http://www.ft.com/artsandweekendhttp://www.ft.com/rss/artsandweekendFT.com - Arts & Weekenden© Copyright The Financial Times Ltd 2008. "FT" and "Financial Times" are trademarks of the Financial Times.support@ft.comMon, 12 May 2008 06:01 BSTMon, 12 May 2008 06:03:18 BSTNewspapers60http://news.ft.com/cms/d1f3ce1a-6bbe-11da-bb53-0000779e2340.gifhttp://www.ft.com/artsandweekend(PICS-1.1 "http://www.classify.org/safesurf/" L gen true for "http://www.ft.com/" r (SS~~000 1))http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6cb87cb2-1d55-11dd-82ae-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6cb87cb2-1d55-11dd-82ae-000077b07658.htmlAs luxury brands eagerly take part in the promotional hype surrounding the 'Sex and the City' movie, Vanessa Friedman asks if big-screen product placement can still sell heels and handbags during a downturnMon, 12 May 2008 05:03 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8105bcb6-1d55-11dd-82ae-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8105bcb6-1d55-11dd-82ae-000077b07658.htmlDespite the mixed track record of such films, fashion documentaries and biopics are quickly emerging as the 'it' genre of the moment, writes Bronwyn Cosgrave Mon, 12 May 2008 04:30 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/777949b0-1d55-11dd-82ae-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/777949b0-1d55-11dd-82ae-000077b07658.htmlNicholas Lander can't get enough of the restaurant-led renaissance of the borough, which he calls an important dining destination in New York CityMon, 12 May 2008 05:54 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8e31d514-1d55-11dd-82ae-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8e31d514-1d55-11dd-82ae-000077b07658.htmlThe haze of ideas of two rival critics still blurs the clamouring and visceral canvasses of abstract expressionists Jackson Pollock and Willem De KooningMon, 12 May 2008 06:01 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b3886de6-1d55-11dd-82ae-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b3886de6-1d55-11dd-82ae-000077b07658.htmlNobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing plays the invented against the remembered, writing about her parents as they might have been and as she saw themSat, 10 May 2008 01:45 BST