The question on the front cover of John Berger's Bento's Sketchbook — How does the impulse to draw something begin? — is an excellent one. Part of...

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The Art of Time ensemble likes to merge all kinds of performing disciplines, sometimes throwing in some non-performing ones as well. Canadian Stage...

THIS month, and not before time, the BBC has issued on DVD the single greatest achievement in the history of television. Kenneth Clark's 13-part survey of Western art, Civilisation, was originally screened in 1969, to an acclaim that has been amplified ...

For the purposes of this Booker Club, Tuesday's announcement of the shortlist couldn't have gone better. Salman Rushdie's Enchantress of Florence and the previous favourite Joseph O'Neill's Netherland. I'm also looking forward to uncovering the conspiracy ...

Van Gogh's rise to posthumous glory is unsurpassable but, in scale and strangeness, the story of Miroslav Tich& Michael Hoppen is currently exhibiting a small selection of Tich& #253;'s case, it was the boy next door, Roman Buxbaum, who began ...

He is a winner of the Booker and the Booker of Bookers and now he is the bookie's favourite to be a double Booker after Salman Rushdie was yesterday named in the prize's longlist for The Enchantress of Florence.Rushdie ...

Five first novels are in the running for this year's Man Booker prize, making it onto a longlist that has passed over many big names in favour of an eclectic selection encompassing small presses, humour and thrillers. Salman Rushdie (The Enchantress ...