Les Demoiselles d’Avignon has been both despised and loved – and reinterpreted BBC News

Once shooting got underway in Rome, that became clear. The lead actress, Maruschka Detmers, collapsed on set with chronic back pain, and was replaced by Andie MacDowell. The cinematographer was fired after a fight with Silver. And the phrase “too many cooks” was never more apt. Lehmann would get ready …

From a veiled virgin to a gold-encrusted Nefertiti, the art behind the fashion BBC News

One way to answer that question is to go back to Austen’s novel. Sandwiched between the two attractive, sensible elder sisters, Jane and Elizabeth, and the immature, younger sisters, Kitty and Lydia, Mary is an outlier. She is neither beautiful, nor silly. So, where does that leave her, and what …

The Queen told the BBC how she left Buckingham Palace to join the crowds BBC News

Yet, where the story of Margo resorting to OnlyFans is a reflection of the financial hardship facing low-income, working mothers, the affluent Cassie’s OnlyFans career is depicted as far more about the pursuit of fame and money. Euphoria’s third season is set five years on, with Cassie now engaged to …

Beef delves into a legitimate grievance that many in the younger generation have: the dire economic straits Gen Zers find themselves in, especially those carrying college debt. In an interview on social media Lee Sung Jin revealed, however, that the idea for the plot was spawned by a mundane domestic …

From the latest Yellowstone spin-off to a new take on William Golding’s novel BBC News

If you need someone to adapt an all-American bestseller involving aquatic wildlife, Olivia Newman is the film-maker for you. Following 2022’s Where the Crawdads Sing, Newman has co-written and directed Remarkably Bright Creatures, a drama based on Shelby Van Pelt’s octopus-centric novel. Sally Field stars as Tova, a grieving aquarium …

More like this: • The serial killer unmasked by his own writing • The shocking kidnap of a teenage newspaper heiress • The heist to reclaim the ancient Stone of Destiny When she appeared in court for sentencing, she declared herself “proudly, incorruptibly guilty”. She was jailed for nine years for receiving the …

Today, just a few volumes in the library are chained – purely for display purposes. And the remaining books are now placed in the modern fashion with their spines out. But otherwise, the medieval room remains a remarkable time capsule of the library’s history. Near the entrance, visitors can even …

Two years ago, Richard Gadd had a surprise TV hit with his autobiographical Netflix drama about being stalked. This follow-up about two step-brothers is equally shocking. In Richard Gadd’s follow up to his galvanising Netflix hit Baby Reindeer, the character he plays roars on to the screen, a glaring, fearsome …

You could see Alpert’s popularity as a last hurrah for the sort of jazz-inflected easy listening that ruled the airwaves in the pre-Elvis era. But there was clearly something in these breezy instrumentals that captured the mid-60s zeitgeist, too. “I played A Taste of Honey in Seattle, Washington, and people …

This saccharine, reverential biopic about controversial music legend Michael Jackson is set to be one of the worst films of 2026 – removing “everything that might be deemed dramatic”. It’s bad. It’s bad. It’s really, really bad. The new Michael Jackson biopic, Michael, is produced by several of his relatives …

The lots were sold over a four-day period from 23 to 26 April 1996 across nine separate sessions. Space in the sale room was limited to about 2,000 potential buyers a day. Sotheby’s anticipated that the auction would raise more than $4.6m ($9.4m or £7m today). By the time the …

All the same, the allegations remain a part of Jackson’s life story, complicating the attempt to turn his life into a nine-figure Hollywood blockbuster. But given current demand for the pop star, it’s likely to be a big hit, too. Industry analysts are predicting that Michael will be even bigger than …

3. Rain Harvest Home, co-designed by Javier Sanchez Arquitectura and Robert Hutchison Architecture This is the porch of a family-owned bolthole in Valle de Bravo, a popular holiday destination for inhabitants of Mexico City, completed in 2020. Rainwater is harvested in this space, which contains a bathhouse, plunge pool under …

8. Kiki de Montparnasse with her Friends Thérèse Treize de Caro and Lily (Kiki de Montparnasse avec ses amies Thérèse Treize de Caro et Lily (c 1932)) Estate Brassai/ Succession Philippe Ribeyrolles copy At the same time that Brassaï was exploring Paris’s underworld he was also hanging out in bohemian artistic circles. …

Wintour has shrewdly positioned herself as someone game enough to embrace a caricature of herself. And the caricature is likely to be kinder now This is not the only recent film publicity tour to blur the lines between actors and fictional characters, an approach that suits this cultural and political …

She continued to work on music throughout the 1960s, but at a slower pace, while taking various jobs including a stint as the editor of the influential Journal for Conflict Resolution in Michigan. In letters to loved ones, written just before she vanished, she said she had struggled in life …