The Netherlands returns 119 stolen sculptures to Nigeria | Arts and Culture News
The Benin Bronzes were artefacts stolen during the UK’s imperial plunder of Benin, modern-day southern Nigeria. The Netherlands…
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‘She’s the queen’: Sri Lanka bids farewell to film legend Malini Fonseka | Cinema
Colombo, Sri Lanka — As a girl, when Srimathi Mallika Kaluarachchi would go to the cinema with her…
Iranian film, It was Just an Accident, wins Palme D’Or at Cannes festival | Arts and Culture News
The film is inspired by dissident director Jafar Panahi’s own experience in jail. An Iranian thriller film that…
Thailand readies homecoming for stolen ancient statues located in US museum | Arts and Culture News
Bangkok, Thailand – Over several years in the mid-1960s, the crumbling ruins of an ancient temple in northeast…
Suspect in attack on author Salman Rushdie sentenced to 25 years in prison | Courts News
The man who stabbed author Salman Rushdie, leaving him blind in one eye, has been sentenced to 25…
French actor Gérard Depardieu guilty of sexual assault on film set in 2021
French actor Gérard Depardieu was found guilty on May 13 of sexually assaulting two women on a 2021…
Shocked art fans are all saying the same thing after seeing the original ‘Great Wave’ painting
Art lovers have been left baffled after discovering the real size of a hugely popular creative piece of…
India’s language war: Why is Hindi sparking a north-south divide? | Narendra Modi News
New Delhi, India – Addressing a rally in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu last weekend, Prime…
Month of giving: Syrians in Ethiopia keep Ramadan iftar tradition alive | Religion
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Images of old Damascus and Aleppo adorn the walls of a modest restaurant tucked…
Israeli-Palestinian film No Other Land wins Oscar for best documentary | Israel-Palestine conflict News
The collaboration between Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers triumphed over Porcelain War, Sugarcane, Black Box Diaries and Soundtrack to…
How the film I’m Still Here forces Brazil to face a dictatorship’s legacy | Arts and Culture News
But the film has found resonance in the present as well as the past, as Brazil grapples with…
Actor Gene Hackman, wife found dead at New Mexico home
Oscar-winning American actor Gene Hackman and his wife were found dead Wednesday at their home in the southwestern…
Ukraine’s Artists: Protest & Resilience | Arts and Culture
On The Stream, we look at how Ukrainians harness art as a powerful tool of protest and resistance…
Mali filmmaker Souleymane Cisse, ‘father of African cinema’, dies at age 84 | Cinema News
Trailblazer of African cinema was the winner of the jury’s prize at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival for…
Iran’s early recordings revive forgotten sound heritage
TEHRAN, IRAN — In a century-old building in Tehran, Saeed Anvarinejad turned the dial of a vintage radio…