French
- Join critic Emma Jones and presenter Eve Jackson for this week's arts24 film show, where we dive into Mike Leigh's latest film "Hard Truths", celebrating his impressive 53-year career. Plus, we discuss Netflix's gritty "Banger" starring Vincent Cassel, and the highly anticipated Minecraft Movie featuring Jack Black and Jason Momoa.
- South African TV and film writers Amy Jephta and Sean Drummond join Dheepthika Laurent on set to talk about their upcoming projects. Sean was head writer on the second season of "Unseen", a wildly popular crime thriller on Netflix. He also talks about his 2017 neo-Western, "Five Fingers for Marseilles", a film that inspired one […]
- This week, Marjorie Hache chats to two up-and-coming musical outfits: Naya Mö, who comes from Bordeaux and has just released an EP, "Dealing With Ghosts", full of layered lo-fi indie; and Oracle Sisters, a trio who formed in Paris but hail from Denmark, Finland and Northern Ireland. They have just released their second mystical album […]
- Emmy-nominated actor and 1960s heartthrob Richard Chamberlain, who rocketed to fame in the TV medical drama "Dr. Kildare" and starred in the mini-series "Shogun" and "The Thorn Birds", has died at the age of 90, publicist Harlan Boll said.
- As Mike Leigh's five-decade career takes centre stage at the Paris Cinémathèque for a retrospective, the British filmmaker speaks to Eve Jackson about 50 years of making movies, from the raw intensity of "Naked" and the jubilant optimism of "Happy-Go-Lucky", to historical storytelling in "Peterloo" and "Mr Turner". With accolades like the Palme d'Or for "Secrets & Lies" […]
- Join film critic Emma Jones and presenter Eve Jackson on this week’s arts24 film show as we explore the action-comedy "Novocaine" starring Jack Quaid, Nicole Kidman’s "Holland" on Amazon Prime and the critically acclaimed "The Grill" by Alonso Ruizpalacios. Plus, we dive into the legacy of German filmmaker Ernst Lubitsch with a retrospective at the […]
India
- This year, DAG’s City as a Museum program has travelled to Mumbai. This unique, and inspiring festival highlights a city’s artistic traditions and narratives through guided tours, discussions, concerts and workshops – while connecting to the collection. The first edition was held in Kolkata over ten days and back then too, we were delighted to […]
- The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (RAS), founded in 1823, has long served as a hub for scholarly exchange and public engagement with the histories and cultures of Asia. Today, it continues as a learned society with members worldwide, engaging a global audience passionate about Asian studies. The RAS library holds an […]
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- The Heritage Lab and Wikimedia UK are teaming up for the Open Knowledge fellowship in 2025. Through this very exciting collaboration, we hope to bring fresh perspectives, and uncover untold stories related to South Asian collections housed in UK-based GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums). We see this as an opportunity to reshape narratives, spotlight underrepresented histories, and […]
- The Humayun’s Tomb Museum in New Delhi opened to visitors in August 2024. It has since been tagged as “Delhi’s best museum”, becoming a visitor favourite in a short span of time. The Humayun’s Tomb in Delhi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the first garden tomb built in India. It was commissioned by […]
- History is a tapestry woven with choices—some deliberate, some inevitable. As part of the #CulturalxCollabs project by the Museum for Islamic Art (SMB Berlin), I received a fragment of a carpet that mirrors the famous 17th century Dragon carpet in the museum’s collection. The original carpet, woven in Caucaus (in what is today Georgia, Armenia, […]
Japanese Culture and Language
- Learning kanji is tough. The unfamiliar shapes. All the different ways to read a single kanji. And what's more — there are over 2,000 of them to learn?! Unfortunately, there's no shortcut around these hurdles. And I'm not gonna lie, learning kanji…
- Hiragana and katakana are literally the ABCs of Japanese. They're the most basic types of Japanese characters and essential parts of the Japanese language. Learning these two types of characters is often the very first step to learning Japanese, too…
- Looking for a simple tool to practice reading hiragana and katakana, as many times as you want to? Well, Tofugu's Learn Kana Quiz might be a perfect tool for you. We actually made this kana quiz tool a few years ago as a companion to our Learn Hiragana…
- The year might be drawing to a close, but it's a perfect time to do something new with your Japanese study! Take a look below at the latest list of Japanese learning resources, lovingly selected by our team, to help supercharge your Japanese study…
- The WaniKani Winter Sale has begun! Just like in previous years, we're offering 33% off WaniKani lifetime accounts, so the regular price of $299 is now $199. The sale ends on January 5th, 2023, so don't miss your chance if you were waiting for this…
- Even in situations when Japanese people are quite positive that something is true, they typically hold back on expressing claims. Similar to how one might use a layer of wrapping paper to hide what is really within a package, when speaking Japanese…
English
- More than a million people watched online as details of the long awaited successor to the hit console were announced.
- The British rock band scraps a concert after the promoter insulted anti-government protesters.
- After Sir Gareth Southgate's criticism of gaming, a maker says titles are made as "an outlet for enjoyment".
- He starred in some of the biggest movies of the 1980s and 90s, including Top Gun and The Doors.
- Michael Sheen will star as Owain Glyndwr, the last Welsh-born Prince of Wales, in a new stage play.
- A tiny former toilet block in Malvern is due to reopen as a 12-seater theatre after a £17k fundraiser