Commemoration Of Day Of Reconciliation - Pretoria

Commemoration Of Day Of Reconciliation - Pretoria

A beam of sunlight shines on a woman before noon as people gather to celebrate the Day of Reconciliation at the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria, South Africa, on Dec. 16, 2025. December 16 was called the Day of the Vow in South Africa. It was renamed the Day of Reconciliation in 1994 after the end of apartheid, with the intention of fostering reconciliation and national unity. Photo by Chen Wei/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

Commemoration Of Day Of Reconciliation - Pretoria

Commemoration Of Day Of Reconciliation - Pretoria

People participate in a celebration of the Day of Reconciliation at the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria, South Africa, on Dec. 16, 2025. December 16 was called the Day of the Vow in South Africa. It was renamed the Day of Reconciliation in 1994 after the end of apartheid, with the intention of fostering reconciliation and national unity. Photo by Chen Wei/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

Commemoration Of Day Of Reconciliation - Pretoria

Commemoration Of Day Of Reconciliation - Pretoria

People participate in a celebration of the Day of Reconciliation at the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria, South Africa, on Dec. 16, 2025. December 16 was called the Day of the Vow in South Africa. It was renamed the Day of Reconciliation in 1994 after the end of apartheid, with the intention of fostering reconciliation and national unity. Photo by Chen Wei/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

Commemoration Of Day Of Reconciliation - Pretoria

Commemoration Of Day Of Reconciliation - Pretoria

People wait to see the sun shining on the Cenotaph around noon on the Day of Reconciliation at the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria, South Africa, on Dec. 16, 2025. December 16 was called the Day of the Vow in South Africa. It was renamed the Day of Reconciliation in 1994 after the end of apartheid, with the intention of fostering reconciliation and national unity. Photo by Chen Wei/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

Commemoration Of Day Of Reconciliation - Pretoria

Commemoration Of Day Of Reconciliation - Pretoria

People wait to see the sun shining on the Cenotaph around noon on the Day of Reconciliation at the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria, South Africa, on Dec. 16, 2025. December 16 was called the Day of the Vow in South Africa. It was renamed the Day of Reconciliation in 1994 after the end of apartheid, with the intention of fostering reconciliation and national unity. Photo by Chen Wei/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

Commemoration Of Day Of Reconciliation - Pretoria

Commemoration Of Day Of Reconciliation - Pretoria

People wait to see the sun shining on the Cenotaph around noon on the Day of Reconciliation at the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria, South Africa, on Dec. 16, 2025. December 16 was called the Day of the Vow in South Africa. It was renamed the Day of Reconciliation in 1994 after the end of apartheid, with the intention of fostering reconciliation and national unity. Photo by Chen Wei/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN 20251210Crown Princess Victoria at the Nobel Prize ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, December 10, 2025. Crown Princess Victoria is wearing the same dress that Queen Silvia wore to the Nobel in 1994.Photo: Pontus Lundahl / TT / Code 10050

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STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN 20251210Crown Princess Victoria at the Nobel Prize ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, December 10, 2025. Crown Princess Victoria is wearing the same dress that Queen Silvia wore to the Nobel in 1994.Photo: Pontus Lundahl / TT / Code 10050 undefined

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STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN 20251210Crown Princess Victoria at the Nobel Prize ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, December 10, 2025. Crown Princess Victoria is wearing the same dress that Queen Silvia wore to the Nobel in 1994.Photo: Pontus Lundahl / TT / Code 10050 undefined

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STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN 20251210Crown Princess Victoria at the Nobel Prize ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, December 10, 2025. Crown Princess Victoria is wearing the same dress that Queen Silvia wore to the Nobel in 1994.Photo: Pontus Lundahl / TT / Code 10050 undefined

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STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN 20251210Crown Princess Victoria at the Nobel Prize ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, December 10, 2025. Crown Princess Victoria is wearing the same dress that Queen Silvia wore to the Nobel in 1994.Photo: Pontus Lundahl / TT / Code 10050 undefined

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STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN 20251210Crown Princess Victoria at the Nobel Prize ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, December 10, 2025. Crown Princess Victoria is wearing the same dress that Queen Silvia wore to the Nobel in 1994.Photo: Pontus Lundahl / TT / Code 10050 undefined

