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Updated just nowWith ‘DreamQuil,’ Alex Prager Makes Stepford Wives for the Age of AI
With “DreamQuil,” the artist Alex Prager has made her first feature-length film.
Jay-Z to perform at Super Bowl half-time show
Jay-Z has been involved with the show for years but has never before performed at the NFL championship game.
Jay-Z Confirmed for Super Bowl 2027 Halftime Show
The Roc Nation founder will headline his own event at California’s SoFi Stadium on Valentine’s Day
Jay-Z Announced as 2027 Super Bowl Halftime Show Performer
It will be the eighth Super Bowl halftime show produced by Roc Nation, the entertainment and sports company founded by the rapper and businessman.
Sufjan Stevens Makes First Live Appearance in Over Eight Years
He played piano at Meg Lui’s show in Kingston, New York
Macklemore begins Free Palestine tour after Ed Sheeran fallout
Proceeds from the tour, which begins in Dublin next month, will go to organisations supporting Palestinians, he says.
Busted's James Bourne says 'hero' brother saved his life with kidney donation
The guitarist says doctors had given him "a few years left to live", but is now recovering well.
Lula Victory Memes That Make Us All Want to Be Brazilian
Images rooted in queer and pop culture and national pride celebrate a progressive win at the polls and a step back for fascism.
At 60, a Legendary LA Print Workshop Still Urges Us to Pay Attention
From Robert Rauschenberg and Josef Albers to Vija Celmins and Julie Mehretu, artists have tinkered outside their comfort zones at Gemini G.E.L.
Paul Pfeiffer on the Spectacle of Politics
“Perhaps the stadium is actually the replacement for the UN as a symbolic gathering point to conduct world politics,” the artist told Hyperallergic in an interview.
Walter Koenig, Chekov From ‘Star Trek,’ Has Died
As the baby-faced Russian navigator of the U.S.S. Enterprise, he was a mainstay of the original television series and seven films. He was 90.
Paralelo Transversal organises Chilean house under cantilever roof
Chilean studio Paralelo Transversal has designed a rectangular house with a large hip roof and a terrace that cantilevers over a ravine in Puerto Varas, Chile. Completed in 2025 on a 1.2-acre site near Lago Llanquihue, t…
‘A cultural moment’: smash hit doc You Can See Everything continues to dazzle America
Nathan Fielder’s three-hour Elizabeth Holmes film has become a pop culture phenomenon but at a sold-out Times Square screening, no one was quite sure what to thinkIn You Can See Everything, it’s Elizabeth Holmes’s partne…
‘I laughed so hard my Tampax fell out’: Michael Gambon’s pranks revealed by the stars he cracked up
He made Daniel Radcliffe’s Harry Potter fart, left Judi Dench unable to control herself and told a fry-up fantasy about Helen Mirren. A new biography details the star’s mischiefJasper Rees’s authorised biography of Micha…
Stone-covered roof provides "absolute camouflage" for Gamaya Farms eco-resort in India
Architecture studio Biome Environmental Solutions has used a hill-like roof covered in local stone and walls of compressed earth bricks to conceal this eco-resort within its site in India.
Dezeen readers decide 19 winners in Dezeen Awards architecture public vote
The 19 winners of the architecture public vote for Dezeen Awards 2026 have been revealed, with projects by Blight Rayner Architecture, Foster + Partners and Schemata Architects voted as readers' favourites. French studio…
Tell us: what have you been reading this month?
We would like to hear about the books you’ve particularly enjoyed this monthAs part of The Guardian’s “what we’re reading” series, we would like to hear about the books you’ve particularly enjoyed this month.Have you rea…
War Is Interested in You by Gideon Rachman review – are we on the brink of world war three?
A foreign affairs expert’s bleak assessment of the state of global securityAre we on the brink of a new world war? This bleak subject is increasingly invoked by leaders, soldiers and officials, from Donald Trump to Vladi…
As mega-hit Into the Woods wows the West End, what’s the secret weapon of this Sondheim spectacular?
With its shimmering forest and its plunge into darkness and destruction, this fairytale romp bagged an Olivier for its lighting – and, reveals designer Aideen Malone, it wasn’t even finishedFor a minute I worry that Aide…
Music Against the Night by Yiyun Li review – a virtuosic interrogation of the power of art
What does it cost, to live your life in the hope of immortality? Li examines the gulf between talent and genius through the marriage of two real-life musiciansIn his recently published A History of the Novel in Britain,…
The Pianist review – Władysław Szpilman’s Holocaust memoir retold with his own music
Park theatre, LondonThis adaptation is perhaps too smooth but is well-staged and performed, and draws strong feeling from the pianist’s compositionsThe idea of turning the survival story of the Polish pianist Władysław S…