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It’s a bird … it’s a plane … it’s Oscar-nominated documentary All That Breathes, now streaming on HBO Max ahead of Hollywood’s biggest night. Though we’re living through a true boom of non-fiction filmmaking right now in terms of sheer quantity, Shaunak Sen’s singular vision also reminds us that we’re not lacking in qu... | Art and Culture |
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André Leon Talley's possessions fetch almost $3.6 million at auction
Hundreds of items from the estate of late fashion icon André Leon Talley, including paintings, personal photographs and some of his signature capes, have sold at auction for a combined $3.55 million.
A trove of the v... | Art and Culture |
Is white paint racist? Norway's University of Bergen is exploring that question, asking how the aesthetic of white paint helped the nation contribute to white supremacy and helped "[make] the world whiter.""Whiteness is not only a cultural and societal condition tied to skin color, privileges, and systematic exclusion,... | Art and Culture |
Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 3,500-year-old cemetery that contains a "Book of the Dead" papyrus.
The cemetery, at Tuna al-Gebel in central Egypt, dates back to the New Kingdom (circa 1550 to 1070 B.C.) and contains mummies, sarcophagi, amulets and numerous "shabti" (also called ushabti) figurines that were... | Art and Culture |
When Alice Robb was little, she wanted more than anything to be a ballet dancer. After two rejections from the School of American Ballet, the feeder school for the prestigious New York City Ballet, she finally won a place at the age of nine, a few days after 9/11. “The city was in mourning but it was the best day of my... | Art and Culture |
A German government official has requested the removal of an antisemitic sculpture from a church, the Jewish Chronicle (JC) reported on Monday.
The sculpture, a Judensau (Jew sow), adorns the facade of the town church in Wittenberg, also known as the Stadtkirche. It has been there for over 700 years, remaining despite ... | Art and Culture |
Succession star Sarah Snook will play 26 different characters in a one-woman show opening in London next year.
The actress will star in a new adaptation of Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray.
It will mark Snook's first appearance on the London stage since her 2016 debut opposite Ralph Fiennes in The M... | Art and Culture |
The London Symphony Orchestra’s concert performances of Janáček’s Katya Kabanova with Simon Rattle form an effective sequel to their 2019 production, directed by Peter Sellars, of the composer’s very different Cunning Little Vixen. Admirable though that was, Katya strikes me as being in every way the greater achievemen... | Art and Culture |
New rooms discovered in Sahura's pyramid
An Egyptian-German mission led by Egyptologist Dr. Mohamed Ismail Khaled of the Department of Egyptology at Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg (JMU) has made a significant discovery within Sahura's pyramid.
The exploration has unearthed a number of storage rooms that had... | Art and Culture |
Abstract expressionism, that all-American boys’ club, is being disbanded. In the latest revision to the overwhelmingly white and male canon of art history, east London’s Whitechapel Gallery has put together an exhibition by some 80 female artists from around the world.
Many of the works could easily be confused with th... | Art and Culture |
- Forensic evidence from a bullet-damaged wall sheds light on the Nazi occupation of a British island.
- During World War II, thousands of prisoners were sent to labor and concentration camps in Alderney.
- The British territory was part of Hitler's "Atlantic Wall" and was dubbed "Adolf Island."
A British artist probin... | Art and Culture |
Claus Guth was pleased with initial reaction to his outer space version of Puccini’s “La Bohème” at a special pre-premiere show limited to people under age 28.
“They were extremely euphoric,” he said. “It was an amazing performance with standing ovations.”
Three nights later at the official opening of the Paris Opéra’s... | Art and Culture |
Whether it’s a clutch of yellow flowers wrapped around a window in Spain or dozens of pink roses cascading down a house in Switzerland, there’s a note of familiarity that threads through Raquel Rodrigo’s street art.For much of the past decade, the Spanish artist has been bringing her singular style to cities around the... | Art and Culture |
Backstage at the Piccadilly theatre was the place to be on 5 June 1988. In the midst of rampant homophobia in the papers, on the streets and in parliament, that night saw artful protest packed into a raucous, highly political and extraordinarily gay evening of entertainment.
