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Toto’s ‘Africa’ Will Play Forever—Or at Least Until the Next Windstorm—in the Namib Desert
An art installation is playing an endless loop of the 1982 earworm in an undisclosed location in the desert along Africa’s southwest coast
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Why the Nation of Georgia Wants to Make Wine on Mars
Researchers there are looking for grape varieties that can grow in Martian soil and survive high radiation and carbon monoxide
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Rome’s Mayor Says Coins Tossed Into Trevi Fountain Will Still Go to Poor
Controversy erupted earlier this week about who was getting the funds from the 18th-century masterpiece
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Restored Mughal Gardens Bloom Once More Along Agra’s Riverfront
Two of the 44 original historic gardens and structures have been rescued in an ambitious conservation project
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Celebrate the Art of Scrapbooking With This New York Exhibition
The show at the Walther Collection Project Space features more than 20 volumes filled with quotidian images, scribbled notes and miscellaneous ephemera
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Joshua Tree National Park Closes During Shutdown Due to Damage to Namesake Trees
Many national parks remain understaffed during the government shutdown while instances of vandalism and destruction rise
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London’s Feminist Library Lives
A successful crowdfunding campaign saved the institution from closure and is financing its move to a new space
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How to Enjoy a Medieval Feast at Borthwick Castle, Former Refuge of Mary, Queen of Scots
The special event is timed to coincide with the U.K. release of the Stuart queen’s latest biopic
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Heavily Abridged ‘Slave Bible’ Removed Passages That Might Encourage Uprisings
The rare artifact is the focus of a new exhibition at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C.
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Ring in the New Year With Dazzling Total Lunar Eclipse of a Supermoon
The celestial show will be visible on the East Coast around 12:12 a.m. on January 21, 2019
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New Animal Overpass Is Already Protecting Critters in Washington State
The bridge over Interstate 90 will allow animals to cross the busy roadway and connects wildlife in the North and South Cascades
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Museum to Be Built at Site of Nazi-Occupied France’s First Concentration Camp
Some 16,000 Jews were detained at Pithiviers and neighboring Beaune-la-Rolande before being sent to death camps
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Highly Anticipated Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Announces Its Coming Attractions
The long-delayed museum dedicated to filmmaking teases its inaugural exhibitions
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Tate Britain’s Female-Led Exhibition Is a Hopeful Sign of What’s to Come
Will 2019 be the year more women artists get shown in art museums?
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All Hail the Renaissance of Artemisia Gentileschi
The London National Gallery unveiled a restored portrait of the Baroque painter and announced a 2020 retrospective dedicated to the artist
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Looks From ‘The Favourite’ Go on Display in Queen Anne’s Home
See the elaborate dresses and outfits inspired by the monarch’s 18th-century court at Kensington Palace
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A Brief History of ‘Silent Night’
The classic Christmas tune was first composed as a poem, and it was set to music for the first time in the winter of 1818
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Connie Gilchrist Was the Shirley Temple of Victorian London
The child star captivated audiences and artists alike, served as muse for Lewis Carroll, James McNeill Whistler
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The Goddess in the Margarine Tub Is Just One of 1,267 Treasures Found by the British Public in 2017
A new report reveals the pieces voluntarily recorded with the U.K.’s Portable Antiquities Scheme last year
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Straight From a Greenland Fjord, London Installation Sends Dire Message on Climate Change
Olafur Eliasson’s ‘Ice Watch’ aims to bring viewers into direct confrontation with the devastation wrought by global warming
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