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The mafias of Italy: the old guard and the upstarts

For years, the Sicilian Mafia terrorised the Italian public and state, with its highest-profile killings that of anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino in 1992.

2 years ago
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Girl with AI earrings sparks Dutch art controversy

At first glance it seems to be just a modern take on Johannes Vermeer's masterpiece "Girl with a Pearl Earring". But look more closely and things get a little strange. ...

2 years ago
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Forgotten auteurs : Rediscovering Ratna Asmara, Indonesia’s first female director

Having directed multiple successful films alongside a rich acting, singing and traditional dance career in the 1940s through the 60s, Ratna Asmara, Indonesia’s first woman director, should be a celebrated figure. Why has her name been forgotten? ...

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Ancient pharaonic boat taken to Egypt's grand new museum

Egypt has transported the Pharaoh Khufu's intact solar boat dating back some 4,600 years to the country's soon to be unveiled grand museum, the antiquities ministry said on Saturday.

4 years ago
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Hip-hop dream thrives in India's largest slum

After India's largest slum defeated the pandemic, some of its young residents pulled out their phones to write, shoot and release a triumphant rap video.

4 years ago
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Djibouti's hidden rock art offers window to the past

From a distance, the black cliffs appear featureless, scorched by a blazing desert sun. But up close, the basalt reveals engravings of giraffe, ostrich and antelope made 7,000 years ago.

4 years ago
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Big screen is back at Locarno Film Festival

Founded in 1946, Locarno is one of the world's longest-running annual film festivals and focuses on auteur cinema.

4 years ago
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Venezuelan refugee orchestra back together after Argentine lockdown

The group -- made up of Venezuelans who fled their country's economic crisis to Argentina -- is preparing for a performance of the Symphonic Little Prince, a symphony they created during the lockdown, and that they released on disc at the end of July.

4 years ago
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Barbie debuts doll in likeness of British COVID-19 vaccine developer

Sarah Gilbert, a 59-year-old professor at Oxford University and co-developer of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, is one of six women in the COVID-19 fight who have new Barbies modeled after them.

4 years ago
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Edinburgh festival resets relationship with the city and the world

Second only to the Olympics in ticket sales, the Edinburgh International Festival and Fringe, together with art, film and book festivals, are the world's biggest cultural event and typically draw millions to the Scottish capital.

4 years ago
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Australia to return 'stolen' art to India

Australia will return 14 artworks to India, including at least six believed to have been stolen or illegally exported, the National Gallery announced Thursday.

4 years ago
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Chile's ancient mummies added to UN heritage list

The mummies, which were found in the north of Chile at the start of the 20th century, are more than 7,000 years old, meaning they pre-date the Egyptian mummies by two millennia.

4 years ago
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French city of Nice wins UNESCO world heritage status

The city joins France's more than 40 world heritage sites including the banks of the river Seine in Paris, the Amiens cathedral, the Mont Saint Michel and stretches of the Loire valley.

4 years ago
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Ancient Peruvian Sun calendar declared UN heritage site

The Chankillo observatory, built by an ancient civilization about two millennia before the ascent of another well-known Sun cult -- the Inca empire -- allowed for remarkably accurate astronomical observations, according to recent studies.

4 years ago
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British Museum to restore objects damaged in Beirut blast

The British Museum will restore eight ancient glass artefacts damaged in last year's Beirut port explosion, the London cultural institution announced on Tuesday.

4 years ago
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Kazuo Ishiguro among 13 contenders for 2021 Booker Prize

British author Kazuo Ishiguro could win his second Booker Prize after judges Tuesday named him among 13 finalists on this year's longlist for one of literature's most prestigious awards.

4 years ago
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Facebook assembles team to build 'metaverse'

The "metaverse," a term coined by sci-fi writer Neal Stephenson, refers to a shared online world in which multiple users can hang out, spend money, consume media and potentially even work.