Organised by lesbian theatre group 20th Cent... | Art and Culture |
Drought in Brazil's Amazon reveals ancient engravings
An extreme drought in parts of the Amazon has led to a dramatic drop in river water levels, exposing dozens of usually submerged rock formations with carvings of human forms that may date back some 2,000 years.
Livia Ribeiro, a longtime resident of the Amazon's larg... | Art and Culture |
COLOGNE, Germany, May 5 (Reuters) - A German artist who is preparing to lay the 100,000th cobblestone commemorating a person who was deported and killed by the Nazis has no intention of giving up making the brass-capped blocks, saying demand is higher than ever.
By placing Stolpersteine ("stumble stones") outside the v... | Art and Culture |
Archaeologists in Mexico City have unearthed a collection of stone figurines depicting humans — carvings that the Aztecs likely used as offerings.
The 15 objects were discovered tucked inside a stone chest buried on the former site of the Templo Mayor, which once served as the temple complex of Tenochtitlán, the capita... | Art and Culture |
This concert, given by the intrepid forces of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under conductor Matthew Coorey, was refreshing for offering repertoire not frequently performed and a context for a newly commissioned work.
Steve Reich’s 1995 City Life is a sonic tribute to his native New York, sampling the city’s overa... | Art and Culture |
Prehistoric standing stones in western France destroyed during construction of DIY store
Thirty nine ancient standing stones at the Neolithic site of Carnac, in north-west France, have been destroyed during the construction of a Mr Bricolage DIY store, it has been revealed.
The huge site of Carnac, in Brittany, contain... | Art and Culture |
On Tuesday night, King Charles III and Queen Camilla hosted a star-studded event at Windsor Castle to honor another milestone during a celebratory year. 2023 marks the 400th year since the publication of the First Folio, a collection of works by William Shakespeare released seven years after his death that preserved pl... | Art and Culture |
The UK's heroes are no longer being honoured in marble on a plinth but with spray paint on a brick wall. Stephen Smith explores what's behind this artistic revolution.
Between a jerk chicken restaurant and a nail bar, the familiar features of Spurs striker Harry Kane rise into the London sky. The England captain is the... | Art and Culture |
Gladiator fights were once staged in Roman-occupied Britain, new research suggests.
Tests have proven that the Colchester Vase - an ancient artefact which depicts a fight between combatants - was locally made and decorated.
With no written information, this was the "only evidence" of such duels in Britain, the head of ... | Art and Culture |
What makes a celebrated beauty, and who sets the standards by which it is judged? In 17th-century Restoration London, the answer was clear.In the 1660s, Sir Peter Lely, court painter to Charles II, painted a series of portraits of 10 prominent society women, led by Barbara Villiers, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, the king’s... | Art and Culture |
A new play chronicling “the gentle revolution” led by England men’s football manager, Gareth Southgate, is to be staged at the National Theatre, it has been reported.
James Graham, the writer of acclaimed television series Sherwood, has written Dear England, about the shift in the national team’s culture under Southgat... | Art and Culture |
BERLIN -- An independent German commission on Tuesday recommended that a painting by Wassily Kandinsky currently owned by the Bavarian state bank be returned to the heirs of a Jewish family that originally owned the piece of art.
The commission can be called on in cases of disputes over the restitution of Nazi-confisca... | Art and Culture |
A new initial public offering (IPO) is dropping this summer, but it’s not for a tech company or retailer. A 1963 three-panel oil painting by Francis Bacon is set to become the first artwork ever taken public.
Bacon’s Three Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer, a triptych depicting one of the artist’s most prominent mu... | Art and Culture |
January 25, 2023 02:08 PM Multiple British museums are changing their language when referring to mummies, referring to them as "mummified persons," or the name of the historical figure, to pay more respect to the dead. The British Museum and the Great North Museum: Hancock in Newcastle, England, are changing the way th... | Art and Culture |
‘What I see is different,” says Chris Packham as he introduces Inside Our Autistic Minds (BBC Two). The naturalist is in his natural habitat, a woodland scene, which looks lush and peaceful but is, Packham explains, a lot for him to take, because he sees not just a vista of nice trees but all the connections between th... | Art and Culture |
Hundreds of faint stripes, dots and wavy lines that adorn a cave wall in central France are the oldest known engravings made by Neanderthals, according to scientists who analysed the ancient markings.
