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asks Kriskwery A. It is hard to get to see work by John Napper, who died in March this year, because he tends to sell his work to private collectors and exhibit in small regional galleries. There
01:00 Mon 09th Apr 2001asked PhilD A. The traditional Punch and Judy script is sexist, violent. lawless and terribly politically incorrect. Q. How so A. Punch beats up his wife, throws the baby down the stairs, steals
01:00 Wed 28th Mar 2001A. On 3 March 2001, the Sainsbury's African Galleries were opened at the British Museum, London. Funded largely by the Sainsbury supermarket family, along with a donation from the Henry Moore
01:00 Tue 27th Mar 2001A. We associate cave paintings with the earliest presence of humans and their artistic abilities. In fact, cave painting has never ceased as a form of artistic self expression. The Dunhuang caves on
01:00 Mon 26th Mar 2001Okay, here goes... Q. What's a stanza A. A group of lines in a poem that, unlike verse, do not necessarily rhyme. Q. What's a sonnet A. A poem of fourteen lines in length with a rhyming scheme
01:00 Mon 19th Mar 2001 Q. How do we preserve national treasures A. By artificially creating conditions that slow down their deterioration. Whatever the work of art, be it a marble relief or a pickled shark, care and
01:00 Mon 19th Mar 2001 THE best question on The AnswerBank's Arts & Literature channel this week have come from Bridie who asked a really interesting question about modern architecture. So much attention is paid to the
01:00 Mon 12th Mar 2001A. Take a look at the medium, is it oils, pastels, watercolour etc. Look at the subject matter, the date (if avaiable) and the style. You will need expert advice once you have established these
01:00 Mon 19th Mar 2001...asked Lomfats A. No-one is really sure, but the origins can be traced back to the fourteenth century. Limericks were originally associated with children's nursery rhymes, but were then developed
01:00 Mon 12th Mar 2001asked Ollie... A. As well as those listed in the answer, there is also a sculpture famous to all who watch the TV news bulletins: the bronze that forms a backdrop to members of the House of Lords,
01:00 Mon 12th Mar 2001Questions abound on The AnswerBank's Arts and Literature channel, ranging from the profound and philosophical to the pretty damned annoying, until you knew the answer that is. Riley socked it to us
01:00 Mon 05th Mar 2001 Q. Whose are the most adapted works A. Shakespeare comes in for the most stick, because he is the biggest literary institution and it is a great way of poking fun at the established theatre. The
01:00 Mon 05th Mar 2001A. New York-based Rosetta Books at www.rosettabooks.com offers works by Arthur C Clarke, Fay Weldon, Kurt Vonnegut Jnr, Aldous Huxley and Pat Conroy to name but a few. This is one of the first
01:00 Mon 05th Mar 2001The guy who is running away with the prizes is Will Alsop of Alsop and Stomer. He won last year's Stirling Prize (named afer the great James Stirling - see below) for his new design for the library at
01:00 Mon 26th Feb 2001It is hard to believe that art as apparently innocuous as that which characterised the Art Nouveau movement met shocking reactions.In England the work of Aubrey Beardsley scandalised the established
01:00 Mon 26th Feb 2001by Nicola Shepherd What are the financial prospects for regional theatre On 7 March regional arts organisations will announce how they are going to carve up their slice of the 25 million, promised
01:00 Mon 26th Feb 2001By Nicola Shepherd ONCE again several mind-bending questions have been posted on the Arts & Literature section. The person who wanted to know how culture and identity are defined in American
01:00 Mon 19th Feb 2001by Nicola Shepherd IN THIS post-modern art age, where news is dominated by outrageous sums paid for outrageous works, let's not forget where it all came from. Here is The AnswerBank's lightning
01:00 Mon 19th Feb 2001by Nicola Shepherd A PAINTING recently discovered in an attic in North Wiltshire has just been valued at over 400,000. It features the present owner's grandfather and is a large Australian
01:00 Mon 19th Feb 2001by Nicola Shepherd FROM the beautiful to the bizarre, the best current and upcoming visual arts offerings from home and all around the world. The Tate GalleryStarting in London, the exhibiiton at
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