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How a disastrously expensive baseball signing gave his name to a new form of aleatoric art

PETER TRUDGILL on the schools that took children away from their homes and forced them to abandon their own language and practices

Pour yourself a drink and learn how a Ukrainian cocktail maker is using his brand to fundraise for humanitarian work in his home country

Paris St Germain's superstar project has failed and the fans are turning their fire on their expensive acquisitions

Largely forgotten in his own country, Murray Head remains an adoptive hero in France

If we cut off Russian musicians indiscriminately, are we cutting off their right to the free speech over which this battle is essentially being fought?

A new exhibition in Milan shows us the art affluent Europeans would have seen on that 17th- and 18th-century rite of passage, the Grand Tour

A former journalist’s debut novel explores our fascination with the partners of dictators

The Worst Person in the World city's renaissance

The German version of Netflix's hit makeover series looks cheaper and more like a world I can recognise, says MEGAN NOLAN

The National's staging of Small Island shows a theatre that has now totally lost its way

Max Webster's production revels in warfare when his audiences are sick to death of it

As Russian forces pound his country’s cities, towns and villages, Serhiy Zhadan’s The Orphanage offers a poignant portrayal of what such an onslaught feels like, and a reminder that Ukraine has been living with conflict for years

With war under way, it is impossible to visit a new exhibition of Francis Bacon's work and not think about humans’ terrible vulnerability in the face of shot and shell

Few nations can boast a cultural figure so enmeshed with the very essence of their national identity as Taras Shevchenko, writes CHARLIE CONNELLY

PETER TRUDGILL explains how Catherine the Great’s ‘Greek Project’ led to the naming of Khersón

Ukrainian cuisine has not been recognised enough in the UK. There is no better time than now

The water shortage in Extremadura is becoming critical, writes PETER BARRON

Designed to produce ephemeral pop stars, Pop Idol produced some acts who have kicked against expectations

In a reclaimed tobacco warehouse in Umbria once used to squirrel away his favourite paintings, Alberto Burri’s work now reaches out to a wider audience

One of the best ways to understand the national psyche is to delve into its rich library of literature

A leading light of contemporary French cinema, Jacques Audiard is now trying to redefine the nouvelle vague aesthetic for a new century

News from across Europe you might have missed, including reality hitting Italian TV contestants and a surprising find in a mop bucket

The Promise has an excellent cast but the plot is subsumed by the standard demands of a detective show

Chelsea’s future is uncertain and manager Thomas Tuchel finds himself asked questions about war and morality instead of tactics and injuries

The Feeder frontman on reflecting the pandemic, the decline of guitar bands and avoiding TikTok

A turbulent time in British political history is delivered with composure, wit and a splash of humility

Even a cursory reading of the Russians would have explained to many in the West why Putin was going to invade Ukraine, says WILL SELF

CHARLIE CONNELLY on a charming and bewitchingly charismatic medical practitioner whose methods were declared hokum after long keeping the elite mesmerised

One region of England was still predominantly Welsh-speaking well into the 18th century – and its roots remain strong today

Shrove Tuesday has just flown past. Use the last of the batter mix cooking this

While some in sport suck up to Vladimir Putin, others are reacting correctly to the threat of the obliteration of life on our continent