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A hat belonging to Napoleon Bonaparte when he ruled the French empire in the 19th Century will go on sale at auction in Paris on Sunday.
The bicorne black beaver felt hat is valued between â¬600,000 and â¬800,000 (£525,850-£701,131).
Historians say the headwear was part of Napoleon's brand. Wearing it sideways made h... | Art and Culture |
The fate of Joshua Reynolds’s Portrait of Omai, one of the greatest British portraits ever painted and the country’s first grand portrayal of a non-white subject, hangs in the balance. If this astonishing work is lost abroad – as it may well be – once a government-imposed export bar runs out next month, it will leave m... | Art and Culture |
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An extremely important 1-ton sculpture, sometimes referred to by archaeologists as an “Earth Monster” or Monument 9, was repatriated to Mexico from a private collection in Colorado in May 2023, according to an ann... | Art and Culture |
Sudha Murty was conferred with the Padma Bhushan in the presence of her family- her husband Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy, son Rohan Murty, daughter Akshata Murty, who is married to the UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and her sister Dr Sunanda Kulkarni. As it happens, Narayana Murthy was conferred with the Padma Vib... | Art and Culture |
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A page from the graphic novel Roaming.
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Imagine New York City, 2009.
It's spring break and you're exploring the big city for the first time with friends. There's tension. Drama. Fits of irrepressible laughter.
This is Roaming, the first adult graphic novel from the ... | Art and Culture |
The Tate Britain gallery on London has unveiled a complete rehang of the world's greatest collection of British art.
More than 800 works by over 350 artists span six centuries. Its director, Alex Farquharson, says they "want to show that art isn't made in a vacuum".
So what can the works in one of our national collecti... | Art and Culture |
Legendary writer Kurt Vonnegut cleverly explains how to write the 3 stories everyone loves
Notice anything similar?
To be a great fiction writer requires understanding basic story structures and being clever enough to disguise them so your audience doesn’t know they’re watching or reading something they’ve seen before.... | Art and Culture |
The Parthenon Sculptures, also known as the "Elgin Marbles" or "Parthenon Marbles" were taken from Greece in the early 19th century and have been displayed in Britain ever since – however, the debate over who rightfully owns these Greek artifacts continues to this day.
The British Museum and the Greek government are in... | Art and Culture |
"Please don't touch the artwork".
Now and then, we are reminded as to why these signs are still needed in galleries around the world.
Art lovers in Miami looked on in horror on Thursday night, when a collector accidentally knocked a $42,000 (£34,870) sculpture by US pop artist Jeff Koons to the ground.
She had tapped ... | Art and Culture |
The Parthenon Sculptures, also called the Elgin Marbles, were crafted by ancient Greeks 2,500 years ago to decorate the outside of the Parthenon temple in Athens. Now housed at the British Museum in London, they, like many old sculptures, are a muted mix of white, gray and beige.
But a new study reveals that the famous... | Art and Culture |
Why Is The UN Screening Kantara Today At Its Geneva Office?
Rishabh Shetty attends the Kantara screening at UNHRC session in Geneva while addressing the crowd about environmental protection.
Rishabh Shetty’s Kantara, an Indian Kannada-language film that was released on September 30, 2022, went on to become one of the b... | Art and Culture |
A sculpture mistakenly demolished during roadworks in Stoke-on-Trent must be rebuilt, a museum boss has urged.
Made from bricks, the statue of local pottery magnate Josiah Wedgwood has been in Festival Park since 2009.
However Stoke-on-Trent City Council admitted on Thursday it had been knocked down by contractors duri... | Art and Culture |
SHELBURNE, Vt. -- A Vermont museum has acquired a more than 200-piece collection of Native American art and is planning to construct a $12.6 million facility to house the pieces that make up a rare national collection in the Northeast.
The collection donated to the Shelburne Museum is comprised of late 19th and early 2... | Art and Culture |
Archaeologists Digging Along a Train Route in Mexico Have Found an Extremely Rare Statue of a Maya Deity
The statue is one of only three known in the world.
Archaeologists excavating construction sites along the new Maya Train route in Mexico have found a rare statue of the Mayan god K’awiil. The work is part of a reco... | Art and Culture |
The burial mound of a Bronze Age girl unearthed in Kazakhstan contains a plethora of grave goods, including dozens of animal bones that may have been used for ceremonial purposes and a carving of a frog on a bronze disc.
