Cultura Mundial

Em meio ao combate, por que a cultura teatral está crescendo na Ucrânia?

Mesmo que tenha havido ataques aéreos e ameaças às suas vidas, os ucranianos que amam cultura continuam esperando horas ou meses por ingressos para ver suas apresentações favoritas. Imagem: Yurii Rylchuk/Avalon/IMAGO Eu me arrumo toda, faço minha maquiagem e borrifo meu perfume para eventos especiais. Uma espectadora de teatro de Kiev chamada Olena Vdovychenko conta

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Por que os alemães decidiram se estabelecer no Brasil há duzentos anos?

Poverty was common in Germany two hundred years ago. Thousands of Germans emigrated at the time due to an enticing offer from the Brazilian ruler. Germans had it tough at the turn of the nineteenth century due to the Napoleonic Wars’ aftermath, poor harvests, and heavy taxes. After after, an enticing offer arrived from across

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James Baldwin, an American novelist, is a spokeswoman against racism.

On August 2, James Baldwin, who is widely considered to be one of the most influential African American authors, would have been 100 years old. In the year 1924, James Baldwin was born in the New York neighborhood of Harlem, at a time when racism was already prevalent across the globe. Poverty was widespread, and

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Threatening Berlin’s exclusive Jewish museum

The Mendelssohn-Remise, which documents Jewish life in Berlin and the music of musician Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, may soon go down Jewish members of the Mendelssohn family made significant contributions to the intellectual, financial, and cultural life of Germany beginning in the 18th century. They were also musicians and financiers. But when the Nazis took over

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Germanic stone sculpture conveys the story of our forefathers’ inventiveness

Cave dwellers in the Stone Age were everything but boring. Their capabilities are shown by the astonishing artifacts discovered in the caverns of the Danube Valley in southern Germany. Image: Ria Litzenberg/Universität Tübingen Is the Swabian Jura in southern Germany the birthplace of contemporary Europeans? After finding many figures crafted from mammoth ivory that date back

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A controvérsia da vila olímpica de Paris — e outras

Cities hosting the Olympics have developed enormous tracts of purpose-made housing for athletes since 1924. These are widely used for urban redevelopment, but do they benefit local communities? Pierre de Coubertin, co-founder of the IOC in 1894, proposed the first Olympic village in Paris for the 1924 Summer Games. The athletes would sleep and eat

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Coquette: O controverso movimento ultra-feminino

With bows everywhere, coquette style is becoming more trendy. Does it look problematic or joyful and empowering? Our dogs, rooms, and makeup are coquette in 2024. Bows are appearing in previously unthinkable settings including the office and gym. Gen Z and younger millennials have found a way to wear Sofia Coppola films, from Marie Antoinette’s

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