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2024 culture preview

  • Harold Cohen: AARON KCAT, 2001.

    The most exciting US art exhibitions of 2024

    Rather than a sole focus on the bigger, established names, major exhibitions this year are expanding to include a range of diverse and innovative names
  • Elon Musk

    Elon Musk, unions and JLo: the most anticipated documentaries of 2024

    The next year promises a raft of fascinating eye-openers including looks at dicey legal issues and some A-list celebrities
  • Vincent Van Gogh's Self-Portrait, 1889; Adrian Lester in Renegade Nell; Debbie Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie; Taylor Swift on stage; Matt Smith in An Enemy of the People; the Royal Ballet's Manon; New York City Ballet. Centre: Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal in All of Us Strangers

    From Bong Joon-ho to Van Gogh: Observer critics’ culture highlights for 2024

    From Withnail and I on stage to Olivia Rodrigo on tour, Sally Wainwright’s new drama to Blondie, Bruckner and Jez Butterworth, our experts guide you through the treats in store this year
  • Joker: Folie à Deux film still

    From Megalopolis to Joker 2: the 2024 films Guardian writers are most excited about

    With major new films from Lynne Ramsey, Francis Ford Coppola and Robert Eggers, the year promises a feast for fans
  • A Very Private School by Charles Spencer, Lauren Oyler, Under the Hornbeams by Emma Tarlo, Sathnam Sanghera, Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt, Rose Boyt, Maurice and Maralyn by Sophie Elmhirst and Salman Rushdie.

    Nonfiction to look out for in 2024

  • James by Percival Everett, Lauren Elkin, The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez, Evie Wyld, This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud, Kevin Barry, My Friends by Hisham Matar and Miranda July. Fiction to look out for in 2024

    Fiction to look out for in 2024

  • Andrew Scott, left, and Paul Mescal in a scene from All of Us Strangers.

    ‘They are in a different league’: the British films coming for Hollywood in 2024

  • Emma Stone in Poor Things and Jeffrey Wright in American Fiction.

    The films to look forward to in 2024

  • From left … Tekken 8 and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth’s Cloud Strife.

    The best games to look forward to in 2024

    A first open-world Star Wars saga, something lurks beneath a North Sea oil rig and Tekken 8 continues to blend stylish and ridiculous – the hotly anticipated games of the year to come
  • Not a straightforward witch … Siena Kelly as the eponymous Domino Day.

    ‘Everyone’s shocked at how sexy it is!’: how a gory witch drama became TV’s most fun feminist call-to-arms

    A woman sates her bloodlust by attacking male sexual predators – when she’s not bonding with her friends over botany. The star and creator of Domino Day talk about making utterly exhilarating TV
  • Irresistible … Sophie Turner in Joan and Levi Brown in This Town

    ‘Guaranteed to be a banger’: the 50 must-see TV shows for 2024

    A terrifying Kate Winslet! A new Sally Wainwright epic! Benedict Cumberbatch with a 7ft puppet! Want to know what TV to devour in 2024? Here’s your guide
  • ‘Let’s have some fun’ … Mike Dirnt, Billie Joe Armstrong and Tré Cool of Green Day

    Green Day: ‘If you want to experience British culture, go to see Millwall play’

  • Ghetts and Olivia Rodrigo

    The best pop and classical music to look out for in 2024

  • Serving up the unexpected … Ian McKellen in Player Kings and comedian Julia Masli

    The best theatre, dance and comedy tickets to book in 2024

    The new year’s hottest shows include stage versions of Minority Report, Spirited Away and La Strada, performances by Keeley Hawes and Ian McKellen – plus laughs from Julia Masli, Rhod Gilbert and Ania Magliano
  • Yoko Ono and IM Pei’s Museum of Islamic Art in Doha.

    The best art and architecture shows to visit in 2024

    Yoko Ono’s cheeky pieces, a gut punch from Goya and the National’s centenary celebrations will fill the UK’s galleries, while the Louvre’s architect takes his moment in the sun in this stupendous year
  • ‘Who is not Judas?’ … The First Supper will be unveiled in the Royal Academy’s courtyard as part of Entangled Pasts.

    The Last Supper recast: artist Tavares Strachan on reimagining Da Vinci’s dinner guests

    He replaced Christ with Haile Selassie and took Judas’s place himself. The Bahamian’s epic artistic revisions, from space to the Arctic, hit Britain in 2024 – and the Royals are in his sights
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