‘Perfectly conceived’ show celebrating what would have been star’s 100th birthdayMarilyn Monroe and David Attenborough were both born in 1926, said Waldemar Januszczak in The Times. If things had gone differently, we might be celebrating her 100th birthday this year as well as his. But “some candles...

by Bozorgmehr Sharafedin and Yeganeh TorbatiWhen a coalition of “clerics, leftists, students, nationalists and secular intellectuals” launched the Iranian Revolution in 1979, they were united less by a shared vision than “a shared rejection” of the Shah’s rule, said Reza Aslan in The New York Times....

Titan of British art who never stopped seeingDavid Hockney, who has died aged 88, was widely considered to have been Britain’s greatest living artist, said The Telegraph: instantly recognisable, with his bleached-blond hair, round glasses, impish smile and “ever-smouldering cigarette”.What drove him...