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theartsdesk in Moscow: Diaghilev comes home

Russia reappraises its prodigal son

Was he the prodigal son who abandoned Russia? Or the figure who did more than anyone to integrate Russian and European culture in the first half of the last century? As two major exhibitions open on the heritage of Sergei Diaghilev, celebrated impresario and “20th-century Medici”, for the first time Russians will have the chance to decide for themselves.

Film Festival Fever

Fantastic Foxes in Leicester Square, spies in Cambridge, bicycles at the Barbican: the pick of the autumn film festivals

Does Britain have too many film festivals? Not so very long ago, there were only two of these games around: the London Film Festival - which unveiled its full line-up this morning and begins on 14 October - and Edinburgh. Now, though, there are hundreds.