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Sudden Wild Enthusiasms: Kitri

Gender studies and Kahlo under fire as Orban eyes new ‘cultural era’

Hungary’s government is to end funding for course it sees as ‘liberal ideology’

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Marian Keyes: Frida Kahlo gave great hope to oddballs like me

Sudden Wild Enthusiasms: Frida Kahlo

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Hollywood is like Saudi Arabia on Sunset Boulevard

Maureen Dowd: As men fall, women are rising. Now the gender apartheid has to end

Salma Hayek claims Harvey Weinstein threatened to kill her

The actor described the disgraced film producer as a ‘monster’ with ‘Machiavellian rage’ and detailed a litany of sexual harassment

There I was in Naples astonished I hadn’t been mugged 16 times

Marian Keyes on her Sudden Wild Enthusiasms: "My Frida Kahlo bag, which I’m mad about"

Ethan Hawke: ‘It’s a dance with fire. I saw that with River’s death'

Hawke was a posterboy for generation X actors. But after seeing first hand where his precocious talent could lead, he's become a thoughtful veteran of the Hollywood machine

Art by text message, and other brilliant ideas

Text a word to SFMoma and the museum will reply with a work of art

How Mexico could subvert Donald Trump’s border wall

‘What could be more magnificent than a divine feathered serpent snaking along vast stretches of the wall’s 2,000-mile extent?’

Dig in: Be sure to stick some flowers on your face

The latest trend on the catwalks involves using fresh flowers to adorn oneself

Fashion: NCAD hit the graduate catwalk

The themes are rich and varied as NCAD students display materials and ideas

Una Mullally: Why women have risen to the top in 1916 lore

‘In a country with a lot of barrier-breaking to be done for women, a female narrative is a welcome one’

Ebooks: Short fiction treats that are perfect for travelling

Round-up: Digital publishers have been quick to spot the potential in brief reads that help shorten journeys

Alfred Molina on playing a wonderfully crusty old gay man

The actor plays one half of an ageing gay couple in his new film. It’s great if it contributes to the Irish referendum debate, he says – but unintended

Alcohol is not a solution in which we should expect problems to dissolve

Opinion: We can learn much from the accounts of people who have survived attempts to kill themselves

Leonora Carrington: the mythical world of a rediscovered surrealist

Imma is showing a body of work by a contemporary of Frida Kahlo and Dali who has long been under-appreciated in a country that inspired much of her work: Ireland

Picasso, Lennon, Dalí and more: artists in their own image

An exhibition of portraits puts artists in the frame, and highlights where their public and private selves diverge

A personal tour of some of Picasso’s best works

After extensive renovation, the doors have reopened on Berlin’s Berggruen Museum, one of the world’s top private collections of 20th-century art

Down Mexico way

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