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STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN 20251210Crown Princess Victoria at the Nobel Prize ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, December 10, 2025. Crown Princess Victoria is wearing the same dress that Queen Silvia wore to the Nobel in 1994.Photo: Pontus Lundahl / TT / Code 10050 undefined

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STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN 20251210Crown Princess Victoria at the Nobel Prize ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, December 10, 2025. Crown Princess Victoria is wearing the same dress that Queen Silvia wore to the Nobel in 1994.Photo: Pontus Lundahl / TT / Code 10050 undefined

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STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN 20251210Crown Princess Victoria at the Nobel Prize ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, December 10, 2025. Crown Princess Victoria is wearing the same dress that Queen Silvia wore to the Nobel in 1994.Photo: Pontus Lundahl / TT / Code 10050 undefined

Ukraine Fires UK Cruise Missiles At Russia For First Time

Ukraine Fires UK Cruise Missiles At Russia For First Time

Handout photo dated December 2015 shows a Dassault Rafale fighter aircraft of the French Air Force equipped with SCALP long-range air-to-surface cruise missiles prepares to take off from an airbase in Jordan. Storm Shadow is an Anglo-French low-observable, long-range, air-launched cruise missile developed since 1994 by Matra and British Aerospace, and now manufactured by MBDA. "Storm Shadow" is the weapon's British name, in France it is called SCALP-EG. Ukraine fired a volley of British Storm Shadow cruise missiles into Russia on Wednesday, the latest new Western weapon it has been permitted to use on Russian targets a day after it fired U.S. ATACMS missiles. The strikes were widely reported by Russian war correspondents on Telegram and confirmed by an official on condition of anonymity. A spokesperson for Ukraine's General Staff said he had no information. Photo by ECPAD via ABACARESS.COM

Japanese composer Masaru Sato

Japanese composer Masaru Sato

Photo taken at an unknown place on March 17, 1994, shows the late Japanese composer Masaru Sato, known for his film score compositions, including for Godzilla movies and works by renowned Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. Sato died in December 1999 at 71.

Jacques Delors Dies At 98

Jacques Delors Dies At 98

File photo - Jacques Delors and Anne Sinclair on 7/7 in Paris, France on December 11, 1994. Former European Commission president Jacques Delors, who played a key role in the design of the euro and creation of the single market, has died aged 98. Photo by Pascal Baril/ABACAPRESS.COM

Soulages Museum - Rodez

Soulages Museum - Rodez

A view of the Soulages museum on June 25, 2023 in Rodez, France. Pierre Soulages (December 24,1919 – October 25, 2022) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. His works are held by leading museums of the world, and there is a museum dedicated to his art in his hometown of Rodez. Soulages is known as "the painter of black", owing to his interest in the colour "both as a colour and a non-colour. When light is reflected on black, it transforms and transmutes it. It opens a mental field all its own." He saw light as a work material; striations of the black surface of his paintings enable him to reflect light, allowing the black to come out of darkness and into brightness, thus becoming a luminous colour.Soulages produced 104 stained-glass windows for the Romanesque architecture of the Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy in Conques from 1987 to 1994. He received international awards, and the Louvre in Paris held a retrospective of his works on the occasion of his centenary Photo by Denis Prezat/ABACAPRESS.COM

Soulages Museum - Rodez

Soulages Museum - Rodez

A view of the Soulages museum on June 25, 2023 in Rodez, France. Pierre Soulages (December 24,1919 – October 25, 2022) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. His works are held by leading museums of the world, and there is a museum dedicated to his art in his hometown of Rodez. Soulages is known as "the painter of black", owing to his interest in the colour "both as a colour and a non-colour. When light is reflected on black, it transforms and transmutes it. It opens a mental field all its own." He saw light as a work material; striations of the black surface of his paintings enable him to reflect light, allowing the black to come out of darkness and into brightness, thus becoming a luminous colour.Soulages produced 104 stained-glass windows for the Romanesque architecture of the Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy in Conques from 1987 to 1994. He received international awards, and the Louvre in Paris held a retrospective of his works on the occasion of his centenary Photo by Denis Prezat/ABACAPRESS.COM

