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Cultureteca 31.05.20

Miscellany
COVID-19 continued to surge this week across Latin America and South Asia, which remained global hotspots. Daily deaths in Brazil began to surpass those in the United States, and by the end of the week the country stood fourth for fatalities, behind only the United States, the United Kingdom, and Italy, and second for total infections, with a tally...

Cultureteca 19.04.20

Miscellany
The new phase of life under coronavirus no longer sees rapid societal shifts and exponential spread, but rather stolid perseverance under creeping restrictions as deaths and rates of infection stabilise while exacting a hefty toll. At the start of the week cases in China climbed beyond 100 for the first time since early March, as the country reported 108...

Cultureteca 24.11.19

Miscellany
When the Wallace Collection in London was bequeathed to the nation in 1897, one of the conditions of the bequest was that no work should ever leave the collection, but should remain 'kept together unmixed with other objects of art'. The Wallace Collection opened to the public three years later, with its paintings by Titian and Rubens, Velázquez, Van...