Eternal Cannes: The biggest festival in the world is drawing to a close. For 11 days, our reporter criss-crossed the Croisette and now she takes hard look at this year's tops and flops. Effortless Architecture: Sanaa, this year's Pritzker Prize-winners Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. How can something that should last forever be witty? The Japanese architects Sanaa show how to do it with ease. Soft Spot for Germany: Philip Kerr's detective story on Berlin's Hotel Adlon. Philip Kerr of Scotland is in the top league of detective novel authors. Many of his thrillers are set in Germany: this time in Berlin's Hotel Adlon at the beginning of the 1930s. Stella Hamberg: Long seen by gallery owners as dead wood, sculpture is now taking over the art market. The demand is growing and prices are climbing. Maybe that's one reason that more women have taken to hammering and molding.

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