Everyone's talking about ...

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  Renoir to Curzon Bloomsbury: a rebranding too far

  Ryan Gilbey: Why rob one of the capital's smartest venues of its individuality?
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  jbrenoir

  'Total shame. They will turn it into another Macdonalds.'
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  StevieBee

  'Only the Academy cinema designed its own posters.'

• Theatre blog

  The etiquette of leaving the theatre mid-play

  Natasha Tripney: During a recent show, a couple left their seats 20 minutes before the end. Surely it's not fair to disrupt the rest of the audience?
• Books blog

  The international takeover of French literature

  Guy Dammann: France's biggest books prizes are turning their gaze to the world. Does this spell the end of Gallic literary protectionism?
• Music blog

  True tales: my three-year-old controls the stereo

  Everett True: Music for the car and music for the house are completely different things. But for months, both were dictated by my three-year-old
• TV and radio blog

  The Shield: a quality TV cop show

  Ben Sillis: After seven series, the critically acclaimed drama is set to climax around a storyline relating back to its very first episode – that's classy serial television

• Editors' picks
• Video
• Audio
• In pictures

The High Line in New York

It's a Mickey Mouse birthday (1min 52sec)

Alexei Sayle: 'I had to take the jokes out' (14min 09sec)

How to be a Happy Architect

Video: 'John Sergeant - get him back' (1min 12sec)

Statuephilia at the British Museum: Dark Stuff by Noble and Webster (2min 53sec)

Statuephilia at the British Museum: Case for an Angel I by Antony Gormley (2min 24sec)

Statuephilia at the British Museum: Mask II by Ron Mueck (2min 54sec)

Alan Partridge's first radio appearance (17min 02sec)

Steve Toltz: Guardian first book award (8min 10sec)

Books podcast: Anita Shreve (12min 07sec)

Music Weekly: Fleet Foxes and Jon Savage (45min 57sec)

Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species

U2: Previously unseen photo diary

Gallery: Wallace and Gromit in pictures

Spike Milligan memorabilia auction

• Music

  It's a stick-up

  Join us as we salute the great drummers of rock
  

• Stage

  A star is built

  Stanley the Robot makes his theatrical debut
  

• Classical music

  Class acts

  Ronald Bergen on how to use classical music properly in a film
  

• Art and design

  Artist of the week

  Jessica Lack on duo Heather and Ivan Morison
  

• Stage

  TS Eliot

  In pictures: The poet's dramas, soon to be performed in a festival
  

• TV and radio

  Sergeant quits