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Playwright Alan Bennett said he was the last monarchist in the country – despite his refusal to accept a knighthood. Read the original article on the BBC

Israeli police shut down a Palestinian theatre in East Jerusalem preventing the closing event of a literature festival. Read the original article on the BBC

Take a look as Thomas Bayrle, Ann Lislegaard and art collective Ultra-red reinterpret modern culture with a series of sculptures and installations at Raven Row gallery Read the original post on Guardian Arts & Architecture

Twentieth-century writers, musicians and artists led us in a sexual revolution, but today’s avant garde is as pure as snow There isn’t enough sex in the arts today. Look back at the 20th century and the whole point of modernism was to liberate the carnal. DH Lawrence, priest of love, competed to shock the last [...]

The global success of the Britain’s Got Talent star has had an unlikely impact on one unassuming Texas artist. Stuart Jeffries hears how There is, you might think, room in the world for only one Susan Boyle. But you would be wrong. The American artist, Susan K Boyle, was living her quiet, unassuming life in [...]

Tracey Emin’s new show finds the queen of Britart to be a dab hand at self-abuse, and better at sewing than spelling In my sourer moods, I’m inclined to regard Tracey Emin as Jade Goody’s long-lost sister. For both, achievement has been inseparable from publicity; their careers derive from the merchandising of personal traumas, which [...]

Never before seen outside India, these fabulous paintings explore earthly paradises and the star-spangled heavens The most intoxicating show of the year so far has just opened at the British Museum. Everything in it is a revelation. In the most literal sense, it can hardly fail to be some kind of surprise since the 56 [...]

The Walk by Sophie Lewis of Nottingham Trent University, exhibiting at Free Range Student degree shows start this week across the UK. Click through for a list of dates for most of the shows in the country, plus details on the three main group shows taking place in the capital. As per last year, if [...]

In the run up to last year’s festivals we brought news of the Shit Box, the cardboard lav you can pack in your rucksack and assemble in the privacy of your own tent. The Ploo is a modestly labelled version of the original – “the Shit Box you can show your mum” apparently – presuming [...]

The Royal Academy of Arts, in London, will hold a major solo exhibition of the internationally acclaimed artist Anish Kapoor later this year. Read the original article on the BBC