The vital lessons in Ovid's 2,000-year-old poem
Metamorphoses' ancient tales deal with identity and climate change Source link...
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Has pop art icon Keith Haring been ‘sanitised’?
The layers of his workDespite some critiques of the way his work is licensed, Haring's stock as a serious artist has arguably never been higher. Last week, an exhibition dedicated to his formative years in early 1980s New York opened...
Six reasons why it was the best Oscars in years
Popular wins all roundFrankenstein, which won three Oscars, and KPop Demon Hunters, which won two, are both Netflix films which had limited cinema releases, but, unlike so much streaming slop, millions of people saw them, loved them and wanted to...
The shocking kidnap of a teenage newspaper heiress
Patty Hearst was abducted by a revolutionary group - but then she joined it Source link...
Eight of the world’s most stunning penthouses
This is one of four bedroom suites, its corner position giving views over the bay of San Francisco from two sides. However, the focal point is the walnut corner unit and its embedded TV. "This room projects its penthouse energy...
Oscars 2026 predictions: Who will win
4. Best actorOnce up on a time, way back in December, this seemed to be Timothée Chalamet's Oscar to lose, and now it seems like he really will lose it. Michael B Jordan has come on strong lately for good...
The homes revealing how Tudor people really lived
"There is an appeal to the simplicity of 16th-Century interiors and an honesty in the materials used," says interior and architectural designer Guy Goodfellow. "This simplicity did not re-emerge until the Arts and Crafts movement , when it came as...
Ryan Gosling’s space epic is ‘a mind-stretching sci-fi’ ★★★★☆
Luckily, he's not quite alone. It turns out that another spacecraft is on the same mission from a different planet, and it, too, has just one living occupant, a crab-like alien made of lumps of stone (a puppet, with some...
The suburban spies who sold nuclear secrets to the USSR
Spying on the spiesThe other side of the spy ring – the communications experts – had developed the perfect cover story. Peter and Helen Kroger were, to their neighbours in sleepy suburban London, an antiquarian bookseller specialising in Americana and...
Why the Oscars are finally giving older women their due
The most recent study from Annenberg also found that from Hollywood's top 100 films last year, there were only four women aged 45 plus who featured as a lead or co-lead, and one was a voice character in an animation:...
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