On digital: American Animals / Tehran Taboo

A funny, thrilling heist drama about bungling college kids and interlocking tales of transgression from Iran

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True Detective: Season 3 " the start of a return to form?

The triple-timeline story starring Mahershala Ali and Stephen Dorff gets off to a promising start

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Fifty years of the ICA: powerhouse of the avant-garde

In renewing the institute's galleries, director Stefan Kalmár is also celebrating Jane Drew's architectural vision

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Is the future of opera all doom and gloom?

A massive US study prompts Richard Fairman to worry over the health of this once-great art form

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Lukas Dhont on why Girls is about more than a transgender ballerina

The Belgian feature has sparked heated controversy within the LGBT community

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Vice director Adam McKay on Dick Cheney's divisive legacy

The writer-director's new film chronicles how the vice-president seized the levers of power during the Bush era

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Globe director Michelle Terry on untapped potential in Shakespeare's great plays

The actor-manager's second season of plays resonate with a time of great national upheaval

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Analyse this: Freud, Dalí and the Surrealists

In 1930s London, the psychoanalyst met the Spanish painter " art and Freudian theory have been entwined ever since

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Plant-based sustainable furniture is a growth industry

Designers turn to materials derived from sources such as pineapples and fungus

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Q&A with businessman and designer Alberto Alessi

'I've always been a kind of anarchist'

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Kristine Potter: photographing Nashville's country music scene

The artist captured some of Tennessee's finest honky-tonks for her latest project

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Why performance pressures put a strain on musicians' mental health

The music industry is neglecting the very stars it should be nurturing to keep afloat

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Julia Holter: 'Maybe I am taken too seriously'

The singer and songwriter's latest album is a shift from pop to the kind of experimentalism that has seen her labelled as a musical boffin

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The mind

Inside the life of the mind, from Donald Trump's lies, to the science of sleep and AI

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Island of Hungry Ghosts " stark message from a place of crabs and lost souls

A sad and singular documentary about an Australian detention centre for asylum seekers on an ocean idyll

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This Bridge Called My Ass at the Chocolate Factory, New York " a formless mess

Choreographer Miguel Gutierrez's performance piece descends into slobby purgatory

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Amin Taha: London's most controversial architect

His buildings confound critics. Now he is living under threat of the wrecking ball

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National Gallery to loan Japan biggest collection of art

Exhibition containing 60 works to coincide with 2020 Tokyo Olympics

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Under the Radar Festival, Public Theater, New York " teenage angst and asylum seekers

Two shows exemplify the range and depth of this annual festival

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Colette " Keira Knightley as a literary heroine to rival Marvel's mightiest

The actor relishes the role of her career in the scandalous story of the French writer

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Steve Coogan and John C Reilly in a bittersweet portrait of comedy duo Stan & Ollie

The actors' performances are full of love for their characters

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The Front Runner " Hugh Jackman as doomed Democratic contender Gary Hart

Jason Reitman's film looks back to the liberal hopeful's 1988 campaign

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The Upside " life lessons from an odd couple

Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart star in this remake of a feel-good French hit

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Choir Boy " a startling play by Moonlight writer Tarell Alvin McCraney

School-based drama makes its Broadway debut at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

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Contemporary Dance Festival at the Japan Society, New York " grief, butoh and a South Korean 'Greek chorus'

This adventurous annual showcase featured works from Japan and east Asia

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