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14 January 2016
The top 10 books for 2016
Looking for some new reading material for 2016? Or maybe you fancy revisiting the classics? Here's what I'll be reading this year.
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12 January 2016
Golden Globes 2016: Winners
This year's Golden Globes were full of surprises. While regularly, awards ceremony surprises evoke a reaction of: 'Mm, interesting…' this year's boggle and annoy.
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12 January 2016
The Man Who Changed the World
On 10th January 2016, we lost yet another legend to cancer – this time, it was David Bowie's turn to bid farewell.
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9 January 2016
BAFTAs 2016: Nominees
Here we are again, the nominations for the 2016 BAFTA Film Awards have been released. Let's go through them together, shall we?
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8 January 2016
How literature shapes our language, the way we think and who we are
Literature has helped to create the language that we use to understand the world around us, express ourselves and ultimately define who we are.
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5 January 2016
Deja-View: Boyz n the Hood and Straight Outta Compton
Are you bored of films repeating themselves? It's not just the endless remakes that are giving you a sense of filmic deja-vu, many films follow tried and tested formulas. This month, Boys n the Hood goes against Straight Outta Compton.
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1 January 2016
Changing the world in 2016
Happy New Year! What's in store for 2016? Changing the world of course…
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31 December 2015
The best plays of the decade are: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and Billy Elliot
In the final and most scandalous result of our poll celebrating Arts Award's 10th birthday, your winner of best play of the decade is a tie between Billy Elliot and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
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30 December 2015
The best spoken word artist of the decade is: Benjamin Zephaniah
The winner of the title of best spoken word artist since 2005 and Arts Award's birth goes to Benjamin Zephaniah. He was voted for by you as part of our survey celebrating its tenth birthday!
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29 December 2015
The best TV programme of the decade is: Game of Thrones
The best television programme has been decided, as voted by you in the poll asking you for your favourite art celebrating Arts Award's tenth birthday. It is, of course, the most watched programme on the planet…Game of Thrones!
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27 December 2015
The best game of the decade is: Angry Birds
This December we asked you to vote for your top arts since Arts Award launched in 2005! Today, we're revealing Angry Birds as the winner of the Gaming category. Here are the highs (and lows) of Angry Birds' existence to date.
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26 December 2015
The best musician since 2005 is: Adele
In the poll asking you for your favourite artists since Arts Award started ten years ago, you voted for Adele as the best musician.
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26 December 2015
The best visual artist of the decade is: Banksy
This December we asked you to pick your favourite arts since Arts Award began in 2005! Today, we reveal Banksy as the best visual artist.
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23 December 2015
The best film of the decade is: Black Swan
The votes are in! We asked you what you thought has been the best art since Arts Award was born ten years ago. In a close race, the title goes to Black Swan.
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23 December 2015
The top 10 art exhibitions for the holidays
This year there are lots of exciting exhibitions happening over the festive period, the perfect day out.
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23 December 2015
Hermione Granger is black: what’s all the noise for?
Olivier-award winning actor, Noma Dumezweni, has been cast as the middle-aged Mrs. Granger in the stage production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Why should it and why shouldn't it be a big deal that she is black?
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19 December 2015
In the year Billy Elliot turned ten, is ballet still a difficult choice for men?
Since the early 19th century, Western culture has depicted male ballet dancers as weak, effeminate or homosexual. Studies have shown that teenagers in particular can have a highly stereotypical view of gender-specific sports, and these views make people less confident in breaking out of their shell and indulging in activities or arts that are seen as 'effeminate' or 'manly'.
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11 December 2015
Gold Inspiration Podcast
Want to go for Gold? This podcast will certainly help!
Hello, podcast lovers! It has been a long time but we are back once more, and this time we are talking about how to achieve Gold Arts Award.