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Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Water slides on cruises are enjoyed by everyone in the family

Children love to play in the water on a cruise

Take a cruise with kids just takes careful planning

Cruises have water activities for kids

Children on cruises love to explore

Cruising with toddlers

10 tips for a smooth sailing vacation

Image of The White House in The United States divided in blue for Democrat and red for Republican

Economy & Politics

The unspoken truth of the upcoming U.S. elections

Democractic and ideological values at stake

Just a small glimpse into the beautiful Stowe, Vermont landscape. Photo by Jamie Edwards

Summer or winter in Stowe, Vermont?

A year-round guide to this natural gem

I feel the beauty of broken things

Learning the art of letting go

On the Street

Zhang Peili, A Gust of Wind (Zeng feng) (2008). Five-Channel/five-screen video projection (PAL), silent/colour, 13’14” with objects preserved from the film set destroyed during shooting, dimensions variable. © Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing. Courtesy of the artist and Boers-Li Gallery

Interview with Paul Gladston

Contemporary Chinese art and contemporaneity

Kenwood House is only a few short miles from central London

Architecture & Design

Kenwood House in Hampstead

A view of the city from every window

For some to tear down the system, while for others transform it with love

Baby boomers and the age of reckoning

A generation with a thirst for change

Miloš Forman's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), movie poster detail

Should we ban playing football?

How football contributes to the recent financial crisis and the Great Recession

Rioja is one of the leading brands on the market with more than 15.000 vineyards and the largest stock of barrels in the world

The weapon of wine war

Lucas Cranach. The Fountain of Youth

Science & Technology

The Fountain of Youth

Looking your best on the outside to stay young, fit, and healthy on the inside

Architecture & Design

West Lighthouse, Aomori City © Alma Reyes

Blue forest in the north of Japan

Aomori’s colors of art, architecture and nature

A floating school in Bangladesh, designed by Mohammed Rezwan

Architecture for social change

Abrahamic house and the floating schools of Bangladesh

Art

Juhl, Finn. Exhibition view. 1949. Oda Collection, Higashikawa © Alma Reyes

Art Scene in Roppongi and Ueno, Japan

Three major exhibitions: Museum Ludwig Cologne, Finn Juhl and Sound of the Earth

Cubs World Series Bench, courtesy of Margie Lawrence Fine Art

Baseball Paintings by Margie Lawrence

Exhibition in the Gallery Victor Armendariz in Chicago, United States

Culture

Where to begin and how to be accurate with our words

Phonetically misled

It's not easy getting a straight answer

The mirror can realign our identity and objectives

Mirror, mirror on the wall…

The feminism charge led by Wollstonecraft

Economy & Politics

South Africans lining up waiting to be cleared of Covid-19 as they attempt to enter the governmental building

South Africa unending crisis?

Lockdown relations with socio-economic challenges

Humanity working together for the universe

The Universal State of the Earth (USE)

Understanding the necessity of USE, the principles and ideas

Entertainment

In an American fable, the Pied Piper is bewitching the children from the village

Analysing BTS’s “Pied Piper”

Adapting fairy tales in music to critique certain societal behaviours

The mysteries and secrets concerning filmmaking are often cloaked in a haze of colors and effects

The untold truths about the entertainment industry

Revealing the hidden

Fashion

Moroccan fashion designer Albert Oiknine is known for having his outfits worn by several renowned celebrities

Fashion designer Albert Oiknine impresses the world

Oiknine family is his source of inspiration

Florence: Elizée shoes launched her first collection last summer

Elizée shoes: an interview with Erika Carrero

California dreaming made in Italy

Feature

Sunglasses of Nonna Annamaria

Fashion never dies

White hand, black hand: where is peace in our world today?