Soulages Museum - Rodez

Soulages Museum - Rodez

A view of the Soulages museum on June 25, 2023 in Rodez, France. Pierre Soulages (December 24,1919 – October 25, 2022) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. His works are held by leading museums of the world, and there is a museum dedicated to his art in his hometown of Rodez. Soulages is known as "the painter of black", owing to his interest in the colour "both as a colour and a non-colour. When light is reflected on black, it transforms and transmutes it. It opens a mental field all its own." He saw light as a work material; striations of the black surface of his paintings enable him to reflect light, allowing the black to come out of darkness and into brightness, thus becoming a luminous colour.Soulages produced 104 stained-glass windows for the Romanesque architecture of the Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy in Conques from 1987 to 1994. He received international awards, and the Louvre in Paris held a retrospective of his works on the occasion of his centenary Photo by Denis Prezat/ABACAPRESS.COM

Soulages Museum - Rodez

Soulages Museum - Rodez

A view of the Soulages museum on June 25, 2023 in Rodez, France. Pierre Soulages (December 24,1919 – October 25, 2022) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. His works are held by leading museums of the world, and there is a museum dedicated to his art in his hometown of Rodez. Soulages is known as "the painter of black", owing to his interest in the colour "both as a colour and a non-colour. When light is reflected on black, it transforms and transmutes it. It opens a mental field all its own." He saw light as a work material; striations of the black surface of his paintings enable him to reflect light, allowing the black to come out of darkness and into brightness, thus becoming a luminous colour.Soulages produced 104 stained-glass windows for the Romanesque architecture of the Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy in Conques from 1987 to 1994. He received international awards, and the Louvre in Paris held a retrospective of his works on the occasion of his centenary Photo by Denis Prezat/ABACAPRESS.COM

Soulages Museum - Rodez

Soulages Museum - Rodez

A view of the Soulages museum on June 25, 2023 in Rodez, France. Pierre Soulages (December 24,1919 – October 25, 2022) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. His works are held by leading museums of the world, and there is a museum dedicated to his art in his hometown of Rodez. Soulages is known as "the painter of black", owing to his interest in the colour "both as a colour and a non-colour. When light is reflected on black, it transforms and transmutes it. It opens a mental field all its own." He saw light as a work material; striations of the black surface of his paintings enable him to reflect light, allowing the black to come out of darkness and into brightness, thus becoming a luminous colour.Soulages produced 104 stained-glass windows for the Romanesque architecture of the Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy in Conques from 1987 to 1994. He received international awards, and the Louvre in Paris held a retrospective of his works on the occasion of his centenary Photo by Denis Prezat/ABACAPRESS.COM

Soulages Museum - Rodez

Soulages Museum - Rodez

A view of the Soulages museum on June 25, 2023 in Rodez, France. Pierre Soulages (December 24,1919 – October 25, 2022) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. His works are held by leading museums of the world, and there is a museum dedicated to his art in his hometown of Rodez. Soulages is known as "the painter of black", owing to his interest in the colour "both as a colour and a non-colour. When light is reflected on black, it transforms and transmutes it. It opens a mental field all its own." He saw light as a work material; striations of the black surface of his paintings enable him to reflect light, allowing the black to come out of darkness and into brightness, thus becoming a luminous colour.Soulages produced 104 stained-glass windows for the Romanesque architecture of the Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy in Conques from 1987 to 1994. He received international awards, and the Louvre in Paris held a retrospective of his works on the occasion of his centenary Photo by Denis Prezat/ABACAPRESS.COM

Soulages Museum - Rodez

Soulages Museum - Rodez

A view of the Soulages museum on June 25, 2023 in Rodez, France. Pierre Soulages (December 24,1919 – October 25, 2022) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. His works are held by leading museums of the world, and there is a museum dedicated to his art in his hometown of Rodez. Soulages is known as "the painter of black", owing to his interest in the colour "both as a colour and a non-colour. When light is reflected on black, it transforms and transmutes it. It opens a mental field all its own." He saw light as a work material; striations of the black surface of his paintings enable him to reflect light, allowing the black to come out of darkness and into brightness, thus becoming a luminous colour.Soulages produced 104 stained-glass windows for the Romanesque architecture of the Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy in Conques from 1987 to 1994. He received international awards, and the Louvre in Paris held a retrospective of his works on the occasion of his centenary Photo by Denis Prezat/ABACAPRESS.COM

