In the last week of January, car bombs killed over 150 people in Iraq.
The period covered by the Citizens and Kings exhibition was one of dramatic social and political change. From within an age of despotism and absolute monarchies, of superstition and mysticism, a new world was born.
Widely hailed in the mainstream press, this film purports to tell the story of 1960s soul sensations The Supremes.
The Marriage of Figaro, first performed in Vienna in 1786, was a harbinger of the great French Revolution of 1789.
Every age has its defining political struggle, and the anti-war movement occupies this role today. Yet Britain's visual art scene has by and large avoided directly addressing the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and the protests against it.
The poet Linton Kwesi Johnson wrote of John La Rose, "He was the most remarkable human being I have ever known."
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One of the tragedies of what is loosely referred to as classical music is the way in which it has become an ossified museum piece.
The Battersea Arts Centre (BAC) in south London – one of the country's leading community arts centres – is facing closure after Wandsworth council announced it would axe its £100,000 funding from April this year.
Bauhaus photography in Leeds Joost Schmidt's "Still life with prism and seahorse" (courtesy of the Bauhaus Archive, Berlin) is an example of the pioneering experimental photography produced by the Bauhaus sculpture workshop in the 1920s and 1930s.
It is the ending of Mel Gibson's Apocalypto that unlocks its secret. Three ships rest in the bay as a boat containing missionaries and soldiers drifts towards to the shore. After nearly two and a half hours of violence, blood and savagery, civilisation arrives silently to save the poor primitives from themselves.
Out of all the established artforms, dance usually occupies the least space in newspaper columns and listings pages.
