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[ad_1] Written by Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNNRome, Italy Italy celebrated the return of 60 ancient artifacts worth more than $20 million from the United States with a display in Rome’s Spadolini Hall on Monday. Most of the items — which include a fresco of Hercules as a child fighting a …

[ad_1] Written by Rebecca CairnsKristie Lu Stout, CNN It’s Lunar New Year. Wearing their finest festive clothes, an 18th century family sits down to feast on a lavish banquet in a room adorned with auspicious signage. This scene will sound familiar to many of the families, across China and the …

[ad_1] Written by Hahna Yoon, CNNSeoul, South Korea One of last year’s most successful South Korean TV shows, “Extraordinary Attorney Woo,” follows the story of a young autistic woman, Woo Young-woo, who navigates adulthood while winning cases at one of the nation’s top law firms. Already renewed for a second …

[ad_1] This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. Art will always inspire and provoke, but it also continues to baffle and confound. To kick off the New Year, we look at some of the lighter examples of a world turned upside-down, with …

[ad_1] Written by Aisha Salaudeen, CNNLagos, Nigeria Morenike “Renike” Olusanya spends a lot of her time with her iPad and touch pen, sketching the people and things she finds interesting. The Nigerian-born visual artist particularly loves to paint Black women. “I’m in Nigeria; Black women are all I see. I …

[ad_1] In a 1993 interview with The Paris Review about her writing practice, Toni Morrison spoke of how she achieved the literary feat that is her novel “Jazz.” “I thought of myself as like the jazz musician — someone who practices and practices and practices in order to be able …

[ad_1] Written by Gertrude Kitongo, CNN The South African town of Hamburg is situated by one of the most beautiful estuaries in the Eastern Cape. Bordered by unspoilt beaches, dune forests and a meandering river, Hamburg, like the rest of the region, is known for its rich Xhosa culture, cattle …

[ad_1] Written by Leah Dolan, CNN Contributors Hanna Pham, CNN If you’ve reached the end of the year feeling as though you didn’t read enough, we’ve got you. Here are some of the best books of the year according to notable authors, artists, image-makers and other cultural tastemakers. Emily Ratajkowski, …

[ad_1] Written by Leah Asmelash, CNN American Girl’s latest “Girl of the Year” is a spunky Broadway-loving dancer and singer — and also the line’s first-ever South Asian main character. Kavika Sharma, Kavi for short, was unveiled Thursday as American Girl’s 2023 “Girl of the Year.” Unlike other American Girl …

[ad_1] Written by Oscar Holland, CNN Cincinnati Art Museum’s chief conservator Serena Urry was conducting a routine inspection of the institution’s prized Paul Cézanne painting “Still Life with Bread and Eggs” when she noticed something “odd.” For an artwork dating back to 1865, the appearance of small cracks was no …