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John Lewis finds cover star for festive ad soundtrack after nationwide competition

Mel Raeburn said it was ‘an honour’ to be selected to record a version of Richard Ashcroft’s Sonnet.

The Independent UK

Elton John: Legalising cannabis is one of the greatest mistakes of all time

Sir Elton, who has been sober for 34 years, and helped fellow celebrities including Eminem and Robbie Williams to recover from addiction.

Evening Standard

Scottish artist speaks out for Palestine in Turner Prize acceptance speech

Scottish artist Jasleen Kaur has won the Turner Prize for her solo exhibition Alter Altar, which includes an installation of a car with a giant…

The National (Scotland)

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Jasleen Kaur wins 2024 Turner Prize for poignant show evoking the power of community

Kaur used her acceptance speech to advocate for the people of Palestine

The Independent UK

The best UK high streets for independent shops this Christmas, revealed

Across the top 10 hotspots, on average over a third of all business owners are gen Z or millenials

The Independent UK

Caspar Lee says YouTubers should lean into TV work but AI is no threat

The British-South African’s comments come after YouTube giant MrBeast faced a series of issues with his new show on Amazon Prime Video.

Evening Standard

Boy George says new art exploring fame is ‘celebrating otherness’

The 63-year-old has created portraits of Madonna, David Bowie and Prince.

Evening Standard

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RA’s 2024 Summer Exhibition celebrates making and multidisciplinarity in architecture

At the Royal Academy’s 2024 Summer Exhibition, London collective Assemble brings together works from across the creative fields into the architectural rooms (18 June – 18 August 2024)

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"We're opening up VR to more people" says Canon

Canon is democratizing VR with its new camera tech, telling us: "This is the future, this is what’s super, super exciting"

Digital Camera World

Canon is "heavily invested in Virtual Reality and we want to get these products out as soon as possible"

"VR is in its infancy and I don’t think we’ve seen half of what it's capable of" says Canon of its VR prototype cameras and lenses

Digital Camera World

Japan: Myths to Manga review – kids, can you see the rabbit grinding rice on the moon?

Japan’s rich folklore has hugely influenced movies, manga, anime and video games, as this intriguing show proves. Children will love it – but adults should bring kneepads

The Guardian - UK

Marina Abramović review – the artist is strangely absent

Knives, arrows, guns, nakedness… the performance art pioneer’s blockbuster 50-year retrospective underlines her bravery, yet sells it short with off-key re-enactments by stand-ins

The Guardian - UK

Marina Abramović at the Royal Academy review: nudity, danger and a whiff of woowoo

The later works in this survey get a bit crystals-and-trees, but the restaged historic performances have lost none of their power

Evening Standard

Herzog & de Meuron review – inscrutable show puts life before architecture

This fascinating if oblique showcase of the remarkable Swiss practice’s work explores the way buildings are made and inhabited, rather than the structures themselves

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Young V&A review – child’s play with added wonder

The old name was better, but the £13m revamp of the former Museum of Childhood in east London is a lighter, brighter magical toyshop

The Guardian - UK

Young V&A review: ‘The cobwebs have been truly blown away’

After a three-year, £13m reimagining, the former Museum of Childhood has been reborn as a joyful and inspiring paradise of play

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Young V&A crafted as a ‘joyful’ space for children and families

Young V&A opens in east London promising a ‘joyful’ experience for children of all ages

The Guardian - UK

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition review – flashes of brilliance amid the anodyne jumble sale

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

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Daily Mirror

Prue Leith says David Schwimmer 'didn’t want to talk to anybody' in Bake Off tent

The Great British Bake Off judge Prue Leith has revealed how David Schwimmer was so focused on winning the celebrity version of the show he didn't want to speak to anybody in the famous tent

Evening Standard

Renaissance master Donatello at the V&A: ‘He was the greatest sculptor of all time’

‘It’s almost like he could look into the soul’

Liverpool Echo

Beatle's death inspired the design of landmark Liverpool shopping centre

"I have no knowledge of that day past that point. But the next day I woke up and designed it in one go"

The Guardian - UK

Prue Leith, instigator of fourth plinth, resists calls for Queen statue

Bake Off judge, who campaigned to use Trafalgar Square space for contemporary art, says it’s not prominent enough for monarch

The Independent UK

Curtis and AJ Pritchard surprise staff and patients to celebrate birthday of NHS

The brothers visited the London Ambulance Service and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital as part of the nationwide fundraiser the NHS Big Tea.

The Guardian - UK

A Thousand Words for Weather; Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2022 – review

Climate is the subject of a mesmerisingly subtle Artangel installation – but as the theme for the RA’s annual sprawl, it produces mostly disappointing results

The Guardian - UK

‘There was only one possible theme’: Alison Wilding on her climate crisis Summer Exhibition

Environmental change is the subject of this year’s Royal Academy show in London but, says its curator, ‘there is a celebratory aspect’

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