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Song Wine Benefits Lyric Opera of Chicago

Opera companies have had a tough time in recent years. The arts often suffer during…

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Outkast to reunite on Frank Ocean song

Big Boi to add verse to track from hit album Channel Orange that already features his old partner Andre 3000

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10 of the best at London Design festival 2012

To celebrate 10 years of the London Design festival, Steve Rose picks this year’s top 10 must-sees, from a pedal-powered coffee shop to LED crockery and morphing chairs

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Peter Morgan in talks to develop Hugh Hefner biopic

Screenwriter behind The Queen and Frost/Nixon has met with 85-year-old Playboy mogul to discuss a film about his life

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Marc Webb: the latest director caught in Spider-Man’s web

Marc Webb had only one film to his name – an angst-ridden indie romcom. So how on earth did he land the job of directing The Amazing Spider-Man?

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Jean Paul Gaultier’s rich history as a costume designer deserves praise

With his selection as jury member for the coming Cannes film festival recently announced, it’s about time we acknowledged Gaultier’s work on such films as The Fifth Element and The Skin I Live In

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Maurice Sendak, father of the Wild Things, dies at 83

The prize-winning author and illustrator of more than 100 books, including the children’s classic Where the Wild Things Are, has died aged 83

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The Artist and the power of sensory deprivation in film and theatre

Taking voices away from actors, or plunging audiences into darkness, can provide an immersive, more intimate experience

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François Truffaut’s Google doodle is a modern memento mori

The great New Wave film-maker François Truffaut would have been 80 today. As he’s honoured with a Google doodle, Xan Brooks salutes one of cinema’s most sorely missed

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Back to the Future, the musical? How will that work?

The people behind the film are all on board. But how on earth will they get the DeLorean to do 88mph on stage?

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Martin Scorsese and Tacita Dean go back to the future of film

Scorsese’s Hugo, shot in 3D, is an excited paean to film history using modern techniques. But Dean’s much darker Film, at Tate Modern, mourns the passing of celluloid

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Louis Vuitton hits The Hangover Part II with a handbag lawsuit

French fashion house sues Warner Bros over a scene in which a character wrongly identifies a handbag as one of its own