The patterns, called finger flutings, appear on sections of the longest and most even wall of the cave in La Roche-Cota... | Art and Culture |
Artist and activist Ai Weiwei is examining design, history, and what humans choose to value in his exhibition “Making Sense” at London’s Design Museum(Opens in a new tab).
The exhibition is a compilation of provocative and eclectic pieces both created and collected by the Chinese contemporary artist, including a partic... | Art and Culture |
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79 laid waste to Pompeii and nearby Herculaneum where the intense blast of hot gas carbonised hundreds of ancient scrolls in the library of an enormous luxury villa.
Now, researchers are launching a global contest to read the charred papyri after demonstrating that an artificial inte... | Art and Culture |
Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Pompeii have uncovered a gorgeous still-life fresco depicting a platter covered in food and wine, including one foot item that looks suspiciously like a pizza.
Reader: It’s not a pizza. Traditional pizza has tomato and mozzarella on it, as the Pompeii Archaeological Park pr... | Art and Culture |
A wooden object found at a Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall initially thought to be a sewing tool may have been a 2nd Century sex toy.
Experts say the object, found in a ditch at Vindolanda, may be the earliest example of a wooden phallus found anywhere in the ex-Roman empire.
However, they said they had not ruled out it c... | Art and Culture |
Karen K. Ho reports via ARTnews: British Museum has announced plans to digitize its entire collection in order to increase security and public access, as well as ward off calls for the repatriation of items. The project will require 2.4 million records to upload or upgrade and is estimated to take five years to complet... | Art and Culture |
The streaming giant has cornered the market on the classic genre, including both original features and some old hits getting new attention. (Clockwise from bottom left): “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World,” “Kuch Kuch Hota Hai,” “The Half of It,” “The Lovebirds,” and “Leap Year”Courtesy Everett Collection With wintery meet-c... | Art and Culture |
Weird Tales—which delivers exactly the kind of freaky, spooky stories you’d expect—marks its 100th anniversary this year, and is celebrating with the release of illustrated anthology Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird. It’ll include entries from authors like Ray Bradbury and H.P. Lovecraft, as well as contemporary writers... | Art and Culture |
A portrait of Theresa May, Britain's second female prime minister, has been unveiled in Parliament.
Saied Dai painted the picture which will hang in Portcullis House, Parliament's office complex where many MPs work.
The £28,000 painting was commissioned by the Speaker's advisory committee on works of art.
Mrs May said... | Art and Culture |
A Ukrainian artist who paints family portraits for refugees to give to UK hosts is "immortalising" Britons' generosity, she says.
Olha Son, who went to Cornwall when she arrived in the UK, was asked for paintings to thank people's hosts.
The 35-year-old's art shows Britons sheltering Ukrainian refugees with a Union fla... | Art and Culture |
In Iraq, archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a nearly 4,500-year-old Sumerian palace and a temple dedicated to the god Ninurta.
The discovery was made by a team of British and Iraqi archaeologists in the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu, about 300 km southeast of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
Girsu, one of the old... | Art and Culture |
Nigeria's outgoing president has issued a declaration on the Benin Bronzes that could have significant consequences in the campaign for the return of these great cultural treasures, as Barnaby Phillips has been finding out.
In the dying weeks of his administration, Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari made a decision w... | Art and Culture |
BERLIN -- Hadad, the ancient weather god at Berlin's Pergamon Museum, growls deeply as he casts his neon-blue gaze on visitors, his body bathed in pulsating orange light.
What seems like a scene from a horror movie is in fact the product of a light and sound installation by British contemporary artist Liam Gillick, par... | Art and Culture |
A stretch of a street in Oakland will be renamed in honor of slain rapper Tupac Shakur.
The city council voted unanimously to add “Tupac Shakur Way” signs on part of MacArthur Boulevard by Lake Merritt in the center of the city where the rap icon used to live in the early 1990s.
The Tupac Shakur Foundation will pay for... | Art and Culture |
A short- video series has gone viral in China, amplifying calls for the British Museum to return Chinese artefacts.
It tells the story of a jade teapot, played by a woman, looking for its way back to China.
The world-renowned museum has been under pressure after 2,000 treasures were reported to be "missing, stolen or d... | Art and Culture |
Francoise Gilot, who emerged from the shadow of her lover Pablo Picasso to become acclaimed as an artist in her own right, has died at the age of 101.
