Blue plaque in Manchester will honour Anthony Burgess
The plaque will be unveiled today at Manchester University, where the author studied in the 1930s
Rift deepens between Scottish artists and Creative Scotland, as despairing open letter is published
A hundred names from the Scottish arts establishment – including Ian Rankin, Douglas Gordon and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies – have expressed their dismay at Creative Scotland's policies with a heartfelt open letter
A Village Romeo and Juliet – review
This version of A Village Romeo and Juliet was not the affecting score it's considered, but a mixture of the winsome, the wanton and the hand-me-down Wagnerian, writes Andrew Clements
Nørgård: Will-o’-the-Wisps in Town, etc – review
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Ruggiero Ricci obituary
Versatile US violinist whose starting point for more than 500 recordings and 5,000 concerts was the solo music of Paganini
What Danny Boyle’s Olympics opening ceremony said about Britain’s cultural landscape
Serious and silly, subversive and mainstream, high and low: Danny Boyle's bonkers Olympics opening ceremony could only have been made by a British artist
Tino Sehgal, participatory art and the Booker prize: a week in the arts
Charlotte Higgins: Who's on – and off – the Man Booker longlist, varying responses to Tino Sehgal's new Turbine Hall installation and the Twitter debate about who should be paid in participatory art
Fifty Shades of Grey sends sales of Thomas Tallis’s Spem in Alium soaring
Devotional choral work, loved by novel's billionaire S&M enthusiast Christian Grey, reaches top of classical charts
Culture coach: the week’s essential arts stories
Berlin worried about its Old Masters, and Sam West and Andrew Lloyd-Webber spoke out about arts funding in Britain
Iris Origo: the author honoured by a music festival
Origo was an aristocratic Italian writer who dreamed of creating a new society. Selma Dabbagh visits the magnificent Tuscan estate where her grandson has set up a yearly celebration
Aldeburgh festival; Bow Down – review
Vivid stagings of Oliver Knussen's opera of Where the Wild Things Are and Birtwistle's experimental work impress Fiona Maddocks
Belcea Quartet/The Dark Magic of Angela Carter – review
The Belcea Quartet demonstrated the kind of expressiveness and authority that signals progress into a higher league, writes Rian Evans
How Maurice Sendak helped me stage his operas
Months before his death, the children's author met director Netia Jones to discuss opera versions of his famous stories. She relives an extraordinary year
King Priam, a pacifist’s opera, can still shed light on the trauma of war
Charlotte Higgins: Half a century after its first showing, Michael Tippett's libretto based on the Iliad is a fitting work for today
Culture coach: the week’s essential arts stories
Charlotte Higgins: It was the week that Maurice Sendak died and Bianca Jagger had a fight at the opera. Here are the past seven days' biggest arts stories from around the web