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Controversy Over Christmas Crib in Grand Place - Brussels

Belgian designer, artistic director and entrepreneur Jean-Paul Lespagnard pose beside the Christmas tree that he decorated in Brussels Grand-Place on November 28, 2025 in Liege, Belgium. In 2025 Brussels installed a "faceless,inclusive" nativity scene made from recycled textiles at the GrandPlace, prompting criticism that the redesign erases traditional religious imagery while supporters tout it as a modern, secular interpretation; simultaneously, the European Parliament displayed a nativity scene for the first time, sparking debate over whether such a display could be seen as offensive to nonbelievers. - Photo by Monasse T/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Controversy Over Christmas Crib in Grand Place - Brussels

(L-R) Dean Benoit Lobet, Belgian designer, artistic director and entrepreneur Jean-Paul Lespagnard, Brussels Mayor Philippe Close, the German born interior architect and designer Victoria Maria Geyer talk to media about the controversial nativity scene in Brussels Grand-Place on November 28, 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. In 2025 Brussels installed a "faceless,inclusive" nativity scene made from recycled textiles at the GrandPlace, prompting criticism that the redesign erases traditional religious imagery while supporters tout it as a modern, secular interpretation; simultaneously, the European Parliament displayed a nativity scene for the first time, sparking debate over whether such a display could be seen as offensive to nonbelievers - Photo by Monasse T/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Controversy Over Christmas Crib in Grand Place - Brussels

Belgian designer, artistic director and entrepreneur Jean-Paul Lespagnard (L) the Brussels Mayor Philippe Close (C) and the German born interior architect and designer Victoria Maria Geyer (R) and the dean Benoit Lobet talk to media about the controversial nativity scene in Brussels Grand-Place on November 28, 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. In 2025 Brussels installed a "faceless,inclusive" nativity scene made from recycled textiles at the GrandPlace, prompting criticism that the redesign erases traditional religious imagery while supporters tout it as a modern, secular interpretation; simultaneously, the European Parliament displayed a nativity scene for the first time, sparking debate over whether such a display could be seen as offensive to nonbelievers - Photo by Monasse T/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Controversy Over Christmas Crib in Grand Place - Brussels

(L-R) Belgian designer, artistic director and entrepreneur Jean-Paul Lespagnard, Brussels Mayor Philippe Close, the German born interior architect and designer Victoria Maria Geyer, and the dean Benoit Lobet talk to media about the controversial nativity scene in Brussels Grand-Place on November 28, 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. In 2025 Brussels installed a "faceless,inclusive" nativity scene made from recycled textiles at the GrandPlace, prompting criticism that the redesign erases traditional religious imagery while supporters tout it as a modern, secular interpretation; simultaneously, the European Parliament displayed a nativity scene for the first time, sparking debate over whether such a display could be seen as offensive to nonbelievers - Photo by Monasse T/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Controversy Over Christmas Crib in Grand Place - Brussels

(L-R) Belgian designer, artistic director and entrepreneur Jean-Paul Lespagnard, Brussels Mayor Philippe Close, the German born interior architect and designer Victoria Maria Geyer, and the dean Benoit Lobet talk to media about the controversial nativity scene in Brussels Grand-Place on November 28, 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. In 2025 Brussels installed a "faceless,inclusive" nativity scene made from recycled textiles at the GrandPlace, prompting criticism that the redesign erases traditional religious imagery while supporters tout it as a modern, secular interpretation; simultaneously, the European Parliament displayed a nativity scene for the first time, sparking debate over whether such a display could be seen as offensive to nonbelievers - Photo by Monasse T/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Controversy Over Christmas Crib in Grand Place - Brussels

Belgian designer, artistic director and entrepreneur Jean-Paul Lespagnard talks to media about the controversial nativity scene in Brussels Grand-Place on November 28, 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. In 2025 Brussels installed a "faceless,inclusive" nativity scene made from recycled textiles at the GrandPlace, prompting criticism that the redesign erases traditional religious imagery while supporters tout it as a modern, secular interpretation; simultaneously, the European Parliament displayed a nativity scene for the first time, sparking debate over whether such a display could be seen as offensive to nonbelievers - Photo by Monasse T/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Hohhot Winter Fishing Festival - Inner Mongolia

An aerial drone photo taken on Jan. 10, 2025 shows a scene during a winter fishing event held in Hasuhai scenic area in Tumd Left Banner in Hohhot, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. A winter fishing festival and an ice and snow tourism event kicked off on Friday at the Hasuhai scenic area. Winter fishing, artistic performances, ice sports and other activities attracted many tourists. Photo by Li Zhipeng/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Hohhot Winter Fishing Festival - Inner Mongolia