An accomplished painter, Gilot also wrote a best-selling 1964 memoir detailing her tumultuous relationship with the Spanish giant of modern art.
She described the "hell"... | Art and Culture |
Hugh Morris writes via the New York Times: When the musician and artist Paul Purgas was invited in 2017 by the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, India, to play some of the music he'd found in its archives that year, he was initially very keen. These were tapes that had been hidden from the public for decades; ... | Art and Culture |
Kaija Saariaho, who wrote acclaimed works that made her the among the most prominent composers of the 21st century, died Friday. She was 70.
Saariaho died at her apartment in Paris, her family said in a statement posted on her Facebook page. She had been diagnosed in February 2021 with glioblastoma, an aggressive and i... | Art and Culture |
How to make a mummy: Ancient Egyptian workshop has new clues
For thousands of years, ancient Egyptians mummified their dead in the search for eternal life. Now, researchers have used chemistry and an unusual collection of jars to figure out how they did it.
Their study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, is bas... | Art and Culture |
While exploring a canal off the Mediterranean coast of Egypt, underwater archaeologists discovered a sunken temple and a sanctuary brimming with ancient treasures linked to the god Amun and the goddess Aphrodite, respectively.
The temple, which partially collapsed "during a cataclysmic event" during the mid-second cent... | Art and Culture |
A few years ago, the art world was abuzz with news that a painting by the 13th-century master Cimabue was discovered and was going up for auction.
At the time, it was found in the house of a 90-year-old French woman hanging above her hot plate. Christ Mocked also known as The Derison of Christ, was identified only beca... | Art and Culture |
It's one of the world's most iconic historic sites and a British cultural icon, but it seems the debate over how and why Stonehenge was built around 5,000 years ago is far from over.
A new paper claims to 'debunk' the theory proposed last year that the Wilshire monument served as a solar calendar, helping people track... | Art and Culture |
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- A spectacular collection of centuries-old Cambodian jewelry has been returned to the Southeast Asian country, the latest treasures to be retrieved from the estate of well-known antiquities collector and dealer Douglas Latchford, who was accused of buying and selling looted artifacts.
Cambodia’s ... | Art and Culture |
The final painting by artist Gustav Klimt is expected to fetch up to £65m when it is auctioned in London later this month.
The estimated value of the portrait makes it the most valuable painting ever offered at auction in Europe.
The Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan) is a portrait of an unnamed woman and was painted ... | Art and Culture |
Philip Larkin thought of himself as an outsider, one of a small literary clique with its own jokes, insults and hinterland, whose other members included Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest. In his poetry he often cast himself as an observer: curious about people but also amused (or indeed bemused) by them, as if they wer... | Art and Culture |
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Artist Dafe Oboro (right), winner of the Nigerian Prize Award of the Access ART X Prize 2022/23, chats with an attendee at this year's Art X fair in Lagos.
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"I wanted to create a moment for Lagos on the global art calendar," says Tokini Peterside-Schwebig, t... | Art and Culture |
It’s now consensus that Neanderthals were complex, social cousins of Homo sapiens that disappeared from the Earth around 40,000 years ago. But our lost relatives just became more complex, with the discovery of ancient cave engravings in France that appear to be their handiwork.
The engravings sit in La Roche-Cotard, a ... | Art and Culture |
Next Met Gala theme unveiled: the 'sleeping beauties' of fashion
It may be time to get out those fairytale ballgowns
NEW YORK -- It may be time to get out those fairytale ballgowns. The theme of the next Met Gala has been unveiled: “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.”
The Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Muse... | Art and Culture |
The Tuscan-town of Laterina is thrilled to see news that an Italian historian has determined a ruined Etruscan-Roman era bridge in their area was the backdrop of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.
Using drone photographs and historical records of da Vinci’s whereabouts, including those owned by the De Medici family, histor... | Art and Culture |
Building Amsterdam’s North-South metro line was big trouble – a budget-blowing 15-year operation that involved carefully burrowing beneath the foundations of centuries-old architecture.
