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Swedish symphony turns homophobic hate mail into beautiful music The hottest queer party of the year is with a Swedish symphony orchestra.
@CecileMilscott
Chile: Archaeologists have found an ancient Inca calendar, a Southern Stonehenge Archaeologists and astronomers discover Inca calendars in the desert
Lebanese director Nadine Labaki makes Cannes history as first female Arab filmmaker to win major prize The Lebanese director's moving refugee drama film received a 15-minute standing ovation at its premiere
@leloveluck
Buzz Aldrin Had to File an Expense Report for His Trip to the Moon — Bureaucracy extends to space.
@mental_floss
Chinese TV cuts tattoos, gay-themed dance from Eurovision The Eurovision Song Contest appears to have become the latest victim of Chinese censorship as performances including tattoos and a gay-themed dance were cut from a semi-final broadcast. Online video service MangoTV did not show the heavily tatt
You may soon be able to text with 2,000 Egyptian hieroglyphs Collaborations among Egyptologists and digital linguistics promise global visualizations of what was written on inscriptions, papyri, wall paintings, and other sources of Hieroglyphs. It may also allow for more popular knowledge of Egyptian Hier
@hyperallergic
An interactive map shows just how many roads actually lead to Rome An interactive map proves indeed that All roads lead to Rome.
@openculture
Immaculately Restored Film Lets You Revisit Life in New York City in 1911 Other than one or two of the world's supercentenarians, nobody remembers New York in 1911. Plenty of living historians and enthusiasts of the city have paid intensive attention to that booming time period when the city's population fast approac
Detroit radio show hosts vow to no longer play Kanye West songs Radio jockeys Shay Shay and BiGG vowed not to play any more Kanye tracks on their show after Ye's comments about slavery.
@ComplexMusic
Argentina: moving monochrome portraits of the country's trans community In a series of stark black and white portraits, photographer Kike Arnal gets up close and personal with Latin America’s transgender community.
@HUCKmagazine
An archive of over 95,000 aerial photographs taken over Britain from 1919 to 2006 As deep as we get into the 21st century, many of us still can't stop talking about the 20th.
Sweden: Nobel prize in literature 2018 cancelled after sexual assault scandal Decision follows string of sexual assault allegations made against husband of former member of the Swedish Academy
@guardian
Inside the vast library that stores the world's rarest pigments The rainbow of jars at the Straus Center can tell us a lot about how art comes into being—and how to save it.
Preschooler prodigy is taking the art world by storm New Brunswick 4-year-old Advait Kolarkar shared his paintings at Artexpo New York earlier this month.
@TorontoStar
'Catastrophe': French museum discovers half of its collection are fakes The mayor has described it as a disaster for the town in the South of France and vowed to catch the forgers
Bob Dylan's latest gig: making whiskey A move into the booming celebrity-branded spirits market is yet another career twist for an artist who has spent five decades confounding expectations.
@nytimesarts
The Cannes Film Festival is opening a sexual harassment hotline in the wake of #MeToo The iconic event is partnering with the French government.
@FortuneMagazine
Kenya has just banned its first feature film to premier at the Cannes Film Festival over ‘lesbianism' Kenya has banned its first feature film to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, accusing it of having “clear intent to promote lesbianism in Kenya contrary to the law”. Director Wanuri Kahiu said she is “incredibly sorry” to confirm t
@Independent
Sudan: archaeologists unearth bones from pyramid for DNA testing
@UGIndependent
50 years after Johnny Cash: Los Tigres Del Norte perform at Folsom Prison The norteño band became the first major Latin band to play at Folsom Prison since Johnny Cash did in 1968.
@NPR
Black Panther: Saudi Arabia screens first movie in 35 years but censors kiss scene A scene featuring a kiss between the two lead actors didn't make the final cut.
@VICE
UK: stunning poppy sculptures honor soldiers lost in the First World War The wave of brilliant red flowers marks the end of a centennial of commemorations of the Great War
@SmithsonianMag
Photographer spends 10 years tracking down the original locations of vinyl covers Alex Bartsch is a photographer who is a true reggae fan. He was first introduced to Bob Marley when he was a child, and he got so inspired that he spent 10 years of his life traveling around London searching for original locations of the most fa
@demilked
How French artists in 1899 envisioned life in the year 2000 Atomic physicist Niels Bohr is famously quoted as saying, “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.” Yet despite years of getting things wrong, magazines love think pieces on where we’ll be in several decades,
Kendrick Lamar becomes first hip-hop artist to win Pulitzer Prize for music
@THR
Germany: 13-year-old amateur archaeologist unearths legendary Danish king's treasure Hundreds of 1,000-year-old silver coins, rings, pearls and bracelets linked to the era of Danish King Harald Gormsson have been found on the eastern German island of Ruegen in the Baltic Sea.
