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Ed Sheeran’s 'Play' Album Arrives Friday as Tour Launches in Paris

This is Beirut 12/09 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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British popstar Ed Sheeran, who recently revealed an upcoming United States tour, will release his latest album Play on Friday. Play is the 34-year-old singer-songwriter's eighth studio album and follows more than a decade of stunning global success and smash hits like Shape of You and Perfect. He released his last album, Autumn Variations, in ...

Ralph Lauren Opens New York Fashion Week With Minimalist Spring 2026 Collection

This is Beirut 11/09 13:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Ralph Lauren moved the start of New York Fashion Week a few hours early, presenting a Spring 2026 collection on Wednesday that the designer described as minimalist with a touch of softness. The setting: the designer's offices on tony Madison Avenue, where models presented a range of fitted and flowing silhouettes mostly in solid ...

Viking Ships Make Final High-risk Voyage to New Oslo Home

This is Beirut 11/09 10:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Three 1,200-year-old Viking ships that have stood the test of time are embarking on their final and possibly riskiest journey to their new forever home in Norway. The first to relocate is the Oseberg, which on Wednesday slowly made its way from its current location in the old Viking Ship Museum, arriving intact with a newly built addition that ...

400-Year-Old Rubens Found in Paris Mansion

This is Beirut 10/09 20:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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A long-lost painting by 17th-century Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens has been found in a Paris mansion, a French auctioneer said on Wednesday. "It is a masterpiece," said Jean-Pierre Osenat, who had made the discovery, referring to the sketch of Jesus Christ on the cross painted in 1613. "It was painted by Rubens at the height of his talent," ...

ExplainerThe Unconscious in the Digital Age: What Freud and Lacan Would Have Seen on Our Screens

David Sahyoun 10/09 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

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Freud repeatedly insisted that the unconscious cannot be grasped directly; it reveals itself instead through slips of the tongue, dreams, fantasies, and symptoms. Today, the web provides a stage where these formations of the unconscious assume new forms. Each Google search, each video watched on repeat, each story posted—or deleted—becomes the ...

Elina Garanca Defends Opera Amid Digital Age Challenges

This is Beirut 10/09 13:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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In her decades-long career, star Latvian mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca has seen the ups and downs of the music industry first hand. But the business has changed drastically with the rise of social media, even impacting the way many people inside and outside the industry approach classical music — namely "without patience or time", she told ...

Colin Farrell Bets Big in Macau For New Film Alongside Tilda Swinton

This is Beirut 10/09 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Colin Farrell plunges into an intoxicating fever dream among the high-stakes baccarat tables of Macau casinos with Ballad of a Small Player, a rare major Western film shot on location in Asia's gambling capital. The surreal, dark and twisty drama co-stars Tilda Swinton as an investigator in pursuit of Farrell's velvet-suited conman and gambling ...

StoryThe Model Behind Courbet’s 'L’Origine du monde'

Bélinda Ibrahim 09/09 19:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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It is hard to imagine today the scandal Courbet’s painting sparked in 1866. Commissioned by Ottoman diplomat Khalil Bey, the canvas depicts, without embellishment, the genitals of a reclining woman — with no face and no background. Rendered with almost photographic realism, it disturbed, shocked, and unsettled. For more than a century, the ...

The Creator of ‘The Da Vinci Code’ Returns With Ambitious New Thriller

This is Beirut 09/09 14:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Best-selling American author Dan Brown, creator of the publishing phenomenon The Da Vinci Code, released his latest thriller Tuesday in 16 languages simultaneously. The Secret of Secrets, which runs to nearly 700 pages in English, marks Brown's return eight years after his last novel, Origin. Brown called it "by far the most intricately plotted ...

Dwayne Johnson’s Oscar Journey Begins at Toronto Premiere

This is Beirut 09/09 13:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Wrestler-turned-actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's surprise Oscars campaign for his first arthouse role in The Smashing Machine barreled into the Toronto Film Festival Monday. Johnson, 53, who has earned rave reviews playing fighter Mark Kerr, sat down with an audience before the movie's North American premiere to reflect on a unique ...

Super Mario’s Global Impact: A Phenomenon in Numbers

This is Beirut 09/09 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Super Mario Nintendo Games Art Hit Bookstores

Nintendo's chirpy Italian mascot Mario has run and jumped his way to four decades of global stardom, broadening the appeal of the video game industry as one of its most beloved characters. 40 Million Cartridges The original Super Mario Bros. cartridge game was released in 1985 for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) console in the United ...

Giorgio Armani’s Family Bids Private Farewell at Historic Rivalta Church

This is Beirut 08/09 14:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The private funeral of fashion legend Giorgio Armani was set to take place Monday in a picturesque village near Piacenza, in the northern Italian region where the designer grew up. Only about 60 people were expected at the 3:30 pm (1330 GMT) ceremony, according to local media, at the 14th-century Church of San Martino in Rivalta, south of ...