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| Oops! There Goes Another Warhol - the Art That Can't Be Moved Patrick Barkham: Famous art does more air miles than ever these days and even respected galleries can damage work |
Mandela Moves to Block Sale of Prison Drawings Lithographs signed by, and work of, former South African president become focus of legal action |
| Security Stepped Up As German Theatre Breaks Taboo By Staging Satanic Verses Security at the theater and in Potsdam would be increased for fear of attacks by Muslim fundamentalists |
Ettore Sottsass Obituary: Italian postmodernist designer who brought meaning to everyday objects |
| Magna Carta Fetches £10m in New York Auction A copy of the Magna Carta has been sold for more than £10m to an American tycoon |
Made in a Bolton Shed - the Fake Gauguin Sold for $125,000 A Gauguin sculpture of a faun hailed as one of the most treasured recent acquisitions of the Art Institute of Chicago was... |
| Italian City Rings Alarm Bells Over 1994 Art Theft Among the paintings that disappeared from a municipal art gallery in Catania, on Sicily, were a Rembrandt and a painting by... |
I Won't Name Cocaine Minister, Says Author Nuns, lawyers and businessmen with drug habits 'will remain anonymous' |
| Grass Sues Publisher Over Claims He Chose to Enlist With Waffen-ss Günter Grass, Germany's greatest living writer, has filed a lawsuit against the publisher of his biography for claiming... |
The Perforated Palace A magnificent art gallery with a ruined Gothic church in the basement? Only one architect could have pulled it off. Steve... |
| The Pugilist Who Wrote the Story of America He fought in the Second World War, stabbed one of his six wives in the neck and wrote some of the most acclaimed literature... |
Author Norman Mailer Dies at 84 Norman Mailer, the two-times Pulitzer prize winner who was a dominating presence on the US literary scene across seven... |
| 'We Writers Are Meaner and More Competitive Than Athletes' Earlier this year Robert McCrum, The Observer's literary editor, interviewed Norman Mailer at his home in Province town,... |
HarperCollins Sued Over Oj Book Fallout Stir up Rupert Murdoch, OJ Simpson, Rudy Giuliani, add a pinch of antisemitism, throw in a porn star and voilà, you have... |
| Mailer, Giant of American Literature, Dies at 84 Norman Mailer would probably not have wanted an old man's death. He would have preferred some other way - an accident or a... |
An Uneasy Scene in Classroom As Hirst Unveils Latest Work Damien Hirst always likes to think big, but School: The Archeology Of Lost Desires, Comprehending Infinity And The Search... |
| 'You've Gotta Think, Think Big' Robert Draper was granted extraordinary access when he was writing his book about US president George Bush. And the details... |
It's a Fact: New Book is Fiction, Says Bruised Author James Frey's first book was fiction passed off as fact, but now the author, who was subjected to public mortification on... |
| Jacobs Turns Fashion Upside Down Regulars at Marc Jacobs's New York shows are accustomed to waiting an hour or more at the New York State Armoury before the... |
Death of a Radical As Director is Stabbed Controversial theater founder had challenged repression in Uzbekistan. |
| 'We Pray That God Will Allow Him to Use His Voice in Heaven' 50,000 gather in Pavarotti's home town as the funeral of the great tenor reaches an emotional climax. |
Modena Says Farewell to Pavarotti Modena has given us Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Bugattis, balsamic vinegar and the tenor with the squid-ink black hair and... |
| Outsize Chairs and Appetite for Apple Crumble Inevitably it was the prosciutto that José Carreras recalled and the handful of apple crumble that stuck in producer Harvey... |
Italy Mourns Tenor With Voice of Platinum Singer succumbed to cancer of pancreas which he saw as payment for happiness. |
| Luciano Pavarotti Operatic superstar blessed with a voice of pure gold whose career was a triumph of marketing. |
Pavarotti Dies Aged 71 Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti has died at his home in Modena. |
| Family at Pavarotti's Bedside As Condition Worsens The opera star Luciano Pavarotti was seriously ill at his home in Italy last night after his kidneys failed and he lost... |
Row Over Wife's Role Delays Havel's Stage Comeback Former Czech president pulls play from theater after partner is refused the lead. |
| Novelist in Infanticide Row Mazarine Pingeot's fifth novel, about a woman who murders her baby and hides the corpse in a freezer, has sparked a row in... |
