, four years on
Culture12 Jun
Stellar Blade's character design row is really a culture-war relay race — and the games press keeps handing off the baton
Culture11 Jun
UFC goes to Foggy Bottom: Rubio and Dana White sign a diplomacy deal
Culture11 Jun
A Russian-aligned film on Krasnoarmeysk, and the information war it joins
Culture11 Jun
Jay Clayton, ex-SEC chair, nominated to lead US intelligence
Culture11 Jun
On Russia Day, the Kremlin sells continuity — and the war is barely in the room
Culture11 Jun
An Arabic 'Hikayat al-Sayyid' lands in Baalbek: a small unveiling, a long shadow
Culture11 Jun
A ten-year-old on the runway: what Max Alexander's debut tells us about a fashion industry that can't stop selling childhood
Culture11 Jun
A teenager, a footbridge, and a flare-up in Polish-Ukrainian relations
Culture11 Jun
A book launch in Baalbek and the soft-power grammar of Iranian cultural diplomacy
Culture11 Jun
France's reckoning with sexual violence shifts from catharsis to architecture
Culture11 Jun
A second kickoff: Mexico reopens the Azteca and the 2026 World Cup begins
Culture11 Jun
A stadium, a kickoff, and a Continent listening: the 2026 World Cup opens in Mexico City
Culture11 Jun
The mother bear of Abbasabad, and the road she must still cross
Culture11 Jun
Azteca opens the 2026 World Cup: a Latin American stage, a Colombian star, and a city that still remembers 1970
Culture11 Jun
Trump taps Jay Clayton for senior Justice post, signalling continuity at SDNY
Culture11 Jun
Iran's most-watched: a new survey reshuffles the television order
Culture11 Jun
Russia’s ‘Zubr’ short-range air defence system enters combat duty, signalling layered protection of fuel and energy infrastructure
Culture11 Jun
Trump taps Jay Clayton for intelligence chief after Pulte pushback
Culture11 Jun
The 16x shortcut: how a new compression method is rewiring how much context an AI agent can actually carry
Culture11 Jun
Eight indicted in Michigan over alleged vandalism campaign against Israel-linked targets
Culture11 Jun
Helen Mirren on being called an 'evil Zionist' in London: what the incident tells us about public space and political identity
Culture11 Jun
World Cup 2026 kicks off: 10 facts about the most expensive tournament in football history
Culture11 Jun
A book launch in Baalbek and the long afterlife of an archive
Culture11 Jun
Yulin's dog-meat trade is contracting. The festival may be the reason.
Culture11 Jun
Dust storm paralyzes Zabol as Sistan-Baluchestan confronts recurring climate strain
Culture11 Jun
The bet behind the boom: gambling addiction in the Philippines is outpacing the state's response
Culture11 Jun
Periods, Pills and the Gaokao: How China’s Most Important Exam Squeezes Girls at the Bench
Culture11 Jun
A Decade On, Russia's Industrial-Pharma Bet Reopens the Question of State-Led Capital
Culture11 Jun
Audio clip reignites scrutiny of a Ukrainian cultural official — and the limits of online evidence
Culture11 Jun
A 26-foot lyra in Crete: how a baker is rewriting the scale of a folk tradition
Culture11 Jun
Ecuador joins a regional campaign to curb cultural-property trafficking
Culture11 Jun
Russia leans on a values pitch to draw migrants as Western states tighten cultural rules
Culture11 Jun
Iran releases documentary on slain Hezbollah commander Salami as part of a widening martyr-canon project
Culture11 Jun
Russia Day concert off the Red Square programme for first time in 23 years
Culture11 Jun
At Russia’s ‘Fleet 2026’ show, the uncrewed boats tell a different story than the parades suggest
Culture11 Jun
Zelenskyy pitches a wartime cultural doctrine to Ukraine's film and music figures
Culture11 Jun
From Bavaria to the front line: Tytan Technologie's carbon-fibre drone pitch lands in Berlin
Culture11 Jun
Who runs the doctor? Ukraine's quiet fight over medical self-government
Culture11 Jun
Naval drones become the new arms-race theatre, and Russia's industry is racing to catch up
Culture11 Jun
The Strait of Hormuz Is Becoming a Theatre of Attrition — And No One Is Calling It a War
Culture11 Jun
Iran releases documentary on the martyred leader's daughter, and the political reading is the point
Culture11 Jun
Inside Gaza's medical crisis: a doctor's leaked photo and what it exposes about the detention of medical staff
Culture11 Jun
Punjabi cinema's quiet reshuffle: Badshah and the politics of a celebrity marriage announcement
Culture11 Jun
Gears of War: E-Day pushes the campaign length to a series record — and quietly takes a side in the AI debate
Culture11 Jun
Graphic designs and the Strait of Hormuz: an Iranian artist turns geopolitics into ink
Culture11 Jun
Havana stages a biennial of political humor — and a soft-power test for the island's cultural diplomacy
