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Arts

Exhibitions Rites of passage: art for the end of the century (Tate Gallery, till 3 September) Being skinned alive Marina Warner W en did words like 'terrific' and `tremendous'......

Music

Intimations of mortality Robin Holloway C reativity is fragile, vulnerable, often slightly paranoid. The self-confidence of a Rubens is rare; such swagger is more usual- ly......