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Connecting with Culture: Arts

Welcome to the Arts section of the ‘Connecting with Culture’ online article library. All the articles in this category are listed below, beginning with the one most recently added. You can search the entire category using the search facility below. Remember, every week a new ‘Connecting with Culture’ article is added to the online library, so it’s well worth visiting frequently.

Black and White

  • Date:

    19-02-2010

  • Author:

    John Lee

Hidden in the 'Film not in English' category of Sunday's BAFTAs and of next month's Oscars, is probably the most extraordinary and thought-provoking offering of 2009 - 'The White Ribbon'...

Pretenders to the Throne

  • Date:

    08-01-2010

  • Author:

    Naomi Carle

We love to crown kings. This week alone, cricketer Graeme Swann was hailed as England's 'spin-king saviour', a posthumous 75th birthday bash was thrown for Elvis Presley - the king of rock 'n' roll - on the lawns of Graceland, and, as his latest film Avatar amassed record box office receipts, speculation mounted that Titanic Director James Cameron ...

Asterix the Racist?

  • Date:

    30-10-2009

  • Author:

    Brett Jordan

It was just over 50 years ago that the first Asterix adventure was published in Pilote, a French comics periodical. The brainchild of scriptwriter René Goscinny, Asterix and his friends were illustrated by his good friend Albert Uderzo.

Design for Life

  • Date:

    23-10-2009

  • Author:

    John Lee

By now we should be familiar with the idea of created human beings sharing certain characteristics in common with our Creator God. These characteristics are crucially important in allowing our God to reveal himself to us meaningfully so as to accomplish his purposes for humanity.

The Soloist

  • Date:

    09-10-2009

  • Author:

    Ian Hamlin

Whether it's the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle we're completing, or the flavour lacking in the meal we're preparing, all of us are familiar with the anxious sense that something is missing. Frequently, our anxiety stems from not being able to place exactly what it is that's missing - that one thing without which the whole seems incomplete.

Finding the Lost with Brown's Symbol

A Dark Strain: J G Ballard

How I Caused the Credit Crunch

Prophectic Voices

It's Just a Big White Horse?

Struck by the Power of Now

Seven Ways to Change the World

Liverpool Nativity

Mona Lisa's Eyebrows

Darwin's Angel

Atonement

Welcome to Everytown

Coffee Stains

The reporter

Soul Music

Roots to Happiness

Velvet Elvis

Johnny Cash - American V

United 93

The Da Vinci Code

Choose Your Words

District and Circle

My Way

The Politics of Hollywood

God's Politics

The Root of all Evil?

Fact and Fantasy

No Sex Please, We're Teenagers

George and the Chocolate Factory

Angels and Demons - The Opportunity

Movements and Moments

Harry Potter and the Subjects the Church Forgot

War of the Worlds

Brian Draper's Interview with Thom Yorke for Third Way

Dr Who

Paxman and the theatre of politics

Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith

The Monastery

Downfall

Tattoos

Never Let Me Go

The New Ten Commandments

Saturday

The Rough Guide to Ethical Shopping

Athlete

The Twilight of Atheism

Jerry Springer - The Opera

Dawkins' God

How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb - U2

The Corporation

Heresies - John Gray

Eleanor Rigby - Douglas Coupland

The Village

Fahrenheit 9/11

The history boys

Hey Douglas Coupland!

The Day After Tomorrow

Positively Vulgar

Taking to the streets

21 Grams

The Passion of the Christ

Dido, Love lost and safe sex

Girl with a Pearl Earring

The return of the king

Vernon god little

Love actually

Matrix Revolutions

Calendar Girls

In Da Winning Corner - Dizzee Rascal

Hey Nostradamus! - Douglas Coupland

Rowling Along?

A Prophet for our Time

The Power of an Honest Heart

About a Boy

Every Dog has his Day

AI - Even Better than the Real Thing?

All Families are Psychotic - Douglas Coupland

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