1.   In New York, Karpov has taken the art of defence to new heights, introducing stinging and lethal counterattacks.

2.   The multimedia disc takes the art of computer golf to a new level, giving players unprecedented options and flexibility.

3.   Are you hoping to take up art after you leave school?

4.   And his performances take body art about as far you can go, short of suicide and actual dismemberment.

5.   A housewife began to withdraw socially at the same time she took up art, making realistic copies of famous pictures and rural scenes from her past.

6.   After the war, he took up art and his watercolors are displayed in museums in the Southwest and at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

7.   But who takes art more seriously?

8.   Certainly, both the characters and the author take their art a lot more seriously than I can imagine their London counterparts doing.

9.   Getting people to take his art in place of money is the point of his performance, he said.

10.   He has taken the art of presidential fund-raising to heights never before seen.