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Over the centuries, the island of Ireland has produced a great number of luminaries and inventors worthy of memorializing. It may then come as a shock, or at least a puzzling glance, to see the image of the rebel Che Guevara emblazoned on a wall in K...
The Mangystau region of Kazakhstan is a desolate and forgotten land, where the landscape speaks of an ancient ocean. Here, the steppe is interrupted by sudden earth depressions, revealing dreamlike rock erosions and salt lakes. In this exceptional an...
Whitney Names 56 Artists For 2026 Biennial That Promises Not to Simplify 'Strangeness of Our Times' The Whitney Biennial has named 56 artists for its 82nd edition, slated to open on March 8 next year. Curated by Marcela Guerrero, the Whitney's De...
The National Museum of Asian Art Returns Three Sculptures to the Kingdom of Cambodia On December 11, the National Museum of Asian Art, an art museum of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., announced it was returning three Khmer period...
These 5 Iconic Commercial Jingles Have Stood the Test of Time Commercials with catchy jingles are always memorable. You've probably found yourself singing along to or humming these commercial earworms throughout the day. It may surprise you to l...
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Forgotten Slogans and Catchphrases from Boomer and Gen X Commercials Jingles and slogans from commercials are designed to be catchy and memorable. For Boomers (born 1946-1964) and Gen Xers (born 1965-1980), hearing certain songs and phrases from ...
Whitney Releases Artist List for Biennial, Banksy's Walled Off Hotel Reopens, and More: Morning Links for December 15, 2025 The Louvre Forced to Close After Staff Strike The Louvre museum in Paris was forced to close on Monday after staff la...
María Magdalena Campos-Pons's ARTnews Awards Are Artworks Unto Themselves María Magdalena Campos-Pons is gradually becoming a fixture in US museums, with a 2023 Brooklyn Museum retrospective having done much to raise her profile. In her installat...
Modern Art Foundry: The Art World's Go-To Shop for Nearly 100 Years Founded in 1932, Modern Art Foundry is one of the oldest foundries in the United States. Located in Astoria, Queens since 1944, the foundry has a storied history producing well-k...
Art Basel to Mount Special Projects by Bruce Nauman, Khalil Rabah, and More at Qatar Fair Art Basel has released full details for its inaugural Qatar edition, which will open in Doha next February and mark the fair's first expansion into the Midd...
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Moharaj Sharma is a poet, journalist, and documentarian amplifying Nepali literature and diaspora voices. He is a leading figure in Nepal's literary and media landscape, with two decades of influential work in radio and television. Widely respected ...
One hour and a half south-east of Brussels and 45 minutes south-west of Liège lies Modave Castle, renowned as one of the most beautiful castles in Belgium. The castle has an indirect link to the Palace of Versailles - Renkin Sualem designed a water-p...
Masterful "Cold Beer" Country Music Parody Dustin Ballard, the creator behind the popular music parody project "There I Ruined It," has struck comedy gold with his latest creation - a hilarious mash-up video called "Cold Beer." The premise is si...
In 1997, actor Jim Carrey lent his unique vocal talents to a Beatles tribute album called In My Life, compiled by the band's longtime producer George Martin. Carrey's contribution was a gleefully unhinged and impressive version of the band's 1967 psy...
The last several years have been difficult for Celine Dion. The iconic singer lost her husband, René Angélil, after more than 20 years of marriage. In 2022, she disclosed she'd been diagnosed with stiff person syndrome, which ultimately led to the ca...
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JoDee Messina gave us some of the greatest country songs of the 1990s. If you've never driven in the summertime with the windows down, singing "Bye Bye" or "I'm Alright," you haven't lived. JoDee's catchy tunes are the kind you learn in a day and tha...
'The Present' in Luxembourg, Luxembourg Kirchberg is a district located northeast of Luxembourg City center, separated by the Alzette Valley. Urbanized from the 1960s onward, the district was designed as the capital's business center and quickly ...
Lucie Arnaz Developing New Series "Lucy and Desi: The Greatest Story Never Told" Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz gave the world one of the most iconic television shows of all time with "I Love Lucy." Even nearly 75 years after the show's premiere, it...
Brendan Fraser and Dwayne Johnson's Mummy Connection It's hard to imagine a time when Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson wasn't one of the biggest movie stars in the world. But his rise to fame can be traced back to his breakout role in 2001's The Mummy ...
'Pageant' in Brooklyn, New York Brian Tolle's Pageant, near the foot of the Manhattan Bridge in Brooklyn, is often characterized as a reinstatement of two sculptures by Daniel Chester French that once were located in the same vicinity. This descr...
