Outspoken playwright Cont Mhlanga, an opponent of Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe, is honoured with an international award. Full published article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/7751151.stm
The skull held aloft by David Tennant in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Hamlet was a real one, it is revealed. Full published article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/7749962.stm
In The Bleak Midwinter is named the best Christmas carol in a poll of leading choirmasters and choral experts. Full published article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/7752029.stm
The Archbishop of Westminster calls for the National Gallery to give up a Renaissance masterpiece, describing it as “a work of faith” rather than a work of art. Full published article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/7752313.stm
An art exhibition threatened by a row between the UK and Russia became one of the Royal Academy’s biggest successes. Full published article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/7752729.stm
Author Rachel Johnson has been named as this years’ winner of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award for a passage in her novel Shire Hell. Full published article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment/7748811.stm
The search to find the next poet laureate is launched with the public to have their say. Full published article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment/7746608.stm
The skull held aloft by David Tennant in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Hamlet was a real one, it is revealed. Full published article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/7749962.stm
A painting by Henri Matisse, which was stolen from a German Jewish family by the Nazis, is to be given to British charity Magen David Adom UK. Full published article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/7747760.stm
A mysterious Renaissance portrait has been identified as a painting of infamous Italian femme fatale Lucrezia Borgia by artist Dosso Dossi. Full published article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/7747957.stm
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