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The Fresh Charms of Art From the 15th Century
At the Met, an exhibition of 16 pieces transports viewers to a place and time when the virtues of artworks were refreshingly different from ours today.
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Plans to shut Marston's Brewery in Burton revealed
Burton-upon-Trent's links with beer and brewing date back centuries.
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Willem de Kooning review – the artist’s lifelong rebellion against himself is thrilling to watch
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Marking a century since the Dutch artist stowed away to New York, this vast retrospective gloriously showcases the abstract expressionist’s fierce boundary-pushing Willem de Kooning was the last great artist who really knew how to draw. More precisely, if less provocatively, he was the last…
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A medieval manuscript has confounded scholars for centuries. Have they been reading it wrong all this time?
Researchers argue incorrect binding of Voynich manuscript radically changes ideas about its drawings and indecipherable text It has been called the world’s most mysterious manuscript: a medieval set of pages filled with botanical drawings, astronomical diagrams, pictures of nude women and indecipherable text. Claimed…
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Sardinian village where more women reach 100 may be new centenarian ‘blue zone’
In Bolotana, 70 miles from island’s original blue zone, 13% of women who reach 70 will live on to a century The secret to longevity is being a woman – specifically, a woman in one part of Sardinia. At least, that is the conclusion of a study on centenarians in a tiny mountain village on the Italian island. Sardinia…
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Goodbye Warner, hello Skydance: how will the major merger really impact Holllywood?
After a windier road than expected, Paramount and Warner are now one, under the banner of Skydance, and the film industry is set for a shake-up Hollywood’s big five have officially become the big four. Following a twist-filled saga that saw century-old studio Warner Bros nearly acquired by streaming giant Netflix…
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Scottish film could steal The Jazz Singer’s crown as ‘world’s first talkie’
Scots-written Till the Bells Ring premiered a year before the Hollywood film, which featured spoken words by Al Jolson For almost a century, The Jazz Singer has been celebrated as the world’s first feature-length film to include synchronised dialogue (known as a “talkie”), and English as the first language of cinema…
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Tropical depression in Gulf predicted to be Atlantic season’s first hurricane
First hurricane of the season has not formed this late since 1905 as scientists say possible US landfall on Saturday Tropical Depression Nine has been predicted to be the Atlantic season’s first hurricane and potentially the latest first hurricane to develop in over a century. The system was located Tuesday afternoon…
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‘I will not be moving on’: sale of WNBA’s Connecticut Sun leaves Native fans facing cultural loss
The Mohegan Tribe made the Sun the first Native American-owned franchise in pro sports. Fans say the team’s move to Houston echoes centuries of erasure and displacement When the Connecticut Sun played their final WNBA game last month, fans at Mohegan Sun Arena came together in an act of collective celebration and…
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Hans Werner Henze’s Music Carried on Tradition With Skepticism
Hans Werner Henze, born 100 years ago and the son of a Nazi, captured the ambivalence of making art in the shadow of the 20th century.
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Aphrodite review – a trashy way to treat the goddess of love
Ashmolean museum, Oxford She’s the ultimate female nude, a Greek goddess who inspired centuries of artists. Yet despite some world-class loans, her story here is jumbled Botticelli’s Venus has parked her shell outside your house and come to pay a night-time visit. The glowing strands of her hair glitter against…
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Evans ends Britain’s wait for world rally title after Solberg crashes two corners from glory
Elfyn Evans becomes first British winner since 2001 Oliver Solberg’s hopes shattered by tumble down bank Elfyn Evans ended years of heartache, and a quarter-of-a-century wait for Britain, by winning the World Rally Championship title with Toyota after a dramatic season finale in Sardinia on Sunday. The Welshman had…
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Who Owns the Moon?
A treaty from the 1960s declared that nobody can own outer space. Half a century later, billionaires and superpowers see fortunes to be made nonetheless.
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