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Enter the dragon
How choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and sculptor Antony Gormley were drawn to the legendary Shaolin monastery
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Uncool Britannia
An exhibition curated by Grayson Perry reclaims a certain strand of our culture that has been written off as naff, ephemeral, or self-effacing
The time is now
Stars of the Nineties still dominate the media, but British dance music is more exciting today
Shallow waters
Martin Maloney's paintings take the temperature of tabloid culture. Just don't look to them to inspire
Going, going . . . gone
Trevor Nunn slips up with this tuneless assault on the English language
Gone With the Wind
New London Theatre, WC2
Don't look now
A gender-bending teen drama plays with the viewer's role as voyeur
XXY (15)
dir: Lucía Puenzo
A sobering experience
Is this the beginning of the end for tabloid-style TV news? Let's hope so
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Not quite as easy as 1,2,3
A mind-bending lecture about maths leaves us listeners none the wiser
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The way I see it
Bernhard is an American comedian, actress and singer. She will perform a reprise of her 1988 stand-up show “Without You I’m Nothing” at Manchester Opera House on 9 May in the Queer Up North Festival (http://www.queerupnorth.com)
Virtue's reward
Some viewers find Tarkovsky’s films boring, but those who persist are, by definition, better people.
Cultural revolution
The Chávez government attracts attention for its social and political programmes, yet its effect on Venezuela’s art scene has been just as striking.
