Arts

London-based Nicholas Gentry encourages people on social media to send him their old tech which he turns into artwork

The Prisoner’s precise. It’s as perfectly formed as a ripple caused by a stone dropping cleanly into a lake. It’s a play about what punishment should be. It asks who has the right to mete it out, what form it should take and tells us to be wary of impure motives. It focuses on internal reckoning and rubs up abrasively against our western character driven theatrical diet.  Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne, who have written the text together, make formidable...

Organised in conjunction with the RSPB, the Society of International Nature and Wildlife Photographers Bird Photographer of the Year competition shows our feathered friends in a new light.

Part of the annual Jane Austen Festival which runs from the 14-23 of September in Bath

The image by Nick Jackson shows the edge of the galactic core region of the milky way, aligning with the castle only at this time of year.

The owners said they had no idea the graffiti was done by the world famous artist

The find - at Blombos Cave in the Southern Cape area of South Africa - predates previous drawings from Africa, Europe and Southeast Asia by at least 30,000 years

The notebooks of world-renowned double Oscar-winning British costume designer, John Mollo, who designed the Star Wars universe, could sell for over £250,000 when they go under the hammer

Ben, a depressed boozy writer and park bench hogger meets university lecturer  Miracle as the pair exercise their respective pets in Brendan Cowell’s The Dog. At the close of day, Marcus, Ben’s flatmate, also taking his turn at the dog walking, does his best to pick Miracle up too, although she turns out to be particularly adept at dodging their narcissistic flirtation methods. The park bench becomes a sofa in Lally Katz’s The Cat, the second of these two forty...