Klee, one of the most prominent painters of the 20th century, is being celebrated by a Google Doodle this Tuesday

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A Sony chairman said the film has 'the best screenplay that I have had the privilege to read'

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Government had put export bar on famous surrealist object after sale to foreign buyer A Salvador Dalí telephone regarded as one of the most recognisable of all surrealist artworks is to remain in the UK after it was acquired for £853,000 by the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS). The lobster telephone had been

The lawyer is submitting a 22,000 page document hoping to exonerate the convicted murderer

A gender-switch Company got Sondheim’s blessing, Sam Mendes probed the doomed Lehman dynasty and Austen had a sparkling rewrite. But the year belonged to Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins facing the anguish of dementia

The musician promised a 'celebration' and that's precisely what he delivered

The actor talks to Alexandra Pollard about being a single mum in real life and in the post-apocalyptic horror Bird Box

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It's the most wonderful time of the year. As Christmas approaches, we pick the classic songs you need on your festive playlist

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Sexy sambas, Minion goggles and Fred Astaire quicksteps … forget the tabloid scandals – here are the most sensational moments of this year’s competition Although it was Stacey Dooley and Kevin Clifton who lifted the coveted glitterball, dance was the real winner of Strictly Come Dancing. Despite the odd tabloid scandal, the performance levels and choreography this year have been outstanding, and the BBC’s entertainment flagship shows no signs of wear and tear despite being in its 16th series.

'Five pounds is all it takes to make sure that someone gets the proper testing for HIV,' says Kingsman actor

The band are reportedly struggling to find special guests

She also spoke about the second series having a 'different energy'

While a Manchester date has yet to be announced, the pop singer has promised a 'special show'

Ahead of your Christmas TV binge, here's a reminder of some of the best jokes from the iconic series

The Skywalker saga comes to its epic conclusion in December of next year

'Always good to know NASA has your back'

The 1988 tale of a Staten Island woman making waves in the big city was a major hit and scored six Oscar nods, but how do its sexual politics hold up? When Melanie Griffith won the part of underestimated Staten Island secretary Tess McGill in Working Girl, two facts were true. In her short lifetime, womanhood had transformed. The year she was born, fewer than one in eight married mothers were employed; in 1988, that percentage was well over half. And Griffith – a twice-married mother herself, who would soon wed Don Johnson (again) – needed the job. Not any job. This one.

The stunt actor was knocked out three times, and narrowly avoided a pencil to the eyeball

'I don't know about you but it was incredible for me'

West and Scott apparently quashed their argument over the weekend

'It is all nothing less than unfair news coverage and Dem commercials'

Stone claims the Oscar-winner acted inappropriately on multiple occasions while they both starred in The Diary of a Madman.

Hollywood’s influence continued to curb the rise of original shows and increase the movie-to-stage adaptations while female writers struggled to break through In 2018, on Broadway, the beat went on. And on and on. Most of the shows were revivals or new works barely altered from the films that inspired them. Politics were in evidence this year and when they did arrive, they had more to do with questions of power, gender, sexuality and identity inspired by the #MeToo movement. Not that #MeToo meant a real upswing in plays written or directed by women. The Great White Way continues to be very white and very male.

'I'm defending my baby's father'

Madeleine Bessborough’s New Art Centre began in the heart of London – 60 years on, herds of cows wander through its displays of top-tier British sculpture In a sleepy corner of the Wiltshire countryside, nine miles east of Salisbury, sits a cattle farm. To enter, you take a gravel lane that weaves through fields of glossy brown cows chewing the cud, bred here to be sold across the country. However, approach the grand Regency house that sits at the centre of the estate, and a very different cluster of creatures emerge – a formation of 40 metal warriors, an African-Caribbean riff on the Terracotta Army by artist

This year's second-placed candidate breaks down her feelings following the tense finale

The 14th series's victorious candidate on becoming the tycoon's latest business partner

A vigorously entertaining 12 weeks comes to a close with an ego-filled finale

Sian and Camilla served up two poor TV adverts, a questionable logo and a product called ‘nut milk’ as they competed for investment from Lord Sugar Sometimes when I drive to B&Q, I pass that little cafe where the losing Apprentice teams go to lick their wounds before the next firing. It is real enough, unlike Lord Sugar’s boardroom, which was purpose-built in a nearby studio; a cross between a Bond villain’s lair and the Starship Enterprise, it is like a stage perfect for a late-capitalist panto. The Apprentice has now completed its 14th season. It is still trading on the cliches it created, still playing the bumbling venality of the contestants for laughs while trying to convince the viewer that something significant is at stake.

Dooley was widely admired for her hard-hitting documentaries before anyone knew she could dance It has been more than a decade since Stacey Dooley was plucked from her job at Luton airport’s duty free makeup section to join five other young fashion-loving Brits toiling alongside Indian factory labourers for the BBC Three series

Missing since the 1960s, Caravaggio’s Christ in the manger is believed to have been stolen by the mafia and eaten by hogs. But could the painting now be recovered in time for Christmas? It’s that time of year when the nativity paintings in Europe’s churches and museums get their month in the glow of fairy lights. Printed on Christmas cards, these religious masterpieces might make us pause and think for a moment about their serious themes of life, death, change, hope – and loss. One of the most moving of all such scenes of reverence for a newborn child is about to mark its 50th year in limbo. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio’s Nativity With Saints Lawrence and Francis was painted in Palermo, capital of Sicily, in 1609 and stolen 360 years later. It hasn’t been seen since, at least not by any honest citizen. Yet as the anniversary of its disappearance approaches, it may be about to resurface.

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Cardi, who was visibly uncomfortable during the incident, was seen to exchange words with Offset, before the props were wheeled offstage

Saturday Night Live brought in Kate McKinnon and Matt Damon for a sketch lampooning Theresa May and her Brexit strife.

Out of four finalists, it was Dooley and her partner Kevin Clifton that came out on top, despite Craig Revel Horwood's refusal to give her a ten for her showdance

Concerns raised for comedian after he writes: 'I really don't want to be on this earth anymore'

The BBC 6 Music DJ on the beauty of a Berlin recording studio, Daniel Day-Lewis and the art that held up the Haçienda nightclub Born in Garstang, Lancashire, in 1964, Mary Anne Hobbs is a DJ, radio presenter and music journalist. She began her radio career at Xfm before spending 14 years at Radio 1. In 2010, she worked on the Grammy award-nominated soundtrack to

The artist on her giant slugs at Tate Britain, why artists thrive in Glasgow – and how the name Monster has stuck… The artist

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Clarisse Loughrey looks at what's gone wrong for the DCEU franchise – and asks whether popular characters like Harley Quinn can make things right again

Ranging from beloved classics to more recent superhero outings

In 2015, Laibach were the first western band to play North Korea, performing covers of songs from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. Now, they're releasing an album about the trip

The children's classic celebrates its 50th anniversary today (16 December). Martin Chilton unearths some strange facts about the film, which was based on a book by James Bond author Ian Fleming

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Matt Dillon’s crazed architect recalls Lars von Trier’s grisly greatest hits in the director’s perversely timed black comedy In 2011, I interviewed Lars von Trier at his Zentropa offices in Denmark. I told him how much I liked

The contemporary Christmas experience is summed up in Tom Hunter’s photograph of a bar worker In Caspar David Friedrich’s famous painting