Youth Arrested As Harry Potter is Lost in Translation A French Harry Potter fan has been arrested after allegedly posting a pirate translation of the latest JK Rowling book on... |
| Author Accused of Murder After Art Imitates Death A Polish writer is on trial for murder after writing a crime novel in which he closely detailed the facts of a real-life... |
Nazik Al-mala'ika Obituary: Hugely influential female Arab poet. |
| Italy Claims Victory As Getty Agrees to Return 40 Objects The Italian government last night claimed partial victory in its campaign to get the return of art works it says were... |
Germany Issues Catalogue of Missing Art Works in Push for Return of War Booty · Donatello and Botticelli in list of 180,000 treasures · Inventory aimed mostly at Russia and Poland |
| Ms Wagner Jeered As Great-grandad's Opera Flops at Bayreuth Critics line up to attack reworking of classic by composer's descendant. |
Choice of Chinese Artist Sparks Row Over King Statue The plan to erect a giant memorial statue of Martin Luther King on the National Mall in Washington has become embroiled in... |
| Chinese Sculptor Replaces Black Artist on Luther King Memorial The plan to erect a giant memorial statue of Martin Luther King on the National Mall in Washington has become embroiled in... |
Schiller's Family Exhumed As Scientists Work to Crack Mystery of the Two Skulls Two skulls, one poet. It is a riddle that has been vexing experts for years. But now scientists hope to finally determine... |
| Gordon Gostelow Obituary: From Shakespeare to classic serials - and a Methodist musical. |
Frank Monaco Obituary: American-born photographer who recorded the simple, relentless life of his Italian village roots. |
| Ian Watson Obituary: Key administrator in the growth of theater-in-the-round. |
Bach Finally Comes Home As Eisenach Reclaims Composer Most citizens of Eisenach, a former communist town in central Germany, know precisely how their long-running Bach legacy... |
| Designers Prepare Les Halles for a Facelift After years of legal-wrangling and architectural debate, the modernist Les Halles complex in central Paris is finally on... |
Treat for the Eyes As Versaille's Hall of Mirrors Brightens Up Chateau of Versaille's dulled glasswork restored in France's biggest ever privately funded restoration. |
| Herman Stein Obituary: Hollywood composer noted for his sci-fi and horror scores. |
Pat O'shea Obituary: Author of the best-selling The Hounds of the Morrigan. |
| John Humphries Obituary: John Humphries, who has died from cancer aged 64, was master carpenter of the New Vic Theater,... |
Newton Papers on Show in Israel A collection of 300-year-old manuscripts by Sir Isaac Newton are to go on show in Jerusalem, the first time they will have... |
| My Sex in the Convent - By Nobel Poet The verses would be no more than the erotic, if masterful, outpourings of a prodigious poet and Nobel laureate were it not... |
Gehry's Latest Ny Project: One for the Kids Frank Gehry, famous for his Bilbao Guggenheim museum, is turning his hand to an attraction for a rather different age group... |
| Funding Row Threatens to Shut Down Arts Festival in Italy The future of one of Europe's most renowned arts festivals is in doubt just three weeks before it is due to open. |
English Manuscript Unveiled in La An important work of English art has gone on public display for the first time in 16 years - but anyone hoping to see the... |
| Crime Writer Patricia Cornwell Takes 'cyberstalker' to Court Best-selling novelist fears for safety over web jibes - Libel case defendant accused of 'jew hating' |
Heinz Berggruen Obituary: Jewish art collector who made his peace with postwar Germany. |
| Warhol Goes for $71m in Record New York Art Sale Sales records for post-war contemporary art continued to be smashed last night with works by Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst... |
Laurie Baker Obituary: Architect in tune with traditional Indian values who fostered sustainable building in his adopted homeland. |
| Cello Maestro Rostropovich Dies, Aged 80 Russian maestro considered to be one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century. |
Pulitzer Prizewinning Journalist Killed in Car Crash David Halberstam, one of the best US journalists of the 1960s who was among the first to challenge US government propaganda... |
| Ulfat Idilbi Obituary: Renowned Syrian fiction writer, lecturer and feminist. |
