12,000 events featuring stars from Albarn to Wei Wei. It's going to be quite a summer.
See all 154 of Shakespeare's sonnets performed in more than 25 languages
Top deck thrills for 2012.
Festival set for Hackney marshes.
Also: this month, Wimbledon hosts the third instalment of its classical festival.
Early movies brought back to life as part of the Cultural Olympiad.
The cultural highlights for London.
Monday news. Including a rather interesting piece of real estate that has just come on the market.
Culture vultures may find themselves camped out at the Barbican during the Olympic year.
The Cultural Olympiad climax has been announced: Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: World Cities 2012 will be the big finish to the four year cultural run-up to the 2012 London Olympic Games
A Spanish Henry VIII, an Italian Julius Caesar and a Tempest in Arabic: Être ou ne pas être? Shakespeare's Globe is staging all 38 of the Bard's plays in the summer of 2012, each in a different language.
Big names and high profile collaborations announced for the Cultural Olympiad's London Festival 2012.
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