Arifa Akbar
Arifa Akbar is deputy literary editor and arts writer at The Independent. She has been at the paper since 2001, and has previously worked as a news reporter and arts correspondent.
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Kraftwerk show they still rule the Autobahn on a magical trip at Tate Modern
07 February 2013 12:00 PM
A burst of luminous 3D graphics lit up a blacked out Turbine Hall and projected far out into the crowd ‘WE ARE THE ROBOTS’, the graphics read and were echoed by the synthesised voice of Kraftwerk. With those words, the pioneering German electronica band kicked off their eight day ‘residency’ at Tate Modern before the crowd of 800 people who had been lucky enough to secure themselves a ticket.
Art Stage Singapore: South Asia's flagship art fair bursts out of its basement venue
06 February 2013 04:11 PM
Singapore's answer to Frieze is getting bigger and bigger attracting 40,000 visitors this year. Arifa Akbar joined the art-seeking throng
Rumi's Little Book of Life, By Rumi
01 February 2013 07:00 PM
What is it about this 13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic that continues to captivate us? So asks the Iranian academic, Narguess Farzad, in her introduction to this new collection, beautifully and lucidly translated by Maryam Mafi and Azima Melita Kolin.
Exhibition of the week: Schwitters in Britain, Tate Britain, London SW1
01 February 2013 07:00 PM
Kurt Schwitters, the pioneering German Dadaist, was misunderstood in his lifetime, at least when it came to the general public.
Pop Art pioneer is back in the picture
27 January 2013 09:50 PM
A retrospective of German Dadaist Kurt Schwitters will show how he inspired artists from Richard Hamilton to Damien Hirst
Tunisia's Star Wars remnants revealed at London's Tate Modern
25 January 2013 07:00 PM
The Arts Diary
Mad Women, By Jane Maas
25 January 2013 07:00 PM
This memoir of a woman in an ad man's world provides a glimpse of the social realities that fuelled the plotlines of Mad Men.
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Exclusive: Woolwich killings suspect Michael Adebolajo was inspired by cleric banned from UK after urging followers to behead enemies of Islam
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John Madin: The man who built Brum
School of chop: Learning the art of butchery
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Banned Iranian director to attend Cannes Film Festival
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