82 minutes ago The surreal deal: the exhibitions celebrating the revolutionary, illogical art of the absurd

Rising as a rebuttal to fascism, sexism and war in the 1920s and 30s, surrealism was a response to ‘a world gone mad’. As the movement marks its centenary, two new shows are celebrating its past and futureOne hundred years ago last month, the 28-year-old poet André Breton penned the Surrealist Manifesto, shucking off “the reign of logic”, calling out “the pretence of civilisation and progress” and heralding “the omnipotence of dream”. Breton wanted nothing less than a new reality – one that might overturn a world shaped by religion, schools and governments – by seeking truths within the self: “The future resolution of these two states, dream and reality [ ] into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality.” To create it, he and his evolving gang of Parisian writers and artists turned to th...

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1 hour ago Scott McTominay 'interrogated' live on TV as Napoli star has cheeky response ready for an awkward question

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2 hours ago DHL plane crash kills pilot sparking probe into ‘covert Russian sabotage operation’

An explosion has rocked the Lithuanian capital city of Vilnius, sparking an enormous fire that engulfed a residential building after a DHL cargo plane ploughed into the flats

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2 hours ago DHL Vilnius plane crash kills pilot sparking probe into ‘covert Russian operation’

An explosion has rocked the Lithuanian capital city of Vilnius, sparking an enormous fire that engulfed a residential building after a DHL cargo plane ploughed into the flats

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4 hours ago A cool flame: how Gaia theory was born out of a secret love affair – podcast

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5 hours ago Arsenal news: Mikel Arteta's two irreplaceable stars named as contract talks open

Arsenal will look to build on their win over Nottingham Forest when they return to Champions League action on Tuesday against Sporting CP with three points well-needed from the tie

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5 hours ago Chris Hemsworth's wife Elsa Pataky shows off plenty of leg in a pair of Daisy Dukes as she grabs dumplings from a food truck

Elsa Pataky flaunted her slim pins on Sunday as she stepped out in a tiny pair of jean shorts in Bangalow near Byron Bay.

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6 hours ago Blackout risk warning as scorching temperatures forecast for parts of NSW

Power supplies will become tight in New South Wales and Queensland this week, with parts of western Sydney tipped to approach 40CFollow our Australia politics live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastPower supplies will become “tight” in New South Wales and Queensland later this week as the season’s first major heatwave coincides with outages at big coal-fired power stations.Parts of western Sydney are forecast to approach 40C on Tuesday and Wednesday during a pre-summer hot spell spanning a week of 30C-plus days. Heatwave conditions in eastern parts of NSW will be in the low- to severe-intensity range, the Bureau of Meteorology said.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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7 hours ago Fears of new mafia bloodbath as son of Italian family dubbed The Barbarians is 'found dead in a burned out SUV'... with last feud sparking DECADES of tit

Farmer Antonio Strangio has been missing for more than a week after his burnt out SUV was found in the countryside near San Luca.

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