Since 2017, researchers have been working at this site, located in Ainabulak (also spelled Aynabula... | Art and Culture |
Unseen portraits taken by Paul McCartney in the early 1960s as the Beatles were catapulted to international stardom will go on show at the refurbished National Portrait Gallery in the summer.McCartney thought the photographs, taken between December 1963 and February 1964, had been lost, but he recently rediscovered the... | Art and Culture |
Learning more about the materials used on historical paintings—paints, pigments, varnishes, and primers used to prepare canvases—is critical to ongoing conservation efforts. Apparently, many artists of the so-called Danish Golden Age used beer byproducts from local breweries to prime their canvases, according to the re... | Art and Culture |
A small piece of Melbourne is set to become a mini-Acropolis, with a replica of the Parthenon to be installed at the National Gallery of Victoria this spring and covered with large-scale murals by local artists.The Temple of Boom was recently announced as the NGV architecture commission for 2022, an annual series that ... | Art and Culture |
Scottish Ballet is retelling the story of the classic fairytale Cinderella - with a man in the lead role.
Audiences attending the production of Cinders will not know until the curtain goes up whether the main character will be a man or a woman.
One version will be traditional - with a female Cinderella being swept off ... | Art and Culture |
Kenneth Anger, the shocking and influential avant-garde artist who defied sexual and religious taboos in such short films as “Scorpio Rising” and “Fireworks” and dished the most lurid movie star gossip in his underground classic “Hollywood Babylon,” has died. He was 96.
Anger died of natural causes on May 11 in Yucca V... | Art and Culture |
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The Widow’s Children by Paula Fox
Desperate Characters, an immaculate short novel about two married gentrifiers living in Brooklyn in the late ’60s, is Paula Fox’s most famous work, thanks in part to the advocacy of... | Art and Culture |
Roman statuary and Renaissance door-knockers, maps of the world and mortified saints; Easter parade penitents and bloodied, polychrome Christs, souls in torment and two sunbathing girls on the sand, slick with water, their bums catching the light.In 1882, when Archer M Huntington was 11 and on his first family trip to ... | Art and Culture |
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Built from images gathered around Istanbul, the short video Takrar – from the Arabic for ‘repetition’ – is a mesmerising celebration of the city’s multicultural, centuries-long legacy of art, design and architecture. Intricately pieced ... | Art and Culture |
According to a news announcement by China’s Global Times, archaeologists have discovered a shell dragon made from mussels during excavations in the city of Chifeng, Inner Mongolia.
The discovery has been associated with the Hongshan Culture, a Neolithic people that emerged in the West Liao river basin and inhabited nor... | Art and Culture |
Budapest-based Mihaly Kolodko has won a cult following for his dozens of often illegally placed statuettes that reference Hungarian history and popular culture, as well as the Russian invasion of his home country of Ukraine.
For most Hungarians zipping along the waterfront of northern Budapest on scooters and bikes, a ... | Art and Culture |
Literature provides valuable insight into the meanings of mobility and place
Cultural products, including works of literature, are not detached from reality; instead, they construct and challenge our understanding of the world. Literary texts show the complexity of reality, reflect on the power structures of the surrou... | Art and Culture |
Late Prehistoric discovery turns archaeological assumptions on their head
For a team of archaeologists digging in southwest Spain, the discovery of a Bronze/Iron Age stela—a funerary stone slab with carvings depicting an important individual—would have been exciting enough. But to find a stela that challenges longstand... | Art and Culture |
A Pablo Picasso painting that depicts the late artist's mistress is expected to fetch a whopping $120 million at auction, according to a news release from Sotheby's. The auction house is selling the art collection of Emily Fisher Landau – and the Picasso piece is the standout.
The 1932 oil painting "Femme à la montre" ... | Art and Culture |
It takes some time for Travis Alabanza’s show about the underground drag scene to set alight. But once it does, somewhere in the later part of the first act – after the awkward early scenes – it is a magnificent explosion of burlesque, feather boas, radical politics, pain, anger, filthy humour and breathtaking drag.Co-... | Art and Culture |
German circus replaces live animals with holograms
The smell of sawdust and popcorn fills the air. The clowns, acrobats and magicians are all in place.
