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WARSAW, Poland (AFP) — Poland’s Fryderyk Chopin Institute (NIFC) on Tuesday said it would make its entire collection devoted to the 19th-century composer available online for free by 2020. “Chopin will be the first great composer to have all of his musical scores digitised” and openly accessible by all, NIFC deputy director Maciej Janicki told reporters. Nearly 40,000 Chopin items from the UNESCO world heritage collection — including photographs and paintings of the Polish-French romantic […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A 67-year-old former policeman with the world’s biggest Hello Kitty collection has become the envy of little girls everywhere with a quarter of a million dollars worth of moon-faced memorabilia. Masao Gunji, who spent his working life on the trail of hardened criminals, now spends his retirement tracking down pink and white soft toys to keep in a Hello Kitty-themed house, which he built specially and has become a magnet for […]
NEW YORK, United States (Reuters) — The iconic works of legendary sports photographer Neil Leifer and his collection of other people’s prints will go up for auction later this week. The signed images range from from his early start as a 16-year-old at the 1958 NFL Championship to recent photographs and include his celebrated images of boxing great Muhammad Ali. “My best known picture is Muhammad Ali standing over Sonny Liston — there’s so much luck […]
