5 h. ago Wayne Thiebaud review – staggering still lifes to make your mouth water

Courtauld Gallery, LondonThe pop pioneer’s paintings of sweets and cakes offer up a succulent and incredibly moreish slice of a long-lost American dreamYou’re not allowed to lick paintings in museums, which is cruel when you’re faced with something as mouthwateringly tempting as Wayne Thiebaud’s art. The American pop pioneer dedicated his long career to cakes, sweets and gumball machines, a visual world of treats and candies laid out in American diners and on deli counters, tempting viewers to commit the ultimate crime and take a big, juicy bite.But he didn’t just paint for the sake of getting you salivating. His work (here at the Courtauld in his first ever UK museum show) is both an ultraserious take on the material history of painting, a sort of update on the long legacy of the still life, and a deep dive into burgeoning consumerism and the capitalistic euphoria of the mass-produced, mid-century American dream. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Victoria Beckham review – Netflix’s riches to riches story reveals a woman eternally plagued by dissatisfaction

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6 h. ago Claudia's Celebrity Traitors fight for the best prize of all

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6 h. ago Amazon Prime Day 2025 live: Last chance to shop the best deals

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7 h. ago The Celebrity Traitors review: It’s still the camp and menacing show we know and love – with a stonking all

The starry spin-off of the BBC hit stays faithful to the original formula – and it’s such a delight to be back at Ardross Castle

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7 h. ago The Celebrity Traitors, episode one on BBC One review: the ultimate celeb

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7 h. ago Celebrity Traitors has converted me to shows full of famous contestants – Strictly should try it

CELEBRITY Big Brother and I’m A Celebrity . . . introduced us gleefully to a whole new genre of star-spangled TV in the Noughties. But in the intervening 20 years it’s also inspired an endless stream of c**p. Celebs on the Farm, X Factor: Celebrity and, this year, celebrity shark swimming.  So a big-name spin-off from one of...

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9 h. ago Straighteners beauty editors 'rave about' reduced from £120 to £30

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10 h. ago Netflix getting ready to bid for Champions League games in massive £4.3bn development

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10 h. ago Clarkson’s Farm star to go ‘down under’ for new Prime Video series

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10 h. ago Kaleb Cooper to go ‘down under’ for new Prime Video series about farming

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10 h. ago Loop earplugs ‘transformed my sleep’ and they’re now cheaper than ever thanks to Prime Day

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10 h. ago Manchester United v Vålerenga: Women’s Champions League – live

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10 h. ago Shopping Expert's top 10 best Amazon Prime Day deals you can still shop for a few hours

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10 h. ago Maintenance Required review – Amazon’s synthetic You’ve Got Mail rip

The beats of the 1998 rom-com, which was itself a re-imagining of The Shop Around the Corner, are shamelessly regurgitated for this charmless copycatWatching, or rather enduring, Amazon-MGM’s charmless new romantic comedy Maintenance Required, I was so convinced it was an officially sanctioned re-imagining of You’ve Got Mail that I scoured the credits for confirmation. Surely, even in this cursed AI era of copyright erosion, no one would so shamelessly regurgitate the beats of that much-adored film without giving the requisite credit?But try as I might, I could not find a “based on” or even a “thanks to”, the film a copy of a film which was itself a (legally sound) remake of a film which had been inspired by a play (the script even, cheekily, refers to “a sweet little shop around the corner”). In a film that will hopefully be used as evidence in an upcoming lawsuit, a woman tries to keep her struggling local business alive as a big brand competitor opens over the street while she se...

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11 h. ago Senior rugby figures believe rebel R360 league all but dead after unions’ statement

Players who sign up would be ineligible for national sidesProposed event yet to be sanctioned by World RugbySenior global rugby figures believe the rebel R360 venture is all but dead unless it can find a way to appease the world’s top nations. In a dramatic move the leading unions collectively made clear this week that players involved in the R360 competition would be ineligible for their national sides and have warned them to treat offers with “extreme caution”.Privately there is a widespread view that those pushing the R360 concept, fronted by the England World Cup winner Mike Tindall, now face a struggle to get the project off the ground if the world’s top male and female players are required to forfeit their international futures to join the rebel league. Continue reading...

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