Soulages Museum - Rodez

Soulages Museum - Rodez

A view of the Soulages museum on June 25, 2023 in Rodez, France. Pierre Soulages (December 24,1919 – October 25, 2022) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. His works are held by leading museums of the world, and there is a museum dedicated to his art in his hometown of Rodez. Soulages is known as "the painter of black", owing to his interest in the colour "both as a colour and a non-colour. When light is reflected on black, it transforms and transmutes it. It opens a mental field all its own." He saw light as a work material; striations of the black surface of his paintings enable him to reflect light, allowing the black to come out of darkness and into brightness, thus becoming a luminous colour.Soulages produced 104 stained-glass windows for the Romanesque architecture of the Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy in Conques from 1987 to 1994. He received international awards, and the Louvre in Paris held a retrospective of his works on the occasion of his centenary Photo by Denis Prezat/ABACAPRESS.COM

Soulages Museum - Rodez

Soulages Museum - Rodez

A view of the Soulages museum on June 25, 2023 in Rodez, France. Pierre Soulages (December 24,1919 – October 25, 2022) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. His works are held by leading museums of the world, and there is a museum dedicated to his art in his hometown of Rodez. Soulages is known as "the painter of black", owing to his interest in the colour "both as a colour and a non-colour. When light is reflected on black, it transforms and transmutes it. It opens a mental field all its own." He saw light as a work material; striations of the black surface of his paintings enable him to reflect light, allowing the black to come out of darkness and into brightness, thus becoming a luminous colour.Soulages produced 104 stained-glass windows for the Romanesque architecture of the Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy in Conques from 1987 to 1994. He received international awards, and the Louvre in Paris held a retrospective of his works on the occasion of his centenary Photo by Denis Prezat/ABACAPRESS.COM

Soulages Museum - Rodez

Soulages Museum - Rodez

A view of the Soulages museum on June 25, 2023 in Rodez, France. Pierre Soulages (December 24,1919 – October 25, 2022) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. His works are held by leading museums of the world, and there is a museum dedicated to his art in his hometown of Rodez. Soulages is known as "the painter of black", owing to his interest in the colour "both as a colour and a non-colour. When light is reflected on black, it transforms and transmutes it. It opens a mental field all its own." He saw light as a work material; striations of the black surface of his paintings enable him to reflect light, allowing the black to come out of darkness and into brightness, thus becoming a luminous colour.Soulages produced 104 stained-glass windows for the Romanesque architecture of the Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy in Conques from 1987 to 1994. He received international awards, and the Louvre in Paris held a retrospective of his works on the occasion of his centenary Photo by Denis Prezat/ABACAPRESS.COM

Soulages Museum - Rodez

Soulages Museum - Rodez

A view of the Soulages museum on June 25, 2023 in Rodez, France. Pierre Soulages (December 24,1919 – October 25, 2022) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. His works are held by leading museums of the world, and there is a museum dedicated to his art in his hometown of Rodez. Soulages is known as "the painter of black", owing to his interest in the colour "both as a colour and a non-colour. When light is reflected on black, it transforms and transmutes it. It opens a mental field all its own." He saw light as a work material; striations of the black surface of his paintings enable him to reflect light, allowing the black to come out of darkness and into brightness, thus becoming a luminous colour.Soulages produced 104 stained-glass windows for the Romanesque architecture of the Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy in Conques from 1987 to 1994. He received international awards, and the Louvre in Paris held a retrospective of his works on the occasion of his centenary Photo by Denis Prezat/ABACAPRESS.COM

Soulages Museum - Rodez

Soulages Museum - Rodez

A view of the Soulages museum on June 25, 2023 in Rodez, France. Pierre Soulages (December 24,1919 – October 25, 2022) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. His works are held by leading museums of the world, and there is a museum dedicated to his art in his hometown of Rodez. Soulages is known as "the painter of black", owing to his interest in the colour "both as a colour and a non-colour. When light is reflected on black, it transforms and transmutes it. It opens a mental field all its own." He saw light as a work material; striations of the black surface of his paintings enable him to reflect light, allowing the black to come out of darkness and into brightness, thus becoming a luminous colour.Soulages produced 104 stained-glass windows for the Romanesque architecture of the Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy in Conques from 1987 to 1994. He received international awards, and the Louvre in Paris held a retrospective of his works on the occasion of his centenary Photo by Denis Prezat/ABACAPRESS.COM