As the audience are guided to their seats inside the big top, all the classic elements of the circus are there—except one. The live animals have been replaced by hologr... | Art and Culture |
Covid's arrival in early 2020 threw organisations and businesses into turmoil. But while most workers grappled with furlough, social distancing and working from home, a small band of museum officers sensed history was in the making. This is one museum service's story of trying to collect items in real-time to capture t... | Art and Culture |
Museum-goers are to be transported back more than 3,500 years in a sniff after researchers identified and recreated the scent of balms used in the mummification of an ancient Egyptian noblewoman.
While mummification might conjure up scenes of bandages and jars, the process was a fragrant affair in which the body and or... | Art and Culture |
The Cannes Film Festival announced its 76th competition lineup on Thursday, unveiling a slate featuring old masters and rising stars—along with a few sure-to-be-controversial curiosities. This year’s festival, which kicks off on May 16, will debut movies about Nazis falling in love, about archeologists working on the f... | Art and Culture |
Ernst Haas: The American West, written by Paul Lowe, showcases the work of late photographer Ernst Haas His images, captured in the mid-to-late 20th century, document U.S cultural and geographic landscapesThe book 'offers a vision of America that feels both poignantly distant and reassuringly familiar' Published: 04:17... | Art and Culture |
Archaeologists excavating beneath the ruins of an early Christian church have unearthed underground rooms and a tunnel from 1,500 years ago in the oldest part of Istanbul — once Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
The purpose of the hidden structures isn't completely understood, but they are probably p... | Art and Culture |
MILAN -- Vandals set fire and destroyed a seminal artwork by one of Italy’s most famous living artists early Wednesday outside Naples’ City Hall.
By the time flames were doused, all that was left of the installation by Michelangelo Pistoletto was a charred frame.
Pistoletto's artwork, titled “Venus of the Rags” had bee... | Art and Culture |
While the cowboy aesthetic is well-worn territory in art and fashion, a collaboration between Helmut Lang and Antwaun Sargent, a director and curator at Gagosian, explores the concept to break new ground. explores the concept to break new ground. The brand’s famous reverse cowboy T-shirt, first released in 2004, nods t... | Art and Culture |
By the time I arrived in Sarajevo in June 1992, I had already spent some time documenting the end of the cold war, shooting the Romanian revolution and the fall of the Berlin Wall. When rumours began to circulate that something was going to happen in Bosnia, no one could believe it. The country seemed integrated: a war... | Art and Culture |
Robert O’Hara is a tease. In this exhilarating tragicomedy, the writer is always several fleet-footed steps ahead. A nervous delight results from his total control of the stage, as he lets us flounder in entertained bafflement before gradually handing us subtle, playful reveals. First staged in New York in 2014, Bootyc... | Art and Culture |
‘For me, the Sussex landscape offers some of the most beautiful and interesting landscapes in the UK, yet somehow it remains relatively unknown.’
So says Brighton-based photographer Lloyd Lane, whose work is a masterful celebration of the multi-faceted scenery of his home county. At times, Lane, 47, focuses on the fer... | Art and Culture |
Now in his second season as its music director, Vasily Petrenko has brought a welcome touch of post-pandemic style and excitement to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, once the Cinderella of London orchestras. His thematic programming this year, subtitled Journeys of Discovery, is at once imaginative and accessible. Bes... | Art and Culture |
Describing the early 2023 arts calendar as “stacked” feels like an understatement. The sheer number of exhibitions, group shows, retrospectives, and openings is overwhelming in both number and scale. But fear not: we’ve put together a list of the highlights from the first few months of this year in New York City, Los A... | Art and Culture |
JERUSALEM -- One of the oldest surviving biblical manuscripts, a nearly complete 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible, could soon be yours — for a cool $30 million.
The Codex Sassoon, a leather-bound, handwritten parchment tome containing almost the entirety of the Hebrew Bible, is set to go on the block at Sotheby’s in New Yor... | Art and Culture |
The great American journalist and jazz enthusiast Stanley Crouch died in September 2020, yet his death was not given the proper recognition. COVID restrictions were still preventing a lot of mass gatherings, and the news was preoccupied with an election and other things. The recently released volume Victory is Assured:... | Art and Culture |
VIENNA -- A Vienna museum is hanging some of its paintings at an angle to reflect the possible effects of climate change on the landscapes they depict.
