Article URL: https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/discover-michelangelos-first-painting.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46646263 Points: 15 # Comments: 6...
The Adelaide Writers' Week retracted an invitation to an Australian-Palestinian author, citing the the Bondi Beach attack. Dozens, including the event's director and the former PM of New Zealand, with...
The Netherlands celebrated National Tulip Day on Saturday, marking the upcoming arrival of spring and the start of the tulip season. Dutch tulip growers arranged around 200,000 tulips in a vibrant dis...
A cartoon by the French satirical weekly portraying the deadly fire in Crans-Montana as the "comedy of the year" provokes disgust....
The city of Philadelphia filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration over the National Parks Service's removal of a slavery exhibit at the President’s House....
A new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, “Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination”, features photographic portraits by African artists and captures the spirit of...
As Hollywood doubles down on sequels, the contenders for the European Film Awards feature bold, political works that are challenging audiences and creating buzz far beyond the continent....
As AFCON 2025 heads towards a thrilling finale in Morocco, the host cities are buzzing with far more than football. In Casablanca and Rabat, art, culture and the passion of fans are turning the tourna...
ABC News' Danny New looks back at the U.S. presidents who've taken to the canvas as painters....
The newly excavated basilica is the only building definitively attributed to Marcus Vitruvius Pollonius, a founding figure of western architecture....
In the predawn cold of a northern Seoul neighbourhood, hundreds of people line the street in padded coats, stamping their feet to keep warm. Adults, students and young children wait patiently for the ...
From utopian origins to AI-driven rivals, the "people's encyclopedia" has been shaped by debates over neutrality, expertise and the future of shared knowledge....
On 20 January every year Azerbaijanis pay tribute to those who died in a bloody massacre committed by the former USSR against civilians to suppress the national liberation movement....
Built an auditable AI (Bible) translation pipeline: Hebrew/Greek source packets -> verse JSON with notes rolling up to chapters, books, and testaments. Final texts compiled with metrics (TTR, n-grams)...
The Louvre museum and several other French cultural sites are increasing the price of entry for visitors from outside Europe. So-called "dual pricing" is quite common in less wealthy countries but rar...
Oni Press has long been one of the best outlets for comic fans hungry for new horror series, and that trend continues in 2026 with the debut of a new four-issue miniseries called Estuary: A Ghost Stor...
Outraged critics are accusing President Donald Trump of “whitewashing history” after the National Park Service removed an exhibit on slavery at Philadelphia’s Independence National H...
In the future, the human race has been divided into 14 different color castes that determine every individual's role and placement in the hierarchical structure of society. This underlying idea is at ...
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Young Indians are not often excited by their country's history, but heritage walks are a way to make learning about the past more interactive while helping conserve historical sites....