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...
The Harry Potter books are some of the bestselling novels of all time . Now that it's been almost 30 years since the first book was published, you can enjoy the story in pretty much every form. There'...
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...
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...
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French police continue the search for jewels stolen from the Louvre, private investigators are also stepping in. All eight missing pieces have already been added to the world’s largest stolen art data...
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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....
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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....
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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....
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Large crowds have visited Ueno Zoo in Tokyo to say farewell to two pandas that are about to go back to China. Their departure means Japan will be panda-less for the first time in half a century....
Hachette and Cengage allege Google bypassed licensing to train Gemini, calling it “historic copyright infringement.”...
Lee, a retired teacher, advocated for an official Juneteenth holiday for years....