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Is there anything better than stepping into a dimly lit hole-in-the-wall bar and finding out it’s karaoke night? We think not. There’s something so fantastically fun about pretending to be your favorite artist as you belt out their songs. Now, some of us are much better singers than others. Of cours...
The Mattress Factory, a contemporary art museum and residency program in Pittsburgh, has named Anthony Elms as its artistic director, beginning next February. At the Mattress Factory, Elms will oversee the institution’s entire artistic programming, from its exhibitions and commissions to its residen...
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 Kilkee ,a small coastal retreat on the county's Wes...
Mangystau region is situated on the east side of Kazakhstan facing on the Caspian Sea. It is an desolate and forgotten land where the landscape speaks of an ancient ocean, wherein the steppe is interrupted by sudden earth depressions in which one can find dreamiest rock erosions and salt lakes. In t...
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 DeMartini Family Curator, and Drew Sawyer, the Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography, the show will examine various forms of relationality, including intersp...
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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 sculptures in its collection to the Kingdom of Cambodia. The return was made after research, undertaken in collaboration with Cambodian au...
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 learn that singer-songwriter Barry Manilow created some of the most iconic commercial jingles that have gotten stuck i...
Jingles and slogans from commercials are meant to be catchy. For Boomers (those born from 1946 to 1964) and Gen Xers (those born from 1965 to 1980), hearing certain songs and phrases from back in the day can bring them right back to their childhood. These jingles (also known as earworms) never seem ...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! The Louvre was forced to close on Monday after staff launched strike action. The Whitney Museum of American Art released the artist list for its closely watched biennial, set to ope...
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 installations, sculptures, videos, and performances, she mulls diasporas and migrations, often focusing on the ways in which history is c...
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Modern Art Foundry in 1947, shortly after it moved to its longtime home. Courtesy Modern Art Foundry 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 histo...
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 Middle East. The new event, staged in partnership with Qatar Sports Investments and QC+, will run February 5–7, 2026, with preview days on February ...
Sharma is a poet, journalist, and documentarian amplifying Nepali literature and diaspora voicesOriginally published on Global VoicesMoharaj Sharma anchoring the news program on AP1 HD TV. Image provided by Moharaj Sharma. Poet, journalist, and documentary maker Moharaj Sharma is a leading figure in...
1.5 hours south-east of Brussels and 45 minutes south-west of Liège is where you will find Modave Castle. It is renowned as one of the most beautiful castles in Belgium. It has an indirect link with the Palace of Versailles. Renkin Sualem designed a water-powered pump to bring water up to the castle...
Beer is a common theme in country music. (A sampling of 2025's brew-themed tunes include Bryce Leatherwood's "Where the Bar Is" and Dierks Bentley's "Cold Beer Can.") Dustin Ballard, who runs the popular music-parody project There I Ruined It, highlighted this ubiquity in a hilarious mash-up video c...
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Otis Redding. Stevie Wonder. David Bowie. Jimi Hendrix. Jim Carrey? All of those icons, including that last one, have put their own unique stamp on a classic Beatles song. In 1997, still at his wacky peak of physical comedy, Carrey took part in the Beatles tribute album In My Life, compiled by the b...
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 cancellation of her Courage World Tour. During this ...
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 that stick with you for decades. We guarantee that if you...
About Kirchberg is a district located north-east of Luxembourg City centre, from which it is separated by the Alzette Valley. Urbanised from the 1960s onwards, the district was designed as the capital's business centre and quickly became home to the buildings of several Eu...
The new show, with the working title Lucy and Desi: The Greatest Story Never Told, comes together with the 75th anniversary of I Love Lucy right around the corner. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz gave us one of the most iconic television shows of all time. Even nearly 75 years after the show’s premiere,...
