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Political theatre

• Marathon training
  

  "The Great Game: Afghanistan" on stage teaches about the country and the war (2)

• • • Progress in Afghanistan and the crucial year ahead
    • (15)
  • • Has America's obsession with the Middle East been worth it? (Dec 2010)
    • (121)
  • • Topic page: Afghanistan war

Art at auction

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  The market sprawls

  Economic growth is on hold all over the industrialised world, but the art market is running rampant (7)

• • • Some auspicious signs in a very fickle art market
    • (2)
  • • Philippe Ségalot's “Carte Blanche”, the auction as self-portrait
    • (1)
  • • How the bad boy of Brit-Art grew rich at the expense of his investors
    • (26)

19th-century China

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  Clashing with the foreign devils

  Robert Bickers's new history about the West's scramble for China (23)

• • • America and China's battle of wills (Jan 2011)
    • (136)
  • • Topic page: China

Memoir

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  Ducking and diving

  Donald Rumsfeld's "Known and Unknown" is a study in self-defence (22)

• • • Barack Obama and America's national security (Sep 2010)
    • (19)
  • • Rumsfeld allows embedded reporters in Afghanistan (Sep 2010)
    • (8)

The film industry

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  Bigger abroad

  Forget the Oscars. Films need foreign viewers, not American prizes (27)

• • • The afterlife of a movie
    • Intelligent Life
  • • What's with these Oscar nominations?
    • Prospero
    • (11)
  • • Topic page: Filmmaking

New theatre

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  The drama of climate change

  Climate science is a tricky subject for the stage, as two new plays in London make plain - More Intelligent Life

• • • Finally, a good play about climate change
    • More Intelligent Life
  • • Topic page: Climate change

Chinese cloisonné

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  Three colours blue

  A controversial new survey of an art made famous by the Chinese (3)

• • • The expensively unpredictable Chinese art market (Dec 2010)
    • (8)
  • • Giuseppe Eskenazi's emporium of wonders (Nov 2010)

Artists at work: Nuno Ramos

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  Ballad of a culture vulture

  A Brazilian artist and poet with a taste for obstinate materials and ideas (1)

• • • Artists at work: El Genio Dittborn
  • • Gabriel Orozco: An artist without frontiers

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• Documentary

  "Waste Land"

  Lucy Walker, the director, talks about the Brazilians who make art from garbage (0)

• Gaming

  The joy of "Angry Birds"

  Tom Standage plays the mobile-phone game that is life-stealingly addictive (1)

• Reading about Egypt

  From Pharaohs to Facebook

  Reading up on the roots of the turmoil (9)

• Postmortems on the financial crisis

  The official verdict

  America’s FCIC report is big, surprisingly readable and a disappointment (2)

• Art prices

  Unaffordable art

  The most expensive works to come under the hammer (14)

• New film

  Go west young man

  "West is West" is a welcome return to the mixed-race Khan family (3)