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Adele reluctantly beats Beyoncé for top prizes as politics flaresBritish singer swept the top awards after her performance mishap while A Tribe Called Quest and Busta Rhymes called out ‘President Agent Orange’ -
John Oliver on Trump and the truth: 'a pathological liar'In his return to HBO, the host of Last Week Tonight dissected the troubling falsehoods in the president’s statements and exactly where they originate
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Titus parodies Beyoncé in teaserThe first footage from the third season of Tina Fey’s award-winning Netflix comedy centers around a spoof of the singer’s Hold Up video -
La La Land fails to win Baftas landslide on night of diversityDamien Chazelle’s film takes five key awards in evening of surprises which sees major wins for Lion and Manchester by the Sea but Moonlight shut out entirely
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A new kind of anarchy is going to happen nextThe Hairspray director is famed for his boundary-trashing B-movies but he hopes Trump’s presidency will inspire the next wave of punk-rock film-makers
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Grammy-winning jazz, pop and R&B singer dies at 76Wisconsin native won seven Grammys in three categories in a 50-year career, with his biggest hits being We’re in This Love Together and Moonlighting theme
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I was hit by a realisation – all I believed in was threatenedHe upended fashion photography and embraced digital technology to create luminously beautiful images of nature. As his new Tate show opens, Wolfgang Tillmans talks about his reinvention as an EU posterboy – and his four-hour version of the Pet Shop Boys hit It’s a Sin
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the big picture
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The grisly lens of Enrique MetinidesAs a child, Enrique Metinides photographed the bloody crime scenes of Mexico City – leading to a lifetime of ambulance chasing and macabre images
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Of course you never see the real person when you fall for someone; you see a self-flattering illusion, and this is triply true with celebrity crushesOh, how I loved you, Johnny Depp. Now I see the purple-tinted truth
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John Wick: Chapter 2 is a shameful example of Hollywood gun pornographyThe sequel to the Keanu Reeves sleeper hit might be efficiently slick but its obsession with weaponry leaves a nasty taste in the mouth
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pictures & video
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Watch act one from Opera North's stripped-back Ring CycleOpera North’s new approach to Wagner was praised for its dramatic power, musical integrity and accessibility. You can watch the first act of Die Walküre here
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Small is beautiful – art from tiny objects - in picturesAtlanta-based artist and neuroscience PhD student Desirée De León makes little things into miniature worlds
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A boy with a gun at Michael X's HQ‘He was only 10 but I was scared. He handled the gun with a sense of purpose’
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We can all learn a lot from Jimmy CarterThe star of Mike Mills’s Oscar-nominated 20th Century Women speaks of her admiration for the former president
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Obama's photographer takes subtle digs at Trump on InstagramPete Souza, the former chief photographer for Barack Obama in the White House, appears to be attempting to troll Donald Trump on Instagram
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Queen of soul's career in picturesSinger Aretha Franklin has announced she will retire – after recording one final album with Stevie Wonder – 61 years on from the release of her first record. The Queen of Soul revealed her plans on a Detroit TV channel, saying: ‘I must tell you, I am retiring this year’
'A time for guerrilla DIY' How the Mexico-US border became a hub for protest art