@washingtonpost
The vending machine that spits out short stories Put away that smartphone! A French company has created stand-alone kiosks to deliver printed short stories to patrons of cafes, libraries and airports.
@viaSimonRomero
Massive new line drawings revealed in Peru Using drone cameras, scientists have documented spectacular line drawings newly discovered in southern Peru. They are likely much older than the famous Nasca lines.
@dwnews
Mexico: portraits of indigenous women, as they wish to be seen Citlali Fabian’s collaborative portraits of indigenous Oaxacan women and girls are both intimate and universal.
@nytimes
USA: 24% of adults say they haven't read a book in the past year About a quarter of American adults say they haven’t read a book in whole or in part in the past year.
@pewresearch
Jane Austen used pins to edit her manuscripts Before the word processor, before White-Out, before Post It Notes, there were straight pins. Or, at least that's what Jane Austen used to make edits in one of her rare manuscripts. In 2011, Oxford's Bodleian Library acquired the manuscript
Textile: a history of weaving in Africa Learn about weaves in Africa and their weaving history.
@moncef_sediri
Scientists couldn't identify a mummified head: the FBI has finally cracked the case A museum wasn’t sure whose head it had put on display. That’s when the F.B.I.’s forensic scientists were called in to crack the agency’s oldest case.
@SciFleur
New York: street artist paints 3D trees in urban spaces Pejac recently visited NYC for the first time with a goal to spread his concerns about human relationship with nature through two new public interventions in Bushwick and Chinatown.
@weatherchannel
Saudi Arabia: Black Panther will be first movie shown after 35 year ban on cinema As a result of the Islamist revival of the late ‘70s and the seizure of the Grand Mosque in Mecca in 1979, the Saudi Arabian government shut down virtually all of the country’s public movie theaters and instituted a ban on cinema that’s la
@Gizmodo
The dark side of the circus: 35 photos of vintage freak-show performers
@oldpicsarchive
Kandinsky on the spiritual element in art and the 3 responsibilities of artists “To harmonize the whole is the task of art.”
@brainpicker
Photography: Carmen Winant's vast collection of images of women giving birth Carmen Winant’s new book and a photographic installation of the same name fuses family memory and found imagery to make childbirth radically visible.
@NewYorker
Inuit oral historian who pointed way to Franklin shipwrecks dies aged 58 Louie Kamookak, who tied ancestral stories to an ill-fated 1840s expedition to find the North-West Passage, to be honoured in Canada
@Bencjacobs
Network of fortified towns indicates Amazon was once heavily populated Dozens of new sites offer new insights on pre-Columbian earth-builders.
@arstechnica
Netflix: 9 documentaries that tell the stories of incredible women Take a break from bingeing reality TV and dive into the lives of these remarkable women.
@broadly
Censorship: Beijing film festival pulls “Call Me By Your Name” from lineup Luca Guadagnino's Oscar-winning romance Call Me By Your Name has been yanked from the Beijing International Film Festival's lineup.
Vatican: two paintings by Raphael discovered after being hidden for 500 years Two paintings by Renaissance master Raphael were discovered during the cleaning and restoration of a room inside the Vatican Museums.
@cnni
Films with women or minorities in lead roles have led the box office this year Films with women or minorities in lead roles have led the box office 11 out of 12 weekends this year.
Lost Amazon villages uncovered by archaeologists 81 settlements have been found in an area once thought to have been near-uninhabited, and research suggests there were hundreds more
London: a winged bull made of date syrup cans is defying ISIS Michael Rakowitz used 10,000 tin cans to rescue a treasure destroyed by Isis. The Iraqi-American, who once made a work out of Saddam Hussein’s dinner plates, explains why he likes causing trouble
Theo Jansen's kinetic sculptures propel themselves through wind power Créés par le hollandais Theo Jansen: des sculptures cinétiques propulsées par le vent @Alex_Verbeek
@Alex_Verbeek
London: how a winged bull made of date syrup cans is defying ISIS Michael Rakowitz used 6,000 tin cans to rescue a treasure destroyed by Isis. The Iraqi-American, who once made a work out of Saddam Hussein’s dinner plates, explains why he likes causing trouble
Theo Jansen's kinetic sculptures propel themselves via wind power Créés par le hollandais Theo Jansen: des sculptures cinétiques propulsées par le vent @Alex_Verbeek
"The Women Who Made New York": biographies of trailblazers who helped build the city ...men have been lauded for generations for creating the most exciting and influential city in the world. But that's not the whole story.” - Julie Scelfo, author of The Women Who Made New York
@WomenYSK
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