Culture11 Jun
In Seoul's Room of Quiet Contemplation, a 1,500-year-old gilt-bronze offers the city a different kind of news
Culture11 Jun
A Milan-Cortina official under investigation tests Italy's Olympic procurement playbook
Culture11 Jun
The Midterm Wargame: How Democrats Are Bracing for a Repeat of 2024's Ad Barrage
Culture11 Jun
Zelenskyy unveils first wave of 'Millennium' cultural grant, a quiet bid to anchor Ukraine's wartime identity
Culture11 Jun
Kharijite in the Mirror: How a Single Telegram Insult Tells the Story of Iran's Fractured Hardliners
Culture11 Jun
A medal in Tehran, a frame in Gaza: reading Iran's 'Right Side of History' ceremony
Culture11 Jun
Amin Jaffer's Venice project and the long arc of Indian art on the global biennale stage
Culture11 Jun
A silent Red Square: Russia Day concert cancellation reads as cultural tell
Culture11 Jun
MBDA and Ukrainian Armored Vehicles sign strategic cooperation deal, a quiet test of Europe's defence-industrial depth
Culture11 Jun
Mercedes and Munich startup Tytan pitch battlefield logistics vehicle at ILA Berlin, with eye on Ukrainian procurement
Culture11 Jun
Tartous rail maintenance enters second phase as Syria rebuilds its coastal spine
Culture11 Jun
Karuppu and the financier: a Tamil-cinema pay dispute that exposes a familiar money trail
Culture11 Jun
A Johannesburg Mass Shooting Claims a Former Mr Malawi, and Reopens a South African Debate
Culture11 Jun
A hashtag for the absent: how a clerical slip turned into a national mood board
Culture11 Jun
FIDE suspends Russian federation over chess activity in occupied Ukrainian regions
Culture11 Jun
The book the White House didn't want: Haberman and Swan's Epstein return rattles the Trump second term
Culture11 Jun
Suspected Russian-directed killing of Ukrainian soldier in Poltava lays bare the quiet war of intelligence recruitment
Culture11 Jun
Two centuries of stone, hours of flame: a Russian Orthodox church and the politics of heritage loss
Culture11 Jun
Moscow cancels Red Square Russia Day concert as war enters its fifth year
Culture11 Jun
Welcome to the Jungle and the curious economics of the Bollywood ensemble trailer
Culture11 Jun
Haberman and Swan's second-term book lands on a White House already on edge over Epstein files
Culture11 Jun
Iran's IRGC marks the anniversary of Hossein Salami's death with a coordinated media offensive
Culture11 Jun
Patrick Bruel, France's enduring pop fixture, charged with rape as two dozen women come forward
Culture11 Jun
A Sevastopol museum goes up in smoke — and the war comes for the cultural front
Culture11 Jun
Mali's Press Crackdown Sends a Chilling Message: A Newspaper, a Fact, and a Prison Cell
Culture11 Jun
Russian Railways eyes tourist sleeper service to China as cross-border rail demand climbs
Culture11 Jun
A Bollywood star, a ₹2,400-crore fraud, and the limits of celebrity-as-credentials
Culture11 Jun
A bronze sex doll at Bellevue: how German art is testing the limits of state hospitality
Culture11 Jun
The porch, reconsidered: how a 19th-century American form is shaping a new furniture collaboration
Culture11 Jun
A Kharkiv explosives case and the quiet architecture of Russian sabotage on home soil
Culture11 Jun
Salami's posthumous promotion and the politics of Iranian martyrdom
Culture11 Jun
A gold medal for the small-arms lab: how Rostec's TSNIITOCHMASH became the quiet centre of Russia's wartime arms culture
Culture11 Jun
Audio leak puts Ukrainian education ombudsperson under pressure
Culture11 Jun
A Yekaterinburg traffic case becomes a small window onto Russian road-risk culture
Culture11 Jun
A 19-Year-Old's Blog Post Beat Her CV: Inside India's Quiet Cybersecurity Talent Pipeline
Culture11 Jun
A year after Salami's killing, Iran stages a public commemoration that doubles as a deterrence signal
Culture11 Jun
A LADA, repaired twice, sold as new: a small Russian showroom story with a longer shadow
Culture11 Jun
Kenya's LGBTQ+ groups brace for a leaner Pride after foreign-aid cuts hit frontline services
Culture11 Jun
Uganda's Five-Day Ebola Pause Tests Public Trust Before Any Vaccine Arrives
Culture11 Jun
Tehran stages Salami memorial as Iran widens wartime canon of fallen commanders
Culture11 Jun
Patrick Bruel charged with rape and sexual assault as French authorities pursue allegations dating to the 1990s
Culture11 Jun
Yekaterinburg minibus crash: driver and transport company director detained as investigators open criminal case
Culture11 Jun
One year on, a Guards Major General's literary circle in Sarcheshmeh
Culture11 Jun
Tehran's chief judge frames US leadership as a failing project, vows a 'new generation' of confrontation
