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  Northern England's art scene thrives as developers withdraw

  30 Dec 2011:

  Cheap studio space helps to foster growth in Sheffield and create a buzz throughout the region

• Björk's Biophilia app: a techie and a music fan write

  20 Jul 2011:

  Introduced by David Attenborough, Björk's new app is key to her ambitious Biophilia album and promises to break new ground in the way we consume music. Our experts share their views ...

• MediaCity on Monday: Technology collaboration puts audience in charge

  18 Jul 2011:

  Start the week catching up on all the news and views about MediaCityUK

• The Life and Death of Marina Abramović – review

  17 Jul 2011:

  This collaborative effort centring on performance artist Marina Abramović is a beautiful, at times extraordinary, experience, writes Clare Brennan

• And Another Thing – review

  17 Jul 2011:

  Johnny Vegas and Emma Fryer engage in biting banter in an amusing, if overlong, shopping channel spoof, writes Clare Brennan

• Theatre festivals should band together

  14 Jul 2011: James Grieve and George Perrin: They get theatremakers like us on the road and bring new audiences into contact with theatre – so why don't the UK's multiplicity of festivals collaborate?

• Wagner: beauty in the eye of the beholder

  14 Jul 2011: Loud. Cheap. Pretentious. What a young Gerard McBurney was told about Wagner's music. But neither parental disapproval nor the dreaded Wagnerians stopped him learning to love and cherish it

• Manchester international festival: music gives it some fight

  13 Jul 2011: James Hopkin: Manchester luminaries gave us a tour of the city's music scene, while upstarts Egyptian Hip Hop, Plank! and Lonelady showcased the local talent of the future

• Days in the Life at the Guardian: 17 June 1996

  Audio (6min 12sec), 12 Jul 2011:

  Francesca Panetta and Tim Hinman create unique soundscapes from four historic editions of the Guardian and Observer. Programme four: the IRA Arndale bomb

• Days in the Life at the Guardian: 7 February 1958

  Audio (6min 28sec), 12 Jul 2011:

  Francesca Panetta and Tim Hinman create unique soundscapes from four historic editions of the Guardian and Observer. Programme three: the Munich aircrash

• Days in the Life at the Guardian: 6 November 1908

  Audio (6min 30sec), 12 Jul 2011:

  Francesca Panetta and Tim Hinman create unique soundscapes from four historic editions of the Guardian and Observer. Programme two: the Guardian and the suffragettes

• Days in the Life at the Guardian: 22 August 1819

  Audio (7min 00sec), 12 Jul 2011:

  Francesca Panetta and Tim Hinman create unique soundscapes from four historic editions of the Guardian and Observer. Programme one: Peterloo and the founding of the Guardian

• Mark Andre – review

  

  12 Jul 2011: Rigour, rhythmic imagination and historical critique seemed entirely absent in Andre's slick, superficial pieces, writes Andrew Clements

• Paul Heaton's The 8th – review

  

  10 Jul 2011: Billed as "one of the longest pop songs ever", this confusing piece examines society's evils via the vehicle of the seven deadly sins, writes Dave Simpson

• That Day We Sang; The Crash of the Elysium; The Village Bike – review

  10 Jul 2011: Victoria Wood's gentle nostalgia vies with a Punchdrunk glimpse of Doctor Who, writes Susannah Clapp

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