Rescuers in the district of Lumajang are searching for survivors amid devastation of the Semeru volcano eruption killing 14 and several dozens injured. Indonesia: Eastern Java villages engulfed in hot ash as Mount Semeru erupted.
Month: December 2021
533: A Book of Days, tells the story through a tireless explorer of distant cultures, for more than forty year Cees Nooteboom has been returning to the Island of Menoca, “the Island of Wind”, and it is in his house there, with a study full of books, and a garden taken over with native plants…
A provocative history of Henry Kissinger’s art of diplomatic negotiations in the Middle East that is full of unique challenges and barriers Kissinger and his successors have faced in their attempts to broker peace between Israel and its Arab neighbours. Master of the Game, reveals the drama, dazzling manoeuvres and grand strategic vision. In…
Hyeonseo Lee, a child growing up in North Korea. was one of the millions trapped by the world’s most secretive and brutal communist regime. From the indoctrination she received in Kindergarden to her forced service in the Socialist Youth League at age of fourteen, the state controlled ever aspect of her life. As the great famine…
The Muse Gallery – 2-15 December – “Descended” by Michael Henley. An epic look at life on the planet “and afterwards….” Henley, who studied art at Lincoln, draws from the Vanitas Movement and classic Baroque Painting to enchant and confuse us with this set of mesmerising artworks – most of which are 3D involving backlighting…
Array Collective, a Belfast-based activist group have won the prestigious Turner Prize 2021, after they beat four other collectives to take the £25, 000 prize money. Their works, a mock Irish pub adorned in banners supporting reproductive rights and protesting against conversion therapy. The Judges praised the group for highlighting social and political issues in…
SouthWest train from London Victoria to Croydon hit a wheelchair which fell on the track at Battersea Park station. All trains between London Victoria and Clapham Junction on 1st December 2021, at 9:55am. Luckily nobody was injured.