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Night at the Museum

Night at the Museum

As the guardians of the souls of our communities, local cultural institutions must fight and adapt in the face of budget cuts.

Cold war modern

Cold war modern

Remnants of the wall are luring tourists to Berlin

Waking the dead

Waking the dead

For Walter Benjamin, history was more than a series of dispassionate facts. He showed how the struggle for the past shapes our future

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End of the  irony age

End of the irony age

Once shocking, much of the work in Tate’s latest survey of pop art now seems tired. It shows how inured we’ve become to big-bucks banality

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She’s lost  control

She’s lost control

When Sophie Calle’s lover dumped her by email, she turned life into art. Fisun Güner on a woman who binds the helpless and confessional to the coolly conceptual

Paranormal Activity (15)

Simplicity is a highly effective tool in horror films

Dawn of the dead

Dawn of the dead

The dark shadow of history has always loomed over Stephen Poliakoff’s dramas. But Glorious 39, set on the eve of war, is bleaker than ever

A Serious Man (15)

A Serious Man (15)

Bodily revulsion is at the heart of the Coens' work

The White Ribbon (15)

Ryan Gilbey detects a new tenderness in the darling of European cinema

Chinese whispers

Xiaolu Guo on the voices of a changing country

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Books of the Year: Part I

Books of the Year: Part I

The New Statesman’s friends and contributors choose their favourite books of 2009

Books of the Year: Part II

Books of the Year: Part II

The New Statesman’s friends and contributors choose their favourite books of 2009

The Condition of England

The Condition of England

Charles Masterman
Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany’s 1968 Generation and the Holocaust

Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany’s 1968 Generation and the Holocaust

Hans Kundnani

The Habit of Art

Humour obscures the character of Alan Bennett’s new play

Dames are forever

Should Britney sync or sing?

Chick Corea/Béla Fleck

Sholto Byrnes applauds a jazz performance that is full of fireworks

Pains of Youth / Days of Significance

Pains of Youth / Days of Significance

Blairite boozers reach the parts that 1920s medics can't

Paradox

Paradox

High drama and low acting dog the BBC’s latest cop show

Land of cough syrup

Antonia Quirke listens to Ronan Keating as he breaks out the ballads

Armatrading for Mayor

Armatrading for Mayor

Antonia Quirke salutes whoever persuaded Joan to do radio

Collision

Collision

This intricately plotted drama is far from car-crash TV

Composer of the Week

When it comes to Erik Satie, Radio 3 is stumped

Andrew Billen

On theatre

Andrew Billen

Rachel Cooke

On television

Rachel Cooke

John Gray

On non-fiction

John Gray

Leo Robson

On fiction

Leo Robson

Antonia Quirke

On radio

Antonia Quirke

Ryan Gilbey

On film

Ryan Gilbey

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