Italians Reveal Hidden Perils of Opera Singing Opera singing may be a glamorous occupation, but it brings with it some unglamorous hazards. |
| Joan Wyndham Obituary: Author whose charmingly louche wartime diaries brought her late fame. |
French Tycoon Wins Battle for Venice's Modern Art Gem A battle for the chance to use the world's most famous architects to turn the most prestigious site in the most beautiful... |
| Art of Supreme Power Yasmina Reza, author of hit play Art, pulled off a scoop with access to Nicolas Sarkozy's campaign for the French... |
Writers Praise Work of Kurt Vonnegut Who Has Died Age 84 The novelist, journalist and humanist Kurt Vonnegut was lauded yesterday as one of the defining voices of post-war America... |
| Kurt Vonnegut Dies at 84 The celebrated author of Slaugherhouse-Five and 19 other novels has died in New York. |
Once Hated, Now Feted - Chinese Artists Come Out From Behind the Wall Charles Saatchi joins the swell of collectors beating a path to the east. |
| Sol Lewitt Obituary: American artist whose treatment of forms and colours defied critical analysis. |
Artist and Sculptor Sol Lewitt Dies Sol LeWitt, known for his dynamic wall paintings and a founder of minimal and conceptual art styles, has died in New York... |
| Dublin No-go Flats Attract the Art Gang A tower block used in filming The Commitments has become a trendy hotel before its demolition. |
Rothko Expected to Fetch $46m A painting by the American abstract expressionist artist Mark Rothko is expected to fetch $46m (£23.4m) when it is put up... |
| 'Bargain' Picassos Netted Fraudsters $20m Without moving from their armchairs, viewers of the cable TV show Fine Arts Treasures Gallery could become the owners of... |
French Police Hunt Art Thieves After Picasso Raid Two Picasso paintings worth a total of €50m (£34m) have been stolen from the Paris home of the artist's granddaughter, it... |
| Wagner - Public Genius With a Private Passion for Bustles, Bows and Bodices Composer's notes to couturiers suggest he may have been a secret cross-dresser. |
Picasso Paintings Stolen From Family Home Several paintings and drawings by Pablo Picasso have been stolen from the home of the artist's granddaughter in Paris,... |
| US Publishers Allow Readers to Browse Online In response to the success of online booksellers in enticing customers to websites such as Amazon, two leading publishers... |
Cronenberg's The Fly to Metamorphose Into Opera Director, composer and costume designer reunite - Domingo also linked to adaptation of 1986 film |
| Christopher Helm Obituary: Publisher with a passion for birds. |
Looted By Nazis, Returned, Now on Sale Goudstikker collection likely to raise up to $35m - Art dealer died at sea while fleeing Netherlands |
| Stephen Gardiner Obituary: Humane architect and writer indifferent to the fashions of the day. |
Benefactors Pay Moma Director an Extra $5m The director of New York's Museum of Modern Art, Glenn Lowry, has received $5.4m (£2.7m) on top of his salary from some of... |
| Steven Pimlott Obituary: A theatre director with operatic flair, he embraced high art and commercial success. |
New Flap Over the Maltese Falcon The statue of Maltese Falcon was mysteriously taken from its perch in John's Grill and its owner John Konstin has offered... |
| After a Decade, Booker Winner Roy Plans New Novel The Booker prize winner Arundhati Roy is to write her first novel in 10 years after a decade of campaigning against India's... |
Missing Cézanne to Go on Display A painting by the French master Paul Cézanne, not seen in public for more than 60 years, has been rediscovered in Italy. |
| Glen Tetley Obituary: Choreographer whose synthesis of ballet and contemporary movement changed the face of dance. |
Tintoretto's First Show for 70 Years Tintoretto, the 16th-century Italian painter whose huge masterpieces adorn many of Venice's churches and palaces, is having... |
| Stoppard Has Oprah-effect for Book About Russian Thinkers We know all about Oprah Winfrey and Richard and Judy and their ability to send sales of a book spiralling into the... |
A Tenor No More: Domingo to Make Switch to Baritone Ageing singer will make debut in new repertoire as Simon Boccanegra in 2009. |
| Hermitage Employee Walked Out With Tsarist Treasures Husband sold off 77 items, including gold salt cellar - Case highlights low wages and poor museum security |
France Divided Over Nude-free Louvre in Gulf The Louvre is to lend its name and its masterpieces to a new museum in Abu Dhabi for a fee approaching half a billion... |
