‘I don’t want this to be a one-off thing,’ the artist said. ‘I want to … put the internet in all the poorest communities of the world. Then we can bring education in, and give [children] a real education ... and where are they going to put that? Back into their community.’
Ancient paintings usually employed a pigment that cann't be dated. To get around this. researchers identified a way to work out the age of the painting using ancient mud wasp nests
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Since the 1990s, Ruffini sold hundreds of paintings by such luminaries as Parmigianino and El Greco to some of the great museums of Europe, including the Louvre. Now 75, Ruffini insists he never claimed the portraits were by particular artists, that it was the experts who attached names and authentications
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In the ruins of an ancient Byzantine church in northern Jordan, local townspeople and Syrian refugees work side-by-side on a project that preserves cultural...
Composer Cynthia Zaven discusses how financial, political and public health crises inspired her to revive a 15th-century form
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Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige reflect upon their new feature, a pre-COVID lockdown film, an accessible story that revisits their contemporary art
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The Gilder/Coigney International Theatre Awards are presented every three years to a woman in theater whose art tackles controversial or impactful topics in...
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Egypt has announced dozens of ancient discoveries in the past couple of years, in hopes of attracting more tourists
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The sessions combine various art forms, from painting to creating performance pieces.
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In the garage where he sought shelter from bombs in his native Lebanon, Ara Malikian discovered the power of music.
From Donald Trump and Queen Elizabeth II to Egyptian superstars like Umm Kulthum and Adel Imam, Alaa Bliha’s characters have made a star in her own right with...
‘The objective is not that the school recruits less talented students to meet diversity objectives,’ a recent report on diversity said, “but to search for...
Herron is a best-selling, award-winning writer who has been called the heir to master of espionage John le Carré. A seventh novel in his spy series, ‘Slough...
The metal block was found by a farmer in Sanliurfa province Friday, with a text in old Turkic script that reads, ‘Look at the sky, see the moon.’
A partnership with Amsterdam’s Prince Claus Fund and New York’s Magnum Foundation, the Arab Documentary Photography Program was founded to address the...
The petitioners say art is a powerful way of keeping up people’s spirits, particularly the young who have been denied much of their social life for almost a...
Justice Roberts wrote that Americans would be ‘surprised ... if a court in Germany adjudicated claims by Americans that they were entitled to hundreds of...
After closing for 88 days since November due to coronavirus restrictions, the collection of museums – spread over seven kilometres within the Vatican – opened...
The abstract figures of naked women gyrating to the rhythms of a five-piece band had shocked many people almost 60 years ago as they eyed the artwork for the...
‘The palm is a living object, a disobedient object, not just an aesthetic artwork, but a generator of social energy ... an object on which you can project...
Social media commentators have named the sculpture ‘Saruman on a Kinder Egg’ and critics said the Russian-made-and-designed sculpture resembles Soviet-era...
‘Although incidents involving Greek antiquities and stolen artifacts are unfortunately not uncommon, this is the only known case in recent memory that is...
The building’s radical design pushes almost all its structural and mechanical elements to the exterior – the building appears to have been turned inside out –...