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Patrick Stewart, ‘Star Trek’ Captain and Professor X on ‘X-Men,’ Dies at 86
The British actor was 86. He achieved pop-culture stardom as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard on “Star Trek: The Next Generation.”
Documenta 16 Names Four New Curatorial Team Members
The embattled German exhibition's latest appointments, artist Catherine Opie wins a Yale University award, and Dallas Art Fair partners with … a university?
Foster + Partners unveils replacement for landmark San Siro stadium in Milan
British architecture studio Foster + Partners and US studio Manica have unveiled their design for Generali Stadium, a new football stadium for clubs AC Milan and Inter Milan, set to replace Italy's iconic San Siro.
Henry Holland creates wallpaper and fabric collection with a "language developed through ceramics"
Designer Henry Holland's textual fabric and textile collection for luxury interior furnishings company Harlequin was informed by his work as a ceramicist, he tells Dezeen in this interview. Simply named Harlequin x Henry…
How a Walmart Heir Is Transforming Rural Arkansas Into a Design Powerhouse
Alice Walton is helping the Ozark region shed its “flyover” status by creating civic projects with top architects. The Waltons say they are “giving back.” What is the region giving up?
How Édouard Manet's Black Cat Became a Symbol of Modernity
Long associated with witchcraft and bad luck, the black feline became an emblem of artistic rebellion and urban life in 19th-century Paris.
Sir Patrick Stewart: Actor who moved effortlessly between Star Trek and Shakespeare
The English actor began his career on stage before finding fame as the captain of the USS Enterprise.
Ex-Top Gear host Richard Hammond's 'brave' new Welsh life wild swimming and running
The former Top Gear star bought a 19th Century Georgian mansion near Abergavenny in November 2025.
George Michael's Faith guitar sells for £180k after auction row
The brother of the singer's late personal assistant said she would not have wanted the items to be sold.
The Mosquito Bowl review – Netflix mixes football, war and cliches in slick by-the-numbers saga
Peter Berg’s handsomely made second world war drama about a football game before the battle of Okinawa is stirring but filled with eye-rolling dialogueForgive me, but it is difficult not to be a little cynical about The…
Phoebe Bridgers Announces Madison Square Garden EP
Out now via Tidal
Herzog & de Meuron and Field Operations release visuals of Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity
Master plan designs for the Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity museum in California have been released, showing galleries connected via a bridge in an adapted 1960s warehouse and a landscape designed by Field Operatio…
Nick Valensi Is Busy Playing With Everyone But the Strokes
He’s on a “temporary break” from his longtime band—but not from performing with other artists
Middlemarch review – World’s Greatest Novel hurtles from deathbed panto to jolting marital tragedy
Swan theatre, Stratford-Upon-AvonThis RSC staging of the sprawling middle England masterpiece has humour, compassion – and even George Eliot herself as a characterIs there a literary achievement greater than George Eliot…
Elke Sommer, prolific German star of A Shot in the Dark and And Then There Were None, dies aged 85
The Berlin-born performer had a gift for languages that took her to Hollywood, landing roles alongside Peter Sellers, Dick Van Dyke and Paul NewmanElke Sommer, the prolific German star of the Pink Panther film A Shot in…
Sarah Howe wins Forward poetry prize for best collection
Howe’s ‘exceptional’ Foretokens took the main £10,000 award, while Nur Turkmani, Tara Bergin and Biff Smith swept up the remaining categoriesSarah Howe has won the Forward prize for best collection, one of the UK’s most…
‘He buckled. I could hear his bass ringing out ...’ The luminous rise and tragic end of US alt heroes Morphine
Fronted by Mark Sandman, the group brought enigmatic, elegant rock to post-grunge America. As lost demos surface, those closest to Sandman remember a man who grabbed on to life’s joysIt’s early 1998, and at Fort Apach…
Bram Stoker’s Dracula audiobook review – cinematic horror with an A-list cast
Jonathan Bailey, Ella Purnell, Aimee-Lou Wood, Maggie Gyllenhaal and more bring shock and gore to an immersive retelling with real biteDo we really need another retelling of Bram Stoker’s fabled horror novel, which has a…
The Sea review – Jennifer Saunders takes fussing over buying curtains to Shakespearean levels
Theatre Royal BathEdward Bond’s play about consumerism and the strength of humans in dark times is hugely enlivened by Saunders and her tight-lipped pomposityWhen describing his own play, the late playwright Edward Bond…
If British Library reading rooms become ‘co-working spaces’, it’s all too easy to imagine what comes next | Andy Beckett
The plan to generate revenue from areas currently used by the public is causing bitter dispute, and raises fundamental questions In a crowded country that is short of public money, any expansive public building that seem…
Girls review – a story of friendship amidst extreme misogynist violence
Young Vic, LondonRecalling Boko Haram’s abduction of schoolgirls in Chibok in 2014, Theresa Ikoko’s fierce and tender play reveals how three teenagers find hope and laughter under the most horrific circumstancesThree gir…