People & culture
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Marvel Will Explore The MCU Fantastic Four’s History In New …
[ad_1] This March, the Future Foundation is proud to partner with Marvel Comics to unveil FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST FOES #1, the first of four additional authorized comic book one-shots retelling of the Fantastic Four’s heroism and early adventures, starting with their encounter with one of New York City’s most notorious villains: the MAD THINKER! Fantastic Four: First Foes…
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The Twin Poles of Advent
[ad_1] Advent is paradoxical in its marrow: it inaugurates the liturgical year and arrives as the secular year is coming to a close. The time of Advent is in many ways a microcosm of the entire year, encapsulating its pressures and burdens in an especially potent way. It is a condensation of the time between…
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12 of the best TV shows to watch this January
[ad_1] The Beauty premieres 21 January on Hulu in the US and 22 January on Disney+ in the UK Apple TV 11. Shrinking With Harrison Ford as its droll standout, this sophisticated comedy has one of the best ensemble casts on television, along with the rare ability to be funny and touching while avoiding any…
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Reading Alfred Hugh Fisher’s Photographs of South India: an …
[ad_1] Series: Open Knowledge Fellowship 2025 Show articles▼ Currently reading: #5: Reading Alfred Hugh Fisher’s Photographs of South India: an Adventure to Meet Tambusami What’s your go to method when you want to see what a place looks like before you visit? Do you use google maps & street view? Scroll through your favourite social…
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‘The Housemaid’ Knows How to Have a Trashy Good Time
[ad_1] There’s a kind of movie that must straddle the fine line between art and trash in order to obtain its goals. It requires an understanding of both the material and the style in which it is presented by all involved. In other words, high camp. Which is different from camp, in that it knows…
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Salvador Dalí’s Surreal Jewelry Designs: From Throbbing Hear…
[ad_1] Upon hearing the name of Salvador Dalí, even a total layman in the art world is bound to get visions of melting clocks. Surprisingly, for an artist who showed so much self-marketing savvy, Dalí never brought an actual timepiece in that distinctively, even canonically surreal shape to market. But that hardly stopped Cartier from…
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Capra, Dickens, and Milton on Christmas Redemption
[ad_1] I’ve often wondered what became of George Bailey. Does he remain a changed man as his living room empties, and his troubles leave the proximity of his neighbors’ minds? As Christmas ends and he returns to work an inherited job in a town he never left, do doubt and regret find their way back…
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The Salt Path and 2025’s most scandalous books
[ad_1] Getty ImagesVirginia Giuffre’s powerful posthumous autobiography Nobody’s Girl detailed her sexual abuse at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein and his circle (Credit: Getty Images) But 2025 was also a year when memoirs attracted attention for the wrong reasons. Journalist Olivia Nuzzi’s much-hyped American Canto which, among other things, detailed her “digital affair” with Robert…
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Can Ancient Indian Aesthetic Theory Guide Our Engagement wit…
[ad_1] Series: Open Knowledge Fellowship 2025 Show articles▼ Currently reading: #8: Digital Rasa: Can Ancient Indian Aesthetic Theory Guide Our Engagement with Manuscripts and Photographs online? You’ve tapped a link and arrived here. As you scroll, words and images unfold, perhaps you zoom in, linger or pause at something that catches your eye. Through these…