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Flying high - the revival of circus arts

The days of lions and elephants parading around every Big Top are gone, but the circus arts are flourishing with…

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Culture is Capital

Tourists are said by some to be nothing more than cultural parasites. Indeed like moths to light, they swarm to…

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Tainted Art

Art theft has always been with us and recovered pieces hold a particular fascination once they go back on display.…

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Culture and the Rings

Sport and culture have long converged in the Olympic arena. The world's largest public event, the Olympic Games, is pillared…

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Cultural activists are jammin'

In a week that has seen global attention focused on Bob Geldof and the Live 8 series of concerts it…

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Generation W

Western marketing firms have made their business out of understanding generations that come in letters of the alphabet such as…

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Everything old is new again

The world's oldest and most lionised contemporary art show, the Venice Biennale, has delivered a 51st installment of precedent setting…

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Florida Defrocked

Richard Florida's Rise of the Creative Class was published in 2002. Since then, in between speaking engagements, he has written…

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Charitable Instincts

Increasingly, art and artists are being used as financial tools for charity groups and organizations. Charity art is any art…

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Art for the Market’s Sake?

Even the most idealistic and independent artists in the US must rely more and more on private sources of funding…