Hip-hop A&R Dante Ross on De La Soul, ODB – and punchups with P Diddy
Hailed as the genre’s Forrest Gump for his time with artists from Busta Rhymes to Santana, today Ross contends that streaming, sampling and materialism have changed the genre beyond recognition
Cannes 2023
Firebrand – Jude Law’s obese and oozy Henry VIII rules supreme in Catherine Parr drama
The ailing king’s misogyny is compellingly disturbing but Alicia Vikander is underused as his final wife
The toxic landscape of colonialism: Venice’s Architecture Biennale spotlights Africa
Speak now: why pop stars must do more to defend LGBTQ+ fans
Jeffrey Ingold
Forget Jurassic Park: inside the gorgeous David Attenborough series that’s redefining dinosaurs
People
Cannes 2023
Sean Penn says failing to resist rise in AI screenwriting is a ‘human obscenity’
At Cannes film festival, the actor expressed his solidarity with the striking Writers Guild of America
‘Only God can say – That’s enough’: Wanda Sykes, the uncancellable standup superstar
She ditched life as a government agent to become a comedian, one so fearless she even has a ‘tampon lasso’. The comic legend discusses cancelled men, coming out – and calling out Roseanne
Helmut Berger, star of Visconti’s The Damned, dies aged 78
‘Taking their clothes off was a metaphor’: The Full Monty creators on the return of their Sheffield strippers
Andy Rourke, bassist for the Smiths, dies aged 59
The big picture
Andy Rourke of the Smiths: his life in pictures
The bassist whose melodic lines chimed with Johnny Marr’s guitar in the landmark indie band has died. We look back at moments in his life on stage and off
Reviews
Books
Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer – beauty and the beast
Is it OK to love the art of a morally repugnant artist?
Music
Brandy Clark: Brandy Clark – country provocateur holds too much back on faltering fourth album
There are some gorgeous songs here, and some inventive arrangements, but the wit and honesty of her previous work seems diminished
Television & radio
Muted – so bad you’ll want to howl at your TV screen
Music
Blur: The Narcissist – a band finally at ease with themselves
Books
Anam by André Dao – decades-spanning family epic probes the difficulties of memory
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Pictures & video
The big picture
Bud Lee captures the 1967 Newark riots
The American photographer’s stark images of the clashes in New Jersey and their aftermath kicked off a nationwide debate about police violence
The water’s lovely
Art that celebrates bathing – in pictures
Andy Rourke
His life in pictures
The 1967 Newark riots
Where there is oppression, there is resistance
Take it to church
Inside a dwindling service
‘What do we need to feel safe?’
Lives affected by homelessness
Shore thing
The unique landscape of Lake Erie
Wayne McGregor’s UniVerse
A Dark Crystal Odyssey
Human skulls and grass bums
Pioneering female photographers
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