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Notting Hill was a huge success, both critically and commercially, and became the highest-grossing British film of all time.

Smuggling networks in warfare have shaped battles and turned tides throughout history.

The new movies and TV shows coming to Hulu in September include The Other Black Girl, American Horror Story: Delicate, and Welcome to Wrexham Season 2.

Richard Barancik, who has died aged 98, was the last of the so-called Monuments Men who set out to safeguard some of Europe’s most valuable pieces of western culture plundered by the Nazis during World War II, their exploits detailed by Robert Edsel in his 2009 book, The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History, which was turned into a 2014 film directed by and starring George Clooney.

‘He didn’t feel like a hero,’ said his daughter, but he and his colleagues tracked down between four and five million objects

There is a handsome high-rise on Bellevue Place in the Gold Coast that features a lobby with a colorful mural filled with flora and fauna. Two of the building’s elevators are similarly adorned and, if you look closely enough, you can see a name in each: Jill and Ellen. They are the youngest children of Richard Barancik, the man who designed and developed this building. They lived there with ...

Daniel Lind Ramos's magical turn at MoMA PS1. Plus, Glenn Kaino's VR experience and an AI-generated cube in Beverly Hills, in our weekly arts newsletter

In the news for the week ending July 28, 2023, are tacos, tennis balls, and Twitter…er, X.

Richard Barancik, last living member of corps that recovered artworks stolen by the Nazis who later served on boards of Bay Area arts institutions, has died at 98. 

Plus, sales plummet at Korean auction houses and RISD names its new director.