In the words of Yannis Coutsoheros

Poems in the absence of peace

Food & Wine

Le Train Bleu, Gare de Lyon, Paris, France, interior

Dining at Le Train Bleu, Paris

An era revisited

Hospitality: respect between the server and customer needs to go both ways

Trust your server

Except when you shouldn’t

Science & Technology

A woman clutching at her sore throat with both hands as it could be due to a case of acid reflux

Acid reflux listed as most common cause of sore throat

The complications and the solutions

Humanity accepting the inclusion of technology in our natural beings

The digital era and the future of people

Being human in the age of artificial intelligence

Sport

Ali Sami Frashëri the man who gave Istanbul one of their greatest football clubs

Ali Sami Yen: the founder of Galatasaray

The Albanian origin of the Istanbul football club

Budo and Traditional Karate: for an effective outcome, we must maintain stable emotions, full determination, mental flexibility and adaptability

Aggressiveness versus ho-shin

Budo teaches how to achieve complete determination combined with mental flexibility

Travel

The bird's-eye view of Scarborough Bluffs encapsulates all that it has to offer

Scarborough Bluffs

I’m not bluffing - it’s an absolute stunner

Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, United States

Taking in the Shenandoah Valley

The mountains called, and I went

Wellness

Xavier Dolan's film Matthias and Maxime explore the conflicts in our desires

When our own desires are not accepted

Xavier Dolan's Matthias & Maxime film exposes the conflict between commitments and desires

A buffet of clean and healthy eating includes adding more vegetables to the diet

Clean eating for your best life

5 ways to easily incorporate more vegetables into your daily routine

Explore the Calendar

Worldwide Zurich Ottawa Hamburg Salzburg Bloomington Chicago Ljubljana Tallinn Sidney Madrid Oshkosh Santiago Vienna Honolulu Leipzig Washington Berlin Lisbon Edinburgh Brussels Stuttgart Kobarid

Alberto Murillo, exhibition view. Courtesy of Kate Oh Gallery

Alberto Murillo

2 — 8 Oct 2022 at the Kate Oh Gallery in New York, United States

Angels Grau. Invisible Women. Courtesy of Kate Oh Gallery

Angels Grau. Invisible Women

2 — 8 Oct 2022 at the Kate Oh Gallery in New York, United States

Aesthetics of Change. Courtesy of MAK

Aesthetics of Change

15 Dec 2107 — 15 Apr 2018 at the MAK in Vienna, Austria

Miriam Beerman, Nothing has Changed (detail), 1999, 69in x 67in, oil on canvas

Miriam Beerman: 1923–2022 Nothing has changed

22 Sep — 11 Dec 2022 at the Rechnitz Hall DiMattio Gallery in West Long Branch, United States

Andrew Cotton, Twiggy (Snap), 60 x 48 in, 2022, Mixed media on canvas (detail)

Andrew Cotton. One hundred percent artist

15 Sep — 16 Oct 2022 at the New River Fine Art in Fort Lauderdale, United States

Janine Burrows, Table to Tide, A Yorkshire Conversation at YSP, 2022. Photo ©Jonty Wilde courtesy Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Janine Burrows. Table to tide: a Yorkshire conversation

11 Jun — 23 Oct 2022 at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in West Bretton, United Kingdom

Bulgarian Pavilion © photo Kalin Serapionov

Michail Michailov. There you are

23 Apr — 27 Nov 2022 at the Spazio Ravà in Venice, Italy

Dan Flavin. Courtesy of Mana Contemporary

14 Oct 2018 — 15 Oct 2022 at the Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, United States

Bryk & Wirkkala. Courtesy of EMMA

Bryk & Wirkkala

1 Sep 2018 — 1 Jan 2030 at the EMMA in Espoo, Finland

A Century in Flux. Courtesy of Barjeel Art Foundation

A Century in Flux

12 May 2018 — 30 May 2023 at the Barjeel Art Foundation in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Verticals. Courtesy of Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand

21 Oct 2017 — 21 Oct 2022 at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand in Ghent, Belgium

The Pantologue. Courtesy of Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand

21 Oct 2017 — 21 Oct 2022 at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand in Ghent, Belgium

Tove Jansson. Courtesy of HAM

27 Jan 2017 — 31 Dec 2022 at the HAM in Helsinki, Finland

Andy Warhol. Courtesy of Mana Contemporary

25 Sep 2016 — 15 Oct 2022 at the Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, United States

Touch. Courtesy of EMMA

1 Jan 2016 — 1 Jan 2030 at the EMMA in Espoo, Finland

The Second Floor. Courtesy of The Kobarid Museum

The Second Floor

Permanent event at The Kobarid Museum in Kobarid, Slovenia

Bern's silver treasure. Courtesy of Bernisches Historisches Museum

Bern's silver treasure

Permanent event at the Bernisches Historisches Museum in Bern, Switzerland

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