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My personal projects have often focused on the topic of identity, so the world of cosplay immediately appealed to me. I knew nothing about it until I saw some photographs on Instagram and became interested in these people who spend their free time turning themselves into characters from manga, anime, movies and video games – … Read more

Hollywood’s musical biopic fever is, once again, in full swing. Buzz has never been louder for Sam Mendes’s ambitious Fab Four biopic – a quartet of films from the perspective of each Beatle – even with the release date still being three years away. Meanwhile, although Timothée Chalamet might not have taken home the Oscar … Read more

Filled with laughter and pain, and bodies that cry and moan, suffer and sing, Ed Atkins’ exhibition at Tate Britain is populated by the unreal and the simulated, the present and the absent, the living and the dead. We go from light to dark and back again, from room to room, and constant shifts in … Read more

Richard Bernstein, a former correspondent and critic for The New York Times whose deep knowledge of Asia and Europe illuminated reporting from Tiananmen Square to the Bastille, and who wrote things as he saw them in 10 books driven by unflinching intellectual curiosity, died on Monday in Manhattan. He was 80. His death, in a … Read more

Time passes in funny ways when you’re on your phone. Five minutes of swiping on TikTok or tapping through Instagram Stories can slip into 10 minutes, or 20, or one sunken hour. Alex Norstrom, co-president and chief business officer of Spotify, believes some apps will soon “self-swipe,” requiring even less of your effort or awareness. … Read more

Newsmax, the right-wing cable news channel, has been on a roller coaster since its shares started trading on the public markets on Monday. The stock rocketed to a high of $279 on the New York Stock Exchange this week, a price that briefly valued the company at more than $20 billion. On Wednesday, the stock … Read more

Amazon has put in a last-minute bid to acquire all of TikTok, the popular video app, as it approaches an April deadline to be separated from its Chinese owner or face a ban in the United States, according to three people familiar with the bid. Various parties who have been involved in the talks do … Read more

Val Kilmer, the actor best known for his roles in Top Gun, Batman Forever and The Doors, has died at the age of 65. His daughter Mercedes told the New York Times that the cause of death was pneumonia. Kilmer was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014 and later recovered, after treatment with chemotherapy and … Read more

If you took one of Tove Jansson’s Moomins, sprayed them with custard, added a third eye and stretched their ears then you might end up with Beegu. The yellow alien from Alexis Deacon’s popular picture book now crash-lands in a comical show for children aged three to seven. Director Debbie Hannan’s adaptation often forgoes the … Read more

Saoirse-Monica Jackson has done some dramas where everyone was quite sober and all her jokes fell flat. But This City Is Ours was different, not least because of the number of Scousers on set, the Derry Girls star explains. “It wasn’t, like, so serious,” she says. “We had craic off-camera.” However, while it was fun … Read more