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£9.9m chimp parliament painting smashes Banksy record
AFP, Published on 04/10/2019
» LONDON: A Banksy painting depicting the British parliament populated by chimpanzees smashed the record for the mysterious British street artist on Thursday, fetching nearly £9.9 million, Sotheby's auction house said.
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Spooks and kooks on a Japanese island
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 07/05/2023
» Most Japanese schoolchildren know the kappa as a trickster who looks like a cross between a frog and a turtle with an indented head. If you're not careful, it could drag you into the river to drown. The tengu, identifiable by its bright red face and long nose, lurks in the woods. Beware of the tanuki, a supernatural variation of a raccoon dog, for it may make a fool of you when it crosses your path.
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Bill Nighy, master of misdirection
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 29/01/2023
» British actor Bill Nighy was trying to describe how he prepared for his character in the new drama Living. He plays Mr Williams, a buttoned-up, almost catatonically reticent bureaucrat in post-World War II London who, upon learning that he is dying, decides finally to live.
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Revisiting the 'Mona Lisa' theft
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 23/10/2022
» Oct 8 was the anniversary of the birth -- and the death -- of the Italian painter who made perhaps the biggest art repatriation blunder in history.
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Brody returns to first love: painting
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 21/02/2022
» The aqua slapped onto the canvas first. Then white, cobalt and cotton-candy pink. Yellow blurted on with a rude noise, followed by red and black.
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Tiny literary shoots take root
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 23/04/2023
» Before Sally Rooney was the author of bestselling books, and well before those books became buzzy television series, she was an undergraduate student at Trinity College Dublin with a growing pile of unpublished poems and no contacts in the writing world. Her first break came in 2010, when The Stinging Fly, a small Irish literary magazine, agreed to publish her work.
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Suppressed culture makes bestseller
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 19/02/2023
» Two days after Christmas, Ann-Helen Laestadius found herself being gently pummelled by reindeer.
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In Bali, warring sides cohabitate
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 05/02/2023
» At a cafe nearly 100,000 kilometres from the front lines, the Kyiv-style cake sits near the kartoshkas, a Russian dessert made of cookies, condensed milk and butter.
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German socialite financed own demise
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 11/12/2022
» Late in the summer of 1938, as the Nazis escalated their persecution of German Jews, Ilse Hesselberger and her daughter, Trudy, travelled from Munich to Milan to visit relatives.
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Yangon gets smarter
Asia focus, Larry Jagan, Published on 20/05/2019
» Yangon is introducing smart meters to control the electricity supply, monitor usage and bill customers in a single automated system. If a pilot project is successful, the potential for further development could be huge, says the entrepreneur spearheading the technology.
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