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Culture & The Arts
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The latest arts, culture and entertainment news from the Telegraph. Your source for arts, movies, music, theatre, books and TV reviews and previews.
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The Diamond Queen, BBC 1, review
Serena Davies reviews the opening part of The Diamond Queen, a BBC One documentary which celebrates the 60 year anniversary of the Queen's accession to the throne
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Ring cycle of the west
Telegraph View: Swindon: The Opera puts the Wiltshire town centre stage.
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February Family Book Club: Angie Sage's Magyk
Magyk is the first volume in Angie Sage's arithmetically auspicious Septimus Heap series.
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Gerhard's off the Richter scale
Works by Gerhard Richter, now considered the world's greatest living painter, look set to dominate at London's forthcoming contemporary art sales.
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Christie's and Sotheby's reveal sales information for 2011
Colin Gleadell looks at the latest in the art market, including a pair of Victorian taxidermy chihuahuas which far exceeded Christie's estimates .
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London Philharmonic Orchestra, Festival Hall, review
An all-Bruckner concert made for a tremendous experience, says Ivan Hewett
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Charles Dickens - the 'abuser' of women?
Miriam Margolyes says Dickens behaved like 'an abuser' in a provocative and humorous new book.
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Radio review: Broadcasting House, Radio 4, and last week's highlights
Gillian Reynolds on her newfound love for Radio 3, and other radio highlights from the past week.
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Dolores O'Riordan: 'I was famous but I just felt so isolated'
Dolores O'Riordan remembers a downhill slide with the Cranberries,1994
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Will the real Cindy Sherman please stand up?
Her self-portraits sell for millions and have made her a superstar of the art world, so why does photography's master of disguise crave anonymity?
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Chewing gum art by Ben Wilson
Artist Ben Wilson produces miniature masterpieces on blobs of chewing gum.
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Hansel and Gretel, Scottish Glasgow Opera/ Dream Hunter, Wilton's Music Hall, review
Bill Bankes-Jones takes a refreshingly naïve view of Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, finds Rupert Christiansen.
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This week's best London events, from interactive kinetic art to a flamenco spectacular
This week: a flurry of dazzling festivals - from flamenco to children's literature to theatre - illuminate London's cultural calendar.
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Kathryn Bolkovac: 'They called me Xena: Warrior Princess'
In 1999, Kathryn Bolkovac went to Bosnia as part of a UN mission. She discovered terrible wrongdoing - and refused to stay silent about it. She tells Stella magazine her incredible story, now the subject of a film starring Rachel Weisz.
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David Shrigley: Brain Activity, Hayward Gallery, review
Alastair Sooke is entertained by an irreverent and very funny retrospective at the Hayward Gallery.
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OK Go premiere elaborate new music video during Super Bowl
American rock band OK Go used over 1000 instruments to create their latest music video which is proving an internet sensation.
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Oliver Twisted by JD Sharpe: review
JD Sharpe's Oliver Twisted is a dramatic and gory re-working of the Charles Dickens classic Oliver Twist.
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In Treatment: season three, DVD review
Terry Ramsey reviews the third series of the Emmy award-winning HBO drama.
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Adele leads British albums boost
Singer Adele helped British acts dominate the album market in the UK with their highest share of sales for 15 years.
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One Day, DVD review
Rachel Ward finds David Nicholls' One Day may leave you with a little heartache.
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