4 years ago
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Jane Campion, Kristen Stewart's turn as Diana headline Venice film fest

The world's oldest film festival, regarded as a showcase for Oscar contenders as awards season approaches, hopes to welcome back Hollywood celebrities this year after a scaled-down 2020 edition.

4 years ago
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Greece's first underwater museum opens ancient world to dive tourists

Emerging from the crystal-clear turquoise waters of the Aegean Sea, Hans-Juergen Fercher has just returned from his fourth dive to where mounds of 2,500-year-old wine pots mark the site of an ancient shipwreck -- and Greece's first underwater museum.

4 years ago
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Sixth Saudi site makes UNESCO heritage list

Hima, in the Gulf state's southwest, is home to one of the largest rock art complexes in the world.

4 years ago
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White House on defensive over Hunter Biden art sales

The White House assured Friday that necessary ethical precautions would be taken around any exhibitions and sale of artwork by President Joe Biden's son, whose personal life and professional career have been peppered with controversy.

4 years ago
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Salzburg festival hall, a world temple in the sound of music

Only just free of the post-World War II occupying forces that left in 1955 and still in ruins, Austria set its sights firmly on culture, turning former episcopal stables into the Large Festival Hall ("Grosses Festspielhaus") as a symbol of renewal.

4 years ago
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10 years after Winehouse death, family 'reclaims' her story

Winehouse's parents have cooperated with a BBC documentary to air on the anniversary of her death on Friday, which her father Mitchell, known as Mitch, says gives a "more rounded image of Amy".

4 years ago
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Thousands descend on UK music festival amid rise in COVID cases

The four-day festival, expected to attract around 40,000 people, comes as COVID-19 cases across the country broadly rise. Music lovers arriving on a balmy summer's day had to show they had been vaccinated twice or tested negative for the disease.

4 years ago
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Egypt finds ancient military vessel, Greek graves in sunken city

Divers have discovered rare remains of a military vessel in the ancient sunken city of Thônis-Heracleion - once Egypt's largest port on the Mediterranean - and a funerary complex illustrating the presence of Greek merchants, the country said on Monday.

4 years ago
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Royal Albert Hall back at capacity, but London landmark left in debt

The Royal Albert Hall is an independent charity, making the majority of its money from ticket sales and donors. During the pandemic, they lost 60 million pounds ($82 million) in income and took a 20 million pound loan from the British government's Culture Recovery Fund.

4 years ago
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The art of collaboration: Irene Febry invites us to look closer

Emerging Indonesian artist Irene Febry’s collaborations with multidisciplined creatives and the community construct beautifully layered collages that reflect our natural environment.

4 years ago
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The top picks from Cannes 2021

Here are some of the movies making "le buzz", and what some of the world's top cinephiles thought about them.

4 years ago
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Eiffel Tower to reopen after record nine-month closure

The lifts of the "Iron Lady" are set to whir back into life, transporting tourists to its 300-metre (1,000-foot) summit, ending a long period of inactivity caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

4 years ago
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Japan forest lights up in digital art show

The exhibition, which opens on Friday and runs until November 7, is in a park whose boundaries blend into an ancient forest in the Saga region near Nagasaki.

4 years ago
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Arc de Triomphe to be wrapped in fabric to Christo's design

Work is to begin Friday on wrapping the Arc de Triomphe in Paris in silvery-blue fabric as a posthumous tribute to the artist Christo who had dreamt of the project for decades.

4 years ago
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Kissing, spitting and puking: The highs and lows of Cannes

With fewer parties, lots of masks and stars having to regularly fill tubes with spit for Covid tests, the 74th edition of the Cannes film festival has been less glamorous than normal. 

4 years ago
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Shakespeare company opens garden theatre by River Avon

Based in playwright William Shakespeare's birthplace of Stratford-upon-Avon, the company, known as the RSC, built the Lydia & Manfred Gorvy Garden Theatre outside its Swan Theatre by the River Avon.

4 years ago
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