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The New York–based Keith Haring Foundation announced Tuesday that it has named Simon Castets as its next executive director. Castets, a French American curator who previously held prominent roles at Luma Arles and the Swiss Institute in New York, will start at the foundation on January 12. At the Ke...
From obesity in cats and dogs and osteoarthritis in pigs, to cancer in whales and high blood glucose in racoons, chronic diseases are increasingly becoming a concern across the animal world, a recent study finds. Most of these ailments can be traced back to human-driven changes, the author says. Ant...
When the Portland Art Museum presented the city’s first retrospective exhibition of paintings by Mark Rothko in 2012, many local viewers were unaware that the artist grew up in Portland, where he attended the Portland Art Museum School and was awarded his first museum exhibition. With Rothko now off...
A team of neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom identified five broad phases of brain structure over the course of an average human life. These eras occur as the human brain rewires to support the different ways of thinking while we grow, mature, and eventually decline...
Chanel has announced the public opening of Espace Gabrielle Chanel, mainland China’s first public library dedicated to contemporary art, at Shanghai’s Power Station of Art (PSA).The 1,700-square-foot library was designed by renowned Japanese architect Kazunari Sakamoto and is located on the third fl...
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Two hundred years ago, life looked a lot different. (And in 200 years, when we finally get those flying spaceship-cars, it might look pretty unrecognizable too.) Couple Ron and Justine Rayfield, who just tied the knot in 2025, have dedicated a couple of YouTube pages and other social media platforms...
This year marks the, gulp, 35th anniversary of Home Alone. If that doesn’t make you feel old enough, the star, Macaulay Culkin, is now 45. That makes him three years younger than Joe Pesci, who played Harry at age 48, and 12 years older than Daniel Stern, who played Marv at 33. Now that we’ve gotten...
At Maple Farm, nature is returning in droves: nightingales, grass snakes, slowworms, bats and insects. All due to the vision of a group determined to accelerate its recovery The manically melodic song of the nightingale is a rare sound in Britain these days, but not at Maple Farm. Four years ago, a ...
Preparing for Thanksgiving guests involves decluttering certain areas of the home, such as clearing the dining table and tucking away small kitchen appliances, to create a warm and welcoming atmosphere focused on connection, celebration, and the meal itself.
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Danny DeVito is a comedy legend. Whether you loved him as Louie De Palma on Taxi or as Harry Wormwood in Matilda, he’s one funny man. Danny’s always played up his shorter stature and never shies away from physical comedy. He has played Frank Reynolds for 16 years on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia...
Robert Irwin truly seems like one of the nicest people on the planet. He’s one heck of a dancer and certainly does his family proud with his kind heart. Lots of fans think 2025 is his year to win Dancing with the Stars. It would be particularly sweet since his sister, Bindi Irwin, won the competitio...
Puffins have returned to the Isle of Muck in Scotland after decades, offering hope for seabird revival. This triumphant return follows years of determined restoration work, including the removal of invasive brown rats and the introduction of winter grazing.
Oakley Meta HSTN AI glasses will be available in India starting December 1, introducing a new category of performance-focused AI eyewear created for athletes, sports enthusiasts, and everyday champions. The collection will be available for pre-sale on Sunglass Hut starting today and will be availabl...
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It sort of started out as a joke. Eric Justice Guzman was feeling all kinds of conflicted on the eve of his son Colby's 15th birthday. On one hand, he was so proud of his only son, filling with joy as he watched his official journey into the center of his teen years. On the other hand, as time goes ...
10-year-old Savannah Solis knew she had to do something. Per KHOUN, the girl from Tyler, Texas had heard the tragic news that two local police officers in New York had been murdered. The news, all the way back in 2015, brought her to tears. Solis knew that, as a kid, there wasn't much she could do, ...
Surveyed for the first time since its discovery two decades ago, the settlement "breaks from all the things that we thought we knew about Central Asia up to this point," a study author says...
New research digs into why some volcanoes don t explode. The explosiveness of a volcanic eruption depends on how many gas bubbles form in the magma—and when. Until now, it was thought that gas bubbles were formed primarily when the ambient pressure dropped while the magma was rising. Gases that were...
Participants lost more weight on a low-fat vegan diet than on the Mediterranean diet, largely due to eliminating animal foods and reducing oils and nuts. Increased intake of plant foods, even “unhealthy” ones, was strongly associated with greater weight loss....
