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2013 arts preview

Our critics predict the must-see cultural highlights of the coming year
  • The best films for spring 2013

    Peter Bradshaw: Steve Coogan gets sleazy in Soho, Almodóvar takes to the air, Kirk and Spock return - and DiCaprio gets the party started

  • Margaret Atwood

    2013: the year ahead in books

    From a full programme of film and stage adaptations to a new James Bond novel, unpublished works by RS Thomas and WG Sebald and a new prize for women writers, 2013 is set to be a real page-turner

  • Stephen King speaks at Academy of the Sacred Heart, New Orleans, America - 12 Nov 2011

    2013 books preview: Jane Austen gets tough, The Shining revisited and Boyd takes on Bond

  • Pina Bausch's Two Cigarettes

    2013 dance preview: Ratmansky makes his Royal debut and Sadler's Wells hosts A String of Rites

  • The Shard

    2013 architecture preview: capital views from the Shard and Birmingham's giant boxes of books

  • Walt Disney

    2013 classical and opera preview: Lulu in Wales and Disney at the ENO

  • 2013 TV preview: Borgen's back and Game of Thrones – but beware the graphic novel in new thriller Utopia

  • 2013 visual art preview: Manet's portraits and Lowry reappraised

  • 2013 theatre preview: Helen Mirren gets another crack at the Queen and Peter Pan meets Alice in Wonderland

  • 2013 jazz and world preview: don't miss Fanfare Ciocarlia's frantic dance party and new jazz weekender Love Supreme

  • 2013 comedy preview: big guns Alexei Sayle and Harry Hill make a welcome return to standup

  • 2013 pop preview: Thom Yorke and Flea team up

  • Naomi Watts as Princess Diana

    The 100 key films of 2013: Nos 11-20

    Continuing our 10-part, alphabetically organised list of important titles of 2013, feast your antennae on new films from The Guard's John Michael McDonagh and Ridley Scott, as well as a Princess Diana biopic and a departure for Errol Morris

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