The Austrian capital's Leopold Museum said Tuesday that 15 paintings will be slightly skewed until June 26 as part of the action titled “A Few Degrees More (Will Turn t... | Art and Culture |
One of the many triumphs of “Black Panther” was the film’s use of African art and culture as inspiration for the clothing and architecture of Wakanda. The Afrofuturism-fueled vision for the fictional nation propelled several members of the film’s design team to Oscar gold, with legendary costume designer Ruth E. Carter... | Art and Culture |
It was a major cultural row between France and China, prompting a history museum to pull the plug on one of its most important exhibitions of the decade accusing the Beijing authorities of interference and trying to rewrite history.
But now the Chateau des ducs de Bretagne history museum in Nantes has finally opened it... | Art and Culture |
NY Met to let French make 3D copies of two 16th-century sculptures
Two 16th-century sculptures, jewels of French Renaissance art, have been on display since 1908 at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
But thanks to modern technology and an unusual agreement, precise 3D copies will be made and installed in the French... | Art and Culture |
The ceremonial return of 21 Benin bronzes to Nigeria by Germany last month gave the latest powerful signal of how fast the international tide is turning on the repatriation of looted art. The German handover followed an American one two months earlier, when the Smithsonian Institution signed over 29 bronzes in Washingt... | Art and Culture |
Stunning photos of autumnal red maple trees lining a highway are a moving commemoration to Canadian soldiers who gave their lives overseas during the two World Wars.
Many motorists are unaware that they are passing through a sacred war memorial on the A3 in Hampshire, England.
The 418 maples, Canada’s national tree, we... | Art and Culture |
What do women do when no one is watching? These images sum it up nicely.
Realness is key in Sally Nixon's work.
What are women up to when no one is watching?
Artwork courtesy of Sally Nixon, used with permission.
The subjects in her artwork aren't aware we're looking at them.
And that's the point. They're living in a w... | Art and Culture |
Amazon and Spotify offer a raw deal for artists.Tyler Comrie / The AtlanticDecember 6, 2022, 1:26 PM ETIn 2012, Jeff Bezos claimed in a letter to Amazon shareholders that the company was serving humanity by eliminating old-fashioned “gatekeepers,” like book publishers, that stood between creators and their audiences. T... | Art and Culture |
Yuri Vakulenko, director of the Kyiv National Art Gallery, last year asked European museums if they would hold modified versions of two exhibitions that had already been held in Ukraine. Two Swiss museums, the Musee d’Art et d’Histoire in Geneva and the Kunstmuseum Basel, agreed.This content was published on February 2... | Art and Culture |
What would an ancient Egyptian corpse have smelled like? Pine, balsam and bitumen, if you were nobility
In 1900—some 22 years before he discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen—British archaeologist Howard Carter opened another tomb in the Valley of the Kings. In tomb KV42, Carter found the remains of a noblewoman called Sen... | Art and Culture |
Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival. Shout! Factory releases the film in theaters and on VOD on Friday, February 3.
It’s been almost five years since The New York Times and The New Yorker published a pair of damning exposés of Hollywood’s ugliest open secret, that Harve... | Art and Culture |
Since 2015, a mobile museum has been traveling around the most rural parts of India, introducing disadvantaged schoolchildren to the rich tapestry of Indian history—from the dinosaurs to the Mughals.
The innovative education idea has so far traveled over 50,000 miles and visited 700 cities in the states of Karnataka, M... | Art and Culture |
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Two masks of the Indigenous community of the Kogi from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia are displayed at the presidential palace in Berlin on June 16, 2023.
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Two masks of the Indigenous community of the Kogi from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colom... | Art and Culture |
NEW YORK -- The first thought that comes to mind when you enter the Balloon Museum for the “Let’s Fly” exhibit is the massive scale of the art.
It's easy to think of such an environment as having either professional-level balloon art or installations that rival the scale of a Thanksgiving Day Parade float, and that wou... | Art and Culture |
Amoako Boafo, who has become a superstar in the art world, has been back home in Ghana, where one of his self-portraits is being exhibited. He told journalist Stephen Smith that he never intended to be an artist.
