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13, August 2007 ( 01:00:32 )
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The day Picasso got behind the camera for a change  
SHE was an international model, fashion photographer and acclaimed war correspondent; he was one of the greatest arti...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:41
Poles to keep German treasures  
POLAND has rejected calls to return German cultural treasures, including original manuscripts of Goethe, Beethoven, M...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:41
JK Rowling fails in bid to bar press from using photo of ...  
JK ROWLING failed yesterday in a bid to block the media from using a paparazzi snap taken of her wheeling her two-yea...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:41
Bid to pulp 'racist' Tintin book  
A CONGOLESE student has begun legal action in Belgium to have the comic book Tintin in the Congo declared racist and ...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:41
Boost for £20m photo centre bid at Royal High  
THE campaign for a £20 million national photography centre in the old Royal High School has been boosted after rival...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:41
Bug invasion hits the Capital  
A HORROR book in which giant bugs take over Edinburgh has finally hit the shelves.
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:41
True love is still a classic winner  
THE course of true love never did run smooth, wailed Shakespeare's thwarted lover Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:40
£50,000 boost for historic theatre revamp  
IT WAS one of Scotland's leading venues in the golden age of music hall, when everyone from George Formby to screen l...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:40
Festival programme steps boldly on to centre stage  
THE jazz and Broadway tunes of Leonard Bernstein's modern operetta Candide open the 61st Edinburgh International Fest...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:40
Vandal's hammer attack on £1.7m Reynolds work  
A PAINTING worth £1.7 million by the British artist Sir Joshua Reynolds has been damaged by a hammer-wielding vandal...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:40
Pavarotti in hospital 'for observation'  
THE opera star Luciano Pavarotti has been admitted to hospital for observation in his hometown of Modena in northern ...
Scotsman 2007-08-10 18:01:40
People: Bob Dylan, Jennifer Lopez, Melanie Brown  
A collection of Bob Dylan's artworks, including variations on published drawings and sketches, is to open later this ...
International Herald Tribune 2007-08-10 18:01:27
'Lone Survivor': Ex-Navy Seal's tale maneuvers onto best-...  
Less than a month after Marcus Luttrell was discharged from the U.S. Navy - having served with the elite Seals, survi...
International Herald Tribune 2007-08-10 18:01:26
Review: 'El Cantante': A Latin music fest with a sagging ...  
The film, directed by Leon Ichaso, chronicles the life of the salsa singer Hector Lavoe, played by Marc Anthony. Icha...
International Herald Tribune 2007-08-10 18:01:26
Book review: Before  
The heroine of Irini Spanidou's novel is a woman who seems like a less famous, less glamorous version of Edie Sedgwic...
International Herald Tribune 2007-08-10 18:01:26
Luino, Italy: The story of a region's inhabitants, told i...  
Carlo Alessandro Pisoni scours cemeteries of Lake Maggiore, patiently transcribing epitaphs for a Web site that he ho...
International Herald Tribune 2007-08-10 18:01:26
China sends largest traveling terracotta army exhibit to ...  
The largest ever loan of artifacts from China's famed terracotta army started on its way to London on Thursday, offic...
International Herald Tribune 2007-08-10 18:01:26
For Arlo Guthrie, 'Alice' brought what he wanted  
The legendary folk musician celebrates his 60th birthday, and the 40th year after the release of "Alice's Restaurant,...
International Herald Tribune 2007-08-10 18:01:26
French teen detained over unauthorized Harry Potter trans...  
A 16-year-old French boy translated all 759 pages of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" within days of its July 2...
International Herald Tribune 2007-08-10 18:01:26
Poland rejects call to return German artworks  
The works have been held in Polish archives since World War II.
International Herald Tribune 2007-08-10 18:01:26
Artworks by Bob Dylan to be shown in eastern German city  
A collection of Bob Dylan's artworks, including variations on published drawings and sketches, is to open later this ...
