Art becomes outrage: Kolkata festival confronts crime against female doctor
The protests broke out after the 31-year-old doctor was found brutally killed at RG Kar Medical College on the night of 9 ...
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Cissy Houston, legendary singer and mother of Whitney Houston, dies at 91
Cissy Houston, renowned gospel singer and the mother of Whitney Houston, died on Monday morning at the age of 91, her family said in a statement. Houston, a two-time Grammy Award winning singer, died ...
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New Zealand loses first naval ship to sea since World War 2
The Royal New Zealand Navy has lost its first ship to the sea since World War Two, after one of its vessels ran aground off the coast of Samoa. HMNZS Manawanui, a specialist diving and ocean imaging ...
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Islamic art: The art of Arabia
Today, Islamic art is still being carved into the landscape of AlUla. In 2022, Desert X AlUla brought together acclaimed international artists to create monumental works amid the red sandstone ...
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1960.312: Neck Amphora (storage jar): Herakles and the Nemean Lion; Theseus and the Minotaur
There is a central figure who is nude and wrestling a lion, two figures stand to either, one is nude and reaches towards the lion while the other wears a tall helmet, clothing with geometric designs ...
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Was Venice’s Famed Winged Lion Statue Actually Made in China?
When Marco Polo returned to Venice from a place he called Catai in 1295, he brought back sublime tales of another world. Polo’s Book of the Marvels of the World told of paper money, a burning ...
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The Lion of St. Mark's Square is Made in China: work's Chinese origin confirmed
An international team of scholars has revealed that the famous sculpture of the Lion of St. Mark may be an elaborate reassembly of a Chinese tomb guardian lion from the Tang era. The announcement came ...