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York Sculpture ParkA Park Bench with a Difference: Yorkshire Sculpture Park

You can’t help but feel like Mary Lennox from Burnett’s The Secret Garden here

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Pygmalion

An uplifting performance punctuated with comedy, Pygmalion exposes the obvious tensions and unexpected similarities between classes in the late 19th century.

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Birmingham Royal Ballet at York Theatre Royal

The Birmingham Royal Ballet provided a night of seamless dancing, colourful music and exceptionally taught buttocks.

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Fourth Movement

The small details of set changes and other technical aspects could be improved. Nevertheless, Fourth Movement explored the issues of mental illness and marital breakdown with perceptive insight and talent from its actors

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Out of my head: Paul Merton

Paul Merton’s new tour was disappointing; both in the comedian’s lack of convincing punchlines, and in his over-reliance on his fellow performers.

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Blue/Orange

Blue/Orange takes you deeper in to the human mind with every second.

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Deathwatch

Jean Genet’s one act play about three prisoners, Green Eyes, Lefranc and Maurice.

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Censoring La Commedia

‘Gherush92’, called for the ban of the Commedia in Italian classrooms and universities, a move that would cause the foundations of Western Literature as we know them, to crumble.

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Painting Liberty in Cuba

The ‘Miami Five’ produce a series of artworks to highlight injustice

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Best Book: Escape From Camp 14

Biography of Shin Dong-Hyuk, the only known person in history to have escaped from a North Korean gulag

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The price of culture

Even if art organisations do decide to throw themselves into the deep end of the private sector, the funding could never be a guaranteed safety net.

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Hirst with cast 'For the Love of God' which is encrusted with £14m of diamonds. Image credit: Reuters Damien Hirst: The Con Artist

Damien Hirst continues to be a divisive conceptual artist. With his new exhibition at the Tate Modern, Aggie Torrance explores why we shouldn’t give up on Modern Art just yet.

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Dead dangerous…and looking good.

The performer, Paul Bend talks to Mary O’Connor about the Rock ‘n’ Roll lifestyle that comes with being a member of STOMP.

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Mystery Plays Rewind History

The producer of York’s Myster Cycle Production, Liam Evans-Ford, speaks to Celia Scruby

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Best Book – Smut

‘Smut’ takes the form of two short stories by Northern national treasure, Alan Bennett.

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