If you’re ready for some holiday spirit as soon as Halloween is over, area attractions and event planners have you covered. After making its post-pandemic return last year, the Gingerbread Village event at Exploration Place opens the holiday event season in Wichita the first weekend in November. Other holiday events this year include long-running holiday
Photo: Indians Migrating by Alexander F. Harmer, n.d., Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.(Credit Image: © Album via ZUMA Press) Jeff Fynn-Paul, Not Stolen: The Truth About European Colonialism in the New World, Bombardier Books, 2023, 386 pp., $17.26 (paper) The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada, opens every public lecture with this: In the spirit of
New York’s Metropolitan Museum houses a pair of 2,000-year-old earrings from South India. About 3 inches wide and 1.5 inches in length, the earring seems small compared to the wide variety of monumental and magnificent objects from South Asia that surround them. Yet, for ear ornaments they are large – each one is about the
When priests at the Krishnaswamy temple in Attingal in southern Kerala summoned gods through rituals, a young A Ramachandran watched in quiet wonder. Years later, his sculptures still reflect those cosmic arrangements — the precision with which the sanctum was adorned for worshippers to be mesmerised by the idol that shone in the light of
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save The Vikings have lived within the American imagination for hundreds of years, and they were on the continent long before. There is incontrovertible evidence that Northmen, probably sailing from Greenland, lived at least seasonally in North America beginning around A.D. 1000. Medieval sagas speak of
It’s rare for a new restaurant to open without some sort of gimmick these days. After all, you have to stand out to survive in a city like London. When I heard about ‘Europe’s first sushi monorail’, my gimmick alarm bells started ringing. Food arriving on a train seems very Yo! Sushi 2.0, and I’m
‘Artificial intelligence’ is a misnomer, a natural scientist admonished me at a recent summer symposium by Lake Garda in sunny Italy. Instead, I should have said ‘artificial neural networks.’ Presumably his reason for this fraternal correction was that machines do not possess real intelligence as humans do. Variants on this argument percolate on the web
Bonhams will conduct its first ever Irish sale in Ireland this month in a timed online auction with bidding from November 17th-28th. The 126 lots will be on view at City Assembly House on Dublin’s South William Street from November 24th-28th. Entitled The Irish Sale, Vision and Voice, “it’s about celebrating those who have shaped
Next weekend in Dublin promises to be a great one for art lovers with Art Source at the RDS and Dublin Gallery Weekend events taking place around the city. Over 15,000 people are expected to attend Art Source to see the work of over 200 contemporary artists from Ireland and abroad. Visitors will also have
Like whiskey and cheese, friendships and fine leather, some things just get better with age. Bluetooth OLD and Fredric Wandres are one such pairing. Since making their international debut in 2021, the German dressage duo have statistically improved year over year—and by multiple percentage points. In 2021, the pair averaged 71.776% in the Grand Prix.