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A collaborative work by a photographer, a poet, and an artist, “The Harlem Book of the Dead,” newly reissued, tells stories through funerary portraits.

Dhumal also praised Rohit's batting mastery in the just finished three-match ODI series against Australia, when he was named Player of the Series, and expressed optimism that both Rohit and Kohli are ...

As director of London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts, Bengi Ünsal is leading the cultural space into a more ambitious, eclectic and interdisciplinary space ...