For archaeologists tasked with sifting through soft mud to preserve any history disturbed by the massive engineering project, it was n... | Art and Culture |
The Kunsthaus Zurich museum says it is strengthening its provenance research and giving itself more resources to deal with the problem of ill-gotten cultural property.
“In future, the Kunsthaus Zürich will adopt a more proactive approach to works that, following in-depth research, may constitute cultural property confi... | Art and Culture |
For interdisciplinary artist Nyugen E Smith, the origins of his new show go back to around 2009, when a chance encounter in a high school history class ignited his imagination over the Democratic Republic of the Congo. “I was substituting for a history teacher, when I saw all these VHS tapes and was attracted to one th... | Art and Culture |
THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Erwin Olaf, an acclaimed Dutch photographer whose work documented topics ranging from gay nightlife in Amsterdam to portraits of the Dutch royal family, has died. He was 64.
Olaf’s highly stylized photos, with lighting often influenced by Dutch master painters Rembrandt van Rijn and Johannes V... | Art and Culture |
The Benin Bronzes — some roughly 3,000 stunning bronze artworks sculpted by African metalsmiths between the 16th and 19th centuries — were crafted from metal mined from Germany's Rhineland region, a new study finds.
Researchers had long suspected that the stunning sculptures — created by the Edo people of the Kingdom o... | Art and Culture |
There are those in America who would have you believe there is no place in country western culture for LGBTQ+ folk. These people might put forth that the cowboy is the ultimate sign of traditional masculinity. They might suggest that life on a ranch is so hard, it's definitively heteronormative. They might sneer there'... | Art and Culture |
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Disgraced art dealer's family returns rare royal jewels to Cambodia
While most monarchies' crown jewels are heavily protected or given pride of place in a museum, dozens of Cambodia's were, until recently, stashed away in four boxes near London.
The pieces... | Art and Culture |
A seven metre sculpture of Mars has gone on display alongside a model of the Beagle 2 lander from the 2003 Mars mission.
They are part of the Journey to Mars exhibition at Aerospace Bristol, marking the 20th anniversary of Europe's first mission to the planet.
The mission was led by Bristol born Colin Pillinger, who di... | Art and Culture |
A new 3D tour of ancient Rome allows you to explore the imperial city as it appeared in the 4th century CE. The tour, produced by the education technology company Flyover Zone, is the fourth iteration of the 3D model.
The tour’s full name is “Rome Reborn: Flight over Ancient Rome,” and it’s hosted on Yorescape alongsid... | Art and Culture |
Prince Edward praises Reading theatre for helping young people from all backgrounds into performing arts as he is announced as its new patronThe Earl of Wessex has been named royal patron for Reading Repertory TheatrePrince Edward, 58, has been an active force in the UK's performing arts scene He says that he looks for... | Art and Culture |
The Supreme Court has ruled that Andy Warhol has infringed on the copyright of Lynn Goldsmith, the photographer who took the image that he used for his famous silkscreen of the musician Prince. Goldsmith won the justices over 7-2, disagreeing with Warhol's camp that his work was transformative enough to prevent any cop... | Art and Culture |
Archaeologists in southern Iraq have uncovered the remains of a tavern dating back nearly 5,000 years they hope will illuminate the lives of ordinary people in the world's first cities.
The US-Italian team made the find in the ruins of ancient Lagash, northeast of the modern city of Nasiriyah, which was already known t... | Art and Culture |
It’s the 300th birthday of Sir Joshua Reynolds on Sunday (July 16) and at Kenwood House, they’re celebrating by bringing together the 17 pictures of his that the museum owns. A dozen are in one room; five in another, set alongside his rivals and contemporaries, Gainsborough and Romney.
It’s a splendid opportunity to se... | Art and Culture |
A 16th-century drawing of a nude man, seen from behind, has been identified as a study by Michelangelo for his monumental masterpiece, the ceiling fresco of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.
The red chalk drawing has been linked to one of the figures battling serpents on the Worship of the Brazen Serpent painting. It ... | Art and Culture |
At this point “a John Carney movie” is its own subgenre.
