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The winners of the Underwater Photographer of the Year 2024 competition were announced in an award ceremony in Mayfair, London. Participants submitted their pics in 13 categories, including Macro, Wide
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A decades-long forgery scheme ensnared Canada’s most famous Indigenous artist (Picasso of the North), a rock musician turned sleuth and several top museums. Here’s how investigators unraveled the incredible scam
Ameen Sayani, 91, who achieved fame and popularity all across the Subcontinent, and became a household name with his signature ‘Behno aur Bhaiyo’ greeting while hosting the iconic radio program
William Deresiewicz in Salmagundi: Art is useless, said Wilde. Art is for art’s sake—that is, for beauty’s sake. But why do we possess a sense of beauty to begin with? A
Scientists say that when a thin sphere of liquid encloses air or another gas, it is called a ‘bubble’. Blowing bubbles has been and is a favorite pastime of many
Morgan Meis writes at Slant Books: Robert Irwin died a few months ago. He was 95 years old, so this was not a great tragedy. I didn’t know the man
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آج میں اپنی ضرورت کی چیزیں لینے ایک دکان پر گیا۔ گاہکوں کی خدمت کی جا رہی تھی حالانکہ وہ میرے بعد آئے تھے۔ کیا چاہیے سر؟حکم کریں۔ حکم نہیں
This video of the house by Roy Lichtenstein makes me question my eyes. As you walk around the piece, “House I”, it morphs and changes shape in a totally surreal
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Four poems from ‘Sometime Somewhere’ -published by ‘Budding Talents’ organization, Karachi, in 1977:
Caponera and Weinberg described how Sendak labored methodically, industriously, as if his life depended on it — which, in a way, it did. There were periods when Sendak stayed in
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“A picture is worth a thousand words”, is an adage in multiple languages meaning that complex and sometimes multiple ideas can be conveyed by a single still image, which conveys
This article is from a presentation made for the Rosemary Bechler Inaugural Memorial Lecture, an event organised by DIEM25, of which Rosemary was a founder member. It took place at