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Seoul -
North Korean state media have displayed an unprecedented portrait of leader Kim Jong Un in military uniform -- and an assault rifle on his desk -- as the nuclear-armed nation holds a key meeting of its ruling party.
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Wuhan -
A melancholy guitar melody intertwines with an ethereal beat as wild-haired singer Lu Yan intones his hometown's feelings into a microphone: "Virus in Wuhan. We all survived.
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Los Angeles -
The mystery of how a metal monolith appeared in the Utah desert remains, but the riddle of its removal seems to have been solved -- and sadly, has nothing to do with aliens.
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Havana -
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said Sunday that a recent protest in Havana by an artists' collective over freedom of expression was "the last attempt" by US President Donald Trump's administration "to overthrow the revolution.
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Los Angeles -
A mysterious metal monolith found in the remote desert of the western United States, sparking a national guessing game over how it got there, has apparently disappeared, officials said.
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Havana -
About 200 Cuban artists demonstrated outside the country's culture ministry on Friday in a rare protest over freedom of expression that received support from leading Cuban cinema figures.
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Glasgow -
Katrina Cobain unwraps a parcel and removes its precious contents, slowly and delicately as if she were handling an ancient scroll of papyrus.
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Luanda -
Sindika Dokolo, the husband of Isabel dos Santos, billionaire daughter of Angola's former president, has died, his family announced on Friday.
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Budapest -
A rally held by students blockading Hungary's top arts university for over 50 days. in protest at a reform by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government, on Friday drew thousands of supporters in Budapest.
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Beirut -
Lebanese stained glass artist Maya Husseini had hoped to retire after decades spent designing colourful windows, but she has been flooded with work since the blast that ripped through Beirut.
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London -
Extravagantly dressed pantomime dames brought a dash of colour to central London on Wednesday to highlight the plight of the coronavirus-ravaged arts sector.
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Budapest -
A month into a blockade of Hungary's top arts university, hundreds of students rebelling against control by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's right-wing government show no sign of quitting.
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London -
Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei held a silent protest on Monday outside a London court to demand the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who faces extradition to the United States.
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New York -
A painting by Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli could fetch over $80 million when it goes under the hammer in New York in January, Sotheby's said Thursday -- a record auction price for the artist.
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Belgrade -
For nearly four years Serbian artist Vladimir Miladinovic started his day with a morning coffee and the diary of one of the Balkans' most notorious war criminals, Ratko Mladic.
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Katzrin -
The chance discovery of lines carved into the boulders of an ancient tomb in what is now the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights could offer new insight into an enigmatic culture that thrived thousands of years ago.
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New York -
If you like American pop culture you certainly know his work, even if you don't know his name: graphic designer Milton Glaser, known for his wildly popular "I (Heart) NY" logo, died Friday on his 91st birthday.
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Athens -
"For us, there is no return to normality."Despite being one of Greece's best-known folk singers, Natassa Bofiliou is among thousands of artists worried about the economic impact of coronavirus lockdowns that have only just begun to be eased.
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New Delhi -
A giant coronavirus is stalking the streets of southern India -- propelled by a 100 cc engine and an inventor trying to drive home the message that Indians should stay indoors as the pandemic sweeps across the world.
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Dakar -
Mamadou Boye Diallo, an art curator with a penchant for heart-shaped glasses, calls Dakar's working-class Medina neighbourhood an open-air museum.
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London -
Korean pop superstars BTS helped launch a global public art project in London on Tuesday inspired by their message of inclusivity and involving renowned artists including Antony Gormley and Tomas Saraceno.
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Shanghai -
A company run by Bruce Lee's daughter is suing a Chinese fast food chain for allegedly using an image of the late martial arts film star without permission.
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Ghent -
The grass is greener, the sky is cleaner and dozens of tiny details have been exposed to delight art historians and inspire the devotion of the faithful.
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Mexico -
The verdict is in: the painting of Emiliano Zapata wearing nothing but a pink sombrero and heels can stay.
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Mexico -
A controversial painting of Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata has pitted his family and supporters against the work's artist and the LGBT community in a contentious dispute that erupted in heated protests Tuesday.
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New York -
Performance artist David Datuna waited two hours until "I was hungry" before eating a pricey banana artwork in Miami, he explained with laughter on Monday after returning to New York.
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London -
This year's prestigious Turner Prize will be shared by all four shortlisted artists after they formed a collective to show solidarity at a time of global "political crisis", in a shock win announced Tuesday.
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Toronto Symphony Orchestra CEO Matthew Loden is uniquely positioned to observe how digital media is shifting audience expectations of classical music, and how reaching out to a larger community can benefit cultural institutions.
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Oxford -
Billed as "one of the most exciting artists of our time", Ai-Da differs from generations of past masters in one inescapable way: she is a robot.
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Moscow -
A Moscow court on Tuesday sent a man who attacked a painting of Ivan the Terrible to a penal colony for two and a half years, news agencies reported.
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The fourth annual Luminato arts festival officially kicked off at downtown Toronto's Yonge-Dundas Square.
Model of a farm cart in Lyon’s Miniature Model and Cinema museum (detail 4"x6")
Sandstation 2010 in Germany
Afro –contemporary arts on display in furniture
Three Theatres, Marseille France
Afro –contemporary art in dinning set, part of the Nigerian artist's project of turning arts into furniture
The fourth annual Luminato arts festival officially kicked off at downtown Toronto's Yonge-Dundas Square.
Model of a jeweler's workshop in Lyon’s Miniature Model and Cinema museum (detail 6"x5")
INXS in concert in 2007 (which means without Michael Hutchence) Wikicommons
The Célestins Theater in Lyon France (detail)
The Célestins Theater in Lyon FRance Wikicommons
Model of a laundry in Lyon’s Miniature Model and Cinema museum (detail 8"x5")
Iggy Pop in Memphis, May 2007 Wikimedia
Muna Ali (left) and Khadra Ali (right) standing beside a traditional hut during their trip to the Horn. Photo: Gashanti Unity
A Boss Dr. Groove DR-202 drum machine
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The fourth annual Luminato arts festival officially kicked off at downtown Toronto's Yonge-Dundas Square.
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ANDREW DASZ
ACTOR & FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHER
Toronto SummerWorks Performance Festival: Performance Bar, August 14, 2014 SummerWorks
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