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Norman column tops
Visitors look at
an installation by Cuban-American artist Jorge Pardo in
the Augustins Museum in Toulouse, southern France, incorporating
the museum’s collection of Norman column tops, as part of
Toulouse’s International Art Festival. PHOTOS: AFP
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art of Archery
Japanese Kyudo
"grand master" Sakuma takes part in a demonstration of
Kyudo, a Japanese martial art form of archery, in Paris, ahead
of the Kyudo World Championship which will be held in Paris on
July 19 and 20.
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Muddy matters
An art
installation by Indonesian artist Dada Christanto shows
sculptures symbolising victims of the mud volcano disaster
erected over the mud-covered Sidoarjo district located in
Indonesia’s eastern Java Island on the eighth anniversary of
the mud volcano disaster. Lusi, located in the Sidoarjo district
of the island of Java, erupted on May 29, 2006, in the middle of
a ricefield, in a disaster that displaced nearly 50,000 people.
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Statues return
home
Tenth century
statues are presented at a ceremony in Phnom Penh after these
were welcomed home four decades after these were taken out of
the country. Cambodia officially welcomed the return of three
ancient statues looted from the kingdom more than 40 years ago,
including the one retrieved after a long legal battle in the
United States.
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