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Ancient Korean silk paintings get a mind-bending contemporary spin

Oscar Holland, CNN The closer you look at Hun Kyu Kim’s paintings, the more disquieting they become. At first glance, the South Korean artist’s creations combine the cutesiness of Japanese anime with the allegorical storytelling of centuries-old Buddhist scrolls. Anthropomorphic animals act out endless narratives in colorful, cartoonish worlds. But the devil is, almost literally,

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She grew up during Iran’s Islamic revolution. Today, artist Marjane Satrapi feels conflicted her memoir is ‘more accurate than ever’

Leah Dolan, CNN Iranian-French artist Marjane Satrapi was 10 when wearing the veil became compulsory at the non-religious, French-speaking school she attended in Tehran. Previously, boys and girls were taught together, but she was soon also separated from her male friends in the name of a cultural revolution instigated by revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

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Carvings ran along irrigation canals in Faida Archaeological Park in northern Iraq.

Archaeologists restoring ISIS damage in Iraq discover Assyrian reliefs unseen for millennia

Christian Edwards, CNN Archaeologists in northern Iraq have uncovered some extraordinary Assyrian rock carvings dating back around 2,700 years. The discovery was made in Nineveh, east of Mosul, by a joint US-Iraqi excavation team completing reconstruction work on the Mashki Gate, which ISIS militants destroyed in 2016. Iraq was home to some of the world’s

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Ritz-Carlton’s $6,400-a-week luxury superyacht cruise has finally set sail

Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN Ritz-Carlton’s highly-anticipated superyacht cruise has finally made its debut, three and a half years after its maiden voyage was originally scheduled to begin. Evrima, the first of three custom-built yachts from the famous hotel chain’s Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection, began a seven-night cruise from Barcelona, Spain to Nice, France on October 15. The

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