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What eight ghostly portraits found hidden inside masterpieces reveal

The Courtauld Institute of Art In the past month alone, shadowy portraits have been found hidden in longstanding masterpieces by Titian and Picasso. What can

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How Brazil propelled drama I’m Still Here to be this year’s Oscars dark horse

Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics Starring Fernanda Torres and centring on a family torn apart by Brazil’s military dictatorship, I’m Still Here is up for

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This WW2 miniseries is a ‘stunning’ showcase for Jacob Elordi

Curio Pictures The Euphoria star shines in this remarkable adaptation of a Booker Prize-winning novel about an Australian prisoner of war in Thailand. What do

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US fashion star Christopher John Rogers on fighting against ‘quiet luxury’

Serenity Strull/ BBC The new star of US fashion Christopher John Rogers’ bold designs are worn by the likes of Zendaya and Gigi Hadid. Backstage

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The rocky 1960s origins of online dating

BBC (Credit: BBC) In 1966, the BBC’s Tomorrow’s World visited a party in New York organised by the electronic dating service Tact, or Technical Automated

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How true is The Brutalist? The real-life history of Jewish immigrants in post-WW2 America

Universal Pictures (Credit: Universal Pictures) A fictional story about the struggles of a Holocaust survivor in the US is favourite to win the best picture

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Why Mary Todd Lincoln became the US’s most vilified First Lady

Library of Congress (Credit: Library of Congress) Abraham Lincoln’s wife was long attacked for everything from her spending to her lack of emotional restraint. But

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Will Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón’s offensive X posts derail the Oscar favourite’s chances?

Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) The unearthing of inflammatory social media remarks by the actress about subjects including George Floyd, Islam and the Oscars itself

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Six Nordic paintings that can help us rethink winter

Munchmuseet/ Halvor Bjorngard Winter isn’t all bad – these “sublime” landscapes of the frozen North from the turn of the 20th Century offer us a

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How TV spy thrillers are booming in an age of distrust

Netflix (Credit: Netflix) From Netflix mega-hit The Night Agent to Apple TV+’s beloved Slow Horses, tales of secret agents and sinister plots are becoming ever