| Toni Del Renzio Obituary: Zealous champion of surrealism who developed his artistic ideas in fashion and graphic design. |
Great Trek of Africa's Wildebeest Threatened By Great Drought One of the planet's greatest wildlife shows - the annual migration of more than a million wildebeest across east Africa's... |
| Holed Masters Art Row in Court Steve Wynn, the Las Vegas casino mogul and art collector who accidentally bumped into Picasso's Le Rêve, knocking a hole in... |
Online Literary Competition Seeks Writers With X Factor They are billing it as the thinking person's American Idol, a search for the next big superstar but with literary, as... |
| Literary Wannabes Get Pop Idol Treatment They are billing it as the thinking person's American Idol, a search for the next big superstar but with literary, as... |
Fresh Claims Fuel Row Over Getty's 'stolen' Antiquities The Getty museum, repository of some of the finest antiquities in the world, yesterday discounted charges it had traded in... |
| The Old Man and the Urinal - Paris Ponders a Surreal Question of the Value of Art What is the true value of a urinal? Is it worth more if it has been attacked with a hammer and peed into in the name of art... |
Van Smith Obituary: Costume and make-up designer who created Divine's trashy look for John Waters' cult films. |
| You've Read the Book, You've Seen the Film ... You've Missed the Show High Fidelity a flop after 14 nights on Broadway - Hit Hornby tale of record shop nerd now a miss |
Claude Virgin Obituary: His camera recorded fashion of the late 50s and early 60s - cool with an edge of beat. |
| One Woman's Passion: the $33m Tom Thumb Islands Reclusive artist buys up historic US sites to 'put my brush on them'. |
Tenor Who Quit Will Sue La Scala The tenor Roberto Alagna, who walked out of La Scala in mid-opera after being booed, claimed yesterday he had been under... |
| 'Fourth Tenor' Exits La Scala on a Low Note Opera star abruptly quits stage - and production - Jeans-clad understudy steps in and wins ovation |
Domingo Booed in Bad Night at the Opera Plácido Domingo is used to adulation and wild applause for his sumptuous voice and profound musicianship. But on Tuesday... |
| German Critic Attacks Turner Prize Winner British critics have queued up to praise her work but yesterday Tomma Abts - the German-born winner of the 2006 Turner... |
Woman Pays Asian Record £10m to Keep Qing Bowl in Family A Hong Kong businesswoman paid £10m today for a Qing dynasty bowl that had been put up for auction by her own brother -... |
| British Composer's 20-year Opera Quest Ends With Paris Premiere After what he calls a '20-year quest' to compose for opera, George Benjamin has broken into the genre, with a 35-minute... |
The Race for Art Island: Louvre and Guggenheim Battle It Out Big 'brands' compete to be first in Abu Dhabi's £14.5bn cultural quarter. |
| Why Vietnam's Best-known Author Has Stayed Silent Fifteen years after Bao Ninh's admired war novel, he explains his fears about publishing a sequel. |
Bestsellers Banned in New Iranian Censorship Purge · Publishing industry in crisis as books blacklisted · Minister ends relaxed attitude to western culture |
| Goya Painting Stolen in Country Road Hijack A meticulous road hijack operation succeeded in stealing a 228-year-old Goya painting before it reached its destination in... |
Conquistadors' Women Pardoned in Paperback · Debate as authors turn collaborators into heroines · Critics say novels gloss over rape and savagery |
| Kenneth Mackintosh Obituary: Actor and National Theatre director. |
English Speaker is First to Win French Literary Prize A US author has made history by becoming the first native English speaker to win France's most coveted literary award, the... |
| Mexican Splashes Out Record $140m for Jackson Pollock's Drops of Genius 1948 work by American master becomes world's most expensive painting. |
Nigel Kneale Obituary: Creator of Quatermass, and one of the most exciting English science fiction writers. |
| Sylvia Plath Sonnet Discovered in College Archives A graduate student in the US has uncovered a previously unpublished sonnet by Sylvia Plath exploring the theme of boredom... |
Foreign Writers Win Top French Book Awards France prides itself on being the world literary capital, with 3,000 awards each year and a handful of winners that shape... |
| Paris Loses Its Heart to Modern Art The city's art fair has long lagged behind London. But now it is chic again - and the big players are rolling in. |
French Get a Taste of Hogarth's Beef The Louvre stages the country's first exhibition of a xenophobic virtuoso. |
