Art critic Richard Dorment brings to vivid and fearsome life the characters in a protracted and hugely expensive legal battle over the authenticity of a Warhol printAndy Warhol began his career by mocking the notion of art’s sanctimonious status and el...
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JA Bayona’s powerful retelling of the 1972 rugby team’s flight that crashed in the Andes and the agonising decisions passengers took in order to stay aliveThe story of the 1972 Uruguayan air crash in the remote Andes, and the ordeal of the survivors wh...
The American artist revelled in creating surreal sculptures, from spike-heeled shoes to watermelon bread slices – a new book collects his influential work Continue reading...
Demetrious Polychron ordered to destroy all copies of The Fellowship of the King after claiming Amazon prequel infringed his copyrightA Lord of the Rings fanfiction writer has lost a copyright lawsuit over the publication of his own sequel to the much-...
The director lays on the strident messaging in this clunky film, all about the gutsy underdogs of the US rowing team at the 1936 Berlin OlympicsGeorge Clooney has been a charming and dapper Anglophile presence on the awards circuit this season while pr...
Ophelia journeys beyond the grave, in a clever and affecting sequel using just the 481 words spoken by Shakespeare’s characterIn the mid-1990s, Paul Griffiths set himself a challenge. He would attempt to give new voice to Hamlet’s Ophelia using on...
Carla Williams’s self-portraits, taken during her time studying at Princeton, became a journey of self-discovery, inspired by finding her father’s **** collection Continue reading...
Fumi Nagasaka had never been to the deep south before visiting Dora in Walker County – the people she met and photographed there confounded her expectations Continue reading...
The actor narrates his remarkable journey from a difficult childhood in West Yorkshire to finding fame in Hollywood In Making It So, the actor Patrick Stewart chronicles his working-class childhood in a two-up, two-down in Mirfield, West Yorkshire, whe...
The last word, our series about emotions and states of mind in books, focuses on depictions of happiness this month, from Austen’s Persuasion to a 21st-century sonnetWordsworth was surprised by it. For Anaïs Nin, it was ever out of reach. As she wrote ...