Since charming the pants off audiences with 2007’s shoestring-budgeted Irish indie Once, a definitive Little Movie That Could (in its case win an Oscar for Best Original Song and spawn a hit Broadway musical), the Dublin-born writer-director has delivered a trio ... | Art and Culture |
Three very English but three very different composers – Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Michael Tippett and Edward Elgar – made up the London Philharmonic’s latest programme under Edward Gardner. The centrepiece was unquestionable: a rare but thoroughly persuasive outing for Tippett’s fluent yet entangled piano concerto of 19... | Art and Culture |
Sundance: D. Smith directs, edits, and shoots a luminous portrait of four Black trans women in all of their joy, pain, and beauty. D. Smith knows how to make a person stand up and pay attention. From the rollicking opening scene of “Kokomo City” — her luminous documentary portrait of four Black trans sex workers which ... | Art and Culture |
When it emerged from the earth it was dull, corroded and battered, the centuries it had spent lying beneath a Somerset field having taken their toll.
Now restored and gleaming, the Cheddar brooch, a rare early medieval piece regarded as one of the most important finds of its kind, is going on display at a museum close ... | Art and Culture |
When Leeds was denied its chance to become European capital of culture in 2023 due to Brexit, it should have been the killing blow to what it had been hoped would be a massive year-long cultural celebration.But, refusing to be beaten, cultural leaders ploughed ahead regardless, and now almost a decade of planning and i... | Art and Culture |
Using rock images to study cult of the gods in pre-Egyptian society
The desert in southern Egypt is filled with hundreds of petroglyphs and inscriptions dating from the Neolithic to the Arab period. The oldest date from the fifth millennium B.C., and few have been studied. Egyptologists at the University of Bonn and As... | Art and Culture |
Dancers in a pre-Incan civilization of Peru built specially designed dance floors to honor a nearby god of mountains and lightning, a new study shows.
The floor could accommodate 26 dancers, and was hollow underneath with layers of resonant material on the underside of the cavity that would’ve aided in creating a boomi... | Art and Culture |
ATHENS, Greece -- Museums in Austria and Greece are discussing the potential return to Athens of two ancient Greek sculptures, a move which could have a knock-on effect for the world's thorniest cultural heritage dispute: the fate of the British Museum's Parthenon Sculptures.
The talks announced by Austria's foreign mi... | Art and Culture |
Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered several tombs and chapels dating back around 3,300 years in an ancient cemetery at the site of Saqqara.
The biggest tomb belonged to a man named "Panehsy" who was the "overseer of the temple of Amun," Lara Weiss (opens in new tab), a curator of the Egyptian and Nubian collection ... | Art and Culture |
Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered broken statues of ancient royalty at a sun temple in Heliopolis, an archaeological site that was once a major city near what is now Cairo.
The stone-carved fragments include depictions of Ramesses II (reign circa 1279 B.C. to 1213 B.C.), Ramesses IX (reign circa 1126 B.C. to 1108... | Art and Culture |
This brief experimental documentary about migration to Europe comes from the Italian artists Maria Iorio and Raphaël Cuomo and is a collage of unused footage from video pieces they have made together over the past 15 years. It’s a film with interesting things to say about the fortressing of Europe during that time, but... | Art and Culture |
Perfume companies love to give their products names like Eternity and Forever.
But now scientists really have bottled the 'scent of eternity', thanks to the Ancient Egyptians.
Researchers have recreated the scent of the embalming fluid used to preserve the remains of a mummy from the Valley of Kings so she could live... | Art and Culture |
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Equipped with a theme that speaks to the globalised design circle, the London Design Biennale looks at the country-specific division of Biennale as a tool to visualise international cooperation. The title—The Global Game: Remapping Collaborations—goes beyond borders and territories to enact ne... | Art and Culture |
Image source, de Brécy TrustImage caption, The team found the de Brécy Tondo was highly likely to have been created by RaphaelNew facial recognition technology has found a painting previously attributed to an unknown artist is highly likely to be a Raphael masterpiece.A team from the University of Nottingham and Univer... | Art and Culture |
It was the first Pakistani film to premiere at the Cannes film festival; the first to make it to the Oscars’ international feature film shortlist. But Joyland, Saim Sadiq’s remarkably accomplished Punjabi and Urdu-language debut, is equally groundbreaking in other ways. At the core of the film is a love triangle, betwe... | Art and Culture |
Understanding the role of pareidolia in early human cave art
A psychological phenomenon where people see meaningful forms in random patterns, such as seeing faces in clouds, may have stimulated early humans to make cave art.
