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The closer you get to Kalu’s endless sinewy trails of old VHS tape, the harder it is to know where their forms stop and the space around them begins

• Nnena Kalu becomes first artist with a learning disability to win Turner prize

Nnena Kalu’s forms come at you with their almost alien unknowable presence. They bulge and bifurcate and multiply. The viewer gets caught up in all the roaring, spilling, snaggling details, and you begin to wonder about your own boundaries, the body’s beginnings and its endings. The closer you get to Kalu’s endless sinewy trails of old VHS tape, their spews of filigree plastic webbing, their bound-up, sometimes cable-tied suturings, the harder it is to know where their forms stop and the space around them begins. Their containment is precarious. So full of life and energy, you think they might burst.

Kalu’s art is so embodied, so sensuous, so much a trace of her constant, physical engagement, so much a negotiation between the body that made it and the bodies she creates, it becomes difficult to distinguish between the activity of making and the thing itself. This was true, too, in the figures Giacometti made in his room filled with plaster dust. But Kalu’s art is not reducible to anything we might call a technique, and comparisons with other artists are not much help.

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Chair of 2025 judging panel says win ‘begins to erase that border between the neurotypical and neurodiverse artist’

• Nnena Kalu’s embodied, sensuous art makes her a worthy Turner prize winner

Nnena Kalu has won the 2025 Turner prize for her colourful drawings and sculptures made from found fabric and VHS tape, becoming the first artist with a learning disability to take home the £25,000 prize.

Alex Farquharson, chair of the jury and director of Tate Britain, said the win by the British-Nigerian represented a watershed moment for the international art world.

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© Photograph: Courtesy of the Artist and ActionSpace

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The Glasgow-born, learning-disabled artist joins a prestigious list of recipients including Damien Hirst, Steve McQueen and Grayson Perry

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Strictly Come Dancing newcomer Julian Caillon has revealed he almost gave up on auditioning from the show.

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Strictly Come Dancing host Claudia Winkleman said she would love to dance with Johannes Radebe one day after she leaves the show following the 2025 series.

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An iconic coach used in Gavin and Stacey has been put up for auction for £200,000.

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No Doubt star has previously partnered with Hallow, a prayer and meditation app, for Lent and Christmas

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Strictly Come Dancing host Tess Daly fought back tears as an emotional montage showing her best moments with Sir Bruce Forsyth played on It Takes Two on Tuesday (9 December).

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[Deal du jour] Sorti il y a plus d’un an, le set Lego The Legend of Zelda fait partie de ces modèles qui ne restent jamais longtemps en stock quand ils passent en promo. L’Arbre Mojo est en ce moment proposé à un excellent prix juste avant Noël.

[Deal du jour] Sorti il y a plus d’un an, le set Lego The Legend of Zelda fait partie de ces modèles qui ne restent jamais longtemps en stock quand ils passent en promo. L’Arbre Mojo est en ce moment proposé à un excellent prix juste avant Noël.

Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau are the latest A-listers to announce their relationship status online. But there are many ways to do it - from fancy dress to panicked deletions

As a mark of pure intent, going Instagram official has become a firmly entrenched dating marker. To post a picture of you and your new partner on Instagram – on the grid, mind you, not hiding behind the cowardice of a story – is to not only declare that you are in love, but also that you are confident enough in your future to share it with the world.

As such, Katy Perry’s decision to go Instagram official with Justin Trudeau is a classic of the genre. Long dogged by rumours that they might be together, Perry this week debuted a sanctioned image of them both. They are cheek to cheek. They are smiling, albeit in that slightly strained hurry-up-and-take-it way you do when someone decides to shoot a whole reel of photos. Katy Perry is pulling the exact same face she did when she stared into the camera that time she sort of went into space, which is how you know that it is really serious. Good luck to the pair of them.

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The musician, who led the Grammy-winning band, had been receiving treatment for colon cancer

Raul Malo, the soulful tenor and frontman of the genre-defying, Grammy-winning band the Mavericks, has died. He was 60.

Malo died on Monday night, his wife, Betty Malo, posted on his Facebook page. He had been diagnosed with cancer. The frontman of the Mavericks had documented his health journey on social media since he disclosed in June 2024 that he was receiving treatment for colon cancer.

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Late-night hosts discussed Fifa’s award to Donald Trump as his administration escalates tensions with Venezuela

Late-night hosts mocked Donald Trump for gleefully accepting the inaugural Fifa peace prize ahead of the World Cup in the US.

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La robotique est de plus en plus mobilisée pour l'agriculture à grande échelle, mais certaines tâches restent difficiles à automatiser, notamment celles qui impliquent de ramasser des tomates. Les problèmes mécaniques et algorithmiques s'accumulent, jusqu'à demander des prouesses avant d'arriver à un résultat convenable.