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• On my radar: Bobby Baker’s cultural highlights

  08-03-2025 16:52
  
  The artist on a moving biography of George Orwell’s wife, a theatre company that should be available on the NHS, and the joy of a good crime dramaThe artist Bobby Baker was born in Kent in 1950 and studied painting at St Martins School of Art. In her work, which combines performance with drawing and installation, she highlights the undervalued aspects of women’s lives, often with reference to food and cooking. In 1995, she founded Daily Life Ltd to make art that “explores and c
  
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• ‘I was under a huge tree, watching the droplets fall’: Can Manap’s best picture

  08-03-2025 11:00
  
  The photographer on capturing an unexpected image in Istanbul’s Grand BazaarOutside a jeweller’s courtyard in Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar, Can Manap watched the rain fall. “I was under a huge tree in the middle of the bazaar,” he says. “Watching the droplets fall, the composition – a marriage of natural and architectural lines – struck me immediately.”While Manap had his camera on him, he decided to capture this scene with his phone ins
  
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• From Mickey 17 to Lady Gaga: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  08-03-2025 07:00
  
  Robert Pattinson is beside himself in Bong Joon Ho’s new sci-fi satire, and the subversive pop queen goes back to basics on her new albumMickey 17
  Out nowClones of Robert Pattinson? Thanks, we’ll take 10 please. Parasite director Bong Joon Ho crafts a sci-fi comedy in which a disposable man is sent to attempt colonisation of an inhospitable ice planet in the full knowledge that he will die many times over during the course of his task. But how much does death matter when you can rege
  
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