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Alleged Head of Egyptian Antiquities Trafficking Ring Arrested in Paris
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Alleged Head of Egyptian Antiquities Trafficking Ring Arrested in Paris

Serop Simonian was arrested in his hometown of Hamburg and transferred to France The suspected head of an alleged Egyptian antiquities trafficking ring, Serop Simonian, has been arrested in Germany and transferred to France. Investigators believe the octogenarian is the source behind a string of allegedly smuggled Egyptian antiquities sold for around €60m to the...

How Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor Became Halloween’s Theme Song
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How Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor Became Halloween’s Theme Song

In Bach’s era, the pipe organ was one of the world’s most technologically advanced instruments. Stefano Bianchetti/Corbis via Getty Images Imagine a grand house on a hill, after dark on an autumn night. As the door opens, an organ pierces through the thick silence and echoes through the cavernous halls. The tune that comes to...

Africa’s Fashion Industry Is Growing to Meet Global Demands but Needs More Investment, UNESCO Says
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Africa’s Fashion Industry Is Growing to Meet Global Demands but Needs More Investment, UNESCO Says

Africa’s fashion industry is growing rapidly to meet local and international demand but inadequate investment limits its potential, UNESCO said Thursday in a report released during Lagos Fashion Week. Currently valued at $15.5 billion worth of exports annually, the earnings from the continent’s fashion industry could triple over a decade with the right investment and...

Nostalgia Fuels Hype for Adult Barbie Costumes, Fashion Design Expert Says
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Nostalgia Fuels Hype for Adult Barbie Costumes, Fashion Design Expert Says

This Halloween is expected to look a lot like Barbie’s Dreamland. The widely successful summer film’s stars Barbie and Ken have found their way onto the top Halloween costume lists for this year.  In fact, social media has even dubbed the holiday #Barbieween. Pop culture has long inspired fashion, including Halloween costumes, said Dina Smith-Glaviana, a...

As Shipping Costs Rise, Galleries Get Creative
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As Shipping Costs Rise, Galleries Get Creative

‘Shipping has become a nightmare,’ says Mihai Nicodim, owner of Nicodim Gallery (Los Angeles and New York City). ‘It almost doubled. When the pandemic hit, we were getting quotes that quadrupled overnight.’ Talk to any dealer right now about shipping costs and you are likely to get the same reaction. Dealers responding to a survey for the Art...

Nigeria’s Slick Netflix Epic, Jagun Jagun, Explores a Rich Past That Also Reflects the World Today
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Nigeria’s Slick Netflix Epic, Jagun Jagun, Explores a Rich Past That Also Reflects the World Today

Netflix’s recently released film Jagun Jagun (The Warrior) is set in pre-colonial Nigeria and follows the story of a feared warlord named Ogunjimi. While playing out in the past, it is steeped in contemporary universal cultural, political and socio-economic realities. The first 15 minutes of the movie establishes that the story is centred on a...

Stone Age Artists Carved Detailed Human and Animal Tracks in Rock Art in Namibia
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Stone Age Artists Carved Detailed Human and Animal Tracks in Rock Art in Namibia

During the Later Stone Age in what is now Namibia, rock artists imbued so much detail into their engravings of human and animal prints that current-day Indigenous trackers could identify which animals’ prints they were depicting, as well as the animals’ general age and sex. Andreas Pastoors of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, and colleagues report these...

Art and Gastronomy Meet in Copenhagen
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Art and Gastronomy Meet in Copenhagen

A 17th-century castle covered in lush vines located on a quaint canal in Copenhagen, Kunsthal Charlottenborg has been home to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts since 1701. It has also been one of the country’s leading exhibition spaces for the past 140 years. Walking through its bright galleries, one can almost taste the...