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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 agoAt 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 agoHaving 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? ...
2 years agoTheater can be an escape from the current ills plaguing the world, and Teater Koma does just that with an intergalactic romance between a human scientist and his three alien inamoratas in Cinta Semesta, beaming into your homes virtually on Dec. 12-13 (with ticket purchases, of course).
4 years agoA mysterious metal monolith has popped up on a riverbank in the Polish capital Warsaw, the latest in a string of similar objects that have recently appeared in Europe and the US.
4 years agoWang Liutai is no ordinary kung fu master. The 65-year-old from a village in central China practices a unique and excruciating-looking strand of martial arts coined "iron crotch kung fu".
4 years agoIsraeli authorities are set to unveil previously off-limits structures within King Herod's palace-fortress Herodium, which the tyrannical Roman-era leader interred as his enormous burial plot.
4 years agoA new TV show is offering young London artists the opportunity to present their work to British TV audiences.
4 years agoThe Jakarta Dance Meet Up has returned with an extensive program involving artists from across the country and overseas.
4 years agoTributes to late football legend Diego Maradona have included plans to rename a stadium and a street in his honor and put his face on a banknote. Now, a giant mural has been painted in Argentina to remember the icon, who died last month.
4 years agoAn art project has involved the residents of eight kampung in Semarang.
4 years agoPeople working in Britain's theater industry risk homelessness because of the coronavirus outbreak, stage and screen star Helen Mirren warned in an interview published on Monday.
4 years agoAs the coronavirus pandemic keeps visitors away, the Louvre is offering time close-up with the "Mona Lisa" and a walk along the French museum's historic rooftop at an auction to help plug a gaping hole in its finances.
4 years agoThe fate of an important medieval art collection that Nazi Germany bought from Jewish dealers was in the balance in a US Supreme Court hearing Monday.
4 years agoA mysterious metal monolith has appeared on a heath in the Netherlands after similar objects were found in the United States, Romania and Britain.
4 years agoA shiny obelisk similar to ones found in the United States and on a hilltop in Romania has been spotted by the sea off the south coast of England.
4 years agoSaint Nicholas day took on some new twists for celebrating Czechs on Saturday, from drive-through visits to kitting his accompanying angels and devils out in gloves and masks so that they could hand out treats.
4 years agoSince mid-November, shining metal monoliths have suddenly appeared - and then vanished - in the strangest locations, from the Utah desert to a Romanian mountainside.
4 years agoDancers from 11 cities in four countries invite the audience to cheer up and donate.
4 years agoArt lovers will get a close-up view of one of Britain’s greatest collections from Friday when masterworks from deep inside Queen Elizabeth’s Buckingham Palace go on public show.
4 years agoWith the theme of “The World after Pandemic: Philosophy from the Future”, Philofest ID will respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and rethink and question the meaning of life.
4 years agoIn music, graffiti, even comics, Wuhan artists are beginning to pay homage to their city with works referencing its coronavirus suffering, punishing 76-day lockdown, and subsequent rebirth.
4 years agoGerman divers searching the Baltic Sea for discarded fishing nets have stumbled upon a rare Enigma cipher machine used by the Nazi military during World War Two which they believe was thrown overboard from a scuttled submarine.
4 years agoThe heritage has come under threat despite being passed down through generations.
4 years agoA 10-foot-tall metallic monolith appeared mysteriously atop a Central California mountain this week, then vanished just as suddenly early on Thursday in what seemed to be a copycat of one that appeared and then vanished in a Utah desert.
4 years agoOn Saturday, 40 works in a range of styles by Balinese, Indonesian and international artists will go under the hammer live at Larasati Bali Art Space at Tebesaya Gallery, Ubud.
4 years agoAn exhibition, aptly titled “LAWAN!!!” (Fight!!!), sends a strong message of defiance, a positive attitude in response to the present situation.
4 years agoThe mystery of how a metal monolith appeared in the Utah desert remains, but the riddle of its removal seems to have been solved -- and sadly, has nothing to do with aliens.
4 years agoA shiny metal monolith vanished on Tuesday from Romania's mountainous Neamt county, four days after its sudden appearance close to an ancient Dacian fortress sparked speculation it may be related to a mystery structure seen in the United States.
4 years agoInclusiveness, interaction, inspiration are just some of the "ins" of the inaugural InklusiFest 2020, which draws together participants living with and without disabilities in virtual events aimed to share and learn – and a chance at breaking a national record together.
4 years agoBethlehem is shaping up for a dismal Christmas: most of the inns are closed, the shepherds are likely to be under lockdown and there are few visitors from the east, or anywhere else.
4 years agoIn an ancient monastery behind huge medieval battlements in a hilltop town just south of Rome, 10 monks are striving to keep alive a 1,600-year-old spiritual tradition against increasing odds.
4 years agoNotre-Dame cathedral in Paris will echo with song on Christmas Eve as it holds its first choir concert since the massive fire that nearly destroyed the gothic masterpiece last year.
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