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Garden and Cosmos: the Royal Paintings of Jodhpur

Rachel Aspden — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:24:42 GMT

A strange and shocking Indian movement is brought back to life

Philosophical party music

Rachel Aspden — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:48:55 GMT

Rachel Aspden meets El Tanbura, an Egyptian group who are adapting folk traditions to the upheaval of their modern surroundings

Wolf Hall

Rachel Aspden — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:37:48 GMT

The mother tongue

Rachel Aspden — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:45:44 GMT

Things I�ve Been Silent About: Memories Azar Nafisi William Heinemann, 368pp, �17.99

The princes in the tower

Rachel Aspden — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:18:40 GMT

The Music Room William Fiennes Picador, 224pp, �14.99�

War through women�s eyes

Rachel Aspden — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:28:44 GMT

Female artists have charted wars throughout the 20th century, both at home and abroad, and found unorthodox beauty in unlikely surroundings

Voice of the people

Rachel Aspden — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:02:11 GMT

Baaba Maal believes that African music can be a political force - a means to empower citizens, educate the young and keep communities together

Constructing a new world

Rachel Aspden — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:58:05 GMT

For Alexander Rodchenko and Lyubov Popova, the entire fabric of daily existence - from biscuit packets to book jackets - served a revolutionary vision

Conservative in a leather jacket

Rachel Aspden — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:51:12 GMT

Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf, Mayor of Tehran

Living with the monster

Rachel Aspden — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:39:35 GMT

A season of contemporary work from Iran shows that the country offers its artists rich inspiration - at a price