<div><p>The Japan Art Association on Thursday named British playwright Tom Stoppard as a recipient of the Praemium Imperiale, one of the richest awards in the arts world.</p><p>Two more Britons also won the prize -- Iraqi-born architect Zaha Hadid and sculptor Richard Long -- as did Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto ...

<div><p>The Japan Art Association on Thursday named British playwright Tom Stoppard as a recipient of the Praemium Imperiale, one of the richest awards in the arts world.</p><p>Two more Britons also won the prize -- Iraqi-born architect Zaha Hadid and sculptor Richard Long -- as did Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto ...

<div><p>If Tom Stoppard and Almost Free Theatre could play a 15-minute Hamlet to cut out the prevarications and welcome the masses in the 1970s, we can do the same for jazz in 2008. So here's how to translate jazzspeak, follow the plot, and nod in the right places.</p><p ...