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Giftze Lets You Send a Gift Anywhere in the UAE Without Ever Asking for an Address

The UAE gifting app pairs shareable wishlists with private delivery: choose a person, a phone number or a social handle, pay, and the recipient decides where the gift goes.

Oct 30, 2026/4 min read

Two hands passing a purple gift box tied with a coral ribbon against a dark background, a Giftze campaign photograph supplied by the company

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London's National Gallery Plans the Largest Piero della Francesca Show Yet, Opening in October 2027

About 25 pictures and manuscripts, including the whole Perugia altarpiece and the Urbino Diptych, will join the gallery's own Piero paintings in a show that beats the 2018 Hermitage record.

Oct 29, 2026/2 min read

Piero della Francesca's Baptism of Christ, showing Christ with hands pressed together being baptised by John the Baptist beside a tree with a dove above, a reproduction of the painting in the National Gallery, London, dated after 1451 and one of the gallery's own Piero works named in the story

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Houdini's Library at the Harry Ransom Center Marks 100 Years Since the Escape Artist's Death

Three days before the centenary of Houdini's death, a Texas exhibition shows the books he hoarded: a 1584 witchcraft exposé, a milk can poster and his own scathing notes on a rival author.

Oct 28, 2026/2 min read

The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, a tall pale concrete building with long vertical bands, seen from below through green trees under a blue sky, photographed on 16 June 2012, a file photograph of the venue and not of the exhibition

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Art Basel Paris Cuts Public Days to a Single Friday as Protests Loom

The fair that opened to collectors on Wednesday will now admit the public for one evening only, with ID checks and barriers, after a week of student unrest across France.

Oct 23, 2026/2 min read

The glass roof and stone facade of the Grand Palais in Paris seen past the lamp posts of the Pont Alexandre III, photographed on 25 February 2008, a file photograph of the venue and not of this week's Art Basel Paris fair

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Street Fighter Wins the Weekend With $31 Million, but an Elizabeth Holmes Documentary Opens to $15 Million

The video game adaptation topped the chart, though the real story was a three-hour A24 documentary with a surprise opening that only one non-music documentary has beaten.

Oct 19, 2026/2 min read

Rows of black reclining seats in a cinema auditorium, photographed on 15 July 2023, a file photograph illustrative of cinema-going and not of any film or theatre in the weekend's box office

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Street Fighter Opens With $4 Million in Thursday Previews as Critics Split on the Video Game Reboot

Paramount's live-action reboot topped the preview-night chart with an $82 million budget on the line, while reviews landed somewhere between knockout and knocked out.

Oct 16, 2026/2 min read

A Street Fighter II arcade cabinet from 1991 with its Capcom marquee and joysticks, on display at the Bradford Media Museum in England, photographed on 17 September 2014, a file photograph of the original game and not of the 2026 film

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Two Stolen Renoirs Found Behind a Cinder-Block Wall as Police Say Suspects Eyed the Fondation Maeght

Six people were arrested after the September theft at the Renoir Museum near Nice, and the French police chief says the group had already scouted a second museum on the Riviera.

Oct 15, 2026/2 min read

The courtyard of the Renoir house and estate at Les Collettes in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, photographed on 24 April 2016, a file photograph of the estate and not of the museum on the day of the theft

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Hulu Orders Ryan Coogler's X-Files Reboot to Series With Danielle Deadwyler and Himesh Patel

Two new FBI agents, not Mulder and Scully, will staff a shuttered unit for unexplained cases, with Chris Carter on board as a producer and a cast that includes Steve Buscemi.

Oct 14, 2026/2 min read

An FBI badge in a leather holder beside a holstered pistol on a wooden desk in front of an American flag, an undated file photograph illustrative of the FBI agents in the series and not a still from it

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Tarek Atoui Opens Hold in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, Turning the Cavernous Space Into a Giant Sound Instrument

The Lebanese sound artist's Hyundai Commission, free and open from today until April, fills the hall with horns, hanging fabric charged with electricity and clay percussion that records the room.

Oct 13, 2026/2 min read

Visitors in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern in London under the skylight, photographed in August 2026, a file photograph of the hall before the new commission and not of Hold

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Jodie Comer, Adrian Lester and a Mary Whitehouse Play Take Top Honours at the 2026 UK Theatre Awards

Comer received the first Outstanding Achievement prize for touring Prima Facie, Nottingham Playhouse's new play won best new play and Theatr Clwyd took two awards at the London ceremony.

Oct 12, 2026/2 min read

Nottingham Playhouse and the Sky Mirror sculpture at dusk, photographed in January 2015, a file photograph of the theatre that produced the best new play winner and not from the awards ceremony

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Andrew Scott's Elsinore Opens the London Film Festival With Tears, an Ovation and a Disco Tribute

The 70th BFI festival began at the Royal Festival Hall with Simon Stone's film about the actor who played Hamlet while ill with AIDS, and an early review rates it 90 per cent.

Oct 9, 2026/3 min read

The Royal Festival Hall on London's South Bank, the venue for the festival's opening night, photographed on 14 June 2011