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The culture war dividing the US is being fought over the relevance of empathy. On the one hand a president and a ruling party that denies the imaginative possibility or importance of trying to walk in anothers shoes; on the other, a liberal tradition that celebrates America as the all-born-equal nation and believes

The French fashion designers simple logo is laden with feminine symbolism, and has become the fashion talking point of the year, with fans from Beyonc to Adele Thank you, Queen, for always making us feel so loved through your art, Adele wrote on Instagram, kneeling under a still from Beyoncs Black is King. The film

It sounds like yet another sordid chapter in the life of the hip-hip mogul, with gangland violence and music-industry ego intersecting in violence. But the most detailed public account of the high-stakes episode suggests that Knights arrest could be based on an accident

Natalia LLs 1973 artwork of a model sucking on a banana was removed from an exhibition in Warsaw. But bananas arent just suggestive they can be subversive, too Bananas are not the only fruit but in art they are the most outrageous. Last week, a 1973 video and photowork of a model sucking on

Clarissa Luard became senior literature officer at the Arts Council of England three days before she died, aged 50. The cancer that she had beaten off five years ago had returned. She had spent most of that time as a key figure in the council's strengthened literature department, liais- ing with publishers and literary editors.