Culture11 Jun
A pencil line on Trump and the World Cup: what one cartoon says about the politics of the pitch
Culture11 Jun
Four dead in Yekaterinburg bus crash as investigators detain company director and driver
Culture11 Jun
Two lakh tribals at Red Fort: a cultural convention that turned into a constitutional demand
Culture11 Jun
Inside the Yazde night gathering: a martial-arts showcase revives a quiet civic ritual
Culture11 Jun
A Canary Islands radio hour turns Palestinian memory into a local question
Culture11 Jun
A 25-year-old in Sichuan has become China's latest viral phenomenon. The story it tells is bigger than one family.
Culture11 Jun
A mirror held up to the world, then set aside: the politics of FIFA 2026
Culture11 Jun
‘I want flawed women’: how a single brief reshaped a Bollywood screenplay
Culture11 Jun
China's new frontier in policing is the body itself
Culture11 Jun
When a daycare cry became a trafficking case: the Yogyakarta trial exposing Indonesia's child-protection gap
Culture11 Jun
Iran's F-14 fleet surfaces online: signal, nostalgia, or both?
Culture11 Jun
Canada's Digital Safety Act: a content moderation bill that hands the file to the culture ministry
Culture11 Jun
Nintendo's latest Direct shows one game to Japan — and a different one to everyone else
Culture11 Jun
Netflix's mobile app and gaming push in Asia: a quiet re-engineering of the streaming playbook
Culture10 Jun
Russian-aligned channels push documentary on Krasnoarmeysk as Ukraine reclaims the town
Culture10 Jun
Gwyneth Paltrow's Israel property campaign lands her in a Hollywood foreign-policy brawl
Culture10 Jun
Gwyneth Paltrow's Israeli luxury campaign draws fire as Gaza war grinds on
Culture10 Jun
Economichna Pravda's UP 100 award puts Ukraine's wartime entrepreneurs on a public ledger
Culture10 Jun
Moscow's unpaid bills: how a Kremlin strategist told Armenia, and the rest, what they already knew
Culture10 Jun
'Obsession': the Pravda Gerashchenko cinema pick that says more about Russian cultural mood than its 8.1 IMDb score suggests
Culture10 Jun
War, not weather, now sets the rhythm of global tourism, Iran tells UN body
Culture10 Jun
São Paulo's 30th Pride parade fills Paulista Avenue as Brazil's LGBTIQ+ movement tests the political weather under Lula
Culture10 Jun
Strikes on the Crimean coast: how a museum in Sevastopol became a target
Culture10 Jun
Beyond the martial arts set-piece: how a single Telegram review reframed a viral action film
Culture10 Jun
A real-estate portfolio, a religious party, and a tax question: Yitzhak Goldknopf's filings under scrutiny
Culture10 Jun
A Bengali remix in a Dutch museum: what an Amsterdam flash mob tells us about the cultural reach of South Asian soft power
Culture10 Jun
Khuzestan's water network restarts within 12 hours, but the deeper problem is not the pipe
Culture10 Jun
Glenn Close and Ridley Scott finally get their Oscars — and the Academy's overdue problem stays the same
Culture10 Jun
Baghdad lights up for Russia: a small mall screen, a larger signal
Culture10 Jun
Inside Syria's officer pipeline: defence minister tours Homs Military College as the new state consolidates its cadre
Culture10 Jun
TeleSUR's World Cup frame: soft power, Latin American agency, and a tournament Washington can't quite control
Culture10 Jun
A 20,000-person water cut in Hormozgan, and the war over whose camera you trust
Culture10 Jun
Mike Wallace, 107, Accepts ‘Right Side of History’ Medal in Tehran, Rekindling an Old Argument About the West and Its Critics
Culture10 Jun
David Harbour breaks his silence on Lily Allen's West End Girl — and the album's bleak arithmetic
Culture10 Jun
Strikes on Chersonesus Taurica put a UNESCO-flagged site in the crossfire
Culture10 Jun
Aerospace on trial: climate activists storm Berlin's ILA air show as defence and decarbonisation collide
Culture10 Jun
Iran rolls out nationwide travel card as rial strain reshapes domestic tourism
Culture10 Jun
French prosecutors seek pre-trial detention for Patrick Bruel over alleged sexual abuse
Culture10 Jun
Tehran's clerical succession takes a quieter shape: Khamenei names his son to Howzah board
Culture10 Jun
Iran honours a British-Jewish academic at a state ceremony, and the symbolism is the story
Culture10 Jun
Hegseth's Guantanamo visit signals a quieter, more durable US posture on the base
Culture10 Jun
Spielberg's 'Disclosure Day' lands as Hollywood rediscovers the alien — and the question it can't quite answer
Culture10 Jun
The street vendor in the bulldozer's path: how two Indian cities are reprising an old argument about urban space
Culture10 Jun
From Qatar to the United States: Four years, one tournament, and the labour question that will not go away
