~openculture | Bookmarks (7)
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A Day in Tokyo: A 1968 Film Captures a City Reborn 23 Years After Its Destruction
During World War II, Tokyo sustained heavy damage, especially with the bombings conducted by the U.S....
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A Cultural Tour of Istanbul, Where the Art and History of Three Great Empires Come Together
Imagine a grand tour of European museums, and a fair few destinations come right to mind:...
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The Cardboard Bernini: An Artist Spends 4 Years Building a Giant Cardboard Fountain Inspired by the Baroque Sculptor Bernini, Only to Let It Dissolve in the Rain
From the Triton Fountain in the Piazza Barberini to the Fountain of the Four Rivers in...
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Ten Magnificent Historical Libraries (That You Can Still Visit Today)
When we first travel somewhere, we see nothing quite so clearly as the usual categories of...
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My Neighbor Totoro Inspires a Line of Traditional Japanese Handicrafts
We suppose it’s conceivable that a gift of a wooden Totoro figurine, hand-carved from a single...
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A Visit to Tianducheng, China’s Eerily Empty $1 Billion Copy of Paris
Not quite a century ago, Shanghai was known as “the Paris of the East.” (Or it...
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Take a Virtual Tour of the Lascaux Cave Paintings
Image via Wikimedia Commons The Lascaux Caves enjoyed a quiet existence for some 17,000 years. Then...