Category: 5. Entertainment

The BBC has confirmed it will go ahead with broadcasting the latest series of Celebrity MasterChef, featuring sacked co-presenter John Torode.

Torode was sacked in the summer after an allegation against him using “an extremely offensive racist…

When the presenter Jesse Burgess goes to a restaurant, the kitchen always sends him dishes he didn’t order. One of the ironies of fame is that the more you can afford, the less you have to pay for it. Except that Burgess isn’t a celebrity, he…

Exhibition of the week

The Singh Twins and Flora Indica
A look at the colonial history behind British botany, plus a survey of Indian botanical art in the age of the East India Company.
Kew Gardens, London, until 12 April

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The chart-topping pop star and actor Renée Rapp has excoriated Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) and Donald Trump in an expletive-filled onstage rant.

Rapp was performing in Portland, Oregon, where Trump is attempting to send national…

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South Korean author Baek…

The work of the poet Maurice Rutherford, who has died aged 103, ranges from love poems and elegies for his late wife to friendly, witty, but sometimes politically trenchant responses to poems by Philip Larkin, and demonstrates that a poet can be…

Like the guard injured during the Worcester Art Museum robbery, security employees rarely carried arms – and, as portrayed mockingly in The Mastermind, they could often be dozy “retirees” or “acid heads”, as Reichardt says, with limited…

Tame Impala’s work is significant to many.

Whether it be that of the exploratory and ambitious “Mind Mischief,” released on “Lonerism” in 2012, or the ever-present “The Less I Know the Better,” off of “Currents,” leading man…

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According to one account, Johannes Vermeer, the great 17th-century Dutch painter, was a genius so potent that a close…

Visitors to Tate Modern are used to unusual encounters in its vast Turbine Hall. They’ve sunbathed before an artificial sun, slid down helter skelters and witnessed AI-powered robotic jellyfish floating through the air. But this is the first…