Culture
-
Hollywood’s most stunning costume jewellery
William de Lillo beaded fringe necklace The Belgian-born William de Lillo worked at Tiffany, Cartier and Harry Winston in New…
Read More » -
The CIA spy shot down over Russia in 1960
A Moscow court sentenced a US pilot to 10 years in a Cold War debacle Source link
Read More » -
The real reasons why And Just Like That failed to live up to Sex and the City
Meanwhile, although the show tried to rectify the lack of diversity in the original series with various characters and storylines,…
Read More » -
The radical manifesto hidden in Georges Seurat’s 1884 masterpiece
From its inception, Seurat was determined that Bathers at Asnières would not be just another painting. It was an audacious…
Read More » -
The hidden depths of the blonde bombshell
Western culture, she says, has built a whole mythology around female blondeness − from religious iconography and fairy tales, to…
Read More » -
How a 2003 blackout brought New York City to a standstill
A series of fires broke out around the city. In an effort to see in the dark, many New Yorkers…
Read More » -
How dark and daring gamble The Black Cauldron became a notorious Disney flop
What is certain is that The Black Cauldron aimed to be a different kind of Disney film. “Ron Miller, the…
Read More » -
How Keep Calm and Carry On became a divisive 21st-Century phenomenon
Simplicity of design The slogan has also been appropriated by protesters, “subverting the original propaganda message by adapting it to…
Read More » -
‘It’s a reminder of childhood’: How Pac-Man changed gaming
“Pac-Man [the character] was designed to represent the core concept of the game, ‘to eat’, in the simplest way possible,”…
Read More » -
How the Mississippi Burning murders sparked landmark change in the US
Throughout July, as FBI agents continued to scour the Mississippi swampland looking for the three missing civil rights activists, they…
Read More »