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The exhibition "Toward the Light: Artists for the Ali Forney Center" at David Zwirner gallery in New York raised $950,000 for the Ali Forney Center, a nonprofit that runs a 24-hour drop-in center for queer youth and offers assistance with housing, ed...
TONO Reveals 2026 Festival Lineup Across Mexico City and Puebla TONO, the time-based art festival, has announced the lineup for its 2026 edition, returning March 6–22 with a slate of new and existing video installations, performance commissions, ...
Artist Arrested at Art Basel Miami Beach After Chalk 'Performance' Involving His Daughter A performance artist from Luxembourg, Thomas Iser, was arrested last week at Art Basel Miami Beach after spray-painting the words "Sorry to disturb, art in ...
You probably know what it means to hit the hay, tie the knot or buy a lemon. Maybe you've already killed two birds with one stone today, so effortlessly that it was a piece of cake. But to a non-English speaker, using these phrases would probably mak...
Kylie Kelce, known for her honest and humorous podcast "Not Gonna Lie," couldn't help but comment on her brother-in-law Travis Kelce's recent claim that he and his fiancée Taylor Swift have never fought. > "Notice how my husband was oddly quiet duri...
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Blenheim Palace Conservators Search For Writers of Century-Old Graffiti in Ceiling Conservators currently working to restore paintings in Blenheim Palace have made an intriguing discovery - the names of 11 people written in the ceiling decades ag...
Gen X Woman's Joke About the Lack of Jennifers in 'Stranger Things' is Spot-On When Stranger Things landed on Netflix, many Gen Xers felt an immediate jolt of recognition. The bikes, the walkie-talkies, the wood-paneled basements—it all felt like...
'Wonder' Director Senses Your Skepticism In a time of division, anger, and loneliness, a musical based on the beloved children's book "Wonder" asks us to choose kindness. But director Taibi Magar expects some to be skeptical. "Some people meet t...
A Man Edited Himself Into a Classic 'Shrek' Scene for the Ultimate Wedding Proposal A man named Carter popped the question to his longtime girlfriend Andressa by editing himself into a climactic scene from the 2001 animated film Shrek. The secret...
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Repatriates 2,500-Year-Old Treasures to Turkey The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) in Richmond has returned 41 terracotta relief fragments valued around $400,000 to Turkey. The works, acquired by the VMFA in the 1...
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Billionaire Bill Koch's $50M American West Art Collection Heads to Christie's Billionaire Bill Koch, the lesser-known Koch brother, is selling his extensive collection of American West artworks through Christie's. The "Visions of the West" sale w...
Post-Fair Expands for Its Second Edition With Broader International Reach Post-Fair will return to Santa Monica from February 26–28 for its second edition, bringing 30 galleries—and 31 total exhibitors including the project space Untitled Love—ba...
Gagosian to Stage Survey of Jasper Johns's Crosshatch Paintings in New York Half a century after Jasper Johns first unveiled his crosshatched paintings at Leo Castelli Gallery, the series is returning to center stage. On January 22, 2026, Gagosia...
Richard Pryor's Profound Debate on Life with an 85-Year-Old Woman In 1978, the late comedian and actor Richard Pryor appeared as a guest on the Johnny Carson show. After his interview, Pryor spent nearly twenty minutes engaging in a thought-provo...
Using AI and Abstract Paintings, WangShui Is on a Journey to Understand Love Artists who work with technology are often seen as tech-savvy geeks, but WangShui positions themself as more of a romantic hermit. "To me, being an artist is a spiritual...
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What Kept India Scrolling in 2025? Instagram's Year-in-Review is here! 2025 was a year full of big and unpredictable moments. It featured a multitude of events that sparked long conversations, with each new event often overshadowing the previous ...
Age is nothing but a number, yet as we get older, some of us feel as if we can't compete with our younger counterparts. Whether it's in love, career, or beauty, some worry that age makes them inferior. This can be particularly true in Hollywood, wher...
Tom Jung's 1977 'Star Wars' Painting Fetches $3.9 M., Breaking Auction Record for the Franchise At a Heritage Auctions sale of Hollywood memorabilia in Dallas on Wednesday, a Star Wars painting sold for $3.88 million, breaking the record for an o...
La Linterna is a traditional printing press and graphic workshop located in the San Antonio neighborhood of Cali. It is not just an old printing press, but a cultural beacon that resists the digital age with old machines, ink, lead type, rollers, lin...
Pregnant Singer Shocks Newlyweds with Live Performance Little girls often dream about their perfect wedding day - the white gown, the beautiful flowers, the ideal venue. Emily Emby's wedding to her husband Joel at The Breakers in Palm Beach on De...