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	Who’s Selling the $10 Million Gold Toilet? Signs Point to the Mets’ Owner.
	The New York Times

	‘Matt Smith is so hot it’s problematic’: inside the TV version of Nick Cave’s disturbing, sex-filled novel
	The Guardian

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‘Matt Smith is so hot it’s problematic’: inside the TV version of Nick Cave’s disturbing, sex-filled novel

After 16 years, Cave’s scandalous book The Death of Bunny Munro about a sex addict on the run with his son finally lands on our screens. He and star Smith talk Kylie regrets, bad dads … and how to do a strip club scene with a nine-year-old Nick Cave claims that at least four different production companies have tried to turn his frequently hilarious, always disturbing, sex-filled novel The Death o…

‘If you’re unhappy with Reform, this is a soothing balm’: Gurinder Chadha on her reboot of A Christmas Carol

I was led down the wrong path into cybercrime as a teenager. Here’s what I would tell my younger self

‘Every hacker I’ve met is a gamer’: why the next generation of tech talent could be found in unlikely places

‘You can be an ethical hacker, not a criminal one’: the initiative guiding young gamers into cybersecurity

How young people can use their online gaming skills to fight cybercrime – and what parents can do to help them

Sung Im Her: 1 Degree Celsius review – ragtag band unite to call for climate reset

The artist Luke Jerram on the tree-planting project he’ll never see finished

Elizabeth Olsen believes she will die old and alone in a foggy English coastal town. Here are her options

Rebecca Clarke: The Complete Songs album review – rich, radiant performances bring a forgotten voice to life

Eurovision hero Sam Ryder takes on role as Jesus Christ Superstar

Add to playlist: Tristan Perich and James McVinnie’s piece for organ and 100 loudspeakers, plus the week’s best new tracks

Diane Arbus: Sanctum Sanctorum review – a grotesquely bleak but brutally truthful vision of humanity

The Celebrity Traitors final review – what an absolute blinder.

The Mountain Goats: Through This Fire Across from Peter Balkan review – shipwreck songs from a master storyteller

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Who’s Selling the $10 Million Gold Toilet? Signs Point to the Mets’ Owner.

The billionaire Steve Cohen is reported to have purchased the 18-karat flushable sculpture by Maurizio Cattelan in 2017. It’s now coming up for sale at Sotheby’s.

Design or Art? Both. At the ‘Salon’ Fair, 6 Ways to See Why.

Planting a Flag, and a Flagship, for Black Art