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‘Stranger than stranger-than-fiction’: how Lance Oppenheim made the year’s two buzziest films

Primetime and You Can See Everything are both clammy, audacious awards contenders that challenge our sense of reality. Ahead of the release of his drama starring Robert Pattinson as a TV vigilante, the 30-year-old director talks crime, punishment and South Park

This dripless oil can is the prettiest thing in my kitchen

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Vermeer by Andrew Graham-Dixon audiobook review

The author offers intriguing insights into the way this Dutch artist worked, including fresh perspectives on The Girl With the Pearl Earring

'Don’t do this!' Why Paul McCartney cares about looking shorter than John Lennon in Sam Mendes’ Beatles films

You’re Paul McCartney. So how come you’re still getting het up at a fictional version of you being marginally smaller than a fictional version of John Lennon?

Pope.L review

Modern Art, LondonThe late American took on liberal presumptions and the commercialism of Black culture, even dressing in white bunny ears and underpants

Construction’s Data Center Boom

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Computers don’t have rights, and it is dangerous for humans to pretend they do

Computers don’t have rights. No matter how smart they are. That may sound like an obvious, even unnecessary statement, but in the effective altruist world occupied by some companies building superintelligence, that’s a controversial and possibly even offensive reality.

What to know about Starshield, SpaceX's military-focused Starlink service

Elon Musk distinguished Starshield from Starlink, which he said could not be used for offensive military operations.

From Mario to machine guns: how Ubisoft Paris made Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Tactics

The studio is swapping the Mushroom Kingdom's vivid palette for the blood-soaked grit of military action series

Pretty in pink: the best of PhotoMonth 2026

This year’s London photography festival takes you from the colourful streets of Kolkata to the grim isolation units of Guantánamo Bay

By Design review

A musician becomes obsessed with the haunted seat, but the potentially hilarious premise sleepwalks its way to an unsatisfying conclusion

Her royal heilness: Berlin show revisits the artist who turned the Queen into a Nazi

The late Christoph Schlingensief was one of German art’s great provocateurs. Can his B-Movie horror aesthetics still shock us into thinking anew about media power, colonialism, and the far right?