A weekly round-up of arts from around the world
World Service,Β·146 episodes
'Permissive' Ata'ollah Mohajerani offers to resign
Rajkumar freed by mountain brigand after 108 days
South African star Lucky Dube plays a free concert in Kigali
An Austrian gallery is ordered to hand the paintings back to their Jewish former owners
'The Taking Of Ismail' is the surprise winner of the Smirnoff-Booker Prize
Arts figures bemoan the resignation of Ata'ollah Mohajerani
Authorities say video production contradicts Sharia law
A look back at a decisive year in how we consume the arts
A special report from New York on the African-American arts explosion
Arrests over underworld connections shock the Indian film industry
The Muslim Brotherhood attacks the 'pornographic' content of state-published books
The composer is 'part of the country's very identity' says Italy's culture minister
The importance of satirical cartoons in southern Africa
Ireland overturns ban after 34 years
A judge in California closes down the music download site
France mourns its 'singing fool'
Statues in Afghanistan are deemed 'un-Islamic'
Studios are struggling to avoid industrial action from 1 May
The US photographer falls foul of Britain's Vice Squad
Nicanor Tiongson has resigned in protest at 'religious bigotry'
How Subcomandante Marcos became an icon of resistance
President Saparmurat Niyazov orders the opera house to be closed
London's Barbican Gallery welcomes the country's contemporary art
Teachers attack the South African Nobel Laureate's novel 'July's People'
A pop video is re-igniting ill feeling between the two countries
President Hugo ChΓ΅vez's arts policy comes under fire
Zhang Yimou adapts his film 'Raise The Red Lantern'
Italy re-elects self-made millionaire Silvio Berlusconi
Jack Kerouac's original manuscript goes up for auction in New York
Festival organisers bow to political pressure over a production of 'Die WalkΓΌre'
