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Mr. Bochner's new paintings give fresh immediacy to his enduring preoccupation with the tension between perceptual and conceptual experience.

Set to unlikely and experimental scores, ranging from popular music of the 1920s to Partch and Conlon Nancarrow, these early pieces also illustrated the choreographer's enduring preoccupation with the musicality of dance.

In a sign of an enduring preoccupation with their neighbour, many Indians considered the nuclear deal most pleasing for having "de-hyphenated" their country from it: that is, for making a distinction between the world's biggest democracy and the nuclear proliferators next door.

Based on Andy Merriman's Hattie: The Authorised Biography of Hattie Jacques, and bearing marked similarities to previous standalone BBC dramas on, among others, Tony Hancock, Hughie Green, Frankie Howerd and Fanny Cradock, Hattie is the latest example of Auntie's enduring preoccupation with the closets of our dead light-ent favourites.

Granta takes "the group" as the theme for its latest issue and the magazine is testament in itself to our enduring preoccupation with groups: the excited fluster last month over its 10-yearly list of the best young British novelists proved we still love to see who belongs to what group.

Maxwell's writings exhibit an enduring preoccupation with the role of metaphysics in the advancement of science, especially the progress of physics.

But beneath its fantasy elements lie the novelists enduring preoccupations with history, memory, love and war, with the same controlled, artfully simple style that makes Ishiguro's storytelling so distinctive, and utterly beguiling.

The search for life on Mars – the closest planet to Earth that may harbour life – has been an enduring preoccupation since the earliest days of space exploration.