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Wes Anderson arrives at a screening of Fantastic Mr. Fox on October 30, 2009 in Los Angeles.
Monday Q&A

Wes Anderson gets animated

With Fantastic Mr. Fox, the director of The Royal Tenenbaums dives into his first animated film Nov 23, 2009 4:41PM EST

The Monday lookahead

Actor Pattinson and actress Stewart wave during promotion tour for latest film 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon' in Munich
Film

‘Twilight' sequel smashes box office forecasts

‘New moon' scores third-highest opening weekend of all time Nov 23, 2009 10:40AM EST

Nigel Dickson's photograph of the late jazz giant Oscar Peterson, part of a show on view at the Royal Ontario Museum until March.
Portraiture

Putting together 'our nation's photo album'

Ian Brown considers what a government that nixes a national portrait gallery is hiding from Nov 23, 2009 3:07AM EST

Funerary Mask of Psusennes: The golden mask lay over the head, chest and part of the shoulders of the mummy of Psusennes, as a layer of protection. The royal headdress with ureaus cobra and the divine false beard he wears attested to his royal and godly status. The use of gold, considered the flesh of the gods, reaffirmed his divinity in the afterlife.

Tut at the AGO: Egypt for Dummies

The exhibition has a lot of beautiful things to look at, but it's more Epcot than the Met, and the presentation doesn't afford much time for reflection Nov 23, 2009 8:20PM EST

Thomson, Harris works kick off fall auction season

Bullish estimates abound at Canada's three largest fine-art auction houses Nov 23, 2009 5:22PM EST

Jacksoul front man dies of lung cancer at 39

Haydain Neale died Sunday at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto Nov 23, 2009 9:32PM EST

Disc of the week

Only two songs really work for Rihanna

1.5 Stars

Otherwise, her new disc is pretty thin gruel, musically Nov 23, 2009 3:53PM EST

TIFF names top 30 films of the decade

But don't expect to find The Lord of the Rings there Nov 24, 2009 12:54AM EST

David Hare's Iraq ‘history play' still resonates

3.5 Stars

Stuff Happens has lost a certain immediacy, but the deeper themes about power and politics now bubble up to the surface Nov 23, 2009 5:08PM EST

Alan Jarvis: wit, charm, looks – and a fatal flaw

A new biography reveals the charismatic Alan Jarvis, head of Canada's National Gallery in the 1950s, and also shows how much our cultural life has changed since then Nov 23, 2009 4:05PM EST

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Decoding the decade: Underrated films

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Today's pretty woman? She's a summa cum hottie

We have a strange obsession with glamorous pop-culture prostitutes when the reality is quite different

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Word Play
To ‘unfriend' is not as new as it may seem

“Unfriend” has been around since the 17th century

Warren Clements
Q&A
A calm Cage channels a monstrous Lieutenant

Working with Werner Herzog, the Oscar-winning actor gives one of his best performances in years

Richard Vaughan
On culture
An artistic marriage to thrill a pessimist

Haneke and Houellebecq: a match made in misanthrope's heaven

Russell Smith
DVDs
New release: The Golden Age of Televison

When TV broadcast without a safety net

Warren Clements
Pop Rocks
I sort of like this pageant girl gone wild

The Bible doesn't say no to breast implants, Carrie Prejean argues

Lynn Crosbie
London Eye
The Lady’s not for dying

The undimmed spirit of Margaret Thatcher hangs over Kevin Spacey and company at the Old Vic

Elizabeth Renzetti
Nestruck on Theatre
What has been going on with Mirvish opening nights?

A new waxwork figure of Michael Jackson depicted from his This is It tour, is displayed at Madame Tussaud's in London, July 9, 2009.


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