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Crazy cartoon! Genius scavenger Shigeru bans building cathedrals and earthquake shelters with paper Build

Crazy cartoon! Genius scavenger Shigeru bans building cathedrals and earthquake shelters with paper Build

💥 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Architecture,Art and design,Culture,Environment,Design,Books,Recycling,Waste,Earthquakes ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: 'I “I don't like waste,” says Shigeru Ban. It's a simple phrase - but it sums up everything about the Japanese architect's work. It takes materials that others might ignore or dismiss—from cardboard tubes to beer boxes, Styrofoam to shipping containers—and subjects them to a kind of chemistry, smoothing out rough edges and turning fragility into durability.The result is an always ingenious and poetically strange scavenger architecture that finds beauty and purpose in everyday life. From high-end shops to refugee…
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Amy Adams deserves an Oscar for this gritty drama about alcoholism ★★★★☆

Amy Adams deserves an Oscar for this gritty drama about alcoholism ★★★★☆

🔥 Read this awesome post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The actress returns to acting in this tough film from Hungarian director Kornél Mundrócó, about a middle-aged woman facing addiction – and her traumatic childhood.Amy Adams is an amazing screen actress, but she's had a bad run of things lately: her last really successful project was a TV project, 2018's Sharp Objects, while films like the bad food bowl The Woman in the Window and the satirical suburban comedy Nightbitch have come and gone without much fanfare. So it's great to announce that she has…
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“Oh my God, what a monstrous existence!” Haley McGee talks about her global success about aging | comedy

“Oh my God, what a monstrous existence!” Haley McGee talks about her global success about aging | comedy

🔥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Comedy,Theatre,Stage,Culture,Soho theatre,Comedy,Older people ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: IIt's the summer of 2024 and Hailey McGee is performing "Age is a Feeling" at a festival in Toronto. Its display is in good condition, having already received five-star reviews in Edinburgh. But this performance is different. As she begins her moving speech about life, death, and aging, she hears the sound of a baby crying.The newborn sleeps through the rest of the show, but the actress, newly pregnant, feels as if she is speaking directly to this child…
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Artist Henrik Naumann used sofas, chairs and coffee tables to interrogate a divided Germany | Art and design

Artist Henrik Naumann used sofas, chairs and coffee tables to interrogate a divided Germany | Art and design

💥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art and design,Germany,Culture,Europe,World news,Nazism ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: MWe have many colors and many layers. One grieves for people. But it is also possible to mourn a country, a system, or an ideology – even one that was deeply flawed. In 2019, artist Henrike Naumann built a living room in East Germany and rotated it 90 degrees. The sofa, chairs, and coffee table—all with an unmistakable '90s aesthetic—climbed the wall. The carpet has become vertical. Lockers hovered close to the floor alongside a rack of CDs,…
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The gap between critics and audiences has never been wider – just look at Melania’s score on Rotten Tomatoes | film

The gap between critics and audiences has never been wider – just look at Melania’s score on Rotten Tomatoes | film

💥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Melania,Film criticism,Rotten Tomatoes,Emilia Pérez,Under The Skin,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IIf you're starting to feel like you're living in a very different reality than most of the world, there's a good chance it's because you've been looking at the Rotten Tomatoes page for Melania Trump's documentary. There you will find two diametrically opposed numbers. The first is Rotten Tomatoes' official score — that score aggregated across published reviews by professional critics — which stands at a paltry 11%. But then there is the audience rating, which…
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‘Quite frankly, we’ve got nothing to lose’: How the UK is faring strangely for its 2026 Eurovision entry | Eurovision 2026

‘Quite frankly, we’ve got nothing to lose’: How the UK is faring strangely for its 2026 Eurovision entry | Eurovision 2026

✨ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Eurovision 2026,Television,Eurovision,Television & radio,Music,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TI have to be told, this probably won't be a great Eurovision contest. Five countries - Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Spain - are boycotting the contest due to Israel's continued annexation. Additionally, and perhaps not coincidentally, television viewership is falling to the ground. In 2024, BBC coverage lost a quarter of its annual viewers, and last year a million more left it.But there is good news on the horizon. The UK has just announced its entry this…
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10 early “fake” photographs that trick the eye

10 early “fake” photographs that trick the eye

✨ Explore this insightful post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 1. Daydream (1870–1890), unknownThere are two realities colliding in this nineteenth century Visiting card Which were purchased most likely to be collected and traded. Visiting cards They were small, mass-produced prints mounted on cardstock, and were very popular in the Victorian era. In this picture we see the present: a woman and her partner with the tools of their craft; And an imagined future: her dream of becoming a mother. Roseboom explains that the image was a “darkroom trick,” achieved by shielding part of the…
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YouTuber Look Mum No Computer has been selected as the UK’s entry for Eurovision 2026 | Eurovision

YouTuber Look Mum No Computer has been selected as the UK’s entry for Eurovision 2026 | Eurovision

💥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Eurovision,Music,Television & radio,Culture,UK news 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: YouTuber and experimental singer-songwriter Look Mum No Computer will represent the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna in May, the BBC has announced.The performer and Eurovision fan, whose real name is Sam Battle, launched his YouTube channel in 2016. He has amassed more than 85 million views and 1.4 million subscribers and followers across his various social accounts.He said: "I find it absolutely crazy to be jumping on this wonderful, wild ride. I've always been a…
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“It’s a nice surprise to be treated like royalty!” Why are mid-tier British indie bands so popular in China? | dew

“It’s a nice surprise to be treated like royalty!” Why are mid-tier British indie bands so popular in China? | dew

🚀 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Indie,Pop and rock,Music,Culture,China,Asia Pacific ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WWhen I joined Swim Deep 13 years ago, my dreams were very similar to those of any young musician: to play Glastonbury, to tour America, to have our music heard on the radio - all of which we managed to achieve. But what I didn't count on was finding a fan base in China. Although we've never intentionally released our music there, Swim Deep recently made a triumphant return from their fourth round of shows on Chinese soil in…
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“The Cry of the Rich and the Terrible”: The Song That TV Villains Love to Sing | television

“The Cry of the Rich and the Terrible”: The Song That TV Villains Love to Sing | television

💥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Kit Harington,The Night Manager,Gilbert and Sullivan,The West Wing,The Simpsons,Television & radio,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Industry, Season 4, Episode 6.If you're up on the latest developments in the industry (if not, proceed with caution) you'll know that Kit Harington's character, Henry Mock, spent Season 4 in more of a nightmare than usual. He was depressed, drunk, suicidal and lustful in equal measure, all of which culminated in the final episode in a sweaty affair with a man in a…
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