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  • a protest with people holding signs, one of which says 'free cuba'

    Film
    ‘You have to be prepared for the worst’: making a film on the fight for democracy in Cuba

  • Rene Magritte’s Empire of Light, on display at Christie's.

    Art and design
    Magritte painting sells for record $121m at auction

  • Tammy Faye’s Broadway opening in New York … (l-r) Jake Shears, Christian Borle, Katie Brayben, Elton John, Michael Cerveris and the cast.

    Stage
    Elton John’s musical Tammy Faye to close on Broadway less than a month after opening

  • film still of man and woman looking at each other

    Film
    The Merry Gentlemen – more forgettable festive filler from Netflix

Talking points

  • Kit Harington in Industry, season three.

    Television
    Tell us your favourite TV shows of 2024

  • Charles Manson Riding on Police Bus<br>(Original Caption) Los Angeles: Charles Manson, accused leader of a hippie cult charged with the Tate-LaBianca murders, is heavily guarded as he leaves the Hall of Justice following arraignment December 11th. He is shown being taken to a police van for removal to a jail cell and peering through the barred windows of the police van. Bearded, short of stature, he is wearing a fringed buckskin outfit.

    Television
    ‘We’re humanizing Manson’: docuseries adds depth to a notorious criminal

  • Travelling on a completely different road to everyone else … Kraftwerk.

    Music
    ‘A road trip like no other’: my epic drive on Kraftwerk’s Autobahn

  • Paul Mescal as Lucius in Gladiator II.

    Film
    Great movies can play fast and loose with history. But not Gladiator II with its rhinos and cafe culture

    Charlotte Higgins

People

  • Session guitarist Vic Flick performs in California in 2002

    Music
    Vic Flick, guitarist on the James Bond theme, dies aged 87

  • Colin Petersen performs with the Bee Gees in 1967.

    Music
    Two Bee Gees drummers die within days of one another

    • Sandra Gilbert receives an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at Harvard University in 2017.

      Books
      Sandra Gilbert, co-author of The Madwoman in the Attic, dies aged 87

    • The Mars Volta

      Music
      The Mars Volta: ‘The world we were in was very sexist and homophobic’

    • Undated film still handout from Gladiator II. Pictured: Denzel Washington as Macrinus. See PA Feature SHOWBIZ Film Gladiator. WARNING: This picture must only be used to accompany PA Feature SHOWBIZ Film Gladiator. PA Photo. Picture credit should read: Aidan Monaghan/© 2024 Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved. NOTE TO EDITORS: This picture must only be used to accompany PA Feature SHOWBIZ Film Gladiator.

      Film
      Ridley Scott says Denzel Washington’s same-sex kiss in Gladiator II ‘didn’t happen’

The big picture

  • The Americans - Centennial<br>04 Americans

    ‘It changed 20th-century art’: revisiting Robert Frank’s The Americans – in pictures

    Frank’s iconic photo book exposed the racism, loneliness and consumer culture lurking behind the American dream. It still resonates today

Reviews

  • Showing the familiar in unfamiliar ways … Our Oceans.

    Television
    Our Oceans – Barack Obama’s nature show might be the most beautiful thing you see all year

  • Ariana Grande (Galinda) and Cynthia Erivo (Elphaba) in Wicked.

    Film
    Wicked – Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande are a blast in sugar-rush Wizard of Oz fantasy

    • A man wearing a hoodie and nametag and a woman holding a walkie talkie look at each other

      Television
      Interior Chinatown – ambitious, yet tiring, adaptation of Charles Yu’s novel

    • Dirty work … Billy Bob Thornton as Tommy Norris in Landman.

      Television
      Landman – Billy Bob Thornton lets rip with the one-liners in this gritty oil industry drama

    • a film still of a woman in armour running

      Television
      Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints – curio docudrama series

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Pictures & video

  • Hair raising … Gold with a Mind of Its Own by Chelsea Odufu.

    Photography
    Going for gold: the best of Africa Foto Fair – in pictures

    From the niqab reimagined as a luxury brand good to the plights of female boxers in Lagos, this year’s festival mixes politics with panache
  • The Americans - Centennial<br>04 Americans

    Robert Frank
    ‘It changed 20th-century art’: revisiting Robert Frank’s The Americans – in pictures

  • Kids on a rooftop of Kowloon’s Walled City, Hong Kong, 1989.

    Hong Kong
    Noodles, AI skyscraping and survival: inside Kowloon Walled City – in pictures

  • Photography
    Snowstorms, steel and a celebrity deer: Gregory Halpern goes home – in pictures

  • Stage
    Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam morphs into a Wayne McGregor ballet – in pictures

  • Awards
    It’s a sitter! Taylor Wessing photo portrait prize winners – in pictures

  • Art photography
    Unseen desire: the radical gaze of Rotimi Fani-Kayode – in pictures

  • Art and design
    Propaganda: 100 years of fear, manipulation and persuasion – in pictures

  • The Guardian picture essay
    Mud in their blood: the wild world of mud bombing

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