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There are hopes the controversial MP will create a lot of drama and increase viewing figures.
How athletes use memory can make the difference when performing at a high level.
Pitting parts of the country against each other in the battle for arts funding will only further hurt a sector still reeling from the pandemic.
Momentum is growing for the restitution of objects, such as the Benin Bronzes, stolen during colonialism. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Not everyone succeeds straight away and how you deal with failure can really make or break your career.
A break or moment of failure can be an opportunity to create something new and beautiful.
Overnight, Chinese people found themselves classed as “aliens” in India, which for some was the only country they’d ever known. But worse, many were detained for up to five years.
New research shows the region’s arts organisations were a critical source of support for vulnerable people during lockdown
A look at whether modern Buddhists adhere to the faith’s original religious principles or simply guilty of a cherrypicking cultural appropriation that turns religion into a fad.
Despite their dangers, highly realistic deepfake images and videos are finding positive uses in the creative arts.
From the curse that the papers latched on to new research suggesting that Howard Carter stole objects from the tomb, Tutankhamun’s discovery continues to grab attention.
Some spiritualists in the 1920s moaned that Tutankhamun appeared almost too often.
People didn’t live in insulated communities when the Roman empire fell. Villagers buried people who migrated from far away as one of their own.
The discovery of Tutankhamun’s ancient Egyptian tomb in 1922 thrilled the world. But people know more about rumours of a curse than the amazing things science revealed about the boy king.
007 uses an English upper-class, ‘Received Pronunciation’ accent.
We are all told to follow our calling. Here’s what happens if you pursue a more ‘sensible’ career instead.
Far from an extension of our secular Halloween, this Mexican celebration is a deeply religious custom with its own rituals, folklore and history.
Religious belief in the devil may have declined, but western demons are alive and well in popular culture and contemporary politics.
HIs outrageous talent was matched by a personal life marked by bigamy, violence, drugs, alcohol and his 1958 marriage to his 13-year-old cousin.
Starting in the late 1990s, South Korea’s promotion of its cultural exports abroad has made it a major power on the international stage.
Dracula’s power is not in his fangs, but in the way he disturbs the sleep of his victims.
Thomas Hardy found horror in the Dorset of his childhood.
Black vampires have existed for 200 years in literature.
No, Avril Lavigne isn’t dead – the science behind conspiracy theories.