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Arts blog: Hollywood’s obsession with wooing the Chinese market

WHEN Iron Man 3 goes on release in China on 3 May, local audiences will get a different version from the one being released in the UK this week.

Arts blog: Money money money | Manchester vs Edinburgh

MARIA Miller’s first speech as the UK’s culture secretary, at the British Museum yesterday, was a curious mix of familiar Tory business jargon, the ‘creative economy’ language of the New Labour years, and a fondness for marketing slogans presumably inherited from her time in advertising.

Robert Florence and Iain Connell in Enlighten Up! Picture: Hopscotch Films

Arts blog: Getting kids into Hume with wigs and superheroes

THE creators of TV sketch show Burnistoun are back with a philosophy show for schoolchildren, writes Jay Richardson, while Lee Randall meets an artist finding inspiration in hives and honey.

Spitting Image provided one of the most iconic images of the late Margaret Thatcher. Picture: Getty

Arts blog: Thatcher’s musical legacy | Historical fiction

DAVID Pollock dissects Margaret Thatcher’s musical legacy, while Andrea Mullaney looks at our fascination with historical fiction

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One of Jonny Shaw's photorealist pencil drawings, part of the Veneer exhibition. Picture: Complimentary/Jonny Shaw

Arts diary: ‘Soft spot for Skye’s Atlas’

THE DIARY is starting to develop a bit of a soft spot for Atlas, the contemporary arts organisation based on the Isle of Skye. Earlier in the year they unveiled a series of “memory maps” of the island, created by the artist J Maizlish Mole.

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Arts blog: Thatcher’s musical legacy | Historical fiction

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