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Who was she?
The secret life of Egon Schiele’s muse
Egon Schiele’s portraits of his muse and love Wally Neuzil are among the artist’s most famous works – but who was she really? Kimberly Bradley investigates.
BBC.COM|BY KIMBERLY BRADLEY
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R Axel Alonso Eddie Redmayne?
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This show has struck a chord with women around the world.
This television series is Africa’s answer to Sex and the City
An African City follows the lives of independent young women in the Ghanaian capital Accra – and it has struck a chord with women around the world, writes…
BBC.COM|BY YEPOKA YEEBO
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Kris Dayton Is it called Ebola in the dirt?
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Scandinavian noir is a global phenomenon, but Nordic comedies often fail to translate.
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Doinitza Barsan nordic humour is as dark as it takes to hit the spot / i appreciate it 😇
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Carsten Holger Immanuel Larsen Some part of the world, for sure. But really a matter of taste.
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Middlemarch won our ‪#‎GreatBritishNovels‬ poll by a landslide.
Why Middlemarch is the greatest British novel
George Eliot’s sprawling tale of provincial life has triumphed in BBC Culture’s poll of the greatest British novels as voted by the rest of the world. Michael Gorra explains why.
BBC.COM|BY MICHAEL GORRA
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Donald Clift Is the purpose of literary criticism to find the winner of a poll?
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Mohammed Fida BBC had 10 videos on all the story of "war and peace" a great work that I watched in 1992 borrowing from British Council Library. Now wonder if it is available on CD and where from can be bought?
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A French scientist has claimed that there is another work hidden underneath Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece - but it might also have a twin.
The Isleworth Mona Lisa: A second Leonardo masterpiece?
Some say Leonardo’s masterpiece has a twin – another portrait of the Florentine merchant’s wife, painted when she was younger. Alastair Sooke investigates.
BBC.COM|BY ALASTAIR SOOKE
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Ation Ation i had visited Mona Lisa 2 times in Paris, for me i really don't like this painting more than other Master works
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William David French Jr I remember this being hypothesized back in the 1980s. Not really a new story.
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"A classroom should be a place of wisdom, happiness – and beauty."
The world’s most beautiful schools
They are buildings in which to teach and learn – but they can be magnificent too. Jonathan Glancey discusses some of the most stunning seats of learning.
BBC.COM|BY JONATHAN GLANCEY
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Writerella Writerella True, the trio of wisdom, happiness, and beauty blend best to give sound education. This is a balanced story well put across, and matter-of-factly, quite educating.
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Dina Iskander Educating, teaching should never stop in any human society, even if the life is hard, and environment is cruel
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She's been described as the 'Mona Lisa of the North'.
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Juan Pablo Donoso Urrutia That's an easy one, she was Scarlet Johanson!
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Mohamed Said I love the painting not just because of the professionality it is done with, but maybe because of the girl herself. The way she looks at me. The eyes, the lips. The look is sensual and innocent at the same time.
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A series of cheeky yet poignant portraits offer a unique insight.
Photographing the real Iraq
Jamal Penjweny was born in Kurdistan in 1981 and began taking photographs as a young shepherd.
BBC.COM|BY FIONA MACDONALD
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Janet Brody Wonder how Fazzy is doing?
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The civil rights movement is most often recalled through speeches and songs, but what about its art?
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Scott Benowitz Quite a few prominent activists from our civil rights movement have appeared on our postage stamps- from anti- slavery advocates from the 19th century, right on up to the activists of the 1960's and the early 1970's. People tend not to think of posta...See More
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Beth Heggen miss the afro and black is beautiful
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Is this the future of the piano?
The piano gets a radical redesign
The pianist Gergely Bogányi realised his instrument had no equal to the Stradivarius violin – so he attempted to build one. Is it the perfect piano? Clemency Burton-Hill reports.
BBC.COM|BY CLEMENCY BURTON-HILL
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Idraote Monteverdi instead of designing a spaceship piano which will be affordable for a bunch of billionnaires and is essentially useless as quality grand pianos are already exquisite, all this effort could have been spent in designing an innovative budget piano with a ...See More
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Darren Paul Bruce Wayne said can he have his piano back?
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He loved to show the capital’s bawdy, boozy side.
Hogarth’s London: Gin Lane and Beer Street
Alastair Sooke examines the artist’s view of vice and virtue.
BBC.COM|BY ALASTAIR SOOKE
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Charlie Marraffa I'd imagine that would have been an accurate depiction. Gin Lane,,was that near Syphilis Street or Gonorrhea Grove?
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Louisa Ellingham "He 'loved' to show..."? Perhaps "he saw the need to show" might tell the story better....
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The 100 greatest British novels
BBC Culture polled book critics outside the UK, to give an outsider’s perspective on the best in British literature.
BBC.COM|BY JANE CIABATTARI
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Brian A. Dixon "Casino Royale" (1953) by Ian Fleming. One of Britain's greatest h