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Megan Thee Stallion attends the arrivals of the 2025 Gold Gala at The Music Center in Los Angeles, CA on May 10, 2025. (Photo by Corine Solberg/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)
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British fashion designer of Dior John Galliano, British fashion magazine editor Liz Tilberis, Lady Diana, Pricess of Wales, CEO of the French conglomerate LVMH Bernard Arnault and his wife Hélène Arnault, attend the 50th Anniversary of The House of Dior, (founded on December 16, 1946) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York. (Photo by Stephane Cardinale/Sygma via Getty Images)
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 05: Zendaya attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by John Shearer/WireImage)
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Arts

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Koyo Kouoh, history-making curator of the 2026 Venice Biennale, has died, age 57
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South Korea’s unique housing culture has inspired a major new exhibition
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Princess Beatrix of The Netherlands opens the exhibition "Queens by Andy Warhol" at another museum in the Netherlands in October 2024.
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Dutch town hall says it may have accidentally thrown out Andy Warhol work
Rare set of first editions of Shakespeare’s plays could fetch $6 million at auction
It was once a small Spanish fishing town. Now it attracts millions of tourists every year

Architecture

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Shortlisted designs for Queen Elizabeth II’s official London memorial unveiled
NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 8: The sun sets on midtown Manhattan and the Chrysler Building seen from the 86th floor of the Empire State Building on August 8, 2023, in New York City. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)
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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto/Shutterstock (14680209k) The 597-meter high Goldin Finance 117 Tower, known as the world's first unfinished building, is pictured in Tianjin, China, on August 28, 2024. The construction of Goldin Finance 117 Building in Xiqing District, Tianjin, begins in September 2008, and on September 8, 2015, Goldin Finance 117 completes the main structure. Goldin Finance 117 becomes an unfinished building, stalled by Goldin's plunging market value and poor sales. World's First Unfinished Building in Tianjin, China - 30 Aug 2024
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Construction of world’s tallest abandoned skyscraper to resume after a decade
The Sagrada Familia has taken more than 140 years to build.
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Vatican puts Sagrada Família architect on the path to sainthood
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North Korea unveils new 10,000-home showpiece residential district
Mar 19, 2025
Detail, the Empire State Building, The Panorama of the City of New York, 2018.
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The world’s largest architectural model captures New York City in the ’90s
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Fashion

TOPSHOT - US singer Diana Ross arrives for the 2025 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 5, 2025, in New York. The Gala raises money for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. The 2025 Met Gala is themed "Tailored for You," aligning with the Costume Institute's exhibition, "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style," set to open to the public on May 10. (Photo by Angela WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Kamala Harris poses for a portrait in New York on May 5. Hair by Antonio Velotta, and makeup by Marquia James.
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 05: Rihanna attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola/MG25/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)
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Rihanna reveals third pregnancy at the Met Gala
Shah Rukh Khan at The 2025 Met Gala Celebrating "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York, New York. (Photo by Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images)
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 06: Tyla attends The 2024 Met Gala Celebrating "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)
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Janelle Monae arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 4, 2018, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 03: Sarah Jessica Parker is seen on the set of "And Just Like That..." Season 2 the follow up series to "Sex and the City" in the West Village on November 3, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by James Devaney/GC Images)
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Design

