An In-Ear Art Gallery

Not satisfied with traditional methods of displaying his art, Joe Sola will be exhibiting his latest series of teeny-tiny paintings inside an art gallery owner’s ear canal. The medium? Oils.

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He’s gonna be the main event, like no king was before: the latest addition to Serbia’s Belgrade Zoo, a white lion cub, is adorably working on his roar.

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Architect Antoni Gaudí never lived to see the completion of the Sagrada Familia, his towering Catholic masterpiece in Barcelona. After over a century of stop-start construction, the cathedral should be complete in 2026. Until then, the magic of computer animation helps imagine what the final product will look like, a century after its creator’s death.

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How well do you know the flags of the world? (A quiz not for the geographically uncertain.)

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First impressions matter, and these 50 best opening scenes of all time set the stage for cinematic history.

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Someone should introduce the Vatican to a good copy-editor, or at least to the spell-check function.

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Vegans and vegetarians are used to being asked by worried friends how they get their protein. Here’s how.