Research published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal by the departments of Archaeology an... | Art and Culture |
Archeologists in Wales have unearthed a glitzy, golden hair-ring and the oldest wooden comb ever found in the U.K. from a roadside burial pit dating back to the Bronze Age.
The pit contained the 3,000-year-old remains of a person who was cremated with the glamorous artifacts, which may have facilitated the "extremely r... | Art and Culture |
Her boyfriend asked her to draw a comic about their relationship. Hilarity ensued.
The series combines humor and playful drawings with spot-on depictions of the intense familiarity that long-standing coupledom often brings.
"It was all his idea."
An offhand suggestion from her boyfriend of two years coupled with her ow... | Art and Culture |
New book investigates the literature of Britain's waterways
Britain's changing relationship with its canal network and the implications of how canals contributed to our reliance on fossil fuels are at the heart of a new book from Professor Jodie Matthews.
"The British Industrial Canal—Reading the Waterways from the Eig... | Art and Culture |
A painting valued at $15,000 just two years ago is now expected to fetch up to $18 million at auction after being identified as the work of the Dutch master.
The Adoration of the Kings has been virtually unseen since the 1950s, when it first came to light. It was acquired by a collector in Amsterdam in 1955 and his wid... | Art and Culture |
The world's oldest surviving Scottish tartan is over 400 years old and, though now faded, once sported green, brown, red and yellow, a new analysis of the centuries-old fabric reveals.
The tartan was found in a peat bog in Glen Affric — an area in the Scottish Highlands carpeted with woods, lakes and moorland — in the ... | Art and Culture |
The British Museum came under pressure this week after it sacked a member of staff over treasures reported "missing, stolen or damaged".
The museum, one of the nation's biggest tourist attractions, is dedicated to human history, art and culture, and is home to millions of valuable objects.
Police are now investigating ... | Art and Culture |
Halfway through this magnificent exhibition hangs a portrait by Goya so famous it has its own nickname – The Black Duchess. It shows a fiercely intelligent woman standing outdoors in a romantic landscape dressed in crackling black lace. Her eyes flash, her sash blazes scarlet, the yellow and gold of her bodice burn lik... | Art and Culture |
If you like your period dramas with spirited heroines who swig champagne, sweeping coastal shots of brooding Dukes, and lavish ball scenes where secrets abound, you'll love The Buccaneers.
Based on Edith Wharton’s final novel, the eight-episode AppleTV+ series is a 19th century romance drama following five young Americ... | Art and Culture |
Christine Coulson, who spent 25 years working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has written a short, clever novel that tells the story of a woman over the course of her life in a series of museum wall labels. In doing so, she acknowledges a sad but undeniable truth — that for much of the 20th century and perhaps even ... | Art and Culture |
ATHENS, Greece -- Finishing her class at The Julliard School of the arts in New York, Greek opera great Maria Callas gave her students a final word of advice.
“Keep on going the proper way: Not with fireworks, not with easy applause, but with the expression of the words, the diction, and to really feel what you feel. T... | Art and Culture |
“Hip-hop was this movement of people who weren’t considered valuable creating worth,” said Sacha Jenkins, chief creative officer of Mass Appeal magazine and co-curator of an expansive new exhibition.
Celebrating hip-hop’s 50th anniversary, Fotografiska New York is displaying over 200 photos spanning the culture’s five ... | Art and Culture |
AMSTERDAM -- Some art lovers make it a mission to visit and view as many works as possible by 17th-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer.
Starting Friday, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is making their lives a whole lot easier.
A blockbuster exhibition at the Netherlands' national museum of art and history brings togethe... | Art and Culture |
Vivid depictions of battling gladiators on a clay vase are the first concrete evidence that these combatants duked it out in Roman Britain, new research finds.
The vessel, known as the Colchester vase, is well known to researchers; it was discovered in a Roman-era grave in Britain in 1853 and holds a person's cremated ... | Art and Culture |
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Provides a simple list of all unique topics in the training dataset, which helps identify the range of subjects covered but offers minimal analytical insight beyond basic categorization.
List Unique Topics
Simple retrieval of unique topics from the dataset, useful for basic exploration but lacks deeper insights.