BingeWatch: Shtisel is a Jewish family drama filled with warmth, levity and pickles

Our series on TV perfect for lockdown continues with a hit Netflix show set in the ultra-Orthodox community

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What poetry to read in a crisis?

Join a discussion with poetry powerhouse Allie Esiri at 12pm and 5pm UK time on Thursday April 2

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Netflix or Amazon? Fashion TV goes head to head

Streaming leaders are competing for the ultimate in 'quarantine TV' with rival series

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Gallerists eye the future with caution

Autumn diary looks alarmingly full; online legal issues exposed; artists rally to support South African hospital

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Sweet Land " a haunting, unclassifiable LA music performance, now available to stream

A video record remains of director Yuval Sharon's outdoor production exploring the bleaker side of American history

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Billy Crystal is a warmly familiar presence in Standing Up, Falling Down

Ben Schwartz co-stars as a failed comedian in this thoroughly indie movie

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Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots enter a weird world of isolation in Vivarium

A Twilight Zone scenario of suburban nightmare unfolds in this puzzling sci-fi thriller

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Jean-Pierre Melville's 1969 masterwork Army of Shadows " where noir meets wartime drama

The French film-maker's re-released Resistance classic speaks to our world today

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A female Saudi doctor tries to heal divisions in The Perfect Candidate

Haifaa al-Mansour's charming film dramatises her country's stuttering steps towards modernity

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TV drama poses a £1m question

A new mini-series unpicks the events surrounding a famous 2000s game show scandal " and, as its writer says, reveals much about our idea of 'reality' today

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Is this the perfect game for home quarantine?

Animal Crossing: New Horizons offers a gloriously soothing escape " but it has its problems

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Listen to the sounds of lockdown

Musicians across the ages have carried on playing and composing through hardship " and that spirit of invention is alive in today's pandemic

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Podcasts to ease the mind in troubled times

The medium has a deep reservoir of feel-good stories

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Financier-turned-composer Anthony Bolton on his first opera

The celebrated stock-picker's debut work focuses on the life of Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko

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It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) " R.E.M.'s 1987 song is suddenly popular again

The track's stream-of-consciousness lyrics owe a debt to Bob Dylan

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On digital: Honey Boy / 21 Bridges

Shia LeBeouf casts himself as his own father; a cop belatedly looks to settle some scores

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Snapshot: 'Friendship' by Jörg Brüggemann and Tobias Kruse

The photographers present a wider reflection on humanity's ability to flourish through company

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Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn: Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn

Banjo and Chinese guzheng playing converse across hybrid melodies in the duo's self-titled record

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Ludwig Orchestra: La Passione " an unlikely grouping makes for atmospheric listening

Conductor Barbara Hannigan holds together a wildly varied programme through the force of her personality

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Top 10 operas to watch from your sofa " for free

From the Royal Opera to the Vienna State Opera, companies have dug into their archives to make legendary performances available online

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Bob Dylan's Murder Most Foul is a hypnotic and tender 17-minute track

The musician's first song in eight years takes on the assassination of John F Kennedy and is a fascinating treasure

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BBC1's London Kills returns for an underwhelming second season 

A new crime squeezed into each episode leaves the plot feeling compressed to the point of absurdity

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Pen15, Sky Comedy/Hulu " delicious chemistry

It's all braces and bad haircuts as the pair depict their awkward high-school days in the early 2000s

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BBC4's Scandal and Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley

The Victorian artist was both a scandalous self-promoter and influential modernist, a new documentary reveals

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Lakecia Benjamin: Pursuance: The Coltranes

The rising saxophonist injects streetwise rhythms and acid tones into covers of two jazz heavyweights

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