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Steel Sphere of 1936 Found During Demolition of a Paper Mill in North Carolina
Giant steel sphere discovered during the demolition of a paper mill in North Carolina The riveted steel sphere, about 9 metres high and weighing about 40 tonnes, is reported to have been built in 1936. Unfortunately, it was damaged by mistake during dismantling. The most convincing version suggests that the
Emmanuel Marre's film "Our Salvation", about his great-grandfather in Vichy, is released in France
On 30 September the Belgian-French director Emmanuel Marre's film "Our Salvation" opened in French cinemas; in May 2026 it won the prize for best screenplay in the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Strangely enough, this large political picture pleases audiences from the left
National Museum of Korea director criticised over misattributed work from his own collection
Yu Hong-jun, Director of the National Museum of Korea, is being criticised for lending the museum a work from his own collection that turned out to have been misattributed. At the exhibition "Korean Table: Food, Nature and Life", which opened on 1 July, the museum displayed a
The Metropolitan Museum and the Louvre Prepare “Rembrandt and the Ancients” for New York in 2027 and Paris in 2028
The Metropolitan Museum and the Louvre are jointly preparing the exhibition "Rembrandt and the Ancients". It will open in New York in November 2027 and travel to Paris in 2028. For the first time in more than twenty years, the Metropolitan will show so full a retrospective of