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He danced with ballet’s legends, partied with Freddie Mercury, and became a household name. As he celebrates his birthday with a gala performance, the 5ft 2in dynamo looks back at an action-packed life

The musician from Blur and the Waeve on the magic of Spain’s Alhambra, chip butties and his love of jazz biographies

Devoted fans of a pioneering female pop artist are putting up their own blue plaque in her memory after being snubbed by English Heritage.

Our Glastonbury liveblog from sun-addled Worthy farm followed the Pretenders’ surprise cameos, Morrissey’s unlikely reincarnation and more

There is “a lot going on” in Tate Modern’s new exhibition, said Laura Freeman in The Times. Subtitled “A journey through painting and photography”, the show is a huge and ambitious attempt to explore the relationship between painting and photography from the early 20th century to the present day, examining…

You can’t move for masterpieces – most of them owned by the Taiwanese collector Pierre Chen – but this supposed journey through painting and photography is rambling and at times comically simplistic

As a vast wedding cake sculpture is unveiled on the lawn at his stately home Waddesdon Manor, Lord Rothschild, scion of the banking dynasty, talks art, gangsters, champagne magnums and giant teapots with Geordie Greig

The top signs of a curious thinker include asking lots of questions and studying in your spare time - with three in ten Brits wanting to be more curious in general

Sure, the substance of this show is a little lightweight, but with banger after banger it’s totally forgiveable

Is no headboard a design faux-pas? Or can it look good in the right bedroom? Interior designers offer their verdict

From lemons to cats to the inevitable stripper, there is much that is silly and mediocre – then magnificent works by the likes of Gillian Wearing and Paula Rego catch your eye