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Lifestyle

Two Stolen Renoirs Found Behind a Cinder-Block Wall as Police Say Suspects Eyed the Fondation Maeght

Six people were arrested after the September theft at the Renoir Museum near Nice, and the French police chief says the group had already scouted a second museum on the Riviera.

Oct 15, 2026/2 min read

The courtyard of the Renoir house and estate at Les Collettes in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, photographed on 24 April 2016, a file photograph of the estate and not of the museum on the day of the theft

Lifestyle

Hulu Orders Ryan Coogler's X-Files Reboot to Series With Danielle Deadwyler and Himesh Patel

Two new FBI agents, not Mulder and Scully, will staff a shuttered unit for unexplained cases, with Chris Carter on board as a producer and a cast that includes Steve Buscemi.

Oct 14, 2026/2 min read

An FBI badge in a leather holder beside a holstered pistol on a wooden desk in front of an American flag, an undated file photograph illustrative of the FBI agents in the series and not a still from it

Lifestyle

Tarek Atoui Opens Hold in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, Turning the Cavernous Space Into a Giant Sound Instrument

The Lebanese sound artist's Hyundai Commission, free and open from today until April, fills the hall with horns, hanging fabric charged with electricity and clay percussion that records the room.

Oct 13, 2026/2 min read

Visitors in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern in London under the skylight, photographed in August 2026, a file photograph of the hall before the new commission and not of Hold

Lifestyle

Jodie Comer, Adrian Lester and a Mary Whitehouse Play Take Top Honours at the 2026 UK Theatre Awards

Comer received the first Outstanding Achievement prize for touring Prima Facie, Nottingham Playhouse's new play won best new play and Theatr Clwyd took two awards at the London ceremony.

Oct 12, 2026/2 min read

Nottingham Playhouse and the Sky Mirror sculpture at dusk, photographed in January 2015, a file photograph of the theatre that produced the best new play winner and not from the awards ceremony

Lifestyle

Andrew Scott's Elsinore Opens the London Film Festival With Tears, an Ovation and a Disco Tribute

The 70th BFI festival began at the Royal Festival Hall with Simon Stone's film about the actor who played Hamlet while ill with AIDS, and an early review rates it 90 per cent.

Oct 9, 2026/3 min read

The Royal Festival Hall on London's South Bank, the venue for the festival's opening night, photographed on 14 June 2011

Lifestyle

Canadian Poet Anne Carson Wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature

The Swedish Academy honoured a body of work that moves between poetry, essay, translation and performance, and reached a laureate who was in Iceland, listening to the wind, when it called.

Oct 8, 2026/3 min read

Canadian poet Anne Carson speaking at a National Book Awards finalist reading in the NYU Skirball Center in New York, photographed in November 2024, a file photograph and not from the Nobel announcement

Lifestyle

Gears of War: E-Day Is Out Today to Strong Reviews, and a Cooler Welcome From Players on Steam

Critics have scored the Xbox prequel in the high 80s, its best result since Gears 3, but Steam buyers are about ten points less impressed. Here is what the campaign gets right and wrong.

Oct 6, 2026/2 min read

Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S consoles on display in a shop in Nagoya, Japan, photographed on 18 January 2025, a file photograph illustrative of the platform and not a scene from the game

Lifestyle

Verity Beat Tom Cruise's Digger at the Box Office, Despite a 34 Percent Score From Critics

Anne Hathaway's Colleen Hoover adaptation took $32.6 million in North America, while Cruise's costly Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu satire managed $8 million and fifth place, his weakest opening in 19 years.

Oct 5, 2026/2 min read

Actress Anne Hathaway, the star of Verity, at a press conference in February 2023, a file photograph and not a still from the film

Lifestyle

Bulgaria Brought Tsar Samuel Home After a Thousand Years, Sending 48 Relics Back to Greece in Exchange

Greece handed over the remains of the 11th-century ruler on Saturday, and Sofia received them with a state ceremony, fighter jet escort and a 21-gun salute, in a swap for objects taken during the First World War.

Oct 3, 2026/2 min read

The Church of St Sophia in Sofia, Bulgaria, where the tsar's remains were taken, photographed in November 2018 and not during the ceremony

Lifestyle

The Hamptons Film Festival Opens Tonight With Peter Farrelly's I Play Rocky, Starting an 11-Day Run

The 34th Hamptons International Film Festival begins on Friday with the East Coast premiere of a film about how Sylvester Stallone fought to write and star in Rocky, and runs to 12 October.

