Two piano pieces are identified as the work of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, experts in the Austrian city of Salzburg say. Read the original article on the BBC
Two piano pieces are identified as the work of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, experts in the Austrian city of Salzburg say. Read the original article on the BBC
The shortlist for the 18th annual Forward Prize for Poetry – which includes previous winner Peter Porter – is announced. Read the original article on the BBC
Nearly 50,000 tickets are given away in a scheme launched to encourage more young people to attend the theatre. Read the original article on the BBC
The London home of the English poet John Keats is to reopen after a £500,000 refurbishment. Read the original article on the BBC
German film director Wim Wenders is to re-start work on a 3D film based on the work of the late dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch. Read the original article on the BBC
A school sign hanging in a Suffolk church may be a lost work of art by master painter Thomas Gainsborough, experts believe. Read the original article on the BBC
Vladimir Tatlin’s tower in St Petersburg was never built – yet it has inspired generations of artists. Why does it still have such mystique, asks Brian Dillon In the heart of St Petersburg, on the north bank of the Neva, the spire of the Cathedral of SS Peter and Paul lances the sky like a [...]
Low-key, meditative buildings dominate on a shortlist responding to the economic hangover, but how can a rural arts museum be judged against a city office block? The Stirling prize shortlist announced by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) yesterday is, serendipitously, an appropriate one for a recession. Here is an exquisite Spanish winery by [...]
Picture of man who was world’s oldest will be auctioned to raise money for ex-servicemen’s home where he lived A portrait of Henry Allingham, completed days before the death last week of the oldest man in the world, will go on display in London this autumn. The artist, Dan Llywelyn Hall, said he had tried [...]
The British Museum’s modern medicine cabinet is little more than a glitzy distraction The British Museum goes from strength to strength. Its exhibitions get better and better, its collections are ever more gracefully displayed. But there’s one thing that annoys me every time I visit: the drug cabinet in the middle of the gallery. The [...]