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TUESDAY NIGHT
* In the new film adaptation of Nick Hornby's About a Boy, Hugh Grant plays a nearly-40-year-old bachelor who inadvertently finds himself playing reluctant surrogate father to the boy.
About A Boy is released nationwide on Friday 26 April, Certificate 12.
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* The work of Sam Taylor-Wood has been exposed rather more than most British artists in their 30s. Many of her works show attractive contemporary figures in attractive contemporary interiors - celebrities or actors add more lustre. But the influence of classical art is apparent, whether in her reconfiguration of a Velasquez or a Mantegna or Henry's Wallis' Death of Chatterton. Sam Taylor-Wood often confronts the viewer with anguish or places them in the centre of a drama that unfolds on screens around them.
Sam Taylor Wood's exhibition opens at the Hayward Gallery, London on Thursday and runs until June 21.
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* For the first time in its history, the Royal Ballet School this September will admit more boys than girls, fourteen boys to twelve girls. Is this the Billy Elliott effect?
In music education however, a new study carried out in Australia indicates that instruments still divide along gender lines. That's borne out by the membership of the Musicians' Union here, where the ratio is one to four women to men, but more specifically shows just 140 female percussionists to 2871 males, but over 1300 hundred women violinists to 1100 men. Is music sexist?
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* Sri Lankan writer Romesh Gunesekera may have moved to Britain when a teenager but his works are still infused with the spirit of his homeland.
His latest book Heaven's Edge is set in a nightmarish future, the aftermath of a regional conflict, when the narrator, Marc leaves an England adopted by his grandfather in the mid-20th century, to return to the tropical island where his father went missing.
Romesh Gunesekera Heaven's Edge is published by Bloomsbury.
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* The cultural empire of the Tate galleries expanded further today with the opening of a new facilitiy, the Hyman Kreitman Research Centre at Tate Britain, which will offer libraries and archives. Front Row's John Wilson went down to to see what's on offer.
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On Front Row tomorrow,
Ian Pears review, William Christie and a review of the latest Dogme film Italian for Beginners.
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