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It is festival season in the UK. At Boiler Room, I watched The Dare and Yung Lean and, like a person with a university education, critical faculties and chronically insufficient phone storage, filmed practically every song I recognised. Around me, precisely what people go to Boiler Room for was taking
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What's actually happening while everyone argues about whether AI can paint. Review from ArtTech specialist, currently Digital Project Manager at the National Gallery, London.
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How the internet sanitised the public image of female lust
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Auctions come in all flavours, from the classic open English auctions, where everyone eagerly watches as bids fly higher and higher, to the secretive closed, first-and second-price auctions where you might feel like a spy deciphering top-secret bids. Then there are the Dutch auctions, which defy gravity
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Hot take: you cannot understand a country’s culture without watching its television. You can go to museums, pubs, read newspapers, talk to locals — but until you turn on national TV at prime time, you’re a tourist. British television is my anthropological empire. This is where you learn what
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A new Netflix documentary about the iconic reality show is out — and it holds nothing back. Bullying, Tyra's meltdowns, contestants in tears recounting forced makeovers, questionable photoshoots (a model in a salad. In front of homeless people. Models with their skin painted to "change their nationality"
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Latex dresses, Charli XCX, and egg yolk as foreplay — Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights doesn't care what you think.
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or hire one?
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but everybody needs.
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Bidding farewell to the worst sequel in television history
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Watching “The Materialists” and wondering: was that a romcom or a trap?
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Beyoncé is in London.