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Arts In Action

A weekly round-up of arts from around the world

World Service,146 episodes

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Renaissance in Arezzo
Fifteen years of restoration work is finally bearing fruit
01 Apr 2000,26 mins
American Outsiders
Jhumpa Lahiri wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
14 Apr 2000,25 mins
New York's New Guggenheim
Frank Gehry's ambitious museum plans unveiled
21 Apr 2000,26 mins
Timecode: Four Films At Once
Mike Figgis directs an impressive cast in his bold cinematic experiment
28 Apr 2000,26 mins
Musical Controversy in Austria
The Vienna Philharmonic brings Beethoven to the site of the Mauthausen concentration camp
05 May 2000,26 mins
Cannes Festival Round-up
A location report from the 53rd festival
12 May 2000,26 mins
Palme d'Or Contenders at Cannes
The favourites for the festival's top prize
19 May 2000,25 mins
Artistic Rapprochement in Korea
Schoolchildren bring a message of unification to Seoul
26 May 2000,25 mins
The Australian Stage
How a festival of Aboriginal culture became a platform for anti-government protest
02 Jun 2000,26 mins
Egypt's Lost City
Heracleion emerges from the deep
09 Jun 2000,25 mins
Classical Music Moves Online
Why only two US orchestras still have recording contracts
16 Jun 2000,26 mins
Jimi Hendrix's $240m Museum
The Experience Music Project opens in Seattle
26 Jun 2000,26 mins
'Chicken Run' Escapes
How Nick Park got Mel Gibson to play a chicken
30 Jun 2000,25 mins
The Banning of 'Baise-Moi'
The graphically violent French film falls foul of the censors
07 Jul 2000,26 mins
Chinese Film Opens Up
New regulations allow foreign input to the domestic film industry
14 Jul 2000,26 mins
EMI's Online Surprise
One hundred albums to be made available for download
23 Jul 2000,26 mins
Death and Jerry Springer
The star's confessional TV show leads to murder
30 Jul 2000,26 mins
'Facing Goya': the Premiere
Michael Nyman's opera opens in Spain
05 Aug 2000,25 mins
Iran Cracks Down
The latest newspaper suspension by the conservative Press Court
11 Aug 2000,26 mins
US Actors Go On Strike
Industry watchers fear the action could spread from advertising to films
11 Aug 2000,26 mins
Australia's Olympic Arts Festival
Has Aboriginal art been overlooked?
18 Aug 2000,26 mins
Koreans in Accord
Symphony orchestras from north and south stage a historic concert
25 Aug 2000,25 mins
Putin Attacks the Bolshoi
Two directors sacked by the Russian president
04 Sep 2000,26 mins
Controversial Artwork Removed in Delhi
Fellow artists walk out in support of Surendran Nair at the National Gallery Of Modern Art
12 Sep 2000,27 mins
Baghdad Welcomes Artists
Sanctions fail to deter planeload of artists and sportspeople
22 Sep 2000,25 mins
Arts Struggle in the Reunited Berlin
How the fall of the Wall left behind some expensive duplication
29 Sep 2000,26 mins
Nazi Art Theft Forum
Thrity-seven countries agree to return artworks to their rightful owners
06 Oct 2000,27 mins
China's Nobel Milestone
Gao Xingjian is the country's first winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
13 Oct 2000,26 mins
Austria Remembers
Vienna's Holocaust Memorial opens
27 Oct 2000,25 mins
Berlin Opera Houses Fight Unification
Leading fgures in classical music are protesting a merger of the two halls
06 Nov 2000,25 mins