A weekly round-up of arts from around the world
World Service,Β·146 episodes
Fifteen years of restoration work is finally bearing fruit
Jhumpa Lahiri wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Frank Gehry's ambitious museum plans unveiled
Mike Figgis directs an impressive cast in his bold cinematic experiment
The Vienna Philharmonic brings Beethoven to the site of the Mauthausen concentration camp
A location report from the 53rd festival
The favourites for the festival's top prize
Schoolchildren bring a message of unification to Seoul
How a festival of Aboriginal culture became a platform for anti-government protest
Heracleion emerges from the deep
Why only two US orchestras still have recording contracts
The Experience Music Project opens in Seattle
How Nick Park got Mel Gibson to play a chicken
The graphically violent French film falls foul of the censors
New regulations allow foreign input to the domestic film industry
One hundred albums to be made available for download
The star's confessional TV show leads to murder
Michael Nyman's opera opens in Spain
The latest newspaper suspension by the conservative Press Court
Industry watchers fear the action could spread from advertising to films
Has Aboriginal art been overlooked?
Symphony orchestras from north and south stage a historic concert
Two directors sacked by the Russian president
Fellow artists walk out in support of Surendran Nair at the National Gallery Of Modern Art
Sanctions fail to deter planeload of artists and sportspeople
How the fall of the Wall left behind some expensive duplication
Thrity-seven countries agree to return artworks to their rightful owners
Gao Xingjian is the country's first winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Vienna's Holocaust Memorial opens
Leading fgures in classical music are protesting a merger of the two halls
