The actress took the film world by storm in the 1980s with roles that matched sexiness with strength. Now battling arthritis, she has found fresh success in theater
By Rachel Cooke
The standard response to Kathleen Turner, sexpot and movie star turned much-praised stage actor, is to remark on how amazingly normal and unHollywood she is. She drinks, she smokes, she swears; the day I meet her, she eats a hefty BLT without even so much as a hint of mayo-induced panic. She does her own supermarket shop and flags down her own taxis. She speaks five languages, talks about politics and sex with a frankness and intensity that is positively Parisian and has been known to read, well, books.

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Infantization, an exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, shows the similarities between young people in China and other countries in Asia
By Noah Buchan
Taiwan's so-called Strawberry Generation was born in the early 1980s and grew up during the country's economic boom. It is perceived by some as a group of young people who were overprotected by their parents and consequently too fragile to deal with the stress that accompanies adult life.

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Color Chart features works from 1950 to the present day by artists who used paints as they came out of the tube or can rather than mixing their own hues
By Karen Rosenberg
In the film Pleasantville (1998) the staid world of a black-and-white 1950s town is upended by the introduction of color. Something similar is happening at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan.

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