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5:46pm VISUAL ARTS

Kim Lim: Carvings, Roche Court, Wiltshire, UK

The Singapore-born artist’s work combines concision and power

Culture columns

Economical with the truth

Australain Dollar coins surrond a US Dollar bill.

©Reuters

‘There’s a reason a Warhol dollar-sign painting is valued more than most renaissance altarpieces’

The joy of archaeolatreia

‘Forget the ruins of the past; today’s ruinous visions are of the future’

©Tim Morozzo

5:46pm THEATRE & DANCE

Union, Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh

A timely and lively reminder of how Great Britain was born

©Tristram Kenton

5:46pm THEATRE & DANCE

Spring Awakening, Nuffield Theatre, Southampton

Headlong’s Wedekind update sheds light on ignorance in the age of mass information

Simon Wegrzyn as the wolf in 'Grimm Tales'

©Tom Medwell

Mar 25, 2014 THEATRE & DANCE

Grimm Tales, Shoreditch Town Hall, London

A suitably subterranean setting for these dark fairy tales

©Elena Fetisova/Bolshoi Ballet

Mar 25, 2014 THEATRE & DANCE

Lady of the Camellias, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow – review

John Neumeier’s ballet has found a good home with the Bolshoi

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On DVD Philomena, Jeune et Jolie and Saving Mr Banks. Plus new albums by Liars, War on Drugs and Wilco Johnson

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Valérie Belin’s ‘Pieris Japonica’ (2013)

©Courtesy Galerie Natalie Obadia

Art crowd gather by the Gulf; tax triumph for ‘Omai’; mystery of Phillips’ figures

Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Baitz and directed by Lindsay Posner at The Old Vic. Clare Higgins as Silda Grauman, Peter Egan as Lyman Wyeth and Sinead Cusack as Polly Wyeth. Picture by Nigel Norrington

©Nigel Norrington

Mar 25, 2014 THEATRE & DANCE

Other Desert Cities, Old Vic, London

A well-cast domestic drama exploring ideological differences

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Travel, Memory, 2001

Mar 25, 2014 VISUAL ARTS

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Art First, London

The painter emerges as a glorious late Scottish colourist

Mar 25, 2014 MUSIC

Drake, O2 Arena, London

The Toronto rapper delivered a focused if solipsistic performance

THE DEAD DOGS by Jon Fosse translated by May-Brit Akerholt design: Libby Watson lighting: Simon Bennison director: Simon Usher <br> l-r: Jennie Gruner (The Sister), Danny Horn (The Young Man), Valerie Gogan (The Mother), Sam Redford (The Brother-in-Law) The Print Room, London W2 20/03/2014 ©Donald Cooper/Photostage donald@photostage.co.uk ref/0069

©Donald Cooper

Mar 25, 2014 THEATRE & DANCE

The Dead Dogs, Print Room, London

Jon Fosse’s sparse drama has echoes of Pinter

Shigeru Ban's Cardboard Cathedral, Christchurch, New Zealand

Mar 24, 2014 DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE

Pritzker Prize 2014: Shigeru Ban

The Japanese architect has built his career on cardboard

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The Singapore-born artist’s work combines concision and power

Culture columns

A timely and lively reminder of how Great Britain was born

Headlong’s Wedekind update sheds light on ignorance in the age of mass information

A suitably subterranean setting for these dark fairy tales

John Neumeier’s ballet has found a good home with the Bolshoi

A well-cast domestic drama exploring ideological differences

The painter emerges as a glorious late Scottish colourist

The Toronto rapper delivered a focused if solipsistic performance

Jon Fosse’s sparse drama has echoes of Pinter

The Japanese architect has built his career on cardboard

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