For all Amoako Boafo's head-turning success, he is a reluctant interviewee. Not yet 40, he has had his canv... | Art and Culture |
An earthquake last year revealed a big surprise beneath a law school in modern-day Mexico City: a giant, colorful snakehead from the Aztec Empire.
The snakehead dates back more than 500 years, to when the Aztecs controlled the area, which at the time was part of the flourishing capital of Tenochtitlan. The sculpture wa... | Art and Culture |
It is slated to be the “western world’s museum of museums”, a showcase of Greece’s greatest repository of ancient art.
Once completed, the revamped National Archaeological Museum in Athens will, say officials, not only have been expanded but “reborn” at a time of record tourism to the country.
“Today I have been profou... | Art and Culture |
An art collective has hacked into the controversial Bührle Collection exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zurich museum. It replaced written information accessible to visitors by QR code with critical comments about the provenance of the works on display.
These codes do not take readers to the provenance research carried out b... | Art and Culture |
The mystery behind a stone bridge depicted in the Mona Lisa has finally been solved, with an art historian identifying it as a crumbling ruin on the banks of a Tuscany river.
The painting has been definitively identified to depict Italian noblewoman Lisa del Giocondo and it is believed to have been painted between 1503... | Art and Culture |
VENICE, Italy -- Scottish-Ghanaian architect Lesley Lokko is giving a platform to voices that have long been silenced at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, which opens Saturday, the first ever curated by an African, featuring a preponderance of work by Africans and the African diaspora.
The 18th architectural Bi... | Art and Culture |
Who Was Altina Schinasi, The Woman Behind The Iconic Cat-Eye Frames
Google Doodle celebrates the 116th birthday of Altina 'Tina' Schinasi, the 'cat-eye' eyeglass frames designer.
On August, Google Doodle celebrates the 116th birthday of the iconic American designer, Altina 'Tina' Schinasi acknowledged for designing the... | Art and Culture |
OYSTER BAY, New York -- Interwoven in the history of Oyster Bay, NY, a hamlet on the North Shore of Long Island, are untold stories of African Americans that have played significant roles in shaping the fabric of the town.
The incredible life of David Carll is one of these stories and his great-great-grandchildren Deni... | Art and Culture |
Classical Greek marble sculptures today appear crisp and white. But they weren’t always that way, according to a new study, which found the famous 2,500-year-old Parthenon sculptures were painted.
By using a non-invasive imaging technique, researchers at the British Museum - where nearly half of the sculptures controve... | Art and Culture |
David Bowie's costumes, handwritten lyrics, album artwork and awards are among more than 80,000 archived items set to go on display to the public for the first time.
London's Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) is setting up The David Bowie Centre for the Study of Performing Arts at its upcoming new venue V&A East Storeh... | Art and Culture |
In April 1987 the National Museum of Women in the Arts opened to fanfare and corresponding controversy. Its founder, Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, had a spartan, though burdensome, mission: to reinsert women into the history of art—even if “she never had the intention to create a museum,” as director Susan Fisher Sterling ... | Art and Culture |
Street artist creates delightful 3D scenes in walls and walkways for everyone to enjoy
David Zinn's characters bring joy to the lucky folks that happen to come upon them before they wash away.
Street artists are a special breed. While "the art world" can sometimes be a snooty, elite place for those with means, street a... | Art and Culture |
Cave art of a lion with a luscious mane drawn deep in a Puerto Rican cave about 500 years ago might have been created by an enslaved African, new research suggests.
"We have an image that looks like a lion — but in Puerto Rico, we don't have lions," project researcher Angel Acosta-Colón, an adjunct professor of geophys... | Art and Culture |
New York’s Chelsea Hotel (strictly, the Hotel Chelsea) is the almost mythic building renowned for the radical bohemianism and life-on-the-edge danger of its famous residents, who have included Dylan Thomas, Patti Smith, Sid Vicious, Bob Dylan, Madonna and Iggy Pop. But unlike CBGBs or checker cabs, the Chelsea is a New... | Art and Culture |
LONDON -- One of the earliest portraits of a person of color by a British artist will remain on public display after London’s National Portrait Gallery and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles struck a 50 million-pound ($62 million) deal to buy it.