| Tycoon Rips £75m Picasso Billionaire real estate mogul Steve Wynn inadvertently put his elbow through one of his paintings a 1932 Picasso in his... |
There's Gold in That Thar Paperback For millenia, gold has had a hold on the human psyche. The alchemy of transmutation, creating gold from the elements, has... |
| Aladar Pege Obituary: Hungarian bassist who bridged the worlds of classical, jazz and Gypsy music. |
Patron Gives $35m to San Francisco Opera A wealthy donor has pledged to donate $35m (£19m) over five years to the San Francisco Opera - thought to be the largest... |
| Theatres to Offer Terror Insurance Theatre audiences in Russia will soon be able to buy insurance against a terrorist attack or some other catastrophe... |
Book Reveals Old Violin Customs. But is It a Fiddle? · Doubt cast on history of funerary musical tradition · Writer paid £1,000 for his 'serious artistic statement' |
| Original Chorus Lines Up to Fight for Pay In one of Broadway's most successful musicals, a group of dancers at an audition share the trials and tribulations of a... |
High-res 3d Scan Helps Scientists Uncover Mona Lisa's Secrets Scientists have made the most detailed copy yet of the most famous painting in the world, using a new three-dimensional... |
| Global Deal for Novel By Girl, 11 Chinese prodigy sent fantasy manuscript to US publisher by email. |
India's Literary Elite Call for Anti-gay Law to Be Scrapped · Academics join 100-plus signatories to open letter · Nobel and Booker winners condemn 'colonial' bigotry |
| Paris Reclaims Classical Heritage With Hall Revamp For decades it was the stain on Paris's reputation as a city of the arts. The capital of literature and philosophy - whose... |
Dance Lover Wins £4.24m Lawsuit A millionaire Latin dance lover won an £4.24m lawsuit against her former salsa instructors in Hong Kong today, ending a... |
| Penguin Takes Its 'black Classics' Into China · Mandarin translation for Jane Eyre and Oliver Twist · Publisher takes long-term view of booming market |
Vladimir Tretchikoff Obituary: Lime green and lurid - the trademarks of an artist the public loved and critics hated. |
| Shoppers Threaten to Topple Father of Russian Literature · Glitzy mall may replace fabled Pushkin square · Intelligentsia takes on business elite over plan |
Ancient Art of Pearl Diving Breathes Its Last Japanese women who mine seabed one lungful of air at a time are last of their kind. |
| Sandra Blow Obituary: Abstract painter with an earthy touch, she balanced geometric shapes with a ferment of organic forms. |
Friends in High Places Help Push Jiang's Works Up Bestseller List It is a book promotion that puts Harry Potter in the shade: rave reviews, front-page headlines, lead stories on TV and a... |
| Images of Icy Beauty Come Out of Cold Icelandic amateur photographer wins lucrative contracts after posting haunting images on net. |
$15m on Latin Dance Lessons Only to Be Told: Move Your ****, Lazy *** · Hong Kong banker sues her ballroom instructors · Tale of high-spending and sequins grips territory |
| Staff Suspected Over Missing Hermitage Treasures Precious silver and enamelware at St Petersburg's Hermitage Museum worth nearly £2.7m has disappeared and probably been... |
Critics Call Foul Over La Exhibition Photographer Jill Greenberg's exhibition End Times, showing pictures of children crying and screaming for their snatched... |
| It's Art Squad v Tomb Raiders As Greece Reclaims Its Pillaged Past As Athens and Rome clamp down, smugglers venture further afield. |
Mike Hammer Creator, Mickey Spillane, Dies Aged 88 Mickey Spillane, the novelist who created the hardboiled detective Mike Hammer and who called his own books "the... |
| Mickey Spillane Obituary: Pulp writer whose tales of tough guys and cute broads made him the bestselling novelist of the 20th century. |
Greece Demands Return of Stolen Heritage · Getty museum success inspires antiquities hunt · We'll scour world to get them back, says minister |
| Guggenheim to Build Museum in Abu Dhabi · Frank Gehry to design 300,000 sq ft building · Modern art shows will be sensitive to local culture |
Barbara Lloyd-Jones Obituary: In a 1993 paper, Managing a Successful School: the Implications for Me as Head, my mother Barbara Lloyd-Jones,... |
| American Literary Couple Reunited After 150 Years One of the most passionate couples in American literary history were reunited yesterday when the wife of Nathaniel Hawthorne... |
