Ashley Judd among those expressing dismay at Weinstein retrial
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The decision to call for a retrial from the New York appeals court has prompted varying reactions, with many dismayed that survivors will have to testify once more.
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Harvey Weinstein: US court overturns 2020 rape conviction ()
A New York appeals court has ordered a new trial in the landmark case that drove the #MeToo movement. The majority opinion argued that the judge committed serious errors and swayed jurors by admitting invalid testimony.
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The decision to call for a retrial from the New York appeals court has prompted varying reactions, with many dismayed that survivors will have to testify once more.
>> Read More
Harvey Weinstein: US court overturns 2020 rape conviction ()
A New York appeals court has ordered a new trial in the landmark case that drove the #MeToo movement. The majority opinion argued that the judge committed serious errors and swayed jurors by admitting invalid testimony.
>> Read More
News and stories on CULTURE, movies, music, literature - France 24
Still lives and more dynamic, moving forms at the Louvre (Fri, 26 Apr 2024)Paris's landmark museum is gearing up for the Olympics, with a special exhibition that takes visitors through the history of the Games. We hear more about a project for those who want to combine exercise and culture, as the Louvre launches a fitness circuit that puts participants among the artwork. Plus, a new show shines a light on the work of mysterious Dutch painter Jan van Eyck, and French land artist Saype gets his first solo show in Paris, after painting his immense frescoes on landscapes around the world.
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Colourising Klimt's vanished paintings: Can AI 'predict' the continuation of an artwork? (Wed, 24 Apr 2024)
In this Science segment, we look at how AI is attempting to complete unfinished or lost works by great artists like Klimt but also Beethoven, Schubert and Rembrandt. Scientists use all the information they can to train algorithms called "neural networks" to imitate the style of the artist or musician and guess the logical sequences. FRANCE 24's Julia Sieger tells us more.
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Student anger and the responsibility of universities (Fri, 26 Apr 2024)
Student anger at Israel’s assault on Gaza has been directed at their own universities, whose
refusal to condemn the Israeli aggression they see as a moral failure. By closing down protests to ‘protect’ the neutrality of the academic environment, universities only appear confirm this.>> Read More
Landfills on sale (Thu, 25 Apr 2024)
How can the consumer enjoy an ethically sourced piece of fashion, when most
garments are produced in sweatshops and soon end up in landfills anyway? A designer from India, a Romanian investigative journalist, and an Austrian ecotoxicologist discuss this on the new episode of
Standard Time.>> Read More
The shameful legacy of the Bolloré empire (Wed, 24 Apr 2024)
The description of
contemporary far-right media outlets in France as ‘pluralist’ is a euphemism that denies the continuity of a nationalist and xenophobic journalistic tradition that began in the Belle Epoque and
flourished until the end of the Second World War.>> Read More
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Potential Legal Heir Emerges to Claim Long-lost Klimt Portrait Auctioned in Vienna (Fri, 26 Apr 2024)Titled “Portrait of Fräulein Lieser" (1917), the work was purchased for $32 million by an anonymous Hong Kong dealer.
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Dani Levinas, Art Enthusiast Who ‘Collected Collectors,’ Dies at 75 (Fri, 26 Apr 2024)
He published an acclaimed book of his interviews with other collectors.
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Postwar and Contemporary Art from Iowa Business Leaders to Be Sold at Christie’s Spring Sales (Fri, 26 Apr 2024)
The collection includes works by post-war and contemporary luminaries such as Bruce Nauman, Agnes Martin, and Ad Reinhardt.
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Moscow’s Garage Museum Is Reportedly Searched by Police Amid Crackdown on LGBTQ+ Literature (Fri, 26 Apr 2024)
Earlier this month, titles by a left-wing publisher were removed from the institution's bookstore.
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