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‘I’m amazed I lived to tell the tale’: Award-winning photographer on a life spent in the wild

The South African has spent the past two decades photographing lions, rhinos and elephants, embracing more adventure than most people will experience in a lifetime.

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NEW YORK - AUGUST 27: Taylor Swift performs during the Fearless Tour at Madison Square Garden on August 27, 2009 in New York City. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

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Why is Friday the 13th unlucky? The cultural origins of an enduring superstition

Sculpture of Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II unveiled in Antrim Castle Gardens

Antrim Castle Gardens

New sculpture of late Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip – plus corgis – divides opinion

Glenn D. Lowry, Director of The Museum of Modern Art attends the MoMA Exhibition Opening Reception: "ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN" at Museum of Modern Art on September 07, 2023 in New York City.

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Glenn Lowry, director of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, to step down after 30 years

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A portrait found in a Maine attic unexpectedly sold for $1.4M. Could it be a long-lost Rembrandt?

"Mao's Guilt" sculpture by Gao Zhen, left, and Gao Qiang, right, in Beijing, China, September 22, 2009.

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An artist made scathing sculptures of Mao over a decade ago. Now, he’s detained for slandering China’s heroes, family says

Ariel Heller, 4, helps to glue a broken clay jar during a special tour with his family after he accidentally broke another jar at the Reuben and Edith Hecht Museum in Haifa, Israel, Friday, August 30, 2024.

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Boy who accidentally broke 3,500-year-old jar welcomed back to museum

BLACKSWAN in "K-Pop Idols," premiering August 30, 2024 on Apple TV+.

Grit and glamour: Behind-the-scenes docuseries asks what it takes to become a K-pop idol

A 3,500-year-old jar accidentally smashed into pieces by a four-year-old boy is seen in a museum in Israel.

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4-year-old accidentally shatters Bronze Age jar at museum

Catarina Ykens II (1659-1737), Vanité au buste de femme, 1688 © La Fondation Phoebus, Anvers (Belgique)

Catarina Ykens II (1659-1737), Vanitas Bust of a Lady, 1688 © The Phoebus Foundation, Antwerp, Belgium

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Were these Renaissance masterpieces some of the world’s first ‘viral images’?

Banksy artwork in London, United Kingdom on August 13, 2024.

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Banksy London Zoo mural offers clue to why wild animals have been appearing all over city

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Almudena Romero

Instead of using film, this artist prints photos onto living plants

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Video Why filmmaker Maryam Keshavarz unearthed her family’s secrets for ‘The Persian Version’ 11:41

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Video ‘Nothing to be embarrassed about’: How Asian Americans take pride in their identities 2:39

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Video Daredevil stunts and elaborate costumes: Inside the competitive world of lion dancing 2:51

"Under the Wave off Kanagawa, from Thirty six views of Mount Fuji"

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Video The artisans keeping Japan’s woodblock print tradition alive 2:07

Video Takashi Murakami’s artistic influences 3:05