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Shakespeare's MacBeth meets Africa in Botswana's first opera

Author Alexander McCall Smith has given Shakespeare's Macbeth an African twist blending wildlife and intrigue in Botswana's first ever opera, staged in a restored garage in the capital.

A walk on the wild side: Reed captures his wife, the performance artist Laurie Anderson, in the only image in 'Romanticism' featuring a human figure

Lou Reed: Photographer

As frontman with the Velvet Underground, Lou Reed epitomised the rock'n'roll lifestyle. But a book of his photographs reveals a quieter, more reflective figure. He tells Hannah Duguid what inspired him

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FIVE BEST EXHIBITIONS

The Sacred Made Real (National Gallery, London)
Spanish painting and sculpture from the 17th century: super-real images of Christ and his saints, with glinting tears and rivers of blood. Spellbinding. (020-7747 2885) to 24 Jan

Angels of Anarchy (Manchester Art Gallery)
Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim, Dorothea Tanning, Lee Miller, Claude Cahoon: mid-20th-century women artists and their relationship to surrealism. (0161-235 8888) to 10 Jan

Exhibition #1 (Museum of Everything, London)
A marvellous collection of outsider and folk art: strange worlds, intense craft, with Henry Darger, Madge Gill and many more. (020-7957 5325) to 20 Dec

Sculpture in Painting (Henry Moore Institute, Leeds)
What happens when one visual art swallows another? Examples of paintings that depict sculptures, from Titian via Hogarth to Vuillard, de Chirico and on. (0113-246 7467) to 10 Jan

Wild Thing (Royal Academy, London)
Jacob Epstein, Eric Gill, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska: three avant-garde Modernist sculptors pursue stone carving and pagan energies. (020-7300 8000) to 24 Jan

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