Xi Jinping’s life, like the lives of all China’s top leaders, is hidden behind a wall of secrecy. Xi has been in power for ...

A wholly revamped version of the 1980 film starring Malcolm McDowell, Peter O’Toole, John Gielgud and Helen Mirren is a ...

Most of us have watched a Disney cartoon at least once in our lives. Many of them, not just the classic ones, are considered ...

Shin Emperor is the full brother of the 2020 Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Sottsass, and seeks to give Japan it's ...

Amid the loud drilling and clanging of metal as workers put up tentage, temple volunteers gathered in Leong Nam Temple in Sengkang, where preparations for the Nine Emperor Gods Festival were in ...

A teeming MOMA series highlights the political power of Portuguese filmmakers’ innovative methods, from the nineteen-sixties ...

Constantine XI Palaiologos, last Byzantine emperor. Credit: George E. Koronaios /Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0 On May 29, 1453, the Ottoman army, led by Mehmed the Conqueror, seized Constantinople, ...

It is with a profound sense of loss that we bid farewell to Mr Ratan Naval Tata, a truly uncommon leader whose immeasurable ...

The long line of ancient Roman emperors is marked by a strange pattern: Almost every exceptionally brilliant emperor was succeeded by an exceptionally mad one. The benevolent emperor Claudius, who ...

Patti Smith has contemplated the role of the artist time and time again, but on one 2012 improvisation, she considered art's position on a dying planet.

“Um, today America is Rome. And we’re about to go through the same experience, for the same reasons, that Rome lost its republic and ended up with an emperor.” The auteur added, “This ...

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