An aerial drone photo taken on Jan. 10, 2025 shows a scene during a winter fishing event held in Hasuhai scenic area in Tumd Left Banner in Hohhot, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. A winter fishing festival and an ice and snow tourism event kicked off on Friday at the Hasuhai scenic area. Winter fishing, artistic performances, ice sports and other activities attracted many tourists. Photo by Li Zhipeng/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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CHINA-CHONGQING-VILLAGE-ART(CN)

(240104) -- CHONGQING, Jan. 4, 2024 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Dec. 5, 2023 shows artistic facilities in Jiangjun Village of Bishan District, southwest China's Chongqing. TO GO WITH "Across China: Art reshapes rural scene in SW China village" (Xinhua/Wu Yanxia)

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Mars Rover Captures Incredible Images Of Martian Day

Handout photo - Figure B is the morning panorama without added color. NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture panoramas at two times of day on April 8, 2023. The panoramas were captured at 9:20 a.m. and 3:40 p.m. local Mars time, then merged together. Color was added for an artistic interpretation of the scene, with blue representing the morning panorama and yellow representing the afternoon one. Each of these new panoramas took about 7 1/2 minutes to capture and include five individual images that were stitched together after being sent to Earth. By capturing the panoramas at two different times of day, the scene shows dramatic shadows similar to stage lighting coming in from the left and right of center stage. Additionally, it was winter at Curiosity’s location at the time these images were captured; shadows are sharper and deeper during winter, when dust is at its lowest in the Martian atmosphere. At the bottom right of the postcard is Curiosity. The rover's three

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Mars Rover Captures Incredible Images Of Martian Day

Handout photo - Figure A is an annotated version of the postcard noting geographic features and elements of the rover. NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture panoramas at two times of day on April 8, 2023. The panoramas were captured at 9:20 a.m. and 3:40 p.m. local Mars time, then merged together. Color was added for an artistic interpretation of the scene, with blue representing the morning panorama and yellow representing the afternoon one. Each of these new panoramas took about 7 1/2 minutes to capture and include five individual images that were stitched together after being sent to Earth. By capturing the panoramas at two different times of day, the scene shows dramatic shadows similar to stage lighting coming in from the left and right of center stage. Additionally, it was winter at Curiosity’s location at the time these images were captured; shadows are sharper and deeper during winter, when dust is at its lowest in the Martian atmosphere. At the bottom righ

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Mars Rover Captures Incredible Images Of Martian Day

Handout photo - Figure C is the afternoon panorama without added color. NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture panoramas at two times of day on April 8, 2023. The panoramas were captured at 9:20 a.m. and 3:40 p.m. local Mars time, then merged together. Color was added for an artistic interpretation of the scene, with blue representing the morning panorama and yellow representing the afternoon one. Each of these new panoramas took about 7 1/2 minutes to capture and include five individual images that were stitched together after being sent to Earth. By capturing the panoramas at two different times of day, the scene shows dramatic shadows similar to stage lighting coming in from the left and right of center stage. Additionally, it was winter at Curiosity’s location at the time these images were captured; shadows are sharper and deeper during winter, when dust is at its lowest in the Martian atmosphere. At the bottom right of the postcard is Curiosity. The rover's thr

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Mars Rover Captures Incredible Images Of Martian Day

Handout photo - Curiosity's 'Postcard' of 'Marker Band Valley'. NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture panoramas at two times of day on April 8, 2023. The panoramas were captured at 9:20 a.m. and 3:40 p.m. local Mars time, then merged together. Color was added for an artistic interpretation of the scene, with blue representing the morning panorama and yellow representing the afternoon one. Each of these new panoramas took about 7 1/2 minutes to capture and include five individual images that were stitched together after being sent to Earth. By capturing the panoramas at two different times of day, the scene shows dramatic shadows similar to stage lighting coming in from the left and right of center stage. Additionally, it was winter at Curiosity’s location at the time these images were captured; shadows are sharper and deeper during winter, when dust is at its lowest in the Martian atmosphere. At the bottom right of the postcard is Curiosity. The rover's three anten

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Be Water Installation - Milan

A view of the Be Water installation in Milan, Italy on September 6, 2021. The Cozzi swimming pool has by now accustomed the Milanese to hosting suggestive artistic installations, such as the Giant Moon by Luke Jerram. Also on the occasion of the Milan Design Week 2021 the swimming pool located in viale Tunisia 35 in Milan becomes the scene of a great event: Be Water, the large site specific installation imagined by Toiletpaper Magazine, the editorial project of only images signed by the artist Maurizio Cattelan and the photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari, known all over the world for its surreal and unconventional aesthetics. Photo by Simona Chioccia/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Yuhi Hill and Drum Bridge at Meguro

Utagawa Hiroshige print of Yuhi Hill and