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Sriakshaya is excited for the Coimbatore Book Festival 2026. Hours before the doors open for the general public, she is arranging books at Thirunangai Press’ stall where she works. “I have a new book coming out for the…
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The title poem opens as such: “Who says spreading your wings means you have to fly high? Flying low is still flying.” “People in a hurry, squeeze 61 minutes from an hour,” reads another line from the title poem,…
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In 2017, Emily Olson, a stay-at-home mom based in Boulder, Colorado, started selling prints and custom-made puppy portraits on Etsy. Her watercolors were simple and relatively cheap—images of saucer-eyed corgis and…
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The Office of the Vice President (OVP) on Tuesday, July 21, officially opened its Extra+Ordinary Pop-up Exhibit at a mall in Cebu City, marking the start of the exhibit’s provincial tour as part of the office’s 90th…
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Master horsehair hat maker Park Chang-yeong, right, and his son Park Hyung-park, demonstrate traditional horsehair hat making at the K-Heritage House exhibition in BEXCO, Busan, Tuesday. Korea Times photo by Park…
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It’s a smorgasbord of collaborators, nearly 100 of them, such as: Adel Faure, Bye Bye Binary, Dinamo, Farah Fayyad, Man Ray, Source Type, TienMin Liao, Words of Type, Workbyworks and more, with work dating back as far…
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A member of the Taekkyeon Preservation Association demonstrates the traditional Korean martial art at BEXCO in Busan, Monday. Courtesy of National Intagible Heritage Center Through ongoing daily performances, the 48th…
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More than 1,000 shoppers turned out on the final day of the annual Hong Kong Book Fair on Tuesday, even as some exhibitors reported weaker foot traffic and spending throughout the week compared with last year. Several…
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Visitors view exhibits at the National Museum of Korean Contemporary History in Seoul, June 10. Yonhap Visitors to the Seoul Museum of History can now walk through centuries of the city’s past and watch forgotten scenes…
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“That side,” said Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri awardee Usha Uthup, pointing towards the right corner of Trincas, a restaurant in Kolkata’s Park Street, “is where Sharmila Tagore and the Nawab of Pataudi would sit.” Then…
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July 2026 marks the 140th anniversary of Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s birth. An editor and translator of the author’s In Praise of Shadows reflects on the work and its echoes in his own life in an old home on the Pacific coast…
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Geddes said Neill, who owned the nearby Two Paddocks vineyard in Central Otago, was a passionate supporter of the visual arts. Sir Sam Neill, at a Gallery Floor-talk Exhibition at the Eastern Southland art gallery,…
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TEHRAN – An exhibition of selected paintings by Akmal Nuriddinov, President of the Uzbekistan Art Academy and one of the country’s prominent contemporary painters, will be held online on the website of the Iranian…
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Want to own an actual piece of sandworm used in the production of Dune: Part Three? Of course you do. And now you can, for a price. This week, io9 is excited to exclusively reveal two awesome Dune book bits. First is…
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Speaker Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan greets writer Vaishakhan, recipient of the Anganam Shamsuddeen Memorial Award, at a function organised by the Anganam Shamsuddeen Smrithi Samskarika Vedi in Thrissur on Monday. \|…
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If you loved Netflix's take on Little House on the Prairie and want more, don't worry — it was renewed for season 2 long before we even saw a single episode. With production now in full swing, we still don't know…
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Visitors examine a volume of the Annals of King Seongjong during the opening of a special exhibition celebrating the 48th UNESCO World Heritage Committee session at the Busan Museum in Busan, July 6. Yonhap To celebrate…
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TEHRAN - The oldest known photographs of Persepolis, the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire and now a UNESCO World Heritage site, provide a rare visual record of the monument before modern archaeological…
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NEW YORK (AP) — For Greek translator Emily Wilson, the release of director Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” has been gratifying in various ways. Her acclaimed 2017 edition of Homer’s epic has reached the top 5 on…
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Batman fans have had plenty to celebrate in 2026. Between the continued success of DC's Absolute Universe, anticipation for Matt Reeves' The Batman Part II (despite its recent delay to early 2028), and the Dark Knight…