China artist Liu Xiaodong goes local in London for first UK show
By Paul Casciato LONDON (Reuters) – One of China’s best known artists, Liu Xiaodong, headed down to the pub for inspiration for his first London show. The soft-spoken, bespectacled 50-year-old artist...
View ArticleSex, spies and society scandal in Andrew Lloyd Webber musical
By Paul Casciato LONDON (Reuters) – A new musical from British impresario and composer Andrew Lloyd Webber will delve into the sex, spies and politics at the heart of Britain’s biggest post-war scandal...
View ArticleBridget Jones fans v. upset at Mr Darcy’s death
By Paul Casciato LONDON (Reuters) – Fans of fictional everywoman Bridget Jones have taken to social media to express their outrage that novelist Helen Fielding has killed off love interest Mark Darcy...
View ArticleHome of British film launches online player
By Paul Casciato LONDON, Oct 2 (Reuters) – The British Film Institute plans to launch a digital service this month offering access to one of the world’s richest movie collections stretching from rare...
View ArticleFailure led Jim Crace to Man Booker nomination for “last” novel
By Paul Casciato LONDON, Oct 11 (Reuters) – The idea for British author Jim Crace’s Man Booker prize-nominated novel “Harvest” came to him almost out of nowhere at a desperate moment in his career. The...
View ArticleBacon, Warhol sales to test health of global art market
By Paul Casciato LONDON (Reuters) – A triptych by British post-war painter Francis Bacon and works by pop master Andy Warhol will provide a health test for the global art market when they go on sale in...
View ArticleNew Zealand’s Eleanor Catton wins 2013 Man Booker prize
By Paul Casciato LONDON (Reuters) – New Zealand author Eleanor Catton won the 2013 Man Booker prize for English fiction on Tuesday for her novel “The Luminaries”, to become the youngest winner in the...
View ArticleMan Booker winner Catton mines rich seam after gold rush tale
By Paul Casciato LONDON (Reuters) – Eleanor Catton, 28, is the youngest author and her 800-plus page “The Luminaries” the longest novel to win the Man Booker literary prize. But age and length should...
View ArticleUK’s Frieze Art Fair gets smaller, but big players still hopeful
By Paul Casciato LONDON (Reuters) – The Frieze Art Fair got smaller in 2013, but industry insiders said that would make it no less important for international players who flock to London every October...
View Articlerated Japanese erotica sets throats clearing at UK shows
By Paul Casciato LONDON (Reuters) – Giant genitalia in action and ribald humor take center stage at a British Museum show of erotic art from feudal Japan that runs until next January. The museum’s...
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