Soulages Museum - Rodez

Soulages Museum - Rodez

A view of the Soulages museum on June 25, 2023 in Rodez, France. Pierre Soulages (December 24,1919 – October 25, 2022) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. His works are held by leading museums of the world, and there is a museum dedicated to his art in his hometown of Rodez. Soulages is known as "the painter of black", owing to his interest in the colour "both as a colour and a non-colour. When light is reflected on black, it transforms and transmutes it. It opens a mental field all its own." He saw light as a work material; striations of the black surface of his paintings enable him to reflect light, allowing the black to come out of darkness and into brightness, thus becoming a luminous colour.Soulages produced 104 stained-glass windows for the Romanesque architecture of the Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy in Conques from 1987 to 1994. He received international awards, and the Louvre in Paris held a retrospective of his works on the occasion of his centenary Photo by Denis Prezat/ABACAPRESS.COM

Soulages Museum - Rodez

Soulages Museum - Rodez

A view of the Soulages museum on June 25, 2023 in Rodez, France. Pierre Soulages (December 24,1919 – October 25, 2022) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. His works are held by leading museums of the world, and there is a museum dedicated to his art in his hometown of Rodez. Soulages is known as "the painter of black", owing to his interest in the colour "both as a colour and a non-colour. When light is reflected on black, it transforms and transmutes it. It opens a mental field all its own." He saw light as a work material; striations of the black surface of his paintings enable him to reflect light, allowing the black to come out of darkness and into brightness, thus becoming a luminous colour.Soulages produced 104 stained-glass windows for the Romanesque architecture of the Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy in Conques from 1987 to 1994. He received international awards, and the Louvre in Paris held a retrospective of his works on the occasion of his centenary Photo by Denis Prezat/ABACAPRESS.COM

Soulages Museum - Rodez

Soulages Museum - Rodez

A view of the Soulages museum on June 25, 2023 in Rodez, France. Pierre Soulages (December 24,1919 – October 25, 2022) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. His works are held by leading museums of the world, and there is a museum dedicated to his art in his hometown of Rodez. Soulages is known as "the painter of black", owing to his interest in the colour "both as a colour and a non-colour. When light is reflected on black, it transforms and transmutes it. It opens a mental field all its own." He saw light as a work material; striations of the black surface of his paintings enable him to reflect light, allowing the black to come out of darkness and into brightness, thus becoming a luminous colour.Soulages produced 104 stained-glass windows for the Romanesque architecture of the Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy in Conques from 1987 to 1994. He received international awards, and the Louvre in Paris held a retrospective of his works on the occasion of his centenary Photo by Denis Prezat/ABACAPRESS.COM

Soulages Museum - Rodez

Soulages Museum - Rodez

A view of the Soulages museum on June 25, 2023 in Rodez, France. Pierre Soulages (December 24,1919 – October 25, 2022) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. His works are held by leading museums of the world, and there is a museum dedicated to his art in his hometown of Rodez. Soulages is known as "the painter of black", owing to his interest in the colour "both as a colour and a non-colour. When light is reflected on black, it transforms and transmutes it. It opens a mental field all its own." He saw light as a work material; striations of the black surface of his paintings enable him to reflect light, allowing the black to come out of darkness and into brightness, thus becoming a luminous colour.Soulages produced 104 stained-glass windows for the Romanesque architecture of the Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy in Conques from 1987 to 1994. He received international awards, and the Louvre in Paris held a retrospective of his works on the occasion of his centenary Photo by Denis Prezat/ABACAPRESS.COM

Soulages Museum - Rodez

Soulages Museum - Rodez

A view of the Soulages museum on June 25, 2023 in Rodez, France. Pierre Soulages (December 24,1919 – October 25, 2022) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. His works are held by leading museums of the world, and there is a museum dedicated to his art in his hometown of Rodez. Soulages is known as "the painter of black", owing to his interest in the colour "both as a colour and a non-colour. When light is reflected on black, it transforms and transmutes it. It opens a mental field all its own." He saw light as a work material; striations of the black surface of his paintings enable him to reflect light, allowing the black to come out of darkness and into brightness, thus becoming a luminous colour.Soulages produced 104 stained-glass windows for the Romanesque architecture of the Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy in Conques from 1987 to 1994. He received international awards, and the Louvre in Paris held a retrospective of his works on the occasion of his centenary Photo by Denis Prezat/ABACAPRESS.COM

