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divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/46008?ns=guardianpageName=Art+and+design%3A+British+Museum+breaks+up+midwinter+gloom+to+forecast+an+Indian+summerch=Art+and+designc3=The+Guardianc4=Museums+%28Art+and+design%29%2CExhibitions%2CArt+%28visual+arts+only%29%2CArt+and+design%2CCulture+section%2CUK+newsc5=Art%2CNot+commercially+usefulc6=Maev+Kennedyc7=2008_12_05c8=1129178c9=articlec10=GUc11=Art+and+designc12=Museumsc13=c14=h2=GU%2FArt+and+design%2FMuseums" width="1" height="1" //divpIn the bleak midwinter, the British Museum yesterday announced a blaze of colour and perfume to come: an Indian garden blooming in paint on its exhibition walls, and in reality in a scented garden around a fountain and lotus pool which will be created in its rather grim Bloomsbury forecourt./pp"In some magical way I can't quite get my head around, the garden will also cover a geographical spread from the foothills of the Himalayas to the lushness of the rainforest," curator Richard Blurton promised./ppThe task of creating the perfumed garden in the pigeon-haunted surroundings of the museum's front doorstep, plagued by the eternal reek of frying onions from the burger stalls outside the gate, falls to the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, which will be celebrating its own 250th anniversary./ppBlurton has to concentrate on getting onto the gallery walls sequences of ravishing paintings from the Jodhpur court, never seen before in the west, ranging from scenes of luxurious opulent life in the palaces, to a mystical series created for a 19th-century ruler who turned over political power to an ascetic sect. /ppBlurton calls the pieces "a voyage from mundane certainty to supra-mundane speculation"./ppAs well as a haven for stressed city dwellers and visitors, the garden will highlight the use of plants in Indian food and medicine - such staples as chili, aubergine and tomatoes are all New World imports - and the perils of habitat and species loss from development pressures and deforestation of the subcontinent./ppThe exhibition, and the films, plays, music recitals, food tastings and other events being organised around it, will also flag up the importance of Blurton's own little kingdom, a department which is one of the richer but less known in the museum./ppAlthough the Indian sculpture gallery is one of the largest in the building, many visitors never reach it. "The trouble is we are right at the back of the building, and I think a lot of visitors have lost the will to live before they get to us," he said yesterday. "But the collection is probably the most important outside India, and in its range and variety, from the Old Stone Age to the present day, probably the greatest under one roof in the world."/ppThe paintings, all created by court artists for three generations of 18th and 19th-century rulers of Jodhpur, are the first major loan exhibition to come to Bloomsbury directly from India./ppAlthough fabulous jewel-like miniatures are the most famous Indian royal paintings, some of the Jodhpur pieces are over a metre wide. Blurton said it is still not clear how they were displayed - whether they were hung on a wall like western art, or held up one at a time to delight a lounging maharajah and his intimates./ppThe most intriguing are the 19th-century mystical works made for Man Singh. "It is clear that these are internal landscapes, using blocks of intense colour in reflections on the experience of meditation and spiritual thought," Blurton said. "The use of pulsating brilliant colour recalls the Rothko chapel - but much of their meaning is still hidden from us."/ppThe Indian garden will feature scented plants, including frangipane, sandalwood and jasmine. "Very heavily scented jasmine," Blurton, who is also worried about the frying onions, said./ppIt will replace a Chinese garden, also created by Kew, installed to coincide with the terracotta warriors exhibition, one of the most successful in the museum's history./ppThe 55 paintings will come from the Mehrangarh museum in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, which was established by the present maharajah, H H Gaj Singh II. More paintings are coming from the National Museum of India in Delhi, and from the British Museum's own collection./ppNeil MacGregor, director of the museum, said: "There is an enduring fascination with the rich diversity of the art and culture of India. Garden and Cosmos epitomises this diversity through the polarities expressed in the paintings, focusing on both the external courtly life of pleasure on the one hand, and an internal life of devotion and speculation on the other." /pp· Garden and Cosmos: the Royal Paintings of Jodhpur, at the British Museum, May 28 to August 23. India Landscape, May 2 to September 28, British Museum forecourt, free./ph2Culture of import/h2pstrongAt the British Museum this summer:/strong/pp· Bollywood film seasonbr /A first for the museum/pp· Indian Summer Latebr /Night of Indian performance, dance, music, and food/pp· Lunchtime lecturesbr /In the new garden, by museum curators and Kew gardeners, on Indian medicinal plants, horticulture, landscapes and ecology/pp· Painting and printing workshopsbr /Recreating traditional Indian craft techniques/pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/museums"Museums/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/exhibition"Exhibitions/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/art"Art/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/iSpmiRbOHHcAu3owARuMtMiwna0/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/iSpmiRbOHHcAu3owARuMtMiwna0/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

Jury out on Boy George.

