Culture / Arts
Monocolumn
Saturday 2 October
The Biennial’s contribution
The cultural calendar for a new year is underway, and it’s back to school for artistic institutions across the UK.
Saturday 2 October
The cultural calendar for a new year is underway, and it’s back to school for artistic institutions across the UK.
Tuesday 29 January
Everybody loves a sporting giant-slayer but when it comes to team branding, the game is just as hard-fought.
Monday 8 August
It was clear during last night’s mayhem in London that the police were woefully under-equipped, both in terms of apparatus and numbers.
Saturday 14 January
This weekend’s highlights include the brand new Aesop shop in London, a photo exhibit in Tokyo and an architecture showcase in Paris.
Japan’s relationship with its military makes for interesting ideas across all media
Wednesday 23 February
A single policeman stood guard at the door, a tourist waited patiently in the cold for a visa and a cleaner put the rubbish out.
Thursday 13 September
Professor Sid Watkins, who died on Wednesday evening at the age of 84, unified Formula 1 motor racing.
Thursday 24 December
As architects down tools for the holidays, it’s a time for reflection.
The fitness industry appears to be outrunning the economic downturn. At the Fibo trade show in Essen in April, optimism was high – and so was the number of million-euro equipment deals.
Saturday 1 January
It’s taken six long years of preparations, but today the wait is finally over and the celebration can begin. Turku, city of 177,000 people situated on the south-west coast of Finland, starts its year as the European Capital…
Monday 8 October
On Friday evening, at an appropriately lavish ceremony in the Czech capital, Prague airport was officially renamed Vaclav Havel Airport.
Sunday 25 April
Britain’s five-million strong Catholic community has a pretty thick skin when it comes to insults about their church and the Pope, so a leaked Foreign Office memo suggesting that Benedict XVI’s visit in September could…
The view from London after the recent riots, plus why Portugal wants more pensioners, and Switzerland's impending election.
In 1991, impoverished Estonia broke free from the old Soviet Union. Today it is Europe’s fastest-growing economy. No surprise then that the nation has just voted back into power the coalition government which has overseen…
Books: Catalogue of love affair, an East End turf survey, George Steiner's essays. Films:Jamie Johnson's documentary Sounds Like Teen Spirit and fresh blood in Let the Right one In. Art: New shows at Athens and Turin…
OK, so the Olympics were a soft-power triumph for the UK. But now what? Over the following pages we explore how Britain can harness that post-games optimism and meet some of the people who can help the country do just that…
A roundup of the best books, films and music.
Here’s a hand with your artistic intake over the coming months, from festivals to film releases.
Preparations from the seating to the flags and the turf are nearly complete for this summer’s London Olympics. We look at the companies that have won the contracts to supply the Games.
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