Dismay As German Painting is Sold Abroad · Work hid artist's family tragedy under Nazis · £2.1m canvas depicts victim of euthanasia |
| Chirac Opens Indigenous Museum in Paris The French president, Jacques Chirac, unveiled his great cultural legacy to the country today, a new museum for indigenous... |
Looted Klimt Sold for Record £73m A stunning portrait of a Viennese aristocrat which was looted by the Nazis and only returned to its rightful owner this... |
| Getty Museum Admits 350 More Treasures May Be Looted A scandal surrounding the looting of ancient artefacts deepened yesterday when it emerged that 350 items worth $100m (£54m)... |
Placido Domingo Brings Curtain Down on Wagner Opera Placido Domingo, one of the world's greatest tenors, yesterday pulled out of three high-profile Wagner performances in... |
| After 68 Years, Steinbeck's Family Wins Back the Rights to His Greatest Works Heirs regain control of works despite deal signed by the author in 1930s. |
Ligeti, Musical Pioneer, Dies at 83 · Hungarian-born composer embraced avant garde · Nazi and Soviet eras led to abhorrence of dictatorship |
| Composer Gyorgy Ligeti Dies at 83 Composer Gyorgy Ligeti, who fled Hungary after the 1956 revolution and gained fame for his opera Le Grand Macabre and his... |
Obituary: Patrick Garnett Architect whose designs caught the mood of swinging London. |
| How Voltaire Praised the 'enlightened Despot' Catherine the Great Satirist's heartfelt letters to the woman he admired are bought for Russia. |
Renaissance Woman Returned to Gallery BBC correspondent returns a painting to Berlin's Gemäldegalerie after discovering that it is a priceless original looted... |
| Author on Slow Train to Adulation Across Siberia Crowds invade stations as Coelho's journey strikes a chord with Russians. |
Obituary: Marie Hartley As artist, historian and collector, she recorded the lost life of the Dales. |
| 'The Red Guards Burned My Toys' Xinran, the author of two bestselling books: The Good Women of China and Sky Burial, tells Jonathan Watts her story. |
British-Iraqi Architect's Barcelona Coup The British-Iraqi designer Zaha Hadid has joined the rush of architects to Spain, to create an emblematic tower block in... |
| Da Vinci Code Benefits Opus Dei The head of Opus Dei claimed yesterday that Dan Brown's portrayal of his fellowship as a murderous global conspiracy had... |
Renaissance for Irish Art As Economy Booms · Dublin urged to buy more works as sale raises £5m · WB Yeats' brother among painters rediscovered |
| French Modern Art Showcase Opens Amid Controversy · Critics of prime minister dub event 'Expo Villepin' · Works by emerging and well-known artists feature |
Picasso Portrait Sells for $95m A portrait by Pablo Picasso depicting the woman he called his "private muse" has sold for $95.2m (£52m), the... |
| Auction Frenzy Van Gogh Nets £22m A feeding frenzy at Christie's New York on Tuesday night led to the most profitable Impressionist and modern art sale for... |
Monet's Water Lilies Bloom Again They are among the most popular paintings in the world but for decades they were starved of natural light and displayed in... |
| Obituary: Tsegaye Gebre-medhin Ethiopia's poet and playwright of the common people. |
Obituary: Pramoedya Ananta Toer Indonesia's best known novelist, he survived persecution, imprisonment and censorship. |
| Greek Island Dig Offers Chance to Solve Riddle of Ancient Art A dig into the rich past of a tiny isle in the Aegean archipelago could soon answer one of the riddles of prehistoric... |
Nazi Art Deal Forces Dutch to Face Guilt Masterpieces snatched by Goering are returned to Jewish collector's family. |
| Broadway Bowled Over By Bennett British plays and stars rule Broadway as US theatre fans swoon. |
Book Pulled After Opal Got Rumbled Should she want to, Kaavya Viswanathan could write a sequel to her controversial first novel, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed,... |
| Star Young Author Admits 'unconscious' Plagiarism America's hottest young author claimed new distinction in the burgeoning field of literary plagiarism by admitting to... |
Gehry Unveils Blueprint to Reinvent La · Architect's first skyscraper aims to restore civic focus · Developers wants a west coast Champs Elysées |
| Chinese Artists Cross the Red Line Police stage political crackdown on Beijing's booming contemporary gallery district. |
Obituary: Abd Al-salam Al-ujaili Syrian master of humane short stories. |
| Priceless Relics Found at Greek Villa Linked to Smuggling Ring A luxury villa on a remote Aegean isle beloved by jetsetters is believed to be at the centre of an antiquities smuggling... |
