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Art hoard found after police raid suspect who walked off with Picasso
Police on both sides of the country now believe that Mark Lugo, 30, who used to pour wine for patrons in posh Manhattan restaurants, was fresh from a weeks-long… -
Art auction for East Africa appeal
The £50 million appeal - the charities largest ever - is to tackle the terrible food shortages being faced by up to 12 million people in countries in the east… -
The view from the stage
In trouble, yes. But surprised? Not really. Not any more. This incident - a freak attack of a vertigo-inducing condition called labyrinthitis - concluded with… -
From parking meters to food mixers: How designer Ken Grange has helped…
It is this clever, quirky thinking that has helped Grange to create one of the world's most admired design practices. If you've ever travelled by 125 InterCity… -
Lay Me Down Softly, Tricycle Theatre, London
All-comers are invited to match their fists against the unbeaten resident prizefighter Dean (Anthony Morris). It's characteristic of the bantering bathos in… -
The Horrors know fame is nothing to be frightened of
Skying, the follow up to the Mercury Prize-nominated Primary Colours, has been the deserving recipient of rave reviews that claim it to be The Horrors' best… -
Album: Basement Jaxx vs. Metropole Orkest, Basement Jaxx vs. Metropole…
These days, things are more equable: a generation of orchestral musicians has grown up enjoying pop and rock with unashamed relish, and there are any number of… -
Cultural Life: Alan Davies, comedian
Television: 'The Apprentice'. Never miss it. The most screamingly funny show this century. Just the sight of Lord Sugar, the midget deity, descending in a glass… -
British Library bids for oldest bound book
The library hopes to raise £2.75m to complete funds already donated by the National Heritage Memorial Fund and The Art Fund. The St Cuthbert Gospel is an almost… -
Arts agenda: Melbourne International Film Festival
60th Melbourne International Film FestivalJuly 21-August 7MelbourneVictoria, AustraliaIn the weeks after the Melbourne International Animation Festival (MIAF),… -
Hong Kong gets serious about its annual book fair
But times are fast changing. This year's event - which runs from July 20 to 26 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre - is continuing to push matters a… -
Most blogged artists: Toro y Moi announces new EP
Toro y Moi follows up February's Underneath the Pine with a new EP, set for a September 13th release. The group recently released a cover of Alexander O'Neal and… -
Music agenda: Pitchfork celebrates indie music
6th Pitchfork Music Festival July 15-17Chicago, Illinois, USMap Fleet Foxes, Animal Collective, and TV on the Radio are taking the main stage at this year's… -
The Diary: Martin Scorsese; Cornwall's Port Eliot festival; Edinburgh…
Scorsese's festival fun It will be the first and likely the last time that Martin Scorsese shares a bill with the WI. The Hollywood director has curated a… -
Treasure Island, Bristol Old Vic
The theatre space of the Old Vic is closed for redevelopment. But director Sally Cookson, not one to be deterred by the lack of a theatre, decided to construct a… -
Hubert Duprat: Caddis, Crystal and Company, Norwich Castle
His workers, in this case, are caddis larvae. While they are still creeping about underwater, they use pebbles to build micro-habitats, mini-thimbles into which… -
Ireland can teach us some valuable literary lessons
The little courtroom in Bantry, a pretty and peaceful town on one of the deep bays where County Cork slides gently into the Atlantic, would not usually play host… -
The Possessions of Doctor Forrest, By Richard T Kelly
Mysterious deaths and strange encounters abound. Then comes a cunning narrative twist, which displays the earlier events in an entirely new and thoroughly spooky… -
In the Sea there are Crocodiles, By Fabio Geda, trans. Howard Curtis
The opening of Fabio Geda's true story, translated from Italian and now an international bestseller, is sorrowful and evocative. I wasn't expecting her to go,"… -
Mercury rising for Tom, Tinie, Anna, Polly… and Sir John
1. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake Early-betting front-runner PJ Harvey here muses upon a nation in thrall to military endeavour, hidebound by the ghosts of its… -
Cultural revolution: How artists have been inspired by the Arab Spring
The London Mayor, Boris Johnson, and his team turn out to be diviners, spookily prescient. On 4 July they launched Shubbak (meaning window), London's first… -
The Barometer: The Drums; Jenny and Johnny; Caged Animals; Little…
The Drums Money Those who fell for the charms of The Drums' debut won't be disappointed with this taster of their second record: it's more of the same delightful… -
Great Works: Interrogation 1, 1981 (305cm x 447cm), Leon Golub
You see immediately the kind of thing that a Golub painting is – or, more to the point, everything that it is not – from the image on this page. This is a… -
Boyd Tonkin: Jewels in Rupert'starnished crown
HarperCollins later acquired the illustrious independent imprint Fourth Estate, in 2000. Bucking the industry norm, the taken-over party, Fourth Estate's founder… -
Composer Michael Nyman settles an old score
Variously translated from Russian as One Sixth of the World, or sometimes A Sixth Part of the World, the film in question is a barnstorming state-of-the-nation… -
How The Overtones painted their way to a record deal
"We're not painters and decorators by trade," explains Timmy Matley, the lead singer of the band, who comes from Cork, in Ireland. Singing is our first love,… -
Emily Mortimer - A Sloane from the Chilterns who loves life in the fast lane
Originally, she hadn't planned to follow in her late father's footsteps, instead adapting a screenplay and writing a newspaper column. Acting was always… -
A virtual seat for a galaxy of virtuosi
The technology has made galloping progress since the first opera webcast in from St Petersburg's Kirov, now the Mariinsky). The Berlin Philharmonic's pioneering,… -
First Night: Jake or Dinos Chapman, White Cube: Masons Yard & Hoxton Square
This time the story is a little different. These two have always been collaborators. Until now. Recently they have been working on their own, in separate studios.… -
Conservatism, By Kieron O'Hara
His conservatism combines scepticism about social blueprints with suspicion of change. Society is too big and complex to understand, and for this Burkean …
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