Soulages Museum - Rodez

Soulages Museum - Rodez

A view of the Soulages museum on June 25, 2023 in Rodez, France. Pierre Soulages (December 24,1919 – October 25, 2022) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. His works are held by leading museums of the world, and there is a museum dedicated to his art in his hometown of Rodez. Soulages is known as "the painter of black", owing to his interest in the colour "both as a colour and a non-colour. When light is reflected on black, it transforms and transmutes it. It opens a mental field all its own." He saw light as a work material; striations of the black surface of his paintings enable him to reflect light, allowing the black to come out of darkness and into brightness, thus becoming a luminous colour.Soulages produced 104 stained-glass windows for the Romanesque architecture of the Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy in Conques from 1987 to 1994. He received international awards, and the Louvre in Paris held a retrospective of his works on the occasion of his centenary Photo by Denis Prezat/ABACAPRESS.COM

Soulages Museum - Rodez

Soulages Museum - Rodez

A view of the Soulages museum on June 25, 2023 in Rodez, France. Pierre Soulages (December 24,1919 – October 25, 2022) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. His works are held by leading museums of the world, and there is a museum dedicated to his art in his hometown of Rodez. Soulages is known as "the painter of black", owing to his interest in the colour "both as a colour and a non-colour. When light is reflected on black, it transforms and transmutes it. It opens a mental field all its own." He saw light as a work material; striations of the black surface of his paintings enable him to reflect light, allowing the black to come out of darkness and into brightness, thus becoming a luminous colour.Soulages produced 104 stained-glass windows for the Romanesque architecture of the Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy in Conques from 1987 to 1994. He received international awards, and the Louvre in Paris held a retrospective of his works on the occasion of his centenary Photo by Denis Prezat/ABACAPRESS.COM

Soulages Museum - Rodez

Soulages Museum - Rodez

A view of the Soulages museum on June 25, 2023 in Rodez, France. Pierre Soulages (December 24,1919 – October 25, 2022) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. His works are held by leading museums of the world, and there is a museum dedicated to his art in his hometown of Rodez. Soulages is known as "the painter of black", owing to his interest in the colour "both as a colour and a non-colour. When light is reflected on black, it transforms and transmutes it. It opens a mental field all its own." He saw light as a work material; striations of the black surface of his paintings enable him to reflect light, allowing the black to come out of darkness and into brightness, thus becoming a luminous colour.Soulages produced 104 stained-glass windows for the Romanesque architecture of the Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy in Conques from 1987 to 1994. He received international awards, and the Louvre in Paris held a retrospective of his works on the occasion of his centenary Photo by Denis Prezat/ABACAPRESS.COM

Soulages Museum - Rodez

Soulages Museum - Rodez

A view of the Soulages museum on June 25, 2023 in Rodez, France. Pierre Soulages (December 24,1919 – October 25, 2022) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. His works are held by leading museums of the world, and there is a museum dedicated to his art in his hometown of Rodez. Soulages is known as "the painter of black", owing to his interest in the colour "both as a colour and a non-colour. When light is reflected on black, it transforms and transmutes it. It opens a mental field all its own." He saw light as a work material; striations of the black surface of his paintings enable him to reflect light, allowing the black to come out of darkness and into brightness, thus becoming a luminous colour.Soulages produced 104 stained-glass windows for the Romanesque architecture of the Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy in Conques from 1987 to 1994. He received international awards, and the Louvre in Paris held a retrospective of his works on the occasion of his centenary Photo by Denis Prezat/ABACAPRESS.COM

Soulages Museum - Rodez

Soulages Museum - Rodez

A view of the Soulages museum on June 25, 2023 in Rodez, France. Pierre Soulages (December 24,1919 – October 25, 2022) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. His works are held by leading museums of the world, and there is a museum dedicated to his art in his hometown of Rodez. Soulages is known as "the painter of black", owing to his interest in the colour "both as a colour and a non-colour. When light is reflected on black, it transforms and transmutes it. It opens a mental field all its own." He saw light as a work material; striations of the black surface of his paintings enable him to reflect light, allowing the black to come out of darkness and into brightness, thus becoming a luminous colour.Soulages produced 104 stained-glass windows for the Romanesque architecture of the Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy in Conques from 1987 to 1994. He received international awards, and the Louvre in Paris held a retrospective of his works on the occasion of his centenary Photo by Denis Prezat/ABACAPRESS.COM

