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Posted On CultureÉdouard Manet Illustrates Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, in a French Edition Translated by Stephane Mallarmé (1875)
Edgar Allan Poe achieved almost instant fame during his lifetime after the publication of The Raven (1845), but he never felt that he received the recognition…
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Posted On CultureWhy we’re ‘living in the golden age of the doppelganger’
Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) It’s been a year of lookalikes – but the lure of the “second self” goes way back to the folklore…
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Posted On CultureMovie present: A Wickedly enchanting story
The Depraved Witch of the West and the Good Witch Glinda are lastly getting their huge display second due to “Depraved”, John M. Chu’s adaptation…
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Posted On CultureScientists Uncover that Historical Egyptians Drank Hallucinogenic Cocktails from 2,300 12 months-Outdated Mug
If ZZ Prime have a favourite historic Egyptian deity, that deity is boundly Bes, whom the New York Instances’ Alexander Nazaryan quotes curator and scholar…
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Posted On CultureGaudy or iconic? How leopard print took over
Worn by everyone from pin-ups and “mob wives” to Jackie O and royalty, leopard print has long divided opinion. As the festive season approaches, the…
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Posted On Culture4th Annual Vancouver Worldwide Black Movie Competition Returns December 13–17 — BC Alliance for Arts + Tradition
The extremely anticipated 4th Annual Vancouver Worldwide Black Movie Competition (VIBFF) is about to make a daring return this December! From December 13 to 17,…
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Posted On CultureKirill Serebrennikov’s poetic tackle Russian punk outsider Eduard Limonov
Eduard Limonov was a poet, a punk, a Russian “émigré” and provocateur whose anti-system politics ultimately noticed him embrace fascist tendencies. Filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov tells…
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Posted On CultureBeautiful 19th Century Maps of Dante’s Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise & More
Even the least religious among us speak, at least on occasion, of the circles of hell. When we do so, we may or may not…
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Posted On CultureA vampire film with ‘so much to sink your teeth into’
Focus Features With Bill Skarsgård as the “horrible old vampire”, Robert Eggers’s remake of FW Murnau’s silent 1922 classic stars Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, and…
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Posted On CultureUncover Hannah Arendt’s Syllabus for Her 1974 Course on “Considering”
If you happen to’ve learn one work of Hannah Arendt’s, it’s probably Eichmann in Jerusalem, her account of the trial of the eponymous Nazi official…
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Posted On CultureLove and Gratitude: How Dorothy L. Sayers’s 1930 Novel Challenges Trendy Rescue Romance
“Then you definately gained’t marry me?”The prisoner shook her head.“No, it wouldn’t be honest to you. . . .”“All proper,” mentioned Wimsey, “I gained’t fear…
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Posted On CultureHow the fall of Pyongyang brought the world to the brink of crisis
Getty Images In December 1950, a BBC cameraman captured the fall of Pyongyang, a defining moment in the Korean War. In History examines how the…
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Posted On Culture14 Self-Portraits by Pablo Picasso Present the Evolution of His Fashion: See Self-Portraits Shifting from Ages 15 to 90
15 years outdated (1896) It’s possible to have a look at Pablo Picasso’s many formal experiments and periodic shifts of favor as a sort of…
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Posted On CultureKen Burns’ New Documentary on Leonardo da Vinci Streaming Online (in the US) for a Limited Time
A quick heads up: The filmmaker Ken Burns has just released his new documentary on Leonardo da Vinci. Running nearly four hours, the film offers…
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A heads-up on a Black Friday special: Between as we speak and December 2, 2024, Coursperiod is supplying a 40% disdepend on its annual subscription…
