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Gargoyles, UPI, and the Cost of Looking Free (opens the original)
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Architecture nerds would tell you the monstrous stone creatures glaring down from Gothic cathedrals aren’t, in fact, gargoyles. They’re grotesques. The difference isn’t ugliness; it’s the plumbing. A gargoyle is a decorative waterspout designed to drain water to avoid damaging buildings. And grotesques are purely decorative. Derived from the French gargouille, meaning ‘gullet’, or the Latin gurgulio, meaning ‘gargling’ or ‘gurgling’, gargoyles often take the form of an ugly human or animal figur
A New Cat, Many Old Questions (opens the original)
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In 2016, biologist Paola Nogales-Ascarrunz received a phone call from a wildlife sanctuary in Bolivia about “a weird cat”. A man had brought home a kitten he found near a forest, and a year into raising it, realised that it was not a house cat and would be better off at a sanctuary. Small in size, with a scrunched face, round-edged ears, and leopard-like rosettes, the feline fascinated Nogales-Ascarrunz. She reasonably assumed it was a known species named the tigrina, described from an illustrat
Not by the Score: On China's Rulebook (opens the original)
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Frédéric Chopin composed his famous Nocturne in E-Flat major, Op 9,No.2 between 1830 and 1832 when he was only 20 years old. Nocturnes were short piano works that evoked the quiet, contemplative mood of night. The three pieces he composed are some of the most famous pieces in classical music and have inspired bodies of art in different forms. You may even recall hearing them in one of your favourite movies or TV shows.In modern classical music performance, the original score is the
The Curious Case of the Egg (opens the original)
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The Nanjing Museum in China houses a jar for the last 50 years as part of its collection, which has not stopped astonishing its visitors. This ceramic jar, containing eggs, was discovered by archaeologists in 1974, upon excavation of a Western Zhou tomb in Jurong, Jiangsu province. There was no ornamental gemstone or elaborate burial object holding any profound indication of the person’s significance. Just a jar of chicken eggs, carefully placed in the tomb, laid roughly 2,800 years ago. The str
An Impressionist Turn for India’s Neighbourhood? (opens the original)
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When we observe the annals of art history and those who influenced it, we might think of Claude Monet, most well-known for his series of water lily paintings; however, we also need to consider his relationship with his co-Impressionist pioneer Édouard Manet. They were distinct artists in their own right and were key figures in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. Manet was from a bourgeois background, but challenged the structures of society around him, while Monet was from a more modes
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