Obituary: Stuart Mills The poet Stuart Mills published and encouraged the work of many others under the imprints of Tarasque Press and Aggie... |
| Obituary: Juan Soriano Painter and sculptor with a free approach to his Mexican identity. |
Mozart More of a Prince Than a Pauper Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lived a solidly upper-crust life and was among the top earners in eighteenth century Vienna, a new... |
| First Lady Laura Feels Glow of Authorised Biography · Critics cringe as friends heap praise on Mrs Bush · Twins conceived 'after fertility treatment' |
Obituary: Benno Besson Radical director in the Brechtian tradition who revitalised the Deutsches Theater. |
| Obituary: Bob Carlos Clarke Photographer known for his erotic images and for making chefs look interesting. |
Obituary: Ian Hamilton Finlay Individualistic Scottish artist and poet who ran his garden at Little Sparta as a separate city state. |
| Coincidence or Conspiracy? Rivals Launch Books on Same Day The author of The Da Vinci Code and one of the men he has been facing in court found themselves locked in a new battle... |
Obituary: David Halliwell Visionary playwright who charted Little Malcolm's revenge and launched a theatre revolution. |
| Wordsworth Wanders on to the Shanghai Metro In a sign of changing priorities, the Shanghai metro will display poems by four British poets in a groundbreaking cultural... |
Alleged Franco Paintings Withdrawn From Auction Three oils purportedly painted by the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco have been withdrawn from an auction after a lawyer... |
| Obituary: Norman Bucknell Norman Bucknell, who has died aged 95, was the last of the second generation of Cotswold arts and crafts movement... |
For Sale: Three Works By the Painter Also Called Franco They may not be worth as much as the Rubens due to go under the hammer at a Spanish auction house next month but all eyes... |
| Atwood Sign of the Times Draws Blank Around 40 people had turned up for Margaret Atwood's book signing and, to the untrained eye, the fact that Margaret Atwood... |
Obituary: Zita Jungman Bright young thing of the 1920s and muse to Cecil Beaton and Sacheverell Sitwell. |
| It's a Superbly Designed Dog's Life Frank Gehry, the 76-year-old designer of Bilbao's Guggenheim museum, turns his attention to a humbler structure: the kennel. |
Villagers Claim Church Fresco is Lost Michelangelo Parishioner's confession leads to discovery of monogram behind altar. |
| Italy and Us in Antiquities Deal The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York yesterday clinched a landmark deal with Italy to return a 2,500-year-old vase... |
Obituary: Jill Fraser Jill Fraser, theatre director, born April 15 1946; died February 10 2006. |
| Foster to Lead £184m Project to Transform the Ancient Heart of St Petersburg Lord Foster, the celebrated British architect, has been chosen to head a hugely controversial £184m scheme to remodel a... |
Auction of 1904 Print Set to Break World Record Price The Pond-Moonlight by Edward Steichen, taken on Long Island in 1904, is expected to break the world record price for a... |
| Is This Really a Portrait of the Artist? A new exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci's work has rekindled doubts among scholars about whether the face universally... |
Chief of Getty Arts Trust Resigns in Dispute Over Perks Barry Munitz, the chief executive of the Getty Trust, the world's richest arts institution, resigned yesterday under a... |
| Tom Parfitt on Moscow's New Industrial Chic Architecture: Moscow's construction boom has seen industrial architecture earmarked for demolition, writes Tom Parfitt, but... |
Obituary: Charles Fisher Poet, writer and last surviving member of Dylan Thomas's Kardomah gang. |
| Mockingbird Author Steps Out of Shadows Harper Lee wrote one of the great works of American literature and is portrayed in two new Hollywood movies. Now her... |
German Theatregoers Gag at Shakespeare Gorefest It is Shakespeare's most gory work, full of bodies and amputations. But a production of Titus Andronicus at the Berlin... |
| Author Admits Tall Tales and Writes Apology James Frey, the discredited author of the best-selling memoir A Million Little Pieces, has admitted making things up and... |
£20m Art Theft Riddle Solved in Court · Art Loss Register helps recover stolen paintings · US heir in 30-year limbo as art moved around globe |
