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‘A frightening piece to perform’: can Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece still shock?‘A frightening piece to perform’: can Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece still shock?

Sixty years after its first staging, performance artist MPA is restaging the provocative piece in Los Angeles Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, a traveling retrospective on view at Los Angeles’s The Broad museum, features black and white footage of Ono’s 1964 Carnegie Hall performance of Cut Piece projected on ...

‘For Diego’: spectre of Maradona looms over Argentina ahead of England clash‘For Diego’: spectre of Maradona looms over Argentina ahead of England clash

The image of the national icon has been ever present through this World Cup, in banners and songs and memory. It adds a fresh layer to Wednesday’s semi-final Not two minutes after his side’s dramatic, extra-time quarter-final victory over Switzerland on Saturday, the Argentina head coach, Lionel Scaloni, was already ...

‘Fun, propulsive, full of queer joy’: readers’ favourite albums of 2026 so far, from Muna to Raye and J Cole‘Fun, propulsive, full of queer joy’: readers’ favourite albums of 2026 so far, from Muna to Raye and J Cole

After the Guardian’s music critics chose their best of the half-year, we asked you for your picks – from Brian Jackson and Arlo Parks to Maya Hawke, Flea and more • The best albums of 2026 so far• ‘I saw it seven times in the cinema’: readers’ favourite films of ...

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is dead. How long will ICE be allowed to hide its face?Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is dead. How long will ICE be allowed to hide its face?

A government that demands instant obedience while concealing its identity cannot expect trust – or escape responsibility for the consequences There are videos that do more than document a story. They alter the way we understand it. Ronaldo Salgado spent 7 July searching for his father. At the scene of ...

‘This process has turned into a form of torture’: inside the trial of Erdoğan’s challenger‘This process has turned into a form of torture’: inside the trial of Erdoğan’s challenger

He was elected mayor of Istanbul in 2019, and had announced his candidacy for the 2028 presidential elections. But Ekrem İmamoğlu is now behind bars, and his trial, on charges including fraud and organised crime, could take 12 years This piece first appeared in the Dial There’s a Turkish saying, ...