Culture
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A cosmic ocean of shame: Jesmyn Ward’s Let Us Descend confronts a history beyond the ken of storytelling
Are there subjects so immense in historical scope and in depths of human suffering that a form engineered to tackle…
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Language induces an identity crisis for the children and grandchildren of Latino immigrants
They would speak to her sons in Spanish, before quickly adding in the same language, “How awful! You don’t understand…
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Look at the crisis in the Amazon and understand the stakes: we’re battling for life itself
Some of the most fulfilling moments in my life as an actor are when I play roles that speak to…
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‘Excessive tourism’: Greece will cap visits to the Acropolis of Athens to protect its most popular archaeological site
Culture Minister Lina Mendoni said the controls are needed to prevent bottlenecks and overcrowding at the UNESCO World Heritage site.…
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How do we remake ourselves after unravelling?
The opening sentence of Deborah Levy’s new novel August Blue contains the germ of the whole: “I first saw her…
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Can a photograph change the world?
From the beginning of the twentieth century to present day, many photographers have been concerned about leaving their mark. Beatriz…
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Friday essay: matrilineal societies exist around the world – it’s time to look beyond the patriarchy
Lijiang’s old town is a tangle of intersecting waterways, arched stone bridges, and cobbled streets. Camilla Nelson The Conversation Just…
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Van Gogh Museum at 50: what painter’s letters to his family expose about why he became an artist
Now, of course, he is one of the world’s most famous artists, but it was only after his early death…
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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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