04/06/2011. BEIJING (REUTERS).- China's detention of internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei has sparked a petition urging his release, exposing alarm among the nation's liberal intellectuals who see his case as a test of how far a crackdown to stifle d...

04/23/2017. Ten years ago, most vinyl records sold for a few dollars -- dusty old albums with dog-eared covers that had been thrown out as useless relics of an earlier age. However, faced with twin onslaughts from digital music and big-box stores, independent...

11/17/2019. A majestic phoenix spreads its wings as Hayat Nazer adds a splash of colour to a Beirut wall. As Lebanon's uprising enters its second month, graffiti has enveloped the capital's posh downtown. Since October 17, the chanting of tens of thousands of...

02/17/2021. Yevgenia Kvasova was still young when she watched something resembling, by design, a gigantic head rise in the center of her city, on the westernmost edge of Russia. “It gives me the evil eye every time I leave home,” said Kvasova, now 6...

06/28/2021. Steve Jordan, a drummer, began working as a studio musician while he was still in high school in the 1970s. By age 19, he was performing with the “Saturday Night Live” band and touring with the Blues Brothers. But he said he had quickly ...

08/13/2021. The drone of bagpipes drifted down the Royal Mile last Saturday, as members of a student theater troupe walked the cobblestones trying to drum up interest in their show. In a normal year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, this central artery of the...

08/16/2021. I’ll confess upfront that I walked into the Jacob Collier show at the Blue Note New York with some apprehension. It was June 21, the night after Foo Fighters rechristened Madison Square Garden with its first concert since March 2020 — th...

12/09/2021. Just two weeks after receiving $50 million from New York City to upgrade its building and modernize the galleries, the Brooklyn Museum announced Wednesday that Kimberly Panicek Trueblood will be its new president and chief operating officer. “...

08/18/2022. Paige Minear gets a thrill from frills. In the style blogger’s Atlanta home, a ruffled skirt with a green bow print adorns a bedroom vanity. In the family room sits a chintz ottoman with a ruffle along the bottom; ruffled throw pillows rest o...

09/11/2022. When documentary filmmaker Brett Morgen hit his eighth month of writer’s block on an epic project about David Bowie, he decided it was time to hit the road. With just a few hours’ notice, he left his home in Los Angeles one morning and grab...

08/20/2023. Just two years after four prominent dealers announced with great fanfare a merger of their Upper East Side operations, the new gallery has come apart, with one prominent member deciding to go back to running her own operation. On Friday, the group...

09/24/2023. Erwin Olaf, a contemporary Dutch photographer known for the precision of his staged photographs of both countercultural figures and Dutch royalty, died Wednesday in Groningen, Netherlands. He was 64. Shirley den Hartog, his business partner, said ...

10/06/2023. Singapore, often referred to as the "Lion City," is renowned for its remarkable urban development, modern infrastructure, and the perfect blend of tradition and innovation. In this bustling metropolis, finding a residential oasis that seamlessly comb...

01/31/2024. As a child, Heriberto Vela, an Indigenous resident of Loreto, Peru, watched his father pull nests of wild stingless bees from trees in the Amazon forest. Together, the two then extracted honey from the nests to help cure colds and other ailments. ...

04/13/2024. Dr. Cameron Clifford, a dentist in Edmond, Oklahoma, said his son Cal, 9, has been infatuated with octopuses since he was 3 years old. “Every birthday, every Christmas, every holiday, he would always say: ‘All I want is an octopus,’
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