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The best of this year's Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale features 88 countries and 150 artists. We’ve picked some of the best for this visual guide.
Kate Tempest: GZA meets Ted Hughes
Performance poet, rapper, playwright – Kate Tempest is a lot of literary things. Is this the future of poetry?
Indigenous Australian creative leadership programme announced
The British Council’s Indigenous Australian creative leadership programme is now open for talented Indigenous Australian creatives
Harry Potter and the golden first edition
It’s a price that only JK Rowling could afford to pay.
Painting is all in the mind
A new computer program decodes brain signals to enable paralysed people to draw and paint.
Lydia Davis wins Man Booker International Prize
New York-based Lydia Davis has been awarded the fifth Man Booker International Prize 2013.
Jettison your e-reader, Qantas launches in-flight books
If anyone is going to sing the praises of the e-reader it's an airline right? Well, don't be so sure.
Arts job opportunities booming in Hong Kong
A massive cultural precinct development in Hong Kong promises jobs for museum, theatre and visual arts professionals.
From Cuba to the U.S., Hemingway returns
Unseen documents Ernest Hemingway left at his Cuban estate have finally returned to America, more than 50 years after his…
DRM-free e-books show no piracy increase
A year after removing digital rights management from its books sci-fi publisher Tor made a surprising announcement.