International Herald Tribune 2007-08-10 18:01:26
Book review: Last One In  
Nicholas Kulish, the Berlin bureau chief for The New York Times, was embedded with the U.S. marines in 2003 and he ha...
International Herald Tribune 2007-08-10 18:01:26
Book Review: "In Search of Robert Millar" and "From Lance...  
Somewhere in the last dozen years, after Deng Xiaoping's proclamation that "to be rich is glorious" and Bill Clinton'...
International Herald Tribune 2007-08-10 18:01:26
Music cache from Hitler's headquarters features Jewish an...  
Outward hatred for Jews and Russians may have belied a secret passion for some of their greatest musical works, if a ...
International Herald Tribune 2007-08-10 18:01:26
Tale of ruling class privilege touches a nerve in Italians  
A new book on Italy's political class has become somewhat of a phenomenon, catching the wave of a widespread national...
International Herald Tribune 2007-08-10 18:01:26
A rendez-vous in France with the Wild West  
In two decades, country and western festivals have sprung up in many parts of France, sparked by an abiding fascinati...
International Herald Tribune 2007-08-10 18:01:26
Baron Elie de Rothschild is dead at 90  
Baron Elie oversaw the restoration and ascent of the renowned wine estate Château Lafite Rothschild after World War II.
International Herald Tribune 2007-08-10 18:01:26
Spanish writers snub invite to Frankfurt Book Fair in spa...  
When the Frankfurt Book Fair took the rare step of inviting a region rather than a country to showcase its literary t...
International Herald Tribune 2007-08-10 18:01:26
At the Salzburg Festival, anything but the Age of Reason  
"The Nocturnal Side of Reason," the theme this year of the festival is seemingly antithetical to Mozart, who is tradi...
International Herald Tribune 2007-08-10 18:01:26
The whole Elgar, beyond Pomp and Circumstance  
During the 150th anniversary of his birth, Edward Elgar's music is being played in many places from January to Decemb...
International Herald Tribune 2007-08-10 18:01:26
Putting a human face on an Argentine prison's history  
Eighteen stories above the streets of Buenos Aires, inside a gutted prison, the young artist Seth Wulsin, from Rockla...
International Herald Tribune 2007-08-10 18:01:26
4 paintings stolen from gallery in Nice  
Two of the works were by the Flemish painter Jan Brueghel the Elder, while the others were by the Impressionist artis...
International Herald Tribune 2007-08-10 18:01:26
Edinburgh Festival: Songs of barnstorming silliness and s...  
Mark Monahan reviews Tripod at the Bosco Tent and God's Pottery at Pleasance Cavern.
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:20
BBC Proms review: Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem, follow...  
Ivan Hewett reviews Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem, followed by Mahler’s 10th Symphony.
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:20
National Lottery money is running out for the arts  
Rupert Christiansen muses on the fate of the arts now that National Lottery money is being diverted elsewhere.
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:20
Bolshoi Ballet: Spartacus  
Sarah Crompton reviews the Bolshoi's Spartacus at the London Coliseum.
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:20
A bad case of monkeys on her back  
James Hawes reviews Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:20
Surviving on tinned pilchards  
Jake Kerridge reviews thrillers
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:20
A Saudi Arabian Sex and the City  
Elena Seymenliyska reviews Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips and Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:20
'No one is who they say they are'  
Siddhartha Deb reviews Tokyo Year Zero by David Peace
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:20
Each hook caught by another  
Kate Chisholm reviews Filming: a Love Story by Tabish Khair
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:20
BBC Proms review: A Guto Puw world premiere  
Matthew Rye reviews Prom 36: BBC National Orchestra of Wales and David Atherton.
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
Edinburgh Festival celebrity choice: Janey Godley  
Comedian Janey Godley tells Alison Shaw what she is looking forward to seeing at the festival.
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
Mark Ravenhill: A play for today, and today...  
