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Album: Viagra Boys - Cave World
Swedish retro-futurist punks fire out another tasty set of tough, goofy stompers
tv

Impressive archive footage but no new insights

Peter Kosminsky's drama probes the secret world of GCHQ's techno-spooks

Rowan Atkinson's new comic character is no Blackadder
film
Caleb Landry Jones in an extraordinary performance as a man-child without empathy

An outstanding debut by the Greek New Wave director Jacqueline Lentzou

Nothing much happens in Alice Diop's documentary portrait of the periphery
new music

Eclectic jazz on the Sussex Downs

Swedish retro-futurist punks fire out another tasty set of tough, goofy stompers
classical

Five supreme pianists, two top string quartets and so much more on the Fife coast

A pair of luxury orchestra own-label releases, plus French piano music and a contemporary composer grappling with time and space

Chopin the modernist, Rzewski the electric in totally satisfying recital
opera

High quality singing and playing on a dubiously coloured stage

Lithe cast and conducting unfazed by over-egged production, at least until the bitter end

Gianandrea Noseda, Andreas Homoki and top cast dazzle in an unforgettable 'Rheingold'
theatre

A brilliant balance of raucous comedy and immense pathos

How physical transition is etched into the story of our world

Art and race intersect to provocative effect
dance

At last, the pan-African production of Bausch's landmark choreography arrives on the London stage

An explosive restaging of the original dance drama

Christopher Wheeldon's usual flair deserts him in his latest three-act story ballet
comedy

Former Sewing Bee host tells a complicated tale

An equal opportunities offender delivers a masterclass in meta comedy

Setting the world to rights, one joke at a time
Books

The ghosts gather as the miniaturist returns in Burton’s latest instalment

Beguiling stories of families, familiars, guns and red hair

How the separatist republic became lost in its nostalgia for a largely imaginary past
visual arts

In love and war: one of England's great watercolourists reappraised

The brilliance of an amateur photographer who was almost lost to the world

This wildly ambitious mega-exhibition unravels in spectacular style
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