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“The Moscow film company behind some of the greatest classics of Soviet cinema on Wednesday said it had agreed to make dozens of its best-known movies freely available on YouTube. The agreement between Mosfilm and YouTube means that an initial batch of…

Her grandfather, George Lansbury, was a founder of the Labour Party and its leader fron 1932 to 1935. “The actress remembers watching her grandfather speak at the Albert Hall. ‘The whole place was just transfixed. It was really something. It had a stun…

“There is some argument over whether General Sir James Abbott founded Abbottabad. Herbert Edwardes, another soldier and administrator in the Punjab, has his claims. But it was Abbott who managed to put his name to the place, and he really should have l…

“Across rock and pop, the use of elaborate packaging and content is growing. A plastic case costs only a few pence but with increasing numbers of fans eschewing physical albums for their digital equivalents, bands and record labels have figured out tha…

“The up-and-coming wave of contemporary dancers has paid close attention to issues of identity as they seek to break away from definitions of dance set by icons such as Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham. For them, contemporary dance is the only true u…

“It’s a tough thing to sell a family apartment because there are so many memories. A lot of us are not eager to sell it at all. It’s an unusual place and only someone with a particular sensitivity and style would buy it. If you’re a family it’s probabl…

in 2010 sales of e-books and audio book downloads in the ‘general titles’ category, which includes novels and consumer titles, shot up from £4m to £16m. Academic and professional books still dominated overall digital sales, which reached £180m last …

“As centers of power in the art world emerge beyond its longtime traditional capitals, questions of how to evaluate and influence human-rights issues have become more complicated.”…

“Leaders of the Austin Lyric Opera announced Monday that they were accepting the resignation of general director Kevin Patterson and that fundraising plans were being made to eradicate the organization’s more than $1 million of debt.”…

“‘The history of the canals had never been told,’ said Piet van Winden, the head of the ‘Grachtenhuis’ private museum which has just opened to the public. ‘They are probably the best conceived urban extension project in the world,’ he said. ‘Here, we s…

“Nottingham Playhouse has joined the city council, the regeneration body One Nottingham and many of the city’s other arts venues … to present a range of radical theatre, music, film and visual art from across Europe between 26 May and 12 June.”…

Original cast member June Omura: “Mark knew the music so well that his choreography came out faster than most human beings could put up with. If you lost your concentration for a second, you were called out.” (Morris says only, “It was very difficult t…

“In 1979, video wasn’t as pervasive, so the effect of seeing the same dancers simultaneously on screen and on the stage was startling. In the contemporary version of Dance, a gap has opened between the live and virtual performers. ‘The dancers today, a…

“‘Ideas have retained some of the properties of organisms,’ [Jacques Monod] wrote. ‘Like them, they tend to perpetuate their structure and to breed; they too can fuse, recombine, segregate their content; indeed they too can evolve, and in this evolutio…

“The successful end of the bin Laden manhunt may signal a turning point in films about the war on terror. Since 2001, movies about the 9/11 attacks and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have failed to take hold with audiences. Even with rapturous review…

Says the playwright of Art and God of Carnage: “I would say that above all, my plays are about people who are well-raised but who lose control of themselves. My characters are for the most part impulsive by nature. You could describe my plays as being …

“Kapoor intends to erect four giant PVC orbs that, when inflated, will fill the height, length and width of the 145,000-square-foot [Grand Palais in Paris]. The piece will be a major departure for the artist, who works almost exclusively with solid, pr…

“Recently, scientists have begun to focus on how architecture and design can influence our moods, thoughts and health. They’ve discovered that everything – from the quality of a view to the height of a ceiling, from the wall color to the furniture – sh…

“For nearly 20 years, [Britt Tajet-Foxell] has been the Royal Ballet’s resident psychologist, working alongside its physiotherapists, masseurs and body-control experts to unlock fears, inhibitions, phobias and fixations and lead dancers to realise thei…

Katie Wech: “”In screenwriting, you have to cover a lot of ground with very few words … Instead of spending a half page describing a character, I have to do it in a sentence. And it better be a good sentence, specific and vivid enough to help everyon…