Best books of 2019: Pop

Ludovic Hunter-Tilney selects his must-read titles

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Architectural salvage: antidote to the age of bling

Retrouvius's reclaimed building materials are in demand among London's low-key luxe set

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The best of Dubai Design Week's Middle Eastern showcase

UAE moves towards natural materials and a sleeker, Scandi-influenced style

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Rachel Harrison finds meaning in trash at the Whitney

The artist's New York retrospective is littered with heavy artistic references and a rich pop history

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Jack O'Connell: 'I'm at my happiest cruising around in my caravan'

Q&A with the Skins and This is England actor on his first role, his turbulent twenties and tackling climate change

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Coldplay: Everyday Life

The band's latest album balances contradictory urges to play it safe and take a risk

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Derek Jarman: a major meeting of art and activism

This Dublin retrospective of the late gay film-maker neatly underscores the influence of Thatcherism on his oeuvre

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Afrobeats stars back music streaming venture

Promising Lagos start-up profits from music as 'a way of life'

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Dear Evan Hansen and Touching the Void push boundaries in London theatre

Why the best new West End shows are the ones that take risks

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A Blue Note Special and in-the-moment musicianship at the London Jazz Festival

Saxophonist Benny Golson elevated a celebration of classics while drummer Makaya McCraven's showcased new-generation beats

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Gentrification and shrinking public space loom large in Here for Life

Andrea Luka Zimmerman's film stars members of Cardboard Citzens, a theatre troupe of past and present homeless Londoners

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Tom Morton-Smith on dramatising the 'chess match of the century'

The playwright talks about 1972's bad-tempered Spassky-Fischer contest and turning it into a cold war thriller

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Shades of Chekhov and Pullman at London's Russian Film Week

From the culturally elevated to the overtly commercial, the event promises a varied view of the nation's contemporary cinema

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Christie's to auction Marina Abramovic Mixed Reality artwork

Hologram will be first of its kind at auction; Los Angeles fair eyes the competition; China's art in Abu Dhabi

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Reimagining the workplace

Second Home's shared workspaces use adventurous designs to foster wellbeing

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Cynthia Erivo is a live wire in the heart of a Harriet Tubman biopic

Facing down a monstrous system with quiet fury, Erivo is a 5ft force of nature in Kasi Lemmons's film

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Andrew Onwubolu's Blue Story is a powerful tale of gang violence

Following a YouTube hit, the London rapper and film-maker known as Rapman is one to watch

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Mia Wasikowska and Damon Herriman star in riotous feminist comedy Judy and Punch

Life and art collide in Mirrah Foulkes' dark twist on the puppeteer's tale

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In Evolution, Carlos Acosta plays a mockney geezer to the sound of the Rolling Stones

Acosta Danza company's latest touring programme comes to Sadler's Wells, London

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Björk's most elaborate stage concert yet falls flat

The Icelandic singer's Cornucopia tour fails to fill the space of London's O2 Arena despite lavish visuals and a video message from Greta Thunberg

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Another dismal TV debate

Format designed to do everything other than inform the public about political issues affecting their lives

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A gripping canter through the story of Troy at the British Museum

Troy: Myth and Reality takes in historical fact, legend and modern responses to the fable

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Red-hot music and rich sound mark LA Philharmonic's 100th anniversary

Barbican concert featured conductor Gustavo Dudamel, pianist Yuja Wang and a John Adams premiere

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Heart Chamber is a musical mind game with the sound turned down

Chaya Czernowin's fourth opera is an overwhelming sonic experience at the Deutsche Oper Berlin premiere

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Frozen 2 is a fantasia of Disney princesses, galloping water horses and new earworms

A slight story with climate crisis overtones is sweetened with big songs and comic relief as Elsa and Anna enter adulthood

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