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Egypt's Lost City
Heracleion emerges from the deep
Classical Music Moves Online
Why only two US orchestras still have recording contracts
Jimi Hendrix's $240m Museum
The Experience Music Project opens in Seattle
'Chicken Run' Escapes
How Nick Park got Mel Gibson to play a chicken
The Banning of 'Baise-Moi'
The graphically violent French film falls foul of the censors
Chinese Film Opens Up
New regulations allow foreign input to the domestic film industry
EMI's Online Surprise
One hundred albums to be made available for download
Death and Jerry Springer
The star's confessional TV show leads to murder
'Facing Goya': the Premiere
Michael Nyman's opera opens in Spain
Iran Cracks Down
The latest newspaper suspension by the conservative Press Court
US Actors Go On Strike
Industry watchers fear the action could spread from advertising to films
Australia's Olympic Arts Festival
Has Aboriginal art been overlooked?
Koreans in Accord
Symphony orchestras from north and south stage a historic concert
Putin Attacks the Bolshoi
Two directors sacked by the Russian president
Controversial Artwork Removed in Delhi
Fellow artists walk out in support of Surendran Nair at the National Gallery Of Modern Art
Baghdad Welcomes Artists
Sanctions fail to deter planeload of artists and sportspeople
Arts Struggle in the Reunited Berlin
How the fall of the Wall left behind some expensive duplication
Nazi Art Theft Forum
Thrity-seven countries agree to return artworks to their rightful owners
China's Nobel Milestone
Gao Xingjian is the country's first winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Austria Remembers
Vienna's Holocaust Memorial opens
Berlin Opera Houses Fight Unification
Leading fgures in classical music are protesting a merger of the two halls
Culture Minister Slammed in Iran
'Permissive' Ata'ollah Mohajerani offers to resign
Kidnapper Releases Indian Film Star
Rajkumar freed by mountain brigand after 108 days
Rwanda Rediscovers Music
South African star Lucky Dube plays a free concert in Kigali
Klimt Works Returned
An Austrian gallery is ordered to hand the paintings back to their Jewish former owners
A Russian Puzzle
'The Taking Of Ismail' is the surprise winner of the Smirnoff-Booker Prize
Iran Loses Culture Tsar
Arts figures bemoan the resignation of Ata'ollah Mohajerani
Nigerian State Bans Film
Authorities say video production contradicts Sharia law
Why 2000 Belonged to the Net
A look back at a decisive year in how we consume the arts
The Second Harlem Renaissance
A special report from New York on the African-American arts explosion
Uproar in Bombay
Arrests over underworld connections shock the Indian film industry