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Walking Around Seonusa Temple in Korea

The area around Seonunsa temple is known for its natural beauty and its mountain walking paths, including hiking to the Dosolam hermitage. Surrounding the temple is a forest of over 500-year-old red camellia forest (peak season for blooms is usually mid-April),…

Colonial Views of India

This is the first exhibition to focus on photographs and negatives in the Ashmolean, and as such features previously unseen photographs of India by Colonel Eugene Clutterbuck Impey…

Acrobats and Circuses in Japanese Prints

This special exhibition in Nice, France, invites us into the spectacular and colourful world of street artists. Dancers, storytellers, musicians, and acrobats, are all depicted as free spirits in a timeless world that traverses centuries. In the prints, these Japanese street performers transform the space into a stage and the everyday into a celebration, at a crossroads of the sacred, the popular, and the wondrous.

In Japan, street artists played an essential role in the transmission of stories, knowledge, and emotions to a public that was increasingly looking for entertainment. Their creativity continues to permeate Japanese culture today, from cinema and comics,…