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Get a glimpse of murals less seen
Life, Published on 25/05/2023
» Siam Society is holding a two-day trip to Khon Kaen and Roi Et to visit local ordination halls (sim) and hidden mural paintings in the villages, on June 24 and 25.
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Turning over the stones of a lost past
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 07/05/2023
» One bright morning, as I was scouring Aldwark, a slender lane in York, England, searching for a certain historical site, a delivery truck pulled up. The driver, a man who looked to be in his 60s, got out and asked if he could help.
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Jewellery with Nazi links set to fetch $150mn at auction
AFP, Published on 01/05/2023
» GENEVA - Christie's auction house will next week launch the sale of hundreds of jewels that belonged to Austrian billionaire Heidi Horten, whose German businessman husband made his fortune under the Nazis.
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Is it possible to have too much Picasso?
AFP, Published on 04/04/2023
» PARIS: Why can't the world get enough of Pablo Picasso? On the 50th anniversary of his death, it seems the appetite for the Spanish master is inexhaustible.
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NY Met to let French make 3D copies of 16th-century sculptures
AFP, Published on 20/02/2023
» NEW YORK: Two 16th-century sculptures, jewels of French Renaissance art, have been on display since 1908 at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Celebrating Rattanakosin art
Life, Pattarawadee Saengmanee, Published on 16/02/2023
» The Year of the Rabbit provides an occasion for the "Gilded Black Lacquer Cabinet" exhibition at the historic Thaworawatthu Building to present a new collection, the majority of which is featured in the Gold-Motif Cabinets: Series 2 (Rattanakosin Era) Book 1.
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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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Secret society fights for its home
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 08/01/2023
» On a brisk morning in November, bright yellow leaves from a huge ginkgo tree scattered onto the front yard of 87 MacDonough St. Under peeling paint and missing cornices, Essie Gregory stood on the steps of the huge, ramshackle mansion in the heart of the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighbourhood of Brooklyn with a small group of visitors.
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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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Preserving tattoos of the dead
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 20/11/2022
» Jonathan Gil knew he would never forget the details of the day his 24-year-old twin brother died in a boating accident on Lake Hopatcong in northern New Jersey -- the frantic phone call from a friend, the dire search by rescuers and the dread of breaking the grim news to his mother.
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