PARIS, FRANCE - MARCH 08: A guest wears brown coat, white blouse, orange Hermes bag with a bag charm brown Labubu monster, grey pants outside the Hermes fashion show during the Womenswear Fall/Winter 2025/2026 as part of Paris Fashion Week on March 08, 2025 in Paris, France. (Photo by Raimonda Kulikauskiene/Getty Images)
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Labubu: The ‘kind of ugly’ plush toy that has taken the world by storm
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This undated image provided by Studio Kukkapuro shows Yrjö Kukkapuro, a renowned Finnish furniture designer whose postmodern style of chairs graced waiting rooms and museums alike, sitting in his famous Experimental chair in his studio outside Helsinki.
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Yrjö Kukkapuro, designer whose iconic chairs were sat on by ‘almost every Finn,’ dies age 91
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 29: Martha Stewart attends the 2024 WWD Honors at Cipriani South Street on October 29, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by John Nacion/WireImage)
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Now you can have Martha Stewart in your garden
Phil Cicio, an electrician at Artkraft Strauss Sign Corporation, checks the lights on the ball that will drop in New York's Times Square on New Year's Eve, at the company's warehouse in New York, Dec. 26, 1991. The ball weighs 200 pounds, is six feet in diameter and contains 180 white outdoor lamps. The tradition dates back to 1907 when the first ball was lowered from the top of One Times Square, then the New York Times building.
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London, England, UK, 30 September 2024 - Looks Delicious! exhbition at Japan House London
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This food looks too good to be real — and it is

Beauty

Students in uniform from multiple school wearing white ribbons and make the three-finger salute rally in front of Education Ministry calling the ouster of the education minister and the prime minister to step down on August 19, 2020 in Bangkok, Thailand. (Photo by Vachira Vachira/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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After 50 years, Thailand finally strikes down strict rules on students’ hair lengths
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TOPSHOT - US' Sha'Carri Richardson celebrates after winning the women's 100m heat of the athletics event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at Stade de France in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, on August 2, 2024. (Photo by Jewel SAMAD / AFP) (Photo by JEWEL SAMAD/AFP via Getty Images)
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TikTok has withdrawn a controversial "chubby" filter.
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Millie Bobby Brown poses for photographers upon arrival at the Brit Awards 2025 in London, Saturday, March. 1, 2025. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)
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Millie Bobby Brown responds to articles criticizing her appearance

Luxury

This undated handout picture provided by the auctioneers Henry Aldridge & Son, England, shows a lettercard, penned by one of the Titanic's most well-known survivors from onboard the ship days before it sank, which has sold for 300,000 pounds ($399,000) at auction.
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Letter written onboard the Titanic before it sank sells for almost $400,000
Taylor Swift at the 66th Annual GRAMMY Awards held at Crypto.com Arena on February 4, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Gilbert Flores/Billboard via Getty Images)
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A handbag on display at a Hermes International SA luxury clothing boutique in Paris, France, on Thursday, April 25, 2024. Hermes saw Chinese buyers snap up its luxury products as the Kelly bag maker showed its resilience amid a broader slowdown in demand for the sector. Photographer: Benjamin Girette/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Hermès overtakes LVMH to become the world’s most valuable luxury company
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Amid a ’70s design revival, colorful hard-stone watch dials make a comeback
The four-story penthouse of Steinway Tower, Manhattan’s ultra-thin supertall tower, has hit the market at $110 million.
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Penthouse atop world’s skinniest skyscraper is now on the market for $110 million
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NEW YORK, NY - MAY 04: Rihanna attends the "China: Through The Looking Glass" Costume Institute Benefit Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 4, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images)
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A couple walked from opposite ends of China’s Great Wall and met in the middle. Then they broke up
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Photography

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What life is like in one of the remotest places on Earth
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Striking photographs document environmental decay on world’s largest lake
Kabul, Kabul, Afghanistan, March 2, 2024. A group of teenage girls celebrate their friend's birthday at her house. Music and dancing have been forbidden by the Taliban but women continue to dance and celebrate in the privacy of their homes and behind the closed doors. © Kiana Hayeri for Fondation Carmignac
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In this birthday party portrait, teenage girls celebrate in secret in Afghanistan
A young woman and her customer photographed by Mary Ellen Mark. The late American photographer gained remarkable access to Mumbai's red light district in the 1970s.
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A photographer gained rare access to Mumbai’s red-light district in the 1970s. Here’s what she saw
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In Gregory Crewdson’s photographs, an enduring, haunted vision of American life
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The mysterious New York nanny who helped shape 20th-century street photography