The artist Archie Moore has won the prestigious Golden Lion for best national participation at the 2024 Venice Biennale for his artwork commemorating 65,000 years of Indigenous Australian history – the first time an Australian artwork has won the prize.

Irish musician Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson
📷 Sarah Doyle

'Five of Europe’s best national parks – with all the beauty but none of the crowds. Offering exquisite scenery, rare wildlife and spectacular trails, these under-the-radar national parks are worth tracking down...' — Rachel Dixon

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London Day 1 📮 started the day with some excellent vegan waffles in Bethnal Green then off to explore the book-shopping scene in East Ldn. Jambala, Brick Lane, Libreria, Common Press. Pitstop in Kings X for Word on Water 🚤 Finished the day in Angel. Book count: 5 📚

The Academy Award-winning director studied at Cambridge and at London’s RADA, before entering the film industry. Riot in Cell Block 11, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and Dirty Harry, are among his best known action dramas.

Don Siegel
October 26, 1912 – April 20, 1991

According to Bram Stoker's son Noel, the genesis of Dracula was a dream about a vampire king rising from his tomb. Bram Stoker died on April 20, 1912, and did not live to see the immense cultural impact of his novel, and the many permutations in print and on the screen...

'If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography,
probably to the exclusion of acting...'

📷 Jessica Lange #botd

'Miró's work is loved for its joyful celebration of life and colour. It also contains ideas of freedom which, in Franco's Spain, were very dear to the painter...' — Tim Adams

Joan Miró #botd
April 20, 1893

'Among Post-Impressionists, it was the symbolist Odilon Redon #botd who most excelled with pastels, finding its brilliant colours a potent means of communicating his intense visions...' — Emma Crichton-Miller

Im Regen
Franz Marc, 1912

Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence and Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai have teamed up and made Bread & Roses, a film about the abuse of women in Afghanistan. In an emotional interview, they discuss women being denied every basic right and opportunity...

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'Agnès Varda’s 'Cléo de 5 à 7' dazzled when it opened in 1962, and looks even more timely today in its tackling of female identity as a function of how women see and are seen by the world...' — Molly Haskell

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'Beyond myself, somewhere,
I wait for my arrival...'

Octavio Paz
March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998

Lord Byron, poet and peer, joined the Greek War of Independence to fight the Ottoman Empire, for which Greeks revere him as a folk hero. He died of a fever #otd aged thirty-six in Missolonghi...

Lord Byron
January 22, 1788 – April 19, 1824

'The only things I'm competitive in,
are backgammon and poker...' — Kate Hudson #botd

Much missed gifted theatre, film and television comic, classical and jazz pianist, and composer. He played the Brahms Triple Concerto with Itzhak Perlman and Yo-Yo Ma, and fronted a classical music series on British television partnered by Sir Georg Solti...

Dudley Moore #botd