Mark Ravenhill agreed to write a new play every day - then he lost his memory. Dominic Cavendish reports.
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
Judd Apatow: 'I think like I'm 16 years old'  
Judd Apatow, the man behind some of the biggest comedy hits in recent years including the soon-to-be released Knocke...
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
Film reviews: Rush Hour 3, Waitress, The Walker, Billy Li...  
Tim Robey reviews Rush Hour 3, Waitress, The Walker, License to Wed, Transylvania, Henry V and Billy Liar.
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
Edinburgh Festival: Exquisite ensemble finds hope in the...  
Mark Brown reviews The End of Everything Ever at Pleasance 2 and Night Time at Travese at The Drill Hall.
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
Edinburgh Festival: Johnson and 'Bozza' in the land of de...  
Dominic Cavendish at the Edinburgh Festival reviews 'Johnson and Boswell: Late but Live' at the Traverse and 'Debbie ...
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
Film reviews: Surf's Up and Wild Style  
Sukhdev Sandhu reviews Sony Pictures' animated penguin adventure Surf's Up, and 1983 hip-hop documentary, Wild Style.
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
Last night on television  
By Gerard O'Donovan
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
Director Oliver Stone on the DVD release of  
When Oliver Stone released his 2004 epic about the life of Alexander the Great, it was instantly branded a flop and b...
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
Comics aren't just read by nerds  
Christopher Tayler reviews Reading Comics by Douglas Wolk
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
Ahoy there, me hearties  
Toby Clements reviews In Search of the Buccaneers by Anthony Gambrill and Empire of Blue Water by Stephan Talty
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
Done in by Voldemort  
Jane Stevenson reviews Galileo, Antichrist: a Biography by Michael White
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
The epitome of Socratic ambivalence  
Duncan Fallowell reviews The Death of Socrates by Emily Wilson
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
The sound of music in the medley of life  
Frances Wilson reviews The Importance of Music to Girls by Lavinia Greenlaw
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
Swing when you're winning  
Jim White reviews Tommy's Honour by Kevin Cook and Tales from the Q School by John Feinstein
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
Biographies of Byron rendered obsolete  
Jonathan Bate reviews The Letters of John Murray to Lord Byron
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
An eccentric approach to Princess Margaret  
Richard Davenport-Hines reviews Princess Margaret: A Life Unravelled by Tim Heald
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
A new look at Nazi plunder  
Adam Tooze reviews Hitler's Beneficiaries by Götz Aly
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
Who said what  
Our regular review of the reviews
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
A deft mix of history, memoir and fiction  
Ophelia Field reviews The Visible World by Mark Slouka
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
Literary life  
Mark Sanderson at large in a world of books
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
Lured into criminal Istanbul  
David Robson reviews The Snake Stone by Jason Goodwin
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
He lives alone with his cat  
Susanna Yager reviews crime fiction
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
Beyond the messy human dramas  
Jane Shilling reviews Cheating At Canasta by William Trevor
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
Schumann's haemorrhoids and hangovers  
Damian Thompson reviews Robert Schumann: Life and Death of a Musician by John Worthen
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
Robert Schumann: far from romantic  
John Adamson reviews Robert Schumann: Life And Death Of A Musician By John Worthen
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
Paperbacks  
Alex Peake-Tomkinson, Caroline McGinn, Toby Clements, Peter Robins, Max Porter, Heather Thompson, Nicholas Bagnall an...
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
Grease's West End stage is too big for TV talent show duo  
Sarah Crompton reviews Grease the musical at Piccadilly Theatre.
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
BBC Proms review: Impassive and impressive  
Geoffrey Norris reviews Bach Collegium Japan and Cleo Laine and John Dankworth.
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
Hard-Fi: Like a bat out of Staines  
Hard-Fi frontman Richard Archer talks to Neil McCormick about suburban defiance - and his mother's death on the eve ...
