KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) _ Jamaica plans to open a music museum next year that officials say will feature rare pieces from the island’s music history, such as the sole album that the late reggae star Bob Marley produced before he gained …

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Wasted Spaces provides new exhibition opportunities for young artists.

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Infuriated by Mr. Bush’s apparent indifference toward history, and feeling compelled to do something to stave off a sense of total helplessness, Ms. Beck turned to writing. The play that emerged is “Number of People,” a one-man show …

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Israel’s lethal weapons might have changed the landscape of Gaza and Palestine, but the will of Gazans and Palestinians are what have shaped the landscape of Palestine’s history.

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Remember when we told you about the new history museum for Birmingham, AL? Well, it looks like things are moving forward according to plan…

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Post-Thumbnail. No Thumbnail. Rosamund Bartlett, Anton Chekhov’s English biographer and director of the Anton Chekhov Foundation, writes about the plight of Chekhov’s house-museum in Yalta, Crimea, at OpenDemocracy.net. …

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Eric Ferrara, the Executive Director of the Lower East Side History Project has announced the Museum of the American Gangster will open in New York City this spring.

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Something is afoot in the Sydney art scene; the arts community, a community that has not traditionally been notable for it’s collaborative outlook, is coming together with a common vision to share their love of contemporary art with the …

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TakaHashi mixes unconventional materials with an outsider’s perspective to narrate an foreigner’s view of London.

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Macedonia, Turkey: Connected, not Divided by History. Monday, February 15th, 2010 @ 11:42 UTC. by Filip Stojanovski. Regions and Countries, » Americas, » Central Asia & Caucasus, » East Asia, » Eastern & Central Europe, » Middle East …

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