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Lanre Bakare

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Lanre Bakare is an arts and culture correspondent for the Guardian and author of We Were There

June 2026

  • Thirteen cast members – one male, the others female, and of different races and ethnicities – line up and wave to the audience in a curtain call. Some of them are holding large bunches of flowers, and they are dressed in 1970s clothing.

    Theatregoers to face phone ‘ban’ when Broadway’s Liberation comes to London

    New York audiences were asked to put phones in sealed pouches, and producer says she hopes to do the same in UK
  • Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson sit in white chairs on a stage with microphones, speaking to an audience

    Michelle Obama: white men do not have to worry about impostor syndrome

    Former US first lady says she has sat ‘at every powerful table’ and not met a single white man with such doubts
  • The 1939 painting Man in a Black Scarf.

    Early portrait denied by Lucian Freud shown for first time after authentication

    Artist said Man in a Black Scarf was not his but evidence has emerged to show he painted it when a student in Suffolk

May 2026

  • Membership cards and the Prodigy's first business card

    Collection of rave-era memorabilia expected to fetch up to £80,000

  • The Beatles in colorful patterned clothing stand beneath a ceiling of balloons in various colors

    ‘It’ll be like Barbenheimer’: UK gripped by new wave of Beatlemania in lead-up to four biopics

  • Craig David performing at the 2002 Mobo awards.

    Book of the day
    Escaping Babylon by Jesse Bernard review – an intimate history of Black British music

  • Sting in a purple jacket and black turtleneck looks directly at the camera

    Loss of manual jobs could be driving toxic masculinity, says Sting

  • Some West End shows could ‘go dark’ as Equity members back possible strikes

  • ‘Too nice’: Frank Skinner on Gareth Southgate – and his ‘fiery’ successor

  • Belle and Sebastian write Scotland anthem after dramatic World Cup qualifier

  • Peterborough artist Rene Matić wins Deutsche Börse photography prize

  • Greta Thunberg and Gary Lineker sign letter defending Southbank Centre chair

  • Female nudity and art that stinks: key takeaways from Venice Biennale 2026

  • What not to miss at the 2026 Venice Biennale

  • Several Venice Biennale pavilions shut in protest over inclusion of Israel

  • Pussy Riot protest at Venice Biennale forces Russian pavilion to briefly close

  • Dark clouds, protests and resignations dampen start of 61st Venice Biennale

  • ‘We put our heads above the parapet’: Lubaina Himid on winning her 40-year battle to storm the Venice Biennale

  • Anish Kapoor says US’s ‘politics of hate’ should exclude it from Venice Biennale

  • Mystery sitter in Holbein portrait could be Anne Boleyn, AI analysis finds

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