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Slump in corporate arts donations
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Corporate and individual giving to the arts has plummeted according to the first UK Arts Index.
6 December 2011
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Sculptor Boyce wins Turner Prize
Artist Martin Boyce, whose works include artificial trees and a leaning litter bin, wins this year's Turner Prize in Gateshead.
'Lost Da Vinci' prompts art row
About 150 art experts sign a petition to stop the drilling into a Florence fresco which may be hiding a Leonardo Da Vinci work.
Tom Petty to headline UK festival
US rockers Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are to play their first major UK gig in 20 years next year, it is announced.
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'New' Austen portrait unearthed
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Ice Age set for live stage show
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No 3D for Les Miserables movie
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Madonna to play Super Bowl 2012
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Adele overtakes Winehouse record
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Ukulele star Tapia dies aged 103
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Comic actor Alan Sues dies at 85
Comic actor Alan Sues, known for his roles on the US television series Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In, dies at the age of 85.
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Craven gets Christmas celebration
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BBC announces Olympic presenters
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Ted Hughes honoured at Poets' Corner01:56
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Raising the curtain on the Mariinsky Theatre04:15
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Martin Boyce wins Turner Prize02:21
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Spielberg's War Horse opens in US01:43
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Features & analysis
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Barlow worship
Surprise guests and boos for Robbie at the Albert Hall
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Shy sounding
Why are people reluctant to sing in public?
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A 'one-off'
Praise for Ted Hughes, who is to be honoured in Poets' Corner
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Style and substance
The skewed world of Turner Prize winner Martin Boyce
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Howl out loud
Howl's Moving Castle is adapted for the theatre
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Biting the Big Apple
Sir Alan Ayckbourn takes his 75th play to New York
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Happy tappers
Film-maker George Miller returns with Happy Feet sequel
Quote of the Day
Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards pays tribute to blues legend Hubert Sumlin who has died at age 80“Warm, humorous and always encouraging, he was a gentleman of the first order”
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Kuchen king
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Talking Movies
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Heart And Soul
"Music is God," the extraordinary life of the 108 year old concert pianist Alice Herz Sommer
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World Book Club
The world's best authors discuss their best known novel with presenter Harriett Gilbert
The Strand
The Spanish born choreographer on his new breath-inspired show with Sydney Dance Company
