Culture

The Cannes Film Festival got rolling on Wednesday with a strong day for female representation, including the new “Mad Max”, a Meryl Streep masterclass and the leading figure of France’s #MeToo movement. “Furiosa”, the latest instalment...

The Oscar winner for best picture, “Oppenheimer,” was finally released in Japan on Friday. The film’s subject, the man who oversaw the development of the atomic bomb, is a very delicate and sentimental subject there. The...

This year’s “Amar Ekushey Grantha Mela 2024,” the largest book fair in the nation, will open for business on February 1st, as is customary. “Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to open the fair to be...

The oldest writing traced in Denmark was discovered on a little knife engraved with runic letters that dates back about 2,000 years, according to a Tuesday announcement from the Museum Odense. Scandinavian runes, or runic letters,...

In patriarchal 1960s Japan, Tomoko Horino’s neighbors teased her when she first started working, but at 100 years old, the world’s oldest beauty advisor is now laughing. “It was a time when married women stayed home...

“Woman with a Watch,” one of Pablo Picasso’s greatest works, brought in $139.3 million at auction on Wednesday night from Sotheby’s in New York. This is the artist’s second-highest price to date. Prior to being up...

In Cuba, the home of salsa, young people are being seduced by a music phenomenon from a place that could hardly be more geographically or ideologically remote. K-pop, the South Korean sensation that has already swept...

The Turkish embassy in this country has dutifully commemorated the 100th anniversary of the Turkish Republic, expressing appreciation and honoring Ghazi Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the country’s founder. On Sunday, the embassy organized a gathering in a...

Today marked the opening of the Edward M. Kennedy (EMK) Center’s new facility in the city’s Gulshan neighborhood by US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas. The EMK Center is a collaborative endeavor between the US Embassy...

On Sunday, the United Nations cultural agency added a large number of Iran’s caravanserais—roadside rest areas for travelers along the nation’s historic trade routes—to its list of World Heritage Sites. The World Heritage Committee decided to...