Arts and Literature
- 15 March - Julien Macdonald is chosen as fashion house Givenchy's new designer.
- 24 March - Opening of the exhibition Let Paul Robeson Sing! in Cardiff.
- 15 December - Rob Brydon wins Best TV Comedy Actor award in the British Comedy Awards.
- 25 December - Matthew Rhys and Tom Ward star in a TV adaptation of The Lost World.
- Jessica Garlick makes the last ten in the first series of Pop Idol.
- Andrew Vicari sells a collection of 125 paintings of the First Gulf War to Prince Khaled of Saudi Arabia for £17 million.
- Irish photographer Paul Seawright is awarded a personal chair by the University of Wales, Newport.
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“I too have arts and sorceries;
Illusion dwells forever with the wave.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“What ails it, intrinsically, is a dearth of intellectual audacity and of aesthetic passion. Running through it, and characterizing the work of almost every man and woman producing it, there is an unescapable suggestion of the old Puritan suspicion of the fine arts as such—of the doctrine that they offer fit asylum for good citizens only when some ulterior and superior purpose is carried into them.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
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