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Observer critics' review of 2017
The Observer's critics pick their cultural highs and lows of 2017
10 December 2017
Fiona Maddocks’s best classical music of 2017
Opera for babies, late-night Bach, Debussy to die for, plus women – and men – making waves
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Fiona Maddocks’s best classical music of 2017
Rowan Moore’s best architecture of 2017
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Rowan Moore’s best architecture of 2017
Simon Parkin’s best video games of 2017
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Simon Parkin’s best video games of 2017
Luke Jennings’s best dance of 2017
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Luke Jennings’s best dance of 2017
Laura Cumming’s best art of 2017
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Laura Cumming’s best art of 2017
Euan Ferguson’s best television of 2017
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Euan Ferguson’s best television of 2017
Miranda Sawyer’s best radio of 2017
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Miranda Sawyer’s best radio of 2017
Mark Kermode’s best films of 2017
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Mark Kermode’s best films of 2017
Susannah Clapp’s best theatre of 2017
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Susannah Clapp’s best theatre of 2017
9 December 2017
Kitty Empire’s best pop of 2017
From Jay-Z to Taylor Swift, it’s been a year of high political and personal drama in the worlds of rap, pop and rock
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Kitty Empire’s best pop of 2017
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