Culture
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Becoming Frida Kahlo: new BBC documentary paints a compelling portrait of the Mexican artist
She has been the subject of many books, the best known of which is Hayden Herrera’s biography and a Hollywood film, with Kahlo…
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Archaeologists have discovered a mummy wrapped in gold – here’s what it tells us about ancient Egyptian beliefs
Found inside a limestone sarcophagus in a burial shaft, the body and its wrappings are unusually well preserved for the…
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A major new exhibition in Nairobi reveals the history of east African art traditions
Modernism in the fine arts refers to a period of experimentation from the late 1800s to the mid 1900s, a break…
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Dora Maar: a great photographer hidden behind the master of painting
Maar was born Henriette Théodora Markovitch in Paris in 1907 and died on 16 July 1997. Amparo Serrano de Haro…
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What does a conductor actually do?
At the age of three, I remember jumping on my parent’s sofa, waving my arms in the air conducting a…
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The 2,700-year-old rock carvings from when Nineveh was the most dazzling city in the world
Featuring war scenes and trees, these rock carvings add to the bounty of detailed stone panels excavated from the 1840s…
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Why you should know the exciting experimental, political and feminist work of senior Indian artist Nalini Malani
Her work traverses video, photography, multi-media installation, painting and digital animations. Catherine Speck The Conversation The latter is the medium…
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The Jungle and the Sea reminds us war is profoundly local, with the intimate negotiation of human relationships
Sri Lanka was in a civil war from 1983 to 2009, about a Tamil national liberation struggle for independence in…
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Parintins: A remote Brazilian city overcoming isolation through a festival
This remote city in the Amazon is 369 kilometres away from Manaus, the capital of Brazil’s Amazonas state. Authors The…
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Effort to recover Indigenous language also revitalizes culture, history and identity
Many actions throughout history put pressure on tribal communities to abandon the use of their languages. Daryl Wade Baldwin The…
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Nobel Prize in literature: Annie Ernaux – an uncompromising author who writes from experience
It is a fictionalised account of her illegal abortion ten years earlier, as a student gradually moving away from a…
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More than a piece of furniture: it is sometimes as if these old pianos have souls
Due to limitations of space and funds for maintenance, a decision was made to limit the university’s collection to the…
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What’s a laureate?
When the Nobel Prizes are handed out each year, honorees each receive a medal and monetary prize. Joel Christensen The Conversation Even in…
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Explainer: Socrates and the life worth living
He was likened to a gadfly buzzing around while one is trying to sleep. Oscar Davis The Conversation The Oracle…
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Five books you’ll like if you love The Odyssey
The poem, which tells of Odysseus’ return from the Trojan War, is both the origin of our concept of nostalgia…
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Excelling as a musician takes practice and requires opportunities – not just lucky genes
There’s plenty of evidence that people can be born that way. Research findings suggest that about half of musical ability is…
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