Oct 2, 2026/2 min read

Guild Hall in East Hampton, New York, a cultural venue in the town that hosts the festival, photographed in March 2012 and not an image from this year's opening night

Lifestyle

The British Museum's New Korea Show Traces 2,000 Years of Art the Institution Had Never Given Its Own Exhibition Before

Korea, which opens 1 October in the Joseph Hotung Great Court Gallery, is the British Museum's first major exhibition devoted to Korean art and history in more than 40 years, drawing partly on the late Samsung chairman's donated collection.

Oct 1, 2026/2 min read

Traditional Korean earthenware storage jars, known as jangdok, photographed in Gangjin, South Korea in May 2015, illustrative of Korean ceramic craft and not an object from the exhibition itself

Design

Drew Henry Reset Courreges for Spring 2027 With a Pared-Back Debut at the Palais de Tokyo

The former Celine and Burberry design director stripped the venue down to let the clothes speak, zhuzhing up lean jackets with raw edges and metallic logos over baggy, zesty-coloured trousers in his first collection since succeeding Nicolas Di Felice.

Oct 1, 2026/3 min read

The Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the venue where Drew Henry showed his debut Courreges collection, photographed in July 2022

Lifestyle

David Hartt Turned the Met's Own Versailles Panorama Into a Meditation on Paris's Forgotten Edges

A new site-specific installation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art pairs John Vanderlyn's 1819 panorama of Versailles with David Hartt's film of Paris's ring road and margins, scored by musician Jeff Parker.

Sep 29, 2026/2 min read

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Fifth Avenue entrance in New York, home of the Peripheries installation, photographed prior to the exhibition opening

Fashion

Celine Dion Made a Surprise Return to the Catwalk to Close L'Oreal's Paris Fashion Week Opening Show

The singer emerged in a black gown to perform 'I'm Alive' beneath the Eiffel Tower at Place Joffre, closing a public runway show that also featured Kendall Jenner, Heidi Klum and Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn as Paris Fashion Week opened.

Sep 29, 2026/2 min read

Celine Dion performing on stage, illustrative of the singer who closed L'Oreal's Paris Fashion Week show and not a photograph of that performance, photographed in 2008

Lifestyle

The New York Times and A24 Joined a Crowded Field Bidding to Buy Letterboxd for More Than $300 Million

The film social network's majority owner Tiny is fielding offers from Sony, Netflix, Paramount, private equity firms and now the Times and A24, a field wide enough that dealmakers are calling the platform a phenomenon.

Sep 27, 2026/2 min read

The IFC Center, an independent movie theatre in New York City, illustrative of the film culture Letterboxd serves and not a party to the sale, photographed in November 2024

Lifestyle

A Paris Exhibition of 350 Objects Traces How 19th-Century Women Used Trousers, Ties and Top Hats to Claim Independence

Opening at the Palais Galliera on 26 September, 'A Wardrobe of One's Own' uses garments once worn by Marie-Antoinette, George Sand and Rosa Bonheur alongside anonymous amateur photographs to show how borrowed menswear became a tool of emancipation.

Sep 27, 2026/2 min read

The Palais Galliera building in Paris, home of the exhibition, photographed in May 2016

Lifestyle

Arthur Jafa's Largest Museum Survey, 'I Am Tony', Opens Across Two Floors of New York's New Museum

The show gathers nearly four decades of the filmmaker and artist's work, including his Golden Lion-winning film The White Album and the widely shown video Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death, alongside new paintings and sculpture.

Sep 26, 2026/2 min read

The stacked, mesh-clad boxes of the New Museum on the Bowery in New York, the building where the exhibition is held, photographed on 10 November 2008, a file photograph of the museum and not of the show

Latest Trends

A Black Flower That Lives Underground and Eats Fungi Has Been Found on a Thai Hillside, and There Are Fewer Than Fifty

Thismia daemona has no leaves, no chlorophyll and no need for sunlight. It surfaces only to flower, black with horn-like appendages and two orange patches that look like eyes, in an area smaller than a football pitch.

Sep 6, 2026/3 min read

Sunset over the ridgeline at Khao Chang Phueak in Thong Pha Phum National Park, western Thailand, where the new species was found. The plant itself is not pictured

Latest Trends

Hayden Panettiere Told the Truth in Public Before It Was Survivable to Do So

She was a working actress at four, a superhero at seventeen and a Golden Globe nominee at twenty-three. The part of her life that changed the most for other people happened off screen.

Aug 17, 2026/4 min read

Hayden Panettiere smiling during a public appearance in 2011

Latest Trends

Hayden Panettiere, Star of Heroes and Nashville, Has Died at 36

The actress was found at a home in South Carolina on 16 August. Police say there are no signs of foul play, no cause of death has been released, and the investigation is open.

Aug 17, 2026/3 min read

Hayden Panettiere photographed at a public appearance in 2011