Following the announcement yesterday of a forthcoming lawsuit from fired HR administrator Crystal Dixon, University of Toledo president Dr. Lloyd Jacobs reiterates the school's position with regard to sexual orientation in the Toledo Free Press.

Little Britain creator Matt Lucas got a new boytoy for Christmas.

Secret gay party outed in Mongolia: "On November 15, an intentionally hidden and exclusive party was held at Amazon Club, in Bayazurkh Palace. Gay men, lesbian women, bisexual and transgender individuals (LGBT), and friends of these minorities, congregated to socialize with one another and to celebrate their sexual identities. The main festivity was the annual 'Mr. Beauty' contest. With a pool of eleven male-to-female cross-dressers, judges determined who made the most beautiful woman through a sequence of swimsuit, gown, and talent competitions...The party’s secret location (which changes each month and is not released until a few days before the event) and the strict security guards, were not enough to maintain LGBT privacy in the insular capital. One week after ‘Mr. Beauty’, a post on a Mongolian website revealed the existence of the party, and disclosed names of attendees. Few positive, and many negative comments were posted in response."

Twitter turns down $500 million Facebook offer.

Gay City News: Gay men being targeted unfairly in arrest stings as justification to shut down adult-oriented shops in Manhattan.

Nominees for the 2009 Grammy Awards announced.

Conservative Episcopal church leaders announce intention to found rival denomination: "Conservatives alienated from the Episcopal Church announced on Wednesday that they were founding their own rival denomination, the biggest challenge yet to the authority of the Episcopal Church since it ordained an openly gay bishop five years ago. The move threatens the fragile unity of the Anglican Communion, the world’s third-largest Christian body, made up of 38 provinces around the world that trace their roots to the Church of England and its spiritual leader, the Archbishop of Canterbury."

Students at University of Colorado in Colorado Springs hold "safety" rally to battle back against verbal and physical harassment: "The rally was related to a recent rift between student body president David Williams and the campus' gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender group, Spectrum. Williams declined to sign off on a Spectrum funding request for a National Coming Out Day observance in October, citing his personal convictions."

Coming soon: RuPaul's Drag Race.

Gay organizations making recession-based staff cuts: "At Lambda Legal, 10 positions were cut last month. The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation laid off several staff members Nov. 21. The National Gay & Lesbian Task Force has left open unfilled positions, and the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association recently reduced its national staff from seven to two. GLAAD President Neil Giuliano said the cuts at his organization 'touched all departments,' but did not reach 'double digits.'...He said a reduction in donations coupled with the nation’s ongoing financial crisis meant that GLAAD had to make job cuts to stay within budget and prepare for 2009."

Brody Jenner with his first two bromances.

James Franco is so hot he'd like to rip his own shirt off.

Noise pollution in world's oceans hurting wildlife.

Right Whale causes shutdown of Cape Cod Canal: "Authorities said the 45-foot whale swam into the Sagamore end of the canal at about 12:30 p.m. today. The Army Corps of Engineers — which operates the canal — ordered it closed to avoid a collision between the animal and a ship. The waterway was reopened at about 3 p.m. after the whale swam into Buzzards Bay."

South African writer to face Equality Court for homophobic Sunday Sun article: "The article equated homosexuality with bestiality, praised Robert Mugabe's oppression of gays and lesbians and encouraged the removal of the sexual-orientation protection clause from the constitution. In July, the Press Ombudsman ordered the Sunday Sun to apologise for the article but fell short of declaring the piece hate speech and refused to recommend any sanctions against Qwelane himself."

