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Serenity Strull/ BBC/ Getty Images/ Uniqlo(Credit: Serenity Strull/ BBC/ Getty Images/ Uniqlo)Influential designer and creative director Clare Waight Keller on her move from Givenchy to Uniqlo, "re-defining what luxury is today" – and how Seoul street style is predicting what...

AlamyIshirō Honda's momentous 1954 monster film was born out of a national tragedy in Japan. It has a bleak message for humanity that goes beyond cinematic spectacle.For some, Godzilla is the pink-finned superhero who teams up with an axe-wielding King...

Courtesy of SFMoMA, San Francisco(Credit: Courtesy of SFMoMA, San Francisco)Dismissed or trivialised by some as unserious and silly, Surrealist art was in fact largely born out of the brutal trauma of living under fascism, as these five striking works reveal.It's...

Aidan Monaghan(Credit: Aidan Monaghan)Paul Mescal is the "mesmerising centre" of Ridley Scott's long-awaited Gladiator sequel, which balances emotional drama and social themes with all-out action spectacle.How can you not love a film that has swords, sandals, sharks in the flooded...

Getty ImagesIsabel Belarsky was one of the millions of people who were processed on Ellis Island before its immigration facility closed in 1954. In 2016, she told the BBC about reaching the gateway to the US from the Soviet Union...

John Brett, 1856. Photo: TateA new exhibition that documents the impact of the Industrial Revolution features several 1800s artists, writers and thinkers as they began to capture the transformation of the environment.Who knew what, and when, from the start of...

Searchlight Pictures/ Amazon Content Services/ Paramount Pictures/ Mubi/ BBC(Credit: Searchlight Pictures/ Amazon Content Services/ Paramount Pictures/ Mubi/ BBC)These are the films generating the most excitement ahead of awards season, from Demi Moore's body-horror comeback to the return of Ridley Scott's...

Alamy(Credit: Alamy)Beginning with his acclaimed 2018 debut novel The Loney, the English writer Andrew Michael Hurley has spooked readers with his tales of strange rural communities – and now they're moving to film and TV.His publisher bills him as "the...

Neal Slavin(Credit: Neal Slavin)Celebrating "the joy of being together ", here are eight group portraits – taken by photographer Neal Slavin between 1972 and 1991 – that show both togetherness and peculiarity in US life.It's 50 years since photographer Neal...

Getty Images(Credit: Getty Images)The UK publication of DH Lawrence's novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, gripped the nation in 1960. In History looks at the highly publicised trial that led to its release – and the rush to see what all the...