Russia Says Ukraine Used Storm Shadow Missiles

Russia Says Ukraine Used Storm Shadow Missiles

Handout photo dated December 2015 shows a Dassault Rafale fighter aircraft of the French Air Force equipped with SCALP long-range air-to-surface cruise missiles prepares to take off from an airbase in Jordan and carry out an airstrike against Islamic State militants in Irak as part of the Operation Chammal. Russia's Defence Ministry said on Saturday that Ukrainian aircraft had struck two industrial sites in the Russian-held city of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine with Storm Shadow long-range cruise missiles supplied by Britain. Storm Shadow is an Anglo-French low-observable, long-range, air-launched cruise missile developed since 1994 by Matra and British Aerospace, and now manufactured by MBDA. "Storm Shadow" is the weapon's British name, in France it is called SCALP-EG. Photo by ECPAD via ABACARESS.COM

Nobel-winning author, peace activist Kenzaburo Oe dies at 88

Nobel-winning author, peace activist Kenzaburo Oe dies at 88

Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe is pictured after attending the award ceremony for the 1994 Nobel Prize recipients in Stockholm in December 1994. Oe, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, known for being a proponent of Japan's pacifist Constitution and against nuclear power, died of old age on March 3, 2023.

Nobel-winning author, peace activist Kenzaburo Oe dies at 88

Nobel-winning author, peace activist Kenzaburo Oe dies at 88

Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe delivers his Nobel lecture at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm in December 1994, as he was awarded Nobel Prize in Literature for that year. Oe, a proponent of Japan's pacifist Constitution and against nuclear power, died of old age on March 3, 2023.

Pet dogs on the slide in Japan

Pet dogs on the slide in Japan

AOMORI, Japan, Dec. 25 Kyodo - A woman walks with her dogs through a snow covered street in Aomori, Japan, in December 2014. The aging population and the higher cost of keeping dogs has likely contributed to the sliding number of pet canines in Japan, with cats overtaking them in 2017 for the first time since an annual survey began in 1994, according to industry experts.

Chinese chef Zhou

Chinese chef Zhou

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in December 1994 shows Zhou Fude, a Chinese chef who had became a popular fixture of Japanese TV shows. Zhou, who was known to the public by his Japanese name Shu Tomitoku, has died of aspiration pneumonia at a Yokohama hospital, his family said on April 13, 2014. He was 71.

3 men given death sentence in murder for insurance

3 men given death sentence in murder for insurance

ICHINOMIYA, Jan. 30 Kyodo - Presiding Judge Hideo Niwa of Nagoya District Court Ichinomiya branch sentenced three men to death for murdering three people to get insurance money in Manila and Nagano Prefecture between December 1994 and May 1996.

Veteran cartoonist Yokoyama dies at 92

Veteran cartoonist Yokoyama dies at 92

TOKYO, Japan - Veteran cartoonist Ryuichi Yokoyama (in photo taken in December 1998) died Nov. 8, 2001 of a stroke at a hospital in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo. Yokoyama, 92, collapsed at his home in Kamakura on Nov. 7, 2001 and was rushed to the hospital. He received a Persons of Cultural Merits award in 1994 marking the first time a cartoonist received the honor.

Philippines Airline Terrorist attack

Philippines Airline Terrorist attack

On December 11, 1994 on Philippines Airline flight 434 form Manila to Cebu, terrorist Ramzi Yousef set off a bomb which exploded in flight, killing one passenger and injuring others. The plane made an emergency landing in Naha airport in Okinawa, Japan.

Philippines Airline Terrorist attack

Philippines Airline Terrorist attack

On December 11, 1994 on Philippines Airline flight 434 form Manila to Cebu, terrorist Ramzi Yousef set off a bomb which exploded in flight, killing one passenger and injuring others. The plane made an emergency landing in Naha airport in Okinawa, Japan.

Philippines Airline Terrorist attack

Philippines Airline Terrorist attack

On December 11, 1994 on Philippines Airline flight 434 form Manila to Cebu, terrorist Ramzi Yousef set off a bomb which exploded in flight, killing one passenger and injuring others. The plane made an emergency landing in Naha airport in Okinawa, Japan.