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Kerby Jean-Raymond's Pyer Moss wows with couture show honoring Black inventors

Jean-Raymond said he and his team had gone through an exacting and exhaustive process to meet the demands of a couture collection.

In the aftermath of COVID-19, survivors are getting tattoos as reminders of strength, and those they lost

For COVID survivors, getting a tattoo can be especially meaningful.

What Howard University's hiring of Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates could mean for America’s racial debate

Howard University is positioning itself as one of the primary centers of Black academic thought just as America struggles through a painful crossroads over historic racial injustice.

Unopened copy of Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda from 1987 sells for $870,000 at auction

In April, the auction house sold an unopened copy of Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. that was bought in 1986 and forgotten about in a desk drawer for $660,000.

Auschwitz survivor who fought antisemitism with music in post-war Germany passes away at 96

Esther Bejarano had earlier said that music helped keep her alive in the notorious German Nazi death camp in occupied Poland and during the years after the Holocaust.

Lingui: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's abortion drama from Chad stirs Cannes Film Festival

Vividly filmed with vibrant local colour and non-professional actors, the film movingly captures a clandestine sisterhood in a male-controlled society.

Benedetta: Paul Verhoeven blesses Cannes with lesbian nun drama

Cannes, where movies like Taxi Driver and Blue Is the Warmest Color have made controversial premieres, loves a jolt of violence or a splash of sex.

All the problematic movie tropes that play out on the big screen, and why we can't get enough of them

Conquering racism through team sports? Thug lyf movies? Bring it on.

Warner Bros studio tour expands with DC Universe, Harry Potter

Warner Bros officials said the expansion — that includes a new building — took five years to develop in Burbank. Officials say the studio tour will follow all city, state, and federal COVID-19 safety protocols.

Bachi Karkaria's Tales from TJ Road: Five lessons on the good, bad and ugly of gentrification in a Mumbai locality

Tracing the story of Mumbai's metromorphosis, as reflected in the locality of TJ Road.

Lebanon's Baalbek Music Festival held virtually in the pandemic as an expression of hope in a crisis-riddled country

Festival organisers chose the slogan 'shine on Lebanon, defying darkness with music' for its 2021 edition.

Imaginary deaths, real grief: Thai artist honours fallen anime heroes by exhibiting their portraits at a Bangkok gallery

Japanese anime and manga enjoy mainstream popularity in the kingdom, with frequent conventions held in pre-pandemic Bangkok that would draw massive crowds of cosplayers.

The Met's first Indigenous curator Patricia Marroquin Norby brings Native American perspective to museum's exhibit

Norby lives for physical engagement, for those moments when she can show you how a 19th-century ceramic, textile, carving or painting is made and how it is connected to the contemporary works she has added to the Diker exhibition.

Tracing the history of vaping on screen in Hollywood films and TV: From glamour to grit and addiction

The tobacco and entertainment industries have long and tangled histories — including product placement in movies, television sponsorships and promotional relationships with glamorous Hollywood stars.

Problematic movie tropes and where to find them: Here's where to get your dose of manchild films and more

It’s that kind of time again y’all! Time to feel self-righteous and fabulous as we point fingers at various items and say, hey! That thing is so mean you guys!

After a turbulent past, original manuscript of Marquis de Sade's 120 Days of Sodom acquired by France

The 18th-century erotic masterpiece has endured a turbulent destiny over the centuries but the future of the original text now appears secure after a private benefactor stepped in with the money.

Queen Elizabeth visits sets of Coronation Street, world's longest-running television soap opera, to commemorate its 60th year

The show has twice briefly paused production and has switched to socially distanced episodes with actors two metres apart, using camera tricks to make them look closer.

Ashtanayika of classical dance: On the proshitapatika, a woman made anxious by her lover's duty-bound departure

This series is an exploration of the ashtanayika of classical dance — the eight types of heroines which depict a woman's many thoughts and emotional states. In part 4, a look at the proshitapatika.

In Sundarbans' Mousuni Island, rapid land erosion leaves villagers in the lurch, as natural calamities impact their livelihoods

At the moment, 80 percent of the farmland in Mousuni is under water.

Explained: As The Office completes 20 years, revisiting what the show says about mockumentaries as a genre

While it was the British version that gave the show its initial thrust, it was the 2005 American version that took the show and the mockumentary genre to unprecedented heights, helping it achieve cult status, and in many ways – global dominion.

After In the Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda donates to immigrant rights groups to help marginalised communities

The actor is forever drawn to what he calls “the things that don’t leave you alone.” Immigration, he said, is both a passion and a foundational element of his work.

Legally Blonde, 20 years on: Reese Witherspoon's co-stars, screenwriter discuss iconic 'snap and bend', film's legacy

The first script was very raunchy, to be honest, in the vein of American Pie, one of the actors in the film said.

How Netflix is reviving the scream teen genre, reimagining the YA horror movie experience

Unlike YA rom-coms, horror movies are one of the few genres aside from superheroes that still generate significant ticket sales at the box office. But that doesn’t mean that streaming can’t get in on the game too with originals that both speak to a current generation of teens and adults nostalgic for the slashers of their youth.

American trio The Flatlanders’ new album Treasure of Love is a lively, upbeat, familiar record

Recorded during the pandemic, the selections include tunes made famous by Johnny Cash, Townes Van Zandt, Bob Dylan and others, but the trio gives them all their signature Texas sound.

The Friday List: From a thumri recital to an exploration of Ahmedabad's cultural legacy, your weekly calendar of virtual events

Every Friday, we'll bring you a curated list of online experiences — performances, talks, tours, screenings — to mark on your weekly calendar.

A tauntingly good hip-hop album, or a rewiring of pop DNA: Tyler, the Creator's Call Me if You Get Lost has it both ways

It’s as thoroughgoing a rap album as Tyler has released — rarely has he been this keen to flaunt his bona fides. But it also demonstrates the pop potential of Tyler’s now-signature approach to hip-hop, the way his post-Pharrell embrace of chords and melody is in fact in conversation with 1960s pop, French chanson and acoustic soul and funk.

Da Vinci's stamp-sized sketch of a head of a bear sells for an exceptional US $12.2 mn at Christie's auction

Leonardo’s delicate silverpoint study “Head of a Bear,” measuring just under 3 inches by 3 inches, and thought to date from the early 1480s, was included in Christie’s summer “Exceptional Sale” of high-value historical works of art assembled from a range of collecting categories.

Singer, lyricist Swanand Kirkire appointed vice-president of Delhi Hindi Academy

The Academy works to spread language and culture through ''Hindi Pakhwada'', national poetry conference, seminar and other cultural programmes.

Luca and the duality of growing: On being 'left behind', but also navigating the newness of a big city

In many ways, Luca, the new Pixar movie, is the most significant child of the pandemic baby boom.

Explained: Shrinkflation, or the practice of selling less of a product, at the same price as before

Brands have tried to justify shrinkflation-related decisions as being about promoting lower consumption, especially in the case of edible goods, and also as an environmentally conscious decision. Some also claim it is part of a drive to improve the quality of their products.