Fifty years after Picasso’s death, we still struggle with the figure of the monstrous genius
The Musée Picasso Paris’s collaboration with Paul Smith attempts to reframe the great artist. Plus: another backlash for the BBC.
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Rebecca Taylor’s empowering, maximalist pop comes alive on stage: this is an irresistible communal spectacle.
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Mae Muller’s Eurovision entry is a TikTok-friendly bop with a light feminist gloss
“I Wrote a Song” is no pop masterpiece, but is saved by its charming glimmers of Britishness.
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How the tabloids outed George Michael
A new Channel 4 doc explores the media’s glee at the singer’s arrest for “lewd acts” in 1998. But in…
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Can’t Glastonbury do better than its dull, white, male headliners?
The rockers that make up this year’s headliners make the festival seem like a relic from the past.
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The return of the Beatles vs Stones wars
As news of a Rolling Stones album featuring Paul McCartney appears, the press reignites a culture war it confected.
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Frank Turner: “Stop asking musicians about politics”
The punk rock singer on indie venues in crisis, his transgender father and songs inspired by Keir Starmer.
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The war within Pink Floyd
How a Shakespearean battle between Dave Gilmour and Roger Waters erupted over art, money and geopolitics.
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