| Obituary: Wendy Wasserstein Playwright who put women's life choices under the lens. |
Scandal Overshadows Getty Villa Reopening Curator on trial in Italy accused of exporting looted antiquities. |
| Literary Invaders in the Wake of Francis Drake Deckchairs, umbrellas, bookshops at every corner, people stuffed into marquees apologising profusely as they bump the... |
Trump Files $5bn Lawsuit Over Biography Donald Trump, the property magnate with a fondness for putting his name to really tall buildings, signed his name to a... |
| Obituary: Jan Mark Leading children's writer with a soft spot for cats and a robust view of the book trade. |
Europe Bids to Halt Tide of Art Smuggled to America Court cases aim to break the billion-pound global trade in stolen antiquities that end up with wealthy US collectors and... |
| Museum Discovers Loss of 38-tonne Sculpture Spain's most important modern art museum yesterday admitted it had lost a 38-tonne sculpture by the prestigious American... |
The Gaudí Effect Santiago Calatrava's stunning buildings for Valencia bear comparison with the work of another great Spanish architect. ... |
| Obituary: Peter Williams Art educationist whose college vision became a reality. |
DNA Detectives Discover More Skeletons in Mozart Family Closet Scientists reveal results of tests on skull unearthed by Viennese gravedigger. |
| America's Model Housewife Turns Feminist As Husband Abandons Her It is 25 years since Terry Hekker hailed the housewife, now in a landmark decision the acclaimed author has rejected her... |
Obituary: John Latham Radical and inspirational artist who courted controversy and pioneered conceptual art. |
| Mystery of Mozart's Skull Nears Solution The century-old mystery as to whether a skull found in an Austrian basement is that of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart will be... |
Barenboim Hints at La Scala Encore · Conductor fuels rumours he will be musical director · Milan in raptures over his Christmas concert |
| Prizewinning Author Involved in Peace Talks Colombia's Nobel prizewinning novelist Gabriel García Márquez yesterday admitted he has been secretly involved in almost... |
'Terrorised' Writers Lament State's Assault on Free Speech Trial of Turkey's greatest living author is focusing attention on attempts to control public opinion. |
| Literary Festival Crosses Atlantic for Event in Colombia Hay, the annual literary festival started 17 years ago with the winnings from a poker game, is taking its blend of books,... |
Passionate Pinter's Devastating Assault on Us Foreign Policy Shades of Beckett as ailing playwright delivers powerful Nobel lecture. |
| Greece's Seas: the Looters' Next Destination New law opens access for traffickers to a hoard of underwater antiquities. |
Whiff of the Deli Comes to Uffizi It started innocently enough with a few Michelangelo cherubs on bookmarks. Then came Picasso dove pendants and Mondrian... |
| Obituary: Danny Mardell Anyone who spent more than half an hour with Danny Mardell would know he did little in moderation. He was a big man, with... |
FBI Names Its Most-wanted Stolen Works of Art From Boston to Baghdad, missing treasures add up to a $6bn-a-year black market. |
| Writer, Publisher and Tea-seller Caters to a Readership Thirsting for Hindi Literary and media audiences are increasingly choosing their native tongue over English. |
Pro-Franco History Tops Bestseller List A revisionist history book praising the former Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco has shot to the top of the... |
| India Hails the Art of Showing Off After the Porsches and Chanel handbags, the latest must-have item for Delhi's new millionaires is a piece of contemporary... |
Indicted Libby's Publishers Plan 25,000 Reprint of 'steamy' Novel Life is not all bad for Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the vice-president's former chief of staff. He has been indicted... |
| Writer Koontz Accused of Racism Best-selling author Dean Koontz, raved a recent reviewer, is a master storyteller. His novels sell by the thousands. A... |
Obituary: John Fowles Bestselling novelist who explored dark themes of time, power and relationships. |
| Toulouse-Lautrec Painting Sets Record at Auction An early painting by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec has set the auction record for his work, selling to an anonymous buyer for... |
Getty Trust Investigates Claims Over Looted Art The J Paul Getty Trust has set up a committee to look into claims that its Los Angeles museum bought looted art and misused... |