Ben Coren
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Arts & Culture
The year of the spat
- 21 December 2007
Ben Coren looks back at the various rows and spats that characterised the UK arts and culture scene over the last 12 months
Arts & Culture
Doris Lessing’s blogger bashing
- 14 December 2007
- 2 comments
Doris Lessing has a pop at the world wide web, Stephen Fry does panto and the Beijing Eunuch Museum is set to reopen in time for the '08 Olympics (phew).
Arts & Culture
Too much to bear
- 07 December 2007
- 1 comment
Should the latest Turner Prize winner really take the credit for his work? And, as a variety of geriatric rockers take to the stage once more, can any of today's musicians fill their shoes?
Baghdad, big mouth and bad sex
- 30 November 2007
Things are looking up for the art world in Iraq, while the fortunes of Morrissey and Norman Mailer have taken a turn for the worse
Arts & Culture
Religious rib-ticklers
- 23 November 2007
- 3 comments
Heard the one about the Muslim comedian? This and much more in our round-up of quirkier parts of the arts world...
Arts & Culture
Deaths and Dragons
- 16 November 2007
- 1 comment
Norman Mailer's passing provokes outpourings of praise and condemnation in equal measure