Charlie and Marcus from Survivor won't be pairing up on The Amazing Race till they're household names, apparently. Casting director: "With Rob and Amber, they met on the reality show, they were engaged. They were not at a crossroads, but they were getting married and they had a lot of issues to work out. And also they were household names. Let’s see, if Charlie and Marcus become household names, maybe. I think that’s the difference, too."

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/69710?ns=guardianpageName=Stage%3A+%27My+whole+life+has+been+a+black+comedy%27ch=Stagec3=The+Guardianc4=Theatre%2CCulture+section%2CJoe+Orton+%28Playwright%29%2CStage%2CTelevision+%28Culture%29c5=Not+commercially+useful%2CTelevision+Media%2CTheatrec6=Catherine+Shoardc7=2008_12_04c8=1128305c9=articlec10=GUc11=Stagec12=Theatrec13=c14=h2=GU%2FStage%2FTheatre" width="1" height="1" //divpIt has been a while since Doon Mackichan was last hung, drawn and quartered for laughing at the suffering of children. There was a week in August 2001 when you couldn't pass a newsstand without seeing her handsome, sparrowhawk face, forehead partially obscured by the word "evil" or "depraved"./ppThe Brass Eye paedophile special is now mostly remembered as virtuoso satire, so it's easy to forget what a stink it caused at the time. And it was Mackichan, who played TV presenter Swanchita Haze, who bore the brunt of it. People expected that sort of thing from Chris Morris, but Doon was a woman with - gulp - children of her own. "[Mackichan] had seen herself as a major comedy force in the making," wrote the Mail. "She even dreamt of becoming a film star. But with the Brass Eye disaster as her epitaph, all those plans lie in tatters."/ppLooking back, it's hard to say her career didn't suffer. There were two more seasons of Smack the Pony, the girly Channel 4 sketch show with Sally Phillips and Fiona Allen, but to diminishing returns. There were wifely roles in ropey sitcoms. There was theatre. Then came a two-year break for unhappier reasons (of which more later). And now she's back, in a play that, well, laughs at the suffering of children. Adults, too. Especially those six feet under. /ppJoe Orton's Loot, like Brass Eye, is comedy that sets out to shock. Don't be fooled by its age; although the play was first performed in 1965, Loot has weathered better than, say, a TV parody of late-90s news shows. Death doesn't date as a cultural taboo; likewise religion. Rereading Loot is like having a shower when you hadn't realised the boiler's broken: unexpectedly shocking./pp"Yep, it's full on," says Mackichan, eating a tuna sandwich between rehearsals in London. "There's this one line about a really great brothel run by Pakistanis who pimp out their kids for Mars bars." She smiles: an attractive smile, heavy on the lippy. "I'm like, 'Oh we'll cut that, won't we?' Well, no, we can't, because what about all the other things people might find offensive? Cut them all and you won't have much of a play left."/ppOther lines trouble her. Orton's gleeful description of a sexual assault, complete with tooth-breaking detail. "That specific image is just really horrible. Do you lose a portion of your audience when you leave that in? Do people stop thinking it's a great play? Or as my mum would say, 'Ooh, Orton's so kinky; yes, I love all that.' " /ppDoon plays Fay, an Irish Catholic home nurse and a prolific serial killer (87 in one week alone). She has lately buried her seventh husband and has her eighth in her crosshairs, having just dispatched his wife with a syringe of poison. Loot takes place on the day of the wife's funeral, and charts the power struggle between Fay, Hal (whose mother is being buried), Dennis, Hal's boyfriend, with whom he has robbed a bank and put the money in mum's coffin, and Detective Truscott, the sinister inspector who comes calling. /ppOrton's stage instructions put Kay in her late 20s; other than that Mackichan, 46, is a good fit. She is Celtic, by nurture at least. She grew up in Surrey but moved to Fife with her family when she was nine. She survived the transition, she says, by acting, specialising in "posh bitches". This is something she still does: she is a natural authoritarian, physically pneumatic, temperamentally tough - a few years back she swam the English channel with a team of paratroopers. /pp"Yes, I could kill someone," she says, without thinking too hard about it. "It must be so easy to just nip a needle in, or hold a pillow over an old person's face. The power and the buzz you'd get." She has been boning up on True Crime magazine to further understand her character's homicidal motivation. "But I just can't read the books. There's such an orgasm about they way they're written. 'Women who kill! Viciously!' When it comes to sex and violence, we're an island of obsessives. I mean, how does it help people to know the details of how someone was physically tortured?"