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While rumors of a possible new record continue to grow, ‘Chinese Democracy’ remains one of the great monumental failures of this century — a misstep that marked a before and after in the history of contemporary music

The young artist, who has launched several projects in the city’s train stations, has won several awards for his initiative ’Subway Therapy’

The Emmy, Grammy, Tony, and Oscar-nominated British performer has gone from relative obscurity to becoming one of the defining faces of 2024 in just over five years, thanks to her role as Elphaba and her connection with Ariana Grande

The adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s novel is a tribute to a Colombian history woven from both magic and violence

Four intellectuals who shaped the future of rock re-release their 1977 debut album, revealing their weird and wonderful artistic challenges

An exhibition and several books explore the links between the mysterious deck of cards created in the Italian Renaissance with history, art and creativity

The Mexican-Cuban comedian gets laughs out of trauma, fragile masculinity and the importance of going to therapy in the series ‘Lopez vs Lopez,’ now into its third season

The actress and the Nobel Peace Prize winner have produced a documentary by Afghan director Sahra Mahni featuring testimonies from a half dozen women on how they are being stripped of their rights

Demi Moore and Pamela Anderson are the latest examples of figures from the past — forgotten by the industry — who suddenly find themselves in contention for major awards and starring in films that everyone is talking about. But this dynamic is not new; it has existed as long as cinema itself. Nothing captivates the public more than a dramatic fall followed by an even greater redemption

A traveling exhibition currently in New York showcases the original installations, restored after being in storage since 1987, with funding from rapper Drake

In 1981, the tycoon commissioned the artist to do a series of works inspired by Trump Tower, but he did not like the result and did not pay for it. Four decades later, ‘New York Skyscrapers’ has been auctioned for almost $1 million

The U.S. singer stars in Katie Mitchell’s feminist version of Handel’s oratorio ‘Theodora’ at Madrid’s Teatro Real

The 78-year-old singer has chosen to tell her eventful life in two parts, with the first volume of her autobiography now published. In this first installment, she reflects on her difficult childhood, her first marriage, and offers only a brief mention of her two sons, Chaz and Elijah

The cartoonist returns to his early work with ‘Bola Ocho Integral,’ the Spanish edition of ‘Eight Ball.’ He was recently in Madrid for a talk and sat down with EL PAÍS to discuss the rise of madness into the mainstream

At 30, the actress has been nominated for an Oscar four times and is in the running for a fifth. Allergic to fame and social media, she isn’t afraid to turn down big roles to give priority to projects that interest her, although her dream is to play a Bond villain

The history of Mafra Palace, the main setting for ‘Queen Margot,’ competes for sheer epic (and, at times, terror) with the bloody story that inspired the 1994 movie starring Isabelle Adjani

‘The Carpenter,’ a film about a martial arts fighter trained by the Messiah, is the latest addition to a growing trend of religious propaganda films disguised as action, horror, and thrillers

Historian Isabel Mellén suggests a reinterpretation of the graphic images that adorn the doorways and columns of the churches in northern Spain

At 75 and with a few projects in the pipeline, the actor who became famous thanks to ‘Pulp Fiction’ and has had a string of box office hits since has no plans to retire, or to stop airing his opinion on whatever subject he wants

The actor completes his eighth decade in the world as a producer of classics like ‘Pulp Fiction’, with his sense of humor intact and living a second golden age of television fame with ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’

A monumental exhibition dedicated to the avant-garde group of the 1960s is on display at the François Pinault Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris. The radical Italian movement is setting new records in the market and conquering museums around the world 

The U.S. intellectual centralized women that had previously been marginalized. Her essay ‘Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center’ is celebrating its 40th anniversary

Farralone was the name of the legendary singer’s home. It was designed by architect William Pereira with the assistance of his then-student, Frank Gehry. The house has just gone on sale for more than $8 million

In his new book, the British historian profiles 24 of the Third Reich’s criminals, bursting the cliché of pathological monstrosity

Thirty years after the release of Neil Jordan’s film, time has been kind to a story that faced a shoot full of adversities and casting that, despite the reservations of the book’s author, ended up working