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'Ideas of Africa' exhibit in NY captures a continent coming into its own

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...

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Sins of the Children (Adrian Tchaikovsky)

Article URL: https://asteriskmag.com/issues/07/sins-of-the-children Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46669663 Points: 3 # Comments: 0...

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Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"

Article URL: https://shreevatsa.net/post/douglas-adams-cultural-divide/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46719222 Points: 19 # Comments: 1...

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Louvre hikes ticket price for non-EU visitors by almost half

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...

Jan 14Deutsche WellecultureImpact

Vampyre: A Costa Rican Folktale Merges Dracula Fact and Fiction

Conceptual designer and comic book creator Ricardo Delgado made his mark on Dracula with 2021's Dracula of Transylvania , a book that re-imagined Bram Stoker's iconic villain as "a complete horror." N...

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From Vikings to Trump: The history of Greenland

After being inhabited only by Indigenous peoples for centuries, the Arctic island saw the Vikings in the 10th century and the Danes in 1721, and it attracted American interest back in 1867....

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‘Not a gym’: Thai temple warns tourists not to do yoga, climb ancient rocks at place of worship

A jungle temple in Thailand hailed as a “hidden gem” has urged tourists to stop “inappropriate behaviour” after they were spotted doing gymnastics and wearing revealing clothing at the site. The Wat P...

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Here's what Barbie looked like the year you were born

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MAY 18: This combination photo shows the he toy doll Barbie in her various incarnations at Leuralla NSW toy and railway museum, as the iconic doll approaches her 50th birthhday May...

Jan 13Business InsiderEntertainment

Football is the biggest thing in America. Chuck Klosterman says that's going to change.

Big time football — like this month's college football championship — is the most dominant force in American culture. It won't always be that way, writer Chuck Klosterman argues in his new...

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