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29 days ago

Sunstruck by William Rayfet Hunter review – a Saltburn-style story of identity

A mixed-race musician is drawn into the unfamiliar milieu of an upper-class family in this plotty debut

The unnamed narrator of William Rayfet Hunter’s debut novel, a mixed-race aspiring musician from…

33 days ago

‘Music is never fixed in me’ … cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason on surviving a ‘volcano of racism’

A remark about Rule, Britannia! led to uproar but the star musician is concentrating on the joy and power of classical music. As his first book is published, he talks to Charlotte Higgins

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41 days ago

70 days ago

Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur review – pomposity puncturing gets lost in personae

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Artworks ‘by’ Perry’s new alter ego – an abuse survivor from the East End called Shirley Smith – sit among works by real outsider artists. His stronger pieces are more strai…

71 days ago

‘No more velvet rope’: how New York’s beloved Frick museum opened up – and will now even sell coffee

It is a Gilded Age gem full of Old Masters, from Vermeer to Holbein. Now, after a ravishing $300m revamp, it is even more welcoming. Our writer revels in its silk-clad walls and the freshly trickling…

3 months ago

Jack Vettriano: ‘His paintings are like a double cheeseburger in a greasy wrapper’

The Scot painted singing butlers, ‘broads’ in bras and tough guys in suits, in works critics found lurid, chintzy, devoid of irony and often sexist. But they were also hugely popular – showing the po…

Castles in the sky: the fantastical drawings of author Victor Hugo – in pictures

Although better known for his sprawling Romantic novels The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Les Misérables, celebrated French author Victor Hugo spent much of his time drawing. A collection of about 70 o…

The Waterboys’ Mike Scott: ‘I love Prince’s version of The Whole of the Moon. And Graham Norton’s’

Ahead of his new Dennis-Hopper-themed album, Scott answers your questions on jamming with Dylan, the magic of Ireland and why he’s had more than 80 bandmates

Why did your new album, Life, Death and De…

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