Category: 5. Entertainment

Taylor Swift’s 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl, has given the US pop star her biggest-ever opening week on the UK chart.

It is her 14th No 1 album (she has also scored No 1s with the Taylor’s Version rerecordings of previous albums), moving…

It’s hard to pick a favourite Penelope Wilton character; she tends to play such lovely and forgiving people, from John Cleese’s ex-girlfriend in Clockwise, Simon Pegg’s mum in Shaun of the Dead (“Don’t point that gun at my mum!”),…

1 of 4 | Co-Founders of The Archewell Foundation and Project Healthy Minds’ Humanitarians of the Year Award recipients Prince Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex, arrive on the red carpet at the third annual World Mental Health Day Gala…

Lately, it feels as if not a year goes by without a critical mass of museums celebrating the anniversary of the birth or the death of some famous artist. Usually, the artist is male. Often, he is white. This autumn, the man of the hour is Robert…

My husband, Mark Saunders, who has died aged 68, was an independent film-maker, engaged in participatory media practices since the early 1980s. In 1982 he founded the media co-operative Despite TV and in 1990 Spectacle Productions, a TV…

Who invented art? – Grace, aged nine, Belfast, UK

Before we can answer this question, we need to think about another one: “what is art?” Art is something people make to share ideas or feelings. It can make others think or feel…

It was the wedding heard around the world: Last month, Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco officially tied the knot in Santa Barbara, California. (The couple had been engaged since December 2024.) Guests at the intimate wedding included Taylor Swift…

I have yet to try any of Jilly Cooper’s bonkbusters (Obituary, 6 October) but loved her column in the Sunday Times and read all her 1970s “permissive novels”, so when our first daughter was born in 1977, I knew at once that I wanted to…