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Matisse painting goes on display

Paintings by Henri Matisse and Mark Rothko have left upon arrangement in London forward of sales in New York next month.

Matisse's Bouquet pour le fourteen Juillet 1919 is approaching to fetch $18-25m (£11.6-16m) during Sotheby's impressionist and modern art sale upon 5 May.

Rothko's 1961 work

Mike Leigh competing at Cannes

British senior manager Mike Leigh will lapse to this year's Cannes Film Festival to contest for a event's tip esteem with his ultimate offering, Another Year.

US senior manager Doug Liman creates his Cannes debut with Fair Game, to one side Abbas Kiarostami as well as Takeshi

NME gets behind Oxfam music drive

NME repository has hooked up with Oxfam to titillate music fans to donate unwanted albums to a charity.

Donors will embrace a giveaway duplicate of a repository in return.

"We want to get a mag out to as most people as we can - Oxfam is a

Heroes star bemoans British drama

British TV bosses should outlay less upon being shows as well as more upon play to turn around the "sad as well as vexed sector", Heroes star Sendhil Ramamurthy says.

The US actor, 35, who studied play in London, pronounced his UK behaving friends were struggling since

Street star banned from driving

Coronation Street singer Sue Cleaver has been criminialized from pushing for seventeen months after she was held nearly twice over the authorised drink-drive limit.

The 46-year-old, who plays cab user Eileen Grimshaw in the soap, was stopped in Northenden, Manchester, when her automobile ran in to the

Gervais 'refused 1m gig offer'

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Somali radios take music off air

Most air wave stations in Somalia have stopped personification music, on a orders of Islamist Hizbul-Islam insurgents who contend which songs have been un-Islamic.

The stations pronounced they had to imitate with a ban as if they did not, they would be putting their lives during risk.

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Mental health drama wins Pulitzer

A Broadway low-pitched chronicling the woman's struggle with mental illness has won the Pulitzer Prize for drama.

Next To Normal was praised for "expanding the scope of subject matter for musicals".

Tinkers, Paul Harding's entrance novel for the little edition house, was the warn leader

Keane 'horrified' by use of song

Rock rope Keane have said that the Conservative Party did not find their permission to make use of the single of their hits during their choosing declaration launch.

Band part of Richard Hughes wrote upon Twitter he was "horrified" to listen to 2004 strain Everybody's Changing played.

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Jack Tweed 'in joint rape attack'

Jack Tweed, a widower of being TV star Jade Goody, raped a teenager during his Essex home during a same time as his friend, a justice has been told.

At Snaresbrook Crown Court a 22-year-old denied two charges of raping a woman, afterwards 19, during his home in Repton Park, Woodford Green, in S

'Risky' book takes writers' prize

British-Indian writer Rana Dasgupta has been awarded a £10,000 best book esteem for his "bold" novel Solo.

The author, 38, who was innate in Kent as well as now lives in New Delhi, was praised by judges for his work's "edginess".

Australian writer Glenda Guest won a endowment for i

Stars mourn actor Corin Redgrave

Stars including Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Trevor Nunn as good as Simon Callow have paid their final respects to singer Corin Redgrave during his funeral in London.

Sir Trevor told mourners his university crony should be remembered for "so many things" including his "political work, idealism as good

Last Glastonbury tickets sell out

The last collection of tickets for this year's Glastonbury festival have sold out in just over an hour.

Cancelled as well as returned tickets for a eventuality - that will be headlined by Muse, U2 as well as Stevie Wonder - went upon sale during 0900 BST (0800 GMT).

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Can't bid me, love - Starr blames eBay for autograph ban

Ex-Beatle Ringo Starr says his decision to stop giving autographs was stirred by fans offered sealed equipment upon eBay.

The drummer posted a video message upon his website in October 2008 saying he would no longer sign memorabilia, as well as which air blower mail would be thrown away.

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Fourth time at the top for Gaga

Pop star Lady Gaga is behind during a tip of a UK manuscript draft for a fourth time with her entrance release, The Fame.

The album, that came out in January 2009, made a initial appearance during a limit just a year ago. It has outlayed a sum of 48 weeks in a tip 10.

Her lapse to series