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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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Hollywood Writers' Strike Looms

Studios are struggling to avoid industrial action from 1 May

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Tierney Gearon in Hot Water

The US photographer falls foul of Britain's Vice Squad

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Philippines Film Censor Condemns Government

Nicanor Tiongson has resigned in protest at 'religious bigotry'

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Mexico's Man of Mystery

How Subcomandante Marcos became an icon of resistance

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Turkmenistan Clamps Down on the Arts

President Saparmurat Niyazov orders the opera house to be closed

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Iranian Art Debuts in Europe

London's Barbican Gallery welcomes the country's contemporary art

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Is Nadine Gordimer a Racist?

Teachers attack the South African Nobel Laureate's novel 'July's People'

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South Korea's Japan Problem

A pop video is re-igniting ill feeling between the two countries

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'Cultural Revolution' in Venezuela

President Hugo Chávez's arts policy comes under fire

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Chinese Ballet Takes a Step Too Far

Zhang Yimou adapts his film 'Raise The Red Lantern'

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The Media Baron Prime Minister

Italy re-elects self-made millionaire Silvio Berlusconi

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'On The Road' on the Block

Jack Kerouac's original manuscript goes up for auction in New York

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Wagner Concert Pulled in Israel

Festival organisers bow to political pressure over a production of 'Die Walküre'

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The First Hip Hop Music Summit

Rap artists agree to rules regarding parental guidance

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The Year's Best Building

The Finnish embassy in Berlin wins the first World Architecture Award

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Indian Muslims Protest Film

'Gadar: Ek Prem Katha' has stirred religious controversy for its depiction of Islam

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The Legacy of Bruno Schulz

The Ukranian government is suing Yad Vashem over the alleged theft of murals

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The Genoa Protest – on Film

Anti-capitalist riots in Italy are a gift for young film-makers

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Italy vs Ethiopia

The continuing fight over an obelisk stolen by Mussolini's troops

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'Brass Eye' and Moral Panic

British satirist Chris Morris becomes a tabloid target

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China's Take on Tibetan Culture

Beijing's National Museum Of History tackles the Tibetan question

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Lollywood's Riposte to Bollywood

Pakistan's film industry has created a rebuttal to Indian war epic 'Gadar: Ek Prem Katha'

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Berlin's Jewish Museum Opens

Daniel Liebskind's landmark building is filled at last

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The Trade in Looted Art

Are museums guilty of stimulating the illicit business?

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