Culture10 Jun
Sorkin's social-network sequel arrives — and the timing is the news
Culture10 Jun
A Proust Book Club in Wartime Kyiv: Reading 'On the Swan Side' as an Act of Cultural Continuity
Culture10 Jun
A new face in Eisenkot's party: Tair Ifergan tests the boundaries of a fragmented Israeli centre
Culture10 Jun
Gwyneth Paltrow's Herzliya advert lands in a Hollywood-Israeli real estate row
Culture10 Jun
Tehran opens a park to the families of its war dead, and the message is the venue
Culture10 Jun
NASA's all-male Artemis III crew and the cost of symbolism in space
Culture10 Jun
Torres Strait's First Land-and-Sea Conference Stitches Culture and Science Into a Single Map
Culture10 Jun
Iran's Medical Fraternity Tells the State What It Wants to Hear: Build It Here
Culture10 Jun
The documentary that won't die: how a Khamenei film became a snub in slow motion
Culture10 Jun
A long-running Iranian voice is back in custody: the case of Sadegh Zibakalam
Culture10 Jun
Shanghai film festival leans into Egypt, marking 70 years of diplomatic ties
Culture10 Jun
Kenya Holds the Calendar Line as Iran Cracks Down on School Registration Fees
Culture10 Jun
Kenya's school calendar rewrite tests a longer worry: the term is too short to teach
Culture10 Jun
Netflix courts Asia's mobile-first audience with a redesigned app and a bigger games push
Culture10 Jun
The Hound of the Medic Platoon: How a Single Combat Lifesaver Became Ukrainian Front-Line Folklore
Culture10 Jun
Trump's pick to lead US intelligence rattles FISA negotiations
Culture10 Jun
LSE students publish open letter rejecting corporate greenwashing at Festival 2026
Culture10 Jun
Seventeen months in Israeli detention: the case of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
Culture10 Jun
A 1904 Painting, Two Wars, and What Sevastopol's Panorama Tells Us About Cultural Survival
Culture10 Jun
Russia's Foreign Ministry blames 'Kyiv regime' for museum strike as cultural sites become a new front in the war of evidence
Culture10 Jun
Persian language gets an unexpected diplomatic standard-bearer: Iran's foreign minister
Culture10 Jun
Spielberg's 'Disclosure Day' lands in a culture that has stopped laughing at the lights in the sky
Culture10 Jun
Sevastopol's panorama: a Crimean cultural landmark lost to the war
Culture10 Jun
Beyond the red carpet: how Shanghai's film festival is rewriting the city's cultural map
Culture10 Jun
Ukraine's draft office turns to universities as it tightens deferrals for students over 25
Culture10 Jun
Belfast riot exposes the fault line Britain keeps trying to plaster over
Culture10 Jun
Iran's university entrance exam faces a slow death — what replaces it will reshape the country's classroom pipeline
Culture10 Jun
Order Over Reflex: How Two Russian-aligned Channels Are Rewriting the Rules of Battlefield Narrative
Culture10 Jun
Tamil cinema's dirt-road realist and the engineer who beat the trolls: two stories from a state learning to write back
Culture10 Jun
A Putinist director, a fictional grandfather, and the long arc of imperial kitsch
Culture10 Jun
Iranian cinema’s quiet tribute: a former student recalls the Supreme Leader’s three-minute meetings with women filmmakers
Culture10 Jun
Iran's theocratic stagecraft: a Khamenei shrine ritual for female religious students, and what it tells us about clerical messaging
Culture10 Jun
Belfast riots expose the brittle politics of refugee reception in the UK
Culture10 Jun
Hong Kong's Handover anniversary: free museums, MTR discounts and the politics of giveaway economics
Culture10 Jun
Saving the weft: how Iran’s Farsh Museum rushed to evacuate its carpet treasury before the 12-day war
Culture10 Jun
A Tamil titan and a London tragedy: Indian cinema loses Bharathiraja the same week a family falls from a tower block
Culture10 Jun
Sevastopol museum strike and refinery campaign widen Ukraine's reach inside occupied Crimea
Culture10 Jun
Bondi Beach attack suspect faces expanded charges as Australia confronts a hardening domestic security front
Culture10 Jun
Age-Friendly China: Beijing's Demographic Problem Reframed as Civic Project
Culture10 Jun
Drone strike on the Sevastopol panorama marks a Russian cultural loss, and a deliberate wartime target
Culture10 Jun
God of War: Laufey director signals long road ahead for the franchise
Culture10 Jun
Square Enix's Final Fantasy VII: Revelation bets the trilogy on a bigger map
Culture10 Jun
Ukraine's military intelligence turns its sanctions tracker into a public ledger of the engineers behind the invasion
Culture10 Jun
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Starobelsk film asks what a drone strike sounds like to the students underneath it
