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A White House in Basel: Ai Wei Wei installation looms large at Swiss art event

Ai Wei’s Wei’s temple-like ‘White House’ is one of the main attractions of Art Basel’s Unlimited section, a space focusing on big art, featuring massive sculptures and paintings, video projections, la

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Monte-Carlo festival celebrates 'new golden age' of TV

Stars of the big screen and lots from the little screen turned out en masse for the 56th Monte Carlo TV Festival.

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Italian restaurant is the "best in the world"

Run by chef Massimo Bottura, the Osteria Francescana can be found in the Italian city of Modena.

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The best of Arts in Europe

Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius is the internationally-acclaimed, must-see exhibition of 2016 and demonstrates the full scope of Da Vinci’s remark

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Postcards from Azerbaijan: The tradition of tea

This week in Postcards from Azerbaijan, the country's deep attachment to tea

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Creating 3D models with your mobile phone

In this edition of Futuris, we look at whether our smartphones can help to create sophisticated 3D models.

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Takeaway: 3D in your pocket

This sophisticated 3D model can partially be made with your smartphone.

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At a gallery near you

Contemporary art, photography festivals and architectural exhibits across Europe.

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Postcards from Azerbaijan: Hiking around Khinalig

Our postcard this week is from the Guba region and the stunning landscape around the village of Khinalig

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The remote mountain village that has its very own language

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Sydney Opera House a cascade of colour for VIVID Light Festival

A light show on the sails of the Sydney Opera House opened the VIVID Festival, a festival which celebrated light, music and new ideas.

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Couture in Orbit: from spacewalk to catwalk

Fashion inspired by space was the subject of an event to mark the European Space Agency’s five missions to the International Space Station over the past five…

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Istanbul hosts International Theatre Festival

Some of the finest theatre companies and dance groups from Turkey and around the world are gathered in Istanbul for the International Theatre…

India

Insect excrement turning the Taj Mahal green

The Taj Mahal hasn’t always had it easy.

France

Cannes Festival: EU film-funding project celebrates 25 years

Almost half of the films in the official competition at Cannes this year are supported by the EU MEDIA programme. The project – celebrating 25 years

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Ganja: inspiring Europe's young people to reach their full potential

The Azerbaijani city of Ganja used to be the country’s ancient capital. It was founded over 2,500 years ago. Record numbers of young people live in

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Azeri city of of Sheki is cultural capital of Turkic world

Sheki in northern Azerbaijan lies on the ancient Silk Route. The city has been named ‘cultural capital of the Turkic world’ in 2016, and as such is

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Sao Paulo Fashion Week goes sober amid Brazil crisis

It is a more sober Sao Paulo Fashion Week that is taking place in Brazil’s largest city this year, as the country faces its worst economic crisis in

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Cervantes honoured in Spanish parliament

Actors put on a performance inside the Spanish parliament as part of a commemoration of the 400th anniversary of writer Miguel de Cervantes’s death.

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An emotional return home to Palmyra

I have my “children and my health, that’s what matters,” said So’ad Daher. The 63-year-old was one among a few hundred residents of Palmyra to make a