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Mbongeni Buthelezi: The South African artist turning plastic into portraits
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Forget fridge magnets. Amsterdam’s Rembrandt museum is offering visitors a tattoo of the master’s work
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Li Cunxin, ‘Mao’s Last Dancer,’ to step away from ballet due to ‘serious health concerns’
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Rubens painting ‘lost’ for centuries could sell for $7.7 million
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He felt like an outsider in his own country. So he dressed up as Captain America to change how others see him
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Steeped in history and race, Gary Simmons’ ghostly artworks are timeless — and all too timely

Arts

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After 25 years and $185m, Spain’s new Royal Collections Museum is finally opening
Diversity takes center stage at the new National Portrait Gallery in London
British Museum apologizes after using translator’s work in China exhibition without pay or acknowledgment
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Nigerian AI artist creates a fashion show for elderly people
Unseen photos of Glastonbury from 1971 show just how much the festival has changed
‘The idea of what makes an American movie is changing’: Celine Song and the cast of ‘Past Lives’ on love, loss and ‘inyeon’
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Egypt bans Dutch archaeology team from Saqqara due to museum’s ‘Afrocentric’ exhibition
‘Man of a thousand faces’: Samuel Fosso, known for his iconic self-portraits of famous figures, wins prestigious photography prize
Prehistoric cave paintings discovered in Spain using drones

Architecture

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Germany’s biggest Jewish educational and cultural center to open in Berlin
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Billionaire heiress Aerin Lauder shows off her ‘enchanting’ Palm Beach mansion
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The only skyscraper in Paris is about to turn 50, and many Parisians still hate it
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‘Like entering a forest’: Inside Asia’s largest timber building
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American Museum of Natural History’s soaring, $465M new science center opens
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Racism, activism and climate crisis are on the agenda at the Venice Architecture Biennale
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Modi inaugurates controversial new parliament building in India

Fashion

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Emma Watson’s ‘levitating’ dress is confusing the internet
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The Black girls reclaiming alternative fashion
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With fur out of fashion, PETA sets its sights on wool, leather and down
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Toolbelts, cardboard bags and ‘crogs:’ Fendi makes a case for carpenter-core
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Look of the Week: Pete Davidson shows up to ‘Transformers’ premiere in a tracksuit
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70 years on, Gucci’s horsebit loafer is still a coveted status symbol
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Congolese artists wear costumes made of trash to shine a light on Kinshasa’s pollution problem
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Bright and Barbiecore: Dua Lipa’s new Versace collection

Design

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Archaeologists unearth 4,000-year-old Stonehenge-like sanctuary in the Netherlands
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‘Barbie’ movie’s pink paint splurge led to global shortage, production designer says
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Lego is heading back to the ’80s with a 2,651-piece model ‘Pac-Man’ arcade cabinet
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Could these air purification towers tackle India’s pollution problem?
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Craft, salvage and sustainability take center stage at Milan Design Week
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King Charles’ coronation cross will contain relic believed to be from Christ’s crucifixion

Beauty

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Roman obsession with hairlessness revealed as more than 50 pairs of tweezers discovered in Britain
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Summer is back, and so is this nostalgic beauty staple
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From diversity to accessibility, can technology change the way we think about beauty for the better?
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The art of growing bald gracefully
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‘Back to school’ Botox blog promoting injections for moms banned
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How Playboy cut ties with Hugh Hefner to create a post-MeToo brand
The $500 billion beauty industry’s ‘green’ ambitions are a patchwork at best. And they’re falling short
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A 106-year-old from the Philippines is Vogue’s oldest ever cover model
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TikTok’s latest trending beauty filter, Teenage Look, returns users to their younger selves
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A juicy new book explores the cultural history of the backside
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Madonna hits back at ageist criticism after Grammy Awards appearance
You can now add top-surgery scars, binders and hearing aids to your ‘Sims’ characters
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Photography

A man holds a Coca-Cola bottle outside the Forbidden City in 1981.
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Photo of a man posing with a Coca-Cola bottle in 1981 symbolized a cultural shift in China
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This photo of male intimacy in 1980s India was more subversive than it seems
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How this photographer makes sublime landscapes of the American West
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‘How to make applesauce’: A photograph that made time stand still
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Vintage photos show underbelly of boom-era Japan
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The small town of Bliss, Idaho, is ‘disappearing’ — a photographer has created a capsule of life there