/ppTen years ago, Mackichan got her fingers burned over an Anglican sketch on her Radio 4 show, Doon Your Way, but it hasn't left her any more on-message when it comes to religion. "It's been extraordinary finding out what Catholics actually believe!" she says of the research process. "All the rituals and superstition. The whole voyeurism of talking to someone behind a little screen. The idea that you can think, OK, I'll be a bitch, then on Sunday I'll say, 'Oh, I was a bit of a bitch' and then feel great!"/ppShe is not religious herself, "but I don't think I'm in an atheistic universe. I do think there's a higher power". Has she ever prayed? "Oh, I've been down on my knees many times." She pauses and then roars with laughter - it's a genuine, accidental Orton-ism. /ppIt turns out that Mackichan has had an extremely tough few years. Her father recently died. She is in the process of getting divorced from her husband, Common As Muck actor Anthony Barclay, with whom she has three children, India, 11, Louis, 10, and Ella-Rose, four. And, three years ago, Louis contracted leukaemia. Much of the past three years has been spent with him in hospital. He is now in remission, but shadows still hollow out her face. She wells up frequently, and there is something frayed behind the raucous laugh and actorly tics. "I do find authority hard to deal with now," she growls, after an assistant gives us a 10-minute warning that she needs to get back to work. "I feel a bit of an anarchist. I don't think I could work for someone who was an arsehole any more." She gulps down some fruit juice. "I can't actually have confrontations with people. It's too much. I'm a single muvva with three kids and a show to do." She laughs but she's dead serious./ppWhen things were at their worst, she says, her monopoly on heartache was hard to handle. "People would tut behind me in a supermarket queue and I'd have to go, 'Please, go ahead of me, you've obviously got somewhere to go. I'm just going back to the children's cancer ward.' I once had an actress telling me her hair was falling out because of her new kitchen and I thought, I'm not going to say anything, because this is quite interesting, because I remember how I was before it all." And how was she before it all? "Quite selfish, neurotic. Up my own arse. It's made me very tough. I do think I have endurance beyond the pale." /ppWhen Louis was well enough, Mackichan took her children with her to Africa to shoot a BBC2 series, Taking the Flak, loosely based on John Simpson's reporting from poverty-stricken, war-ravaged places. After such harrowing experiences, how she can cope with her relatively comfortable existence? "You walk into your house and you go: I'm a millionaire. I'm a princess; I live in a palace. And you think: I don't have a lot of shoes, but I do have too many shoes. You look at yourself and think: Party's over, mate. Time to be useful."/ppAnd yet she is not an aid worker in Africa. She is in north London, rehearsing a play. "I did think, I can't go back to acting. It's too vain, too ridiculous. I was going to retrain as a play specialist in Louis' cancer ward. But this is what I've done for 20 years. It's what I do." /ppShe's right. Mackichan is a natural born thesp, right down to her floaty black blouse and stripy woollen leg-warmers. Slice her in half and you would see "actor" written right through the middle of her. "I have a real mission now to be in work that will be cathartic for people. [Work] that's really honest about just how fucking hard it is to stay afloat."/ppLoot isn't exactly what she had in mind, she admits, but its no-nonsense attitude to tragedy has been cathartic. "My whole life lately has been a bit of a black comedy." She snorts. Might she consider turning it into one? "There's a lot of mileage in a children's cancer-ward comedy. All the opening curtains and waving at people being sick into bowls. You could set it in the tiny coffin-like kitchen where only the adults are allowed. You see these little bald children running past the window. It was like suddenly being in a war."/ppCould she really bear to return there, even imaginatively? "I don't know. They haunt me, those nighttime corridors. The characters, too: the carers and nurses and staff and the petty quarrels. And getting high on Quality Street till 3am. But I would like to." /ppstrongmiddot; /strongLoot is at the Tricycle, London NW6, from December 11. 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Un jeu-concours propose un week-end à l'hôtel Radisson de Vienne. Ce jeu-concours offre en effet la possibilité de remporter un séjour d'un week-end dans le palace de luxe de cette ville

The Queen's Speech has focused tightly on measures to help Britain through the economic downturn.

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