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'Facing Goya': the Premiere

Michael Nyman's opera opens in Spain

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Iran Cracks Down

The latest newspaper suspension by the conservative Press Court

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US Actors Go On Strike

Industry watchers fear the action could spread from advertising to films

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Australia's Olympic Arts Festival

Has Aboriginal art been overlooked?

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Koreans in Accord

Symphony orchestras from north and south stage a historic concert

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Putin Attacks the Bolshoi

Two directors sacked by the Russian president

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Controversial Artwork Removed in Delhi

Fellow artists walk out in support of Surendran Nair at the National Gallery Of Modern Art

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Baghdad Welcomes Artists

Sanctions fail to deter planeload of artists and sportspeople

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Arts Struggle in the Reunited Berlin

How the fall of the Wall left behind some expensive duplication

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Nazi Art Theft Forum

Thrity-seven countries agree to return artworks to their rightful owners

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China's Nobel Milestone

Gao Xingjian is the country's first winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

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Austria Remembers

Vienna's Holocaust Memorial opens

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Berlin Opera Houses Fight Unification

Leading fgures in classical music are protesting a merger of the two halls

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Culture Minister Slammed in Iran

'Permissive' Ata'ollah Mohajerani offers to resign

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Kidnapper Releases Indian Film Star

Rajkumar freed by mountain brigand after 108 days

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Rwanda Rediscovers Music

South African star Lucky Dube plays a free concert in Kigali

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Klimt Works Returned

An Austrian gallery is ordered to hand the paintings back to their Jewish former owners

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A Russian Puzzle

'The Taking Of Ismail' is the surprise winner of the Smirnoff-Booker Prize

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Iran Loses Culture Tsar

Arts figures bemoan the resignation of Ata'ollah Mohajerani

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Nigerian State Bans Film

Authorities say video production contradicts Sharia law

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Why 2000 Belonged to the Net

A look back at a decisive year in how we consume the arts

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The Second Harlem Renaissance

A special report from New York on the African-American arts explosion

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Uproar in Bombay

Arrests over underworld connections shock the Indian film industry

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The Cairo Book Fair Hits Trouble

The Muslim Brotherhood attacks the 'pornographic' content of state-published books

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The Verdi Centenary

The composer is 'part of the country's very identity' says Italy's culture minister

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Drawing Dissent

The importance of satirical cartoons in southern Africa

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'Ulysses' Film Opens At Last

Ireland overturns ban after 34 years

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The End of Napster

A judge in California closes down the music download site

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Adieu Charles Trenet

France mourns its 'singing fool'

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The Taliban Attacks the Arts

Statues in Afghanistan are deemed 'un-Islamic'

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