"Afghanistan"
‘The ghosts are everywhere’: can the British Museum survive its omni-crisis?
Beset by colonial controversy, difficult finances and the discovery of a thief on the inside, Britain’s most visited museum is in deep trouble. Can it restore its reputation?
Charlotte Higgins
16, Jan, 2025 @5:00 AM
From Maria to Franz Ferdinand: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment in the UK
Angelina Jolie portrays the peerless operatic diva while the Scottish post-punkers return with their new album
11, Jan, 2025 @6:00 AM
Wag the Dog: a pitch-black political comedy that’s never looked more relevant
Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman lead an all-star cast in this satire about a spin doctor and a film producer who fake a war to divert attention from a presidential sex scandal
Elizabeth Quinn
08, Oct, 2024 @2:00 PM
Silk Roads review – mesmerising show turns world history upside down
Following China’s epic ancient trade routes through fabulous oases, desert palaces and burial mounds will radically change the way you feel about borders
Jonathan Jones
23, Sep, 2024 @11:01 PM
From The Substance to Uncanny Visions: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment
Demi Moore defies ageing in a juicy body horror, while Paula Rego and Goya share their nightmares in Bath
21, Sep, 2024 @5:00 AM
From Van Gogh to Le Va, Rego to the Renaissance: the best exhibitions for autumn 2024
From this year’s Turner prize and pioneering scatter art to Monet’s London and Goya’s surreal visions – there’s something for all art lovers
Jonathan Jones, Adrian Searle and Oliver Wainwright
28, Aug, 2024 @7:00 AM
From Alien: Romulus to Ugly Sisters: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment
The luckless crew of space colonists go up against the meanest acid-blooded mother in deep space, while things start to heat up in Edinburgh for the fringe
17, Aug, 2024 @5:00 AM
Inside Out 2 to House of the Dragon: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment
A teenage Riley gets to know Anxiety and Envy in the Pixar animated sequel, and Westeros descends into civil war as the Game of Thrones prequel returns
15, Jun, 2024 @5:00 AM
‘Their heads were nailed to the trees’: what was life – and death – like for Roman legionaries?
It was the defeat that traumatised Rome, leaving 15,000 soldiers slaughtered in a German field. As a major show explores this horror and more, our writer finds traces of the fallen by a forest near the Rhine
Charlotte Higgins
29, Jan, 2024 @5:00 AM
The best European culture of 2023
Critics, writers and broadcasters pick their home country’s cultural highlight of 2023, which they hope will find international success in 2024
20, Dec, 2023 @1:00 PM
Sir Bobby Charlton remembered by Giles Duley
The photographer who worked closely with Charlton to campaign against landmines recalls the football legend’s humour and compassion
17, Dec, 2023 @6:00 PM
From A Haunting in Venice to Sex Education: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment
Kenneth Branagh twirls his moustache once more in this new Agatha adaptation, and the no-shame high-school comedy returns for one final outing
16, Sep, 2023 @5:00 AM
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