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BBC News - Arts and Culture

Major art fails to shift at sale

Works by Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat are left unsold at a New York contemporary art sale, but makes $74.1m (£44.2m) in total. Full published article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8354154.stm

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Priest abuse novel wins honour

A book about sex abuse scandals in the Catholic Church wins Canada’s main literary award, the Giller Prize. Full published article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8354350.stm

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Grubtown Tale takes funny prize

A book about a repulsively smelly man wins the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, honouring humorous books for children. Full published article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8352854.stm

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Whats On Stage

Review: The Kreutzer Sonata

Tolstoy’s great “confession on a train” novella has been brilliantly adapted for the theatre by writer Nancy Harris and director Natalie Abrahami, cutting to the chase half way through the story when the town councillor […]

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Red light art

Amsterdam’s back streets recreated at the National Gallery in sound and pictures Full published article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/today/hi/today/newsid_8351000/8351277.stm