Chinese artefacts in repatriation row were ‘given willingly’ to British Museum
Amid calls to return antiquities, historian finds documents that reveal many were not result of imperial plunder The British Museum boasts one of the biggest...
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Drake’s Toronto mansion seriously flooded amid record-breaking storms
Rapper films muddy water pouring through 50,000 sq ft home, quipping ‘this better be espresso martini’ The Toronto mansion of rap superstar Drake has been...
Alice Munro knew my stepfather sexually abused me as a child, says Nobel laureate’s daughter
Andrea Robin Skinner says her stepfather sexually assaulted her when she was nine, but her mother said she ‘loved him too much’ to leave him...
African and Asian artists condemn ‘humiliating’ UK and EU visa refusals
‘Unfair’ rejection rates of up to 70% harm cultural diversity and create a ‘global apartheid’, say promoters and musicians Musicians, authors, producers and festival managers...
Ancient Mayan vase purchased by US woman for $4 returned to Mexico
Anna Lee Dozier bought ceramic vessel at Maryland thrift store but it will now reside in Mexico City’s main museum Mexico has regained a lost...
Donald Sutherland, Don’t Look Now and Hunger Games actor, dies aged 88
The prolific actor appeared in more than 190 films and TV shows and was a vocal anti-war activist Donald Sutherland was an irreplaceable aristocrat of...
‘Heartbreaking’: fire destroys historic Toronto church and rare paintings
Destroyed artefacts in St Anne’s Anglican church include unique paintings by Group of Seven art collective An early morning fire at a Toronto church has...
UK galleries rushed to diversify art after Black Lives Matter, artist says
South Africa-born painter Gavin Jantjes says institutions tried to buy work they ignored decades earlier British arts institutions deployed “kneejerk” and “stopgap” responses in the...
‘One hell of a storm is coming’: Canadian graphic novel about Indigenous identity sparks outrage
Book prompts conflict over claims of Métis identity in eastern Canada where group doesn’t have a homeland or deep historic ties A graphic novel investigating...
Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude brings fame to Gabriel García Márquez’s Colombian hometown
Locals hope TV adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude will bring new life to Aracataca, birthplace of author’s magical realism In sweltering mid-afternoon heat,...
