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Austria Remembers
Vienna's Holocaust Memorial opens
Berlin Opera Houses Fight Unification
Leading fgures in classical music are protesting a merger of the two halls
Culture Minister Slammed in Iran
'Permissive' Ata'ollah Mohajerani offers to resign
Kidnapper Releases Indian Film Star
Rajkumar freed by mountain brigand after 108 days
Rwanda Rediscovers Music
South African star Lucky Dube plays a free concert in Kigali
Klimt Works Returned
An Austrian gallery is ordered to hand the paintings back to their Jewish former owners
A Russian Puzzle
'The Taking Of Ismail' is the surprise winner of the Smirnoff-Booker Prize
Iran Loses Culture Tsar
Arts figures bemoan the resignation of Ata'ollah Mohajerani
Nigerian State Bans Film
Authorities say video production contradicts Sharia law
Why 2000 Belonged to the Net
A look back at a decisive year in how we consume the arts
The Second Harlem Renaissance
A special report from New York on the African-American arts explosion
Uproar in Bombay
Arrests over underworld connections shock the Indian film industry
The Cairo Book Fair Hits Trouble
The Muslim Brotherhood attacks the 'pornographic' content of state-published books
The Verdi Centenary
The composer is 'part of the country's very identity' says Italy's culture minister
Drawing Dissent
The importance of satirical cartoons in southern Africa
'Ulysses' Film Opens At Last
Ireland overturns ban after 34 years
The End of Napster
A judge in California closes down the music download site
Adieu Charles Trenet
France mourns its 'singing fool'
The Taliban Attacks the Arts
Statues in Afghanistan are deemed 'un-Islamic'
Hollywood Writers' Strike Looms
Studios are struggling to avoid industrial action from 1 May
Tierney Gearon in Hot Water
The US photographer falls foul of Britain's Vice Squad
Philippines Film Censor Condemns Government
Nicanor Tiongson has resigned in protest at 'religious bigotry'
Mexico's Man of Mystery
How Subcomandante Marcos became an icon of resistance
Turkmenistan Clamps Down on the Arts
President Saparmurat Niyazov orders the opera house to be closed
Iranian Art Debuts in Europe
London's Barbican Gallery welcomes the country's contemporary art
Is Nadine Gordimer a Racist?
Teachers attack the South African Nobel Laureate's novel 'July's People'
South Korea's Japan Problem
A pop video is re-igniting ill feeling between the two countries
'Cultural Revolution' in Venezuela
President Hugo Ch谩vez's arts policy comes under fire
Chinese Ballet Takes a Step Too Far
Zhang Yimou adapts his film 'Raise The Red Lantern'
The Media Baron Prime Minister
Italy re-elects self-made millionaire Silvio Berlusconi
'On The Road' on the Block
Jack Kerouac's original manuscript goes up for auction in New York