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Don’t for a second think that our global society has a monopoly on cultural exchange. A six and a half stone, seventeenth-century terrapin says otherwise, with a story that touches Europe, India, and Iran...
The display of works by the legendary Indian artist MF Husain at Harewood House (16 March – 6 July) opens up more than one treasure trove. There are the paintings themselves, most of them from nearly four decades ago but with some stunning newer works as well on loan from the artist...
Early 2006: two years since Kilroy-Silk wrote "we owe Arabs nothing" in the Sunday Express. Miles from the media circus, the women of the group are still smarting, finding Kilroy-Silk's position tallies well with their daily experience of exclusion and isolation.
On one side of the Bosphorus is mainland Europe, where handwriting is just something you use to make a shopping list. But cross to Istanbul, and writing by hand becomes a thriving art form, with its masters, its deep traditions, and its bright new talents.
Can this really be a concert of early music? Look at some of the ingredients of Convivencia, and you'd be forgiven for doubting it. It picks some dominant chords in contemporary politics, for a start. It is discursive, contradictory - and soprano Catherine Bott clearly relishes this spikiness.
Spare a thought for the master craftsmen of India, anxiously watching their sons flick through the prospectus of the local IT college. Four hundred years of tradition are ready to be passed down - but will the son follow the father in a new India?
