Flemish ‘Mystic Lamb’ masterpiece restored after chaotic past
A painstaking restoration of a 15th-century Flemish masterpiece is revealing the long-lost detail and splendour that helped make the altarpiece one of the world’s most stolen artworks....
Myanmar’s storied film industry gears up for a sequel
With turquoise columns propping up a pink and yellow portico, Myanmar’s art deco style Thwin cinema is a rare relic from a golden age of movie-making that dazzled audiences more than half a...
Drenched in fashion: It’s raining kimonos in Tokyo
It’s raining kimonos in Tokyo. US-based Japanese heavy-metal superstar Yoshiki kicked off Japan Fashion Week by sending models down the runway in sexy, reimagined kimonos drenched in a...
Funny faces and weird fish for all!
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Tibet’s thangkas find new fans across China
Her eyes riveted to the canvas, Wulan meticulously applies colour to an image of the Buddha, using pigments made of crushed pearls, turquoise and agate. The 34-year-old is one of dozens of students...
Beyond Lebanon’s Garbage Crisis… International artists offer funny faces and weird fish for all!
Culture and art usually contribute, together, in building better communities, for they are a way of implementing development. This also goes in line with a better environment to live in, since it...
Tradition, art blend in Morocco ‘tbourida’ cavalry charges
The equestrian art of tbourida, inspired by the historical charges of the feared cavalrymen of Morocco, fascinated Romantic painter Eugene Delacroix two centuries ago and still draws enthusiastic...
From beach trash to art
Every parent has watched bemused as excited kids toss aside gifts to play with the boxes instead. But what about when they ignore the shells on a beach in favour of plastic bottle tops? That was the...