The two institutions announced Wednesday they had each pitched in 25... | Art and Culture |
Two major art festivals have been cancelled - with Brexit partly to blame
Two major art festivals have been cancelled - with Brexit partly to blame Since 2020, increasing amounts of red tape and the introduction of an import VAT rate of 5%, have made it considerably harder to move art between the Britain and Europe.
... | Art and Culture |
Macron looks to carve his name in history with French language museum
French President Emmanuel Macron looked to cement his legacy, and take on political opponents, with the inauguration on Monday of a former royal palace that has been dedicated to the French language, deep in far-right heartland.
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Modern Fre... | Art and Culture |
The story of a juggling pig; another about monks who juggle their way to enlightenment in Bhutan; the feats of a three-armed showman; the existence of a trick so dangerous we can’t risk seeing it – some of Sean Gandini’s tales might be too tall to be true, but it’s all part of the games he plays.Having started out perf... | Art and Culture |
More than 57,000 years have passed since Paleolithic humans stood before the cave wall, with its soft, chalky rock beckoning like a blank canvas. Their thoughts and intentions are forever unknowable. But by dragging their fingers across the rock and pushing them into the cave wall, these creative cave dwellers delibera... | Art and Culture |
You mellow with age, they say. So whither, now she’s 31, the comedy of Catherine Cohen? When Cohen unleashed herself on the 2019 fringe – and later on Netflix – it was with an emotional car-crash of a musical comedy act, pasting sequins on her neuroses and narcissism and splaying them fabulously across the stage. But a... | Art and Culture |
The name Monet conjures up pictures of water lilies, Rouen Cathedral, the Houses of Parliament and French haystacks, some of European art’s best known works.
Now a Paris exhibition will focus on another, lesser known, Monet: Léon Monet, the artist Claude Monet’s long overlooked elder brother who supported him when he w... | Art and Culture |
Movie Review: 'Fallen Leaves' is deadpan nirvana
In a movie year rife with grand, three-hour opuses from auteur filmmakers comes a slender 81-minute gem that outclasses them all
In a movie year rife with grand, three-hour opuses from auteur filmmakers comes a slender 81-minute gem that outclasses them all. Aki Kaurismä... | Art and Culture |
It's convenient to slot Brandon Taylor's The Late Americans, along with his debut novel Real Life, into the campus novel category.
But his latest book is more than this. It evokes Milan Kundera's astute observation in Immortality that the pursuit of a meaningful calling in today's world is nearly impossible due to the ... | Art and Culture |
Archaeologists have concluded that a series of engravings discovered on a cave wall in France were made by Neanderthals using their fingers, some 57,000 years ago. They could be the oldest such marks yet found and further evidence that Neanderthals' behavior and activities were far more complex and diverse than previou... | Art and Culture |
The idea is great: an exhibition of female abstract painters from the 1940s to the early 70s. Subtitled Women Artists and Global Abstraction, this show is intended, if not to overthrow the canon, then to revise the story: much of it is derived from abstract expressionism, in which the role of female artists has been co... | Art and Culture |
Ámsterdam, 7 feb (EFE).- La pequeña obra de Johannes Vermeer, famosa por su calma y luz, está esparcida por el mundo, pero, por primera vez en la historia, el Rijksmuseum de Ámsterdam homenajea al artista neerlandés con una exposición de 28 de sus 37 pinturas: ni siquiera el propio maestro del siglo XVII vio tantas obr... | Art and Culture |
Seasons and years blow through the high Alpine peaks of the decades-spanning “The Eight Mountains." But a warm, abiding glow persists throughout this tender, even restorative epic of male friendship.
The film, by Belgian filmmakers Charlotte Vandermeersch and Felix van Groeningen, is a stunning, often profound and freq... | Art and Culture |
Joey Soloway, Karyn Kusama, and Rosanna Arquette also appear in the documentary from filmmakers Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and Helen Hood Scheer. “Body Parts”Courtesy Shout! Factory What is the effect of sex scenes in film? Who decides what is “sexy”?