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
BBC Proms: What does a percussionist keep in his suitcase?  
Geoffrey Norris is amazed by Colin Currie's arduous preparation for a live recital.
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
David 'Honeyboy' Edwards - The last bluesman  
He grew up in near-slavery, survived the chain gang and played with America's greatest blues musicians. At 92, David...
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
Prince at the O2: Concert 4 - Where were the songs I knew?  
Sophie Ellis Bextor is left a little cold by Prince at the O2.
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
A flamenco quiver speaks louder than a stomp  
Elena Seymenliyska reviews Paco Peña at Sadler's Wells.
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
Edinburgh Festival: Homecoming of the god of parties  
'The Bacchae' boasts a top director, a red-hot writer - and Scottish theatre's great exile, Alan Cumming. They talk ...
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
Edinburgh Festival: Poles on stilts bring new terror to S...  
Dominic Cavendish reviews Macbeth: Who is that Bloodied Man? at the Old University Quad and Exits and Entrances at th...
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
Edinburgh Festival: Celebrity choice  
Comedian Michael McIntyre tells Alison Shaw what he is looking forward to seeing at the festival.
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
Edinburgh Festival: Delicious top-quality assault on medi...  
Mark Monahan reviews Stewart Lee at Udderbelly and Rob Deering at Baby Belly 1.
Telegraph (UK) 2007-08-10 18:01:19
Music Review | B.B. King and Al Green : A Patriarch Holds...  
When he wasn’t talking, B.B. King, who was headlining his own tour at the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden, p...
New York Times 2007-08-10 18:01:00
Cable TV Is Having Breakout Summer  
Cable television has always feasted on the summer audiences abandoned by the largely vacationing broadcast networks, ...
New York Times 2007-08-10 18:01:00
Art Review | NeoIntegrity : Go Ahead, Expect Surprises  
Put together — amassed is the word — by the painter Keith Mayerson, “NeoIntegrity” at Derek Eller Gallery is ...
New York Times 2007-08-10 18:01:00
He Lived to Tell the Tale (and Write a Best Seller)  
Backed by strong support from military blogs and right-wing pundits, “Lone Survivor,” with its action-packed narr...
New York Times 2007-08-10 18:01:00
As Off Broadway Changes, Some Venerable Theaters Vanish  
A reasonable assumption might be that the closing of six theaters in the last two years is ushering in the decline of...
New York Times 2007-08-10 18:01:00
Official at the Smithsonian Resigns After Meeting Transcr...  
A high-ranking official has resigned from the Smithsonian Institution after acknowledging that he destroyed a transcr...
New York Times 2007-08-10 18:01:00
Met Opera to Expand in Theaters Across Globe  
The Metropolitan Opera plans to expand still further its live high-definition simulcasts into movie theaters around t...
New York Times 2007-08-10 18:01:00
Theater Review | 'Necropolis #1&2': To Sleep the Big Slee...  
Theater is our most venerable showcase for language. For the noir-besotted writer and director Ian W. Hill, however, ...
New York Times 2007-08-10 18:01:00
Television Review | 'Bounty Girls Miami': Tracking Fugiti...  
How have female bounty hunters become a feature of the modern world?
New York Times 2007-08-10 18:01:00
Arts, Briefly  
An exhibition’s art is in the bag, Win for J. Lo, loss for O. J., Winding ‘Bronx Tale’ bound for Broadway and m...
New York Times 2007-08-10 18:01:00
Music Review | Jenny Scheinman: A Violinist Tones Down th...  
Acoustic folk, Gypsy swing and country can all crop up in violinist Jenny Scheinman’s music, in ways that elude cla...
New York Times 2007-08-10 18:01:00
Books of the Times: Living and Painting by His Own Rules  
Joe Andoe’s book — which is divided into short anecdotes given painterly names (“Spontaneous Radiance,” “Ke...
New York Times 2007-08-10 18:01:00
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