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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“As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
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