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Nick Trend’s new book explores the places where Giotto and Leonardo constructed a country’s heritage

Wolfgang Flür, once part of the band’s classic line-up, on putting humanity into electronic music

The advance of human civilisation has been driven by the use of minerals - in the long run, the lesson is that political and military power comes from the earth’s crust

Sally Wainwright’s punk requiem for the invisible offers a loud argument that rage can bring change

This film is a fine addition to Daniel Day-Lewis’s body of work, one of the greatest in cinema

Nava Golchini dreams of the day she can go home and perform. Gabbeh, her debut album as NAVA, turns hyperpop into protest

Starting with Jennifer Lawrence’s Die My Love, a new wave of women-led films is showing what it really means to come undone

Can an alignment of names and occupations ever have involved more than just simple coincidence?

His fans love his humour, his cheerful self-deprecation, his gritty gentleness, his ability to make sense of the brittleness of the world

When it comes to celebrating the dead, can AI do the job as well as a loved one?

As geopolitical tensions rise, a new generation of artists is quietly rewriting the script

As Cop30 approaches, apocalyptic visions look more everyday than ever

Nothing is more transparent than Silicon Valley’s fixation with longevity and, ideally, immortality, revealing a desperate fear of death

Digital mystics are flooding TikTok and Etsy – and with religion fading and loneliness rising, they’re filling a spiritual vacuum

The far right activist’s assassination was the catalyst for an artist drawing a line under his annual memorial project

It’s fun to entertain the possibility of panpsychism – that all the physical things around you have some level of experience. But that doesn’t mean it’s how reality works

At the heart of Tom Morris’s brilliant production is Toby Jones’s astonishing performance of Iago. It is, by far, the best I've ever seen

Eight ships that sailed into history show how the past can often be found in the great hunks of floating metal

There’s more humanity in this standout play about Thatcher’s Britain than in the decade itself

Bugonia is their fifth film together, and for some, the magic is wearing thin

From The Shining to Get Out, here's our editor-at-large's guide of what to watch this Halloween

Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news

The singer’s remarkable new album West End Girl reveals a world in which women are gaslit into accepting their partners cheating

Scott Cooper’s superior biopic is a nuanced and absorbing account of a very particular cultural and personal moment in time

Kathryn Bigelow’s excellent thriller A House of Dynamite is part of a mushrooming trend

Deliver Me From Nowhere shows The Boss doing the work that politicians won’t – and telling the truth about a nation seduced by lies about itself

I’ve no idea why film is the one medium I just can’t seem to crack. Maybe it’s my attention span

Morphemes are the building blocks essential for the composition of words

The Thai duty-free magnate bought Leicester City and brought it the most unlikely title in English football history

The industry has fostered a cult of personality that seems to leave the tech press starstruck and unquestioning of nonsensical claims