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Modern art has found a new home in a space- age museum that has risen amid the urban sprawl of a Spanish port. Robert McCrum visited the Bilbao Guggenheim If, as a native of Bilbao, you had happened to see a balding, middle-aged American in trainers and sweatpants jogging past the Jesuit university along the […]

Scotland’s former F1 champion Jackie Stewart was thrilled with second place in Monte Carlo MOTOR RACING:Alan Henry RUBENS BARRICHELLO revived the love affair between his team owner Jackie Stewart and the Monaco Grand Prix with his flawless drive to second place in last weekend’s rain-soaked race. It is 33 years since Stewart, now 57, first […]

FINE ART: Suzy Bell WHETHER for his trippy screen savers or portraits of peace, Bangalore artist Venkataraman Balu has been dubbed the master of the collage medium. He’s not simply absorbed in creating beautiful art, but in focusing on a global mission for peace through art. ”Art is a wonderful way to communicate the essence […]

Die Burger and Beeld appear to have shifted their support away from the NP, reflecting a wider rift in the Afrikaner community. Gustav Thiel and Jacquie Golding-Duffy report IT has long been a truism that no National Party leader has survived an attack by Die Burger. As the editorial onslaught against former president and NP […]

John de St Jorre in London AN oil painting which has been missing for 400 years and is attributed to the Italian old master, Caravaggio, could fetch up to 10-million at an auction in London next month. The picture is the property of a private owner. The auctioneers, Phillips, originally attributed the picture in their […]

CINEMA: Andrew Worsdale POSSIBLY the greatest action director in the world, John Woo is relatively unknown in South Africa. The only one of his films to have played on the main circuit is Hard Target, his first US feature, with local boy Arnold Vosloo as a dinkum Afrikaans mercenary, and Jean-Claude Van Damme intent on […]

One of the questions most frequently asked of President Nelson Mandela at the Park Lane Clinic last week was whether he was scaling down his activities. To find out, Rehana Rossouw peeked at his diary for this week This is what President Nelson Mandela’s diary looks like this week. There are early morning dashes to […]

Two transvestites, a stripper and a urologist’s secretary were interviewed live on stage last week. Michael Dresden was there CHARLES J FOURIE, the award-winning Afrikaans fringe-close-to-centre playwright and sometime director, is the ringleader of an extraordinary new series of shows at Cape Town’s Long Street Theatre. The format is a live interview, on stage, and […]

Being inundated with political canvassers, political posters, and political commercials is bad enough; imagine the day they start canvassing on your computer. A group called the Task Force on the Internet wants to make all pending Bills before the US Congress available on the Net. Congress has a counter-plan to publish Bills electronically after they […]

Black political and civic organisations have reacted to the proposed changes in influx control by calling on the government to scrap influx control.