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Little known elsewhere, the brutal Calcio Storico is a 500-year-old annual tradition unique to the Tuscan city

I was eight years old when I discovered Albert Einstein. His words not only changed my life, but scientific thinking too

Yes, art can shape our reality. But the metaverse can show us what could be possible in our future

In the future, we’ll be working and playing in digital worlds. Therefore the time to find any meaning in them is now

In Hamlet, Ophelia holds the promise that love doesn't recoil in the face of reality. It is time we opened our arms to the idea

Both Newton and Einstein were right. But, if there are so many inexhaustible, infinite realities, what's to say that there may actually be none at all?

Archaeological evidence indicates the language was used in southern England before the Roman invasion of AD43

Just as art allows us to expand our constructs, so does this new technological terrain. This is the future artists like myself paint

My books pledge and hope that while they have your attention you will not be alone, and that the same will be true when you are finished

A new Netflix show about tech-bro chaos and indulgence is topical and current. It's also completely played out

As the show's writer and sole performer, Nikhil Parmar deserves the highest praise for creating a show that's sad, funny and honest in equal measure

This recipe is refreshingly simple. But, more importantly, they’re affordable too

There are 26 letters in the English alphabet, but three of them need not be there at all. Could they be put to better use?

In an ever-vigilant society it’s often worth keeping your wits about you. But, has this practice gone too far?

French director Olivier Assayas has spun his cult 1990s film Irma Vep into a sexy, funny, dizzyingly multilayered TV series.

Organisers wanted to shake up a German contemporary art show. They did that, all right

Two centuries since his dramatic death at sea, the legacy of Percy Bysshe Shelley lives on

Salem is the King of Manele – the Middle Eastern-flavoured Romanian pop music descended from Roma folk music. But, some of his material divides audiences

If Angela Rayner’s trip to the lawns of Glyndebourne put a different social spin to opera, music bosses will surely be buying her champagne

Can urban art build bridges instead of walls? Eleven artists across Europe have come together to prove just this

The Austrian-American composer was convinced atonality was the future of music. Sadly, his fear of the number 13 led to his death before this day could arrive

There’s a good play to be written about what happens to us in advanced old age. Sadly, this production is not it

Set in 2019, Roy Williams’ state-of-the-nation play tells the story of a country that’s gotten itself into a bit of a state

The new Netflix drama sets aside political quibbles and moments of cultural discord, settling instead for lighter watching

When the Women’s Euros begin this week, some will carp about a quality gap with the men’s game. The rest of us will just enjoy the skill and the spectacle

Far more than the Britpop bands, it was the Young British Artists who best personified the Blair era

The presenter managed to stay at the top for six decades, winning hearts whether baring her monochrome midriff to a startled nation or holding that same nation’s politicians to account in full colour

In a fiercely regional country the tortilla española is the one universal dish

This would not be out of place in an elegant, pared-back Roman trattoria, despite the hyper-modern, billowing nature of the Big Mamma restaurants it is served in

A remarkable account of illegal travels through the deserted villages and towns near Chernobyl

Heilung's ancient-sounding music has slotted neatly into pop culture’s current enthusiasm for a bloody and merciless northern European past

An emphasis on Russian culture has left the languages of many small, semi-nomadic peoples vulnerable to extinction