Above Photo: BP or not BP? stage an intervention in 2017 at the National Portrait Gallery, bringing a portrait of exiled West Papuan leader Benny Wenda into the Gallery. Kristian Buus BP had been the main sponsor of the National Portrait Gallery’s annual portrait award since 1989. The National Portrait Gallery has announced the end of its partnership with BP, becoming the latest institution from the world of art and culture to distance itself from the oil giant. The Royal Shakespeare Company and Tate have already ended sponsorship deals with BP following environmental campaigns launched by artists and employees. BP has […]
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https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/12/1080805936_0:0:1200:676_1200x675_80_0_0_d72e49e06e447dacb2fe6bdbeff7e90d.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/videoclub/202010181080805972-family-portrait-charming-golden-retriever-enjoys-company-of-toy-giraffes/ Playfulness is an innate quality of golden retrievers, so there is little wonder that this adorable doggy enjoys playing with a stuffed giraffe with its two babies. The owner of two adorable golden retrievers named Lily and Teddy has uploaded a video featuring one of the doggos posing for the camera with a toy giraffe family, who are apparently called Georgia, Gina and Johnny. Judging from the doggies’ page on Twitter, they are extremely fond of their toy, which is only natural given that golden retrievers are highly amicable creatures. Source link
Books on Trump: the gifts that keep on giving. Illustration: Guardian DesignWade through the vast tomes of books written about the president over the last four years and a horrifying picture emerges Guardian/UK: Donald Trump is not a reader but to the publishing industry he is the gift that keeps on giving. His time in the White House has yielded an avalanche of books with titles like Fear, Rage, Unhinged and Fire and Fury. Together, they paint a withering portrait of the 45th president. Some crackle with the fury of scorned employees. Others are banquets of gossip by seasoned reporters, whether highbrow (Bob Woodward) […]
Recent excavations in the ancient Kingdom of Judah, close to Jerusalem in Israel, has unearthed a number of anthropomorphic male figurine heads from the 10th century B.C. A bearded man with a square flat-topped head, protruding nose, holes for earrings, and somewhat bulging eyes. The similarity between the figurine heads suggests that they depict the same figure, but who is this oddly shaped character? In an article published this week, archaeologist and Hebrew University professor Yosef Garfinkel argues that they show the face of Yahweh, the God of Israel. If accurate the sensational claim would mean both that ancient Israelites made […]
Groundbreaking discoveries in science often come with two iconic images, one representing the breakthrough and the other, the discoverer. For example, the page from Darwin’s notebook sketching the branching pattern of evolution often accompanies a portrait of Darwin in his early years when the notebook was written. Likewise the drawing of the orbits of the moons of Jupiter often accompanies a portrait of Galileo. Another groundbreaking discovery in science was the discovery of the cell by Robert Hooke (1635-1703). The iconic image of the breakthrough, published in the first scientific bestseller, 1665’s “Micrographia,” is an etching of the cells that make […]
President Trump, seen earlier this month at an event at the White House, is the subject of a new book by his niece, Mary Trump. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images President Trump, seen earlier this month at an event at the White House, is the subject of a new book by his niece, Mary Trump. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images After a good deal of legal wrangling, an incendiary book by President Trump’s niece is beginning to come to light. A slew of excerpts surfaced publicly Tuesday, ahead of the expected release of Mary Trump’s book next week. […]
Though he wears the wooly red cap that Jacques Cousteau transformed into the emblem of deep sea divers, the figure whom famed oceanic photographer Amos Nachoum most closely resembles in Picture of His Life is fictional: Moby Dick’s Captain Ahab. Possessed by an obsession with a creature of the deep that holds, for him, profound symbolic meaning, Nachoum is a man driven to risk life and limb to capture a picture like no other—and, in doing so, to exorcise the demons that have long plagued him. Unlike Herman Melville’s legendary protagonist, the Nachoum presented by Yonatan Nir and Dani Menkin’s documentary […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107927/96/1079279643_46:0:1315:714_1200x675_80_0_0_2ad810ae826490e7c69d6ea4d1ff7415.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/videoclub/202005131079279674-golden-retrievers-and-a-cat-family-portrait/ Most people believe that cats and dogs are sworn enemies, and that friendship between them is basically impossible. But how is it possible not to get along with a golden retriever? In everything from children’s cartoons to proverbial sayings, we hear that dogs and cats never get along. However, is it possible to strengthen the inter-species friendship between these animals? In this video we can see how these animals can get along. Source link