Arts and entertainment news from Guardian US
Arts
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His text works have sold for millions of dollars – but these days the Chicago-born artist is happier roaming the Texas desert turning barbed wire into frenzied, sometimes menacing sculptures
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The focus of the case was a 2018 editorial Heard wrote in the Washington Post calling herself ‘a public figure representing domestic abuse’
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Founded in 1969, the Detroit title that first used the term ‘punk rock’ was daringly derisive but also often racist, sexist and homophobic – so why bring it back?
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Late-night hosts discussed last week’s NRA convention and the long list of invented reasons why the Uvalde shooting happened – other than guns
Talking points
People
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The actor has become the first openly trans performer to receive a Tony nomination for her role in the Pulitzer prize-winning musical A Strange Loop
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The big picture
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Chauncey Hare’s Photographic Work is the first critical biography of the American photographer Chauncey Hare (1934–2019).
Reviews
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The writer’s affable misanthropy and self-deprecation are on display in a new set of reflections on life and death
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Pictures & video
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Observer photographer Gary Calton’s Citizens of Our Time captures campaigners from Fathers for Justice to the climate crisis, Black Lives Matter to Ukraine war activists
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From The Fly to A History of Violence Our writers pick their favourite Cronenberg movies