Jane Fonda is among the many artists featured in the documentary “Body ... | Art and Culture |
My original story in January 2022 on Mo’min Swaitat, a Palestinian actor and film-maker living in London, originally from the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, described how he was stranded there when the pandemic began. It was during that time that he found himself drawn to a closed-down music shop he remembered from ... | Art and Culture |
The oldest-known engravings in Europe, discovered in a French cave sealed up for tens of thousands of years, likely weren't crafted by modern humans but rather Neanderthals, a new study finds.
Within the cave of La Roche-Cotard 150 miles (240 kilometers) southwest of Paris, the researchers analyzed a series of non-figu... | Art and Culture |
The Donmar’s last production, Watch on the Rhine, showed a wartime family grappling with an ethical dilemma in the midst of a bleak historical moment and making a heroic collective stand. This drama about a Welsh family and their principled act of courage in the second world war might be seen as its companion-piece.
Se... | Art and Culture |
A portrait Pablo Picasso made of his eldest daughter, Maya, in the late 1930s has sold for more than £18 million at auction.
The painting, Fillette au bateau, which translates to "girl on the boat," was originally estimated to sell for between £12m to £18m, but was bought for almost £18.1m at Sotheby's auction house i... | Art and Culture |
187 years ago today, Ralph Waldo Emerson published his famous essay Nature, in which he attempts to lay out the case for transcendentalism. His chief argument is that god and spirituality are suffused in nature, but that in everyday life, man lacks the ability to perceive it as a whole because we are distracted by conc... | Art and Culture |
When Tracey Emin’s cat Docket went missing in 2002, the “Lost Cat” posters she pasted around her east London neighbourhood were pilfered and valued at £500. Her gallery, White Cube, argued that they didn’t count as works, though some art historians said otherwise. Whomever you believe, they still occasionally turn up o... | Art and Culture |
When Enrique Vera opens the door to his workshop, an array of gleaming gold and silver matadors’ jackets shine in the sun.
“It is little bit like a cave full of treasure,” he says.
Vera painstakingly fashions the brilliant trajes de luces (suits of lights) which are worn by bullfighters when they face half-ton bulls in... | Art and Culture |
The next Lego set to celebrate humanity's fascination with the cosmos uses the toy bricks to capture the visual style that inspired exploration.
"Tales of the Space Age," Lego Ideas set no. 21340 (opens in new tab), was announced Wednesday (April 12), on the 62nd anniversary of the first human spaceflight and 42 years ... | Art and Culture |
Two culturally significant artefacts have been returned to the Mexican government after they were recovered by Australian authorities.
Key points:
- A 100-year-old painting and copper bowl, estimated to be 800 years old, were seized upon entry to Australia
- The Mexican Ambassador to Australia said Mexico, like Austral... | Art and Culture |
Listening to Rozi Plain is like searching for shapes in the clouds. In her mirage-like lyrics and mix of gently warped folk and nomadic jazz, you can stumble on moments of sharp recognition. A former art student, Plain is a longtime member of Kate Stables’ luminous folk band This Is the Kit and a fixture of the Cleaner... | Art and Culture |
The bang of an auctioneer's hammer at Sotheby's London on Tuesday brought a 10-minute bidding battle to an end and set a new record for the most expensive work of art ever sold in Europe. Austrian painter Gustav Klimt's "Lady with a Fan" sold for 74 million pounds, plus a buyer's premium, bringing the total to 85.3 mil... | Art and Culture |
Below the rolling heath on the Isle of Arran’s south-west coast, overlooked by harriers and the occasional peregrine, a monument to ancient ceremony is being uncovered.
In August, archaeologists working alongside local volunteers began their excavation at Drumadoon of what is almost certainly the only complete Neolithi... | Art and Culture |
Ten years ago, artist Grahame Hurd-Wood set himself a huge challenge.
He resolved to paint an individual portrait of every resident of the city he lives in.
Fortunately for him that city is St Davids in Pembrokeshire, the smallest in the UK, with about 1,800 residents.
But it is still an enormous task.
A decade on from... | Art and Culture |
U2's inaugural performance at the opening of Las Vegas's Sphere included a generative AI video collage projected hundreds of feet into the air — showing hundreds of surreal renderings of Elvis Presley.
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Subsets and Splits
Unique Topics Sorted
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.