Ebru, Turkish paper marbling
Ebru is the Turkish art of floating pigments on water, combing them into intricate patterns, then transferring each unique design to paper in a single, unrepeatable monotype.
Danza de los Voladores
Five acrobats descend by rope from a 30-metre pole while a fifth dances and drums at its summit—an ancient Mesoamerican ceremony preserved by the Totonac people of Veracruz.
Mangal Shobhajatra
An annual dawn procession celebrating the Bengali New Year in Dhaka, where thousands parade with elaborate masks and music to affirm Bangladesh’s secular identity and cultural unity.
Harees
A slow-cooked wheat porridge enriched with meat and spices, harees marks sacred moments across Armenia and the Gulf—Easter tables, Ramadan nights, and Ashura observances.
Frevo
A kinetic dance and musical tradition born in Recife’s Carnival, where performers and orchestras move with explosive energy in the fever of the street.
Kochari
Kochari is a circle dance originating in the Armenian Highlands, performed across regions with distinct choreography and music. Each generation transmits this practice of community and cultural identity.
Huntridge Theater
A Streamline Moderne cinema designed by S. Charles Lee and opened in 1944, the Huntridge Theater in Las Vegas served as a cultural venue for film, live performance, and concerts before undergoing restoration from 2021.
Thorncrown Chapel
A luminous 1980 chapel in Arkansas designed by E. Fay Jones, inspired by Paris’s Sainte-Chapelle and named after the Crown of Thorns.
La Piscine Museum
A museum of art and industry in a former Art Deco swimming pool in Roubaix, France, where industrial heritage meets contemporary galleries within striking modernist architecture.
20 Exchange Place
A 741-foot limestone and granite skyscraper completed in 1931 for a major banking merger, briefly the world’s tallest stone-clad building before the Great Depression curtailed its original ambitions.