Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof pictured in 2009

Kaleem Aftab: Three years after Mohammad Rasoulof was imprisoned for alleged anti-regime propaganda, the director is bringing a new secretly filmed feature to the Cannes Film Festival called Manuscripts Don't Burn

<b>John Constable, Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, exhibited 1831, oil on canvas 151.8 x 189.9 mm.</b>
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Russian artist Andrei Molodkin poses near his installation 'The red and the black'
Alice Jones' Arts Diary
One of 5,000 cave paintings uncovered in north Mexico
‘History Zero’ (2013) by Stefanos Tsivopoulos
David Lister: The Venice Art Biennale is the wackiest cultural show in the world. But in an age of austerity many of the works have a serious side.
Nineteen films are competing for the coveted Palme d'Or, including Only God Forgives, an ultra-violent, Bangkok-set thriller starring Ryan Gosling

Cannes Film Festival, Geoffrey Macnab: Ryan Gosling stars in this visually stunning film Nicolas Winding Refn which is let down by a clunky plot

Michael Douglas plays the pianist Liberace opposite Matt Damon in Steven Soderbergh's film Behind the Candelabra

Cannes 2013 review: Had Hollywood been brave enough to back this made-for-TV Liberace biopic, Michael Douglas would be attracting serious Oscars buzz, says Geoffrey Macnab

Brought to book: Natalie Haynes at home, surrounded by Booker contenders

Being on the jury of the Man Booker Prize is no mean feat. With 150 books to read, she barely has time to sleep...

Ray Manzarek, the keyboardist and founding member of The Doors who had a dramatic impact on rock 'n' roll, has died. He was 74
Keyboard player dies aged 74 in Germany after a long battle with cancer
Mind games: Jason Bateman, Portia de Rossi and David Cross
James Franco in As I Lay Dying

Cannes 2013 review:This attempt to adapt yet another classic American novel for the screen is too turgid to honour William Faulkner's macabre humour

British astronaut Tim Peake being grilled by Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight
A visitor passes the sculpture '1st Body' prior to the opening of the Kapoor in Berlin exhibition

Some of Anish Kapoor's ventures into gigantism, such as Orbit, have been questionable successes. Is his first major museum show in Germany also an exercise in sculptural muscle-flexing? Michael Glover finds out

Michael Landy working in his studio

This YBA's show draws on details of the torture of the martyrs represented in masterpieces of the Renaissance. And the result, says Adrian Hamilton, is fascinating

Jackie Stewart and Roman Polanski, pictured in 1972, grew close during the filming of ‘Weekend of a Champion’
Cannes Film Festival Formula One star Jackie Stewart supports director as Cannes sees restored documentary
A view of the Biennale's Giardini
The Venice Biennale preview: Marcus Field, a Giardini veteran, marks your card for the pavilions, the people ... and the parties
Debrief: Tom Randle’s Captain, left, and Leigh Melrose as the titular anti-hero in Wozzeck
Review: ENO's new production of Berg's 1925 opera draws parallels with servicemen's lives in Afghanistan
Dream on: Leonardo DiCaprio as Gatsby
Jonathan Romney on The Great Gatsby: It's all over the place – but there is much to savour in this irresistible adaptation
Sibling rivalry: The public enemy (left) confronts his brother
Theatre review: Ibsen's updated 'An Enemy of the People' is neatly transported to the Sixties but doesn't quite go with a swing
What Do You See When You Close Your Eyes? By Moss Project
Watch & listen Katy Guest reviews a jazz album and the set of short stories it inspired
Actress Heather Graham at The Hangover III premiere in London

In pictures:View from the red carpet at The Hangover III premiere

Man Booker International Prize winner Lydia Davis
Cheryl Cole is part of a new group of non-acting celebrities that have started to make the pilgrimage to the Riviera
Cheryl Cole, Tamara Ecclestone, WAGs and reality TV stars are all in the south of France... but why?
Lord Sugar with The Apprentice 2013 contestants
The actor stars as Frank Gallagher in Shameless
Galifianakis reportedly invited Elizabeth “Mimi” Haist, 87, to the Los Angeles premiere of the third of his Hangover films
Hangover actor Zach Galifianakis’s date for his premieres isn’t arm candy  – it’s his 87-year-old friend who he saved from homelessness
Sacred music: Lauren Mayberry, Martin Doherty and Iain Cook of
the widely lauded Glasgow band Chvrches
Elisa Bray: It's harvest time for fans of intoxicating indie
Exceptional: Robert Redford in All Is Lost

Cannes 2013 review: JC Chandor’s remarkable film is about a man lost at sea. There is only one actor and no dialogue at all outside the short voice-over at the beginning

Dan Brown attends his An Evening With Dan Brown event, to promote his new novel Inferno, at the Freemason's Hall, London.
Wayne Coyne of Flaming Lips in concert, The Roundhouse, London

Music review, Ben Walsh: The performance feels more like a group therapy session than the giddy, psychedelic performances of old

Spreading her wings: Akane Takada, Edward Watson and Sarah Lamb in 'Raven Girl'

Bestselling author Audrey Niffenegger on having her dark fable 'Raven Girl' brought to life by the Royal Ballet's choreographer

Sophie Kinsella

What if someone deliberately sabotaged your honeymoon?

Rap battles seen in Eminem's semi-autobiographic film 8 Mile, where two or more artists trade rhyming insults, derived from the medieval Caledonian art of 'flyting' and travelled to the US via Scottish slave owners
Winona Ryder at the New York screening of 'The Iceman'
She no longer attracts the leading lady roles but finds the parts she does accept more fulfilling
Virtually Stephen Fry 'lets Stephen broadcast himself directly to your pocket, keeping you up to date with the goings-on of the actual Stephen Fry'
Star launches (possibly) the world's most self-regarding app
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    Newly unearthed papers reveal a shocking extra dimension to the constitutional crisis over monarch’s abdication
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    Watch out Watford: Here comes the secretive Bilderberg Group

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    A meeting of global power brokers in a Hertfordshire hotel is exciting conspiracy theorists, but what are they really about?
    'The ultimate all-in-one home entertainment system': Microsoft finally unveils its Xbox ONE console

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    Microsoft finally unveils its Xbox ONE console
    Plenty of Fish dating site founder pulls 'Intimate Encounters' option to ward off sleazy men

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    Dating website pulls intimate 'hook-up' section to curb harassment
    Inferno author Dan Brown 'honoured' to be invited to join the Freemasons

    The Freemasons’ Code

    Dan Brown reveals the message that told him door to the lodge is open
    Not secure any more: G4S boss heads for exit at last

    Not secure any more: G4S boss heads for exit at last

    Nick Buckles survived the Olympics débâcle and a £5bn bid fiasco but a profit warning finally triggered his downfall
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    There's a real desire around the grounds for safe standing. But will the authorities listen?
    In the end the fans decided Tony Pulis had made a pig's ear of the job at Stoke City

    In the end the fans decided Tony Pulis had made a pig's ear of the job at Stoke City

    Disillusion with a siege mentality and negative playing style made change inevitable
    James Lawton: The James Hunt I knew is the subject of a new F1 movie

    James Lawton: The James Hunt I knew is the subject of a new F1 movie

    British driver was fascinating man whose epic duel with Niki Lauda in 1976 was typical of an era of glamour and glory – but also the ever-present threat of death