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Heavy metal with a political message from Ai Weiwei

The Chinese artist and political campaigner releases a music video for his heavy metal single Dumbass, which reconstructs the 81 days he spent detained by the authorities.

Piercing Brightness - Shezad Dawood

This firxt feature film by artist Shezad Dawood will be released in cinemas and art spaces across the UK on the 7th June. It has been commissioned by In Certain Places, as part of their programme which examines the role of artists in the city. The fil

Saturday Review: Pinter's The Hothouse and The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Pinter's The Hothouse and Mira Nair's film The Reluctant Fundamentalist.

Turner prize 2013 shortlist: Tino Sehgal dances to the fore

The deviser of unsettling public encounters is a world-class artist in a way that the other contenders - Laure Prouvost, David Shrigley and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye - are not The 2013 Turner prize shortlist is strangely unbalanced, but it also makes sense i

Me and You - review

There's intimacy and immediacy in this movie from the 73-year-old Bernardo Bertolucci: it's an engaging, if slight, two-hander about a troubled teenage boy, Lorenzo (Jacopo Olmo Antinori) who tells his mother he's going on a school skiing trip but instead

Theorem - review

Maybe Pasolini's playful fable of ideas is the great director's attempt to put a bomb under Italy's stagnant governing class Pasolini's Theorem - now revived nationally in cinemas as part of a retrospective - is bizarre, playful and mysterious, an absurd

First Position - review

A documentary about aspiring American ballet dancers has been fatally influenced by reality-TV feelgood values Bess Kargman's First Position is a blandly feelgood documentary about aspiring young ballet dancers. Kargman follows a handful of teens as they

Night Waves: Oliver Stone, Chimamanda Adichie, Web Harvesting

Chimamanda Adichie, Oliver Stone, AS Byatt on web harvests, and a Twitter-inspired opera.

Rolling Stones: Crossfire Hurricane

An intimate portrait of the evolution of one of the world's most enduring rock bands.

Front Row: Tamara Rojo; James Blake; The Place Beyond the Pines

Dancer Tamara Rojo; musician James Blake; The Place Beyond the Pines starring Ryan Gosling.