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Don’t Miss: Nam June Paik, the artist who foresaw the internet

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A still from Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV by Amanda Kim, an official selection of the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute.

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is a documentary about the experimental artist (pictured above) who preferred Popular Mechanics to art history, predicted the internet and enabled mass media. In UK cinemas from 19 May.

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is physicist Gregory J. Gbur’s focus, as he traces the dark art of not being seen from early science fiction through modern optical science to a future full of stealth technology and weird materials. On sale now (US); 23 May (UK).

Kris Tompkins on her hike up the mountain range in Patagonia, Chile. (Jimmy Chin)

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is the story of Kris (pictured above) and Doug Tompkins, outdoor-wear pioneers with a plan to conserve nature by buying land in Chile and Argentina, then turning it into national parks. Streaming on Disney+ from 26 May.

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