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Section 702 renewal stalls as Trump meets Speaker Johnson with surveillance clock running
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Culture09 Jun
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Iran reverses course on university entrance exams, restoring eleventh-grade averages as a weighted factor
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EU lawmakers urge Brussels to legislate against the killing of paid-for video games
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Washington wades into Britain's online-safety fight — and quietly redraws the map for the 2026 World Cup
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Iran's handicraft workshops bear the cost of a 12-day war
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Iran's craft sector counts its war losses — and asks who pays for the rest
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Iran bets on a state-backed handicraft exporter to widen its non-oil revenue base
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Israel's muezzin bill reignites dispute over Al-Aqsa soundscape
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Senate rebuke of Trump intelligence pick exposes widening GOP rift over security state
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Lyhanna's death and the long reckoning inside France's child-protection system
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Culture09 Jun
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Culture09 Jun
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Culture09 Jun
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Culture09 Jun
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ABC begins covert search for Justin Stevens's replacement, signalling bigger shake-up at the national broadcaster
Culture09 Jun
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Culture09 Jun
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Grossi pushes back as Iran questions his neutrality on nuclear file
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Patrick Bruel faces new complaints as French cultural establishment confronts a reckoning
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Russia's Ulyanov questions IAEA chief's resolve as Iran nuclear talks reach a credibility fork
Culture09 Jun
Senegal's democratic test: when 'growth of the people' meets the politics of arrest
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Culture09 Jun
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Culture08 Jun
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Culture08 Jun
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Culture08 Jun
FBI readies nationwide crisis posture as 7 million spectators converge on 2026 World Cup
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Culture08 Jun
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Culture08 Jun
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Culture08 Jun
A French justice minister, a murdered child, and a state that can't explain itself
Culture08 Jun
Tirana's Israeli flags and the geometry of Albanian dissent
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The White House, a Cage and a World Cup: How the 2026 Spectacle Is Becoming a Federal Project
Culture08 Jun
Two Beachfront Incidents Rattle India's Coast: A Glass-Shard Scare in Goa and a Fatal Stampede in Mumbai
Culture08 Jun
Tehran's humanities academy caught in a credibility fight — and the academics are watching
Culture08 Jun
When the 'hero' returns: Russia's veteran crime wave and the cost of the glory narrative
Culture08 Jun
IAEA draft resolution on Iran lands as Grossi puts technical cooperation back at centre of the argument
Culture08 Jun
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Culture08 Jun
Israel's cultural calendar goes dark as the war with Iran reaches the concert hall
Culture08 Jun
Tehran's cultural diplomacy turns on a single phrase: 'a common treacherous enemy'
Culture08 Jun
Iran's culture minister draws a shared-threat line in Beirut
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Israel and Iran return to open war — and the global economy absorbs the shock
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Iran's own intellectuals are warning that media illiteracy has become a strategic vulnerability
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India's front page, in three unequal pictures
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Court strips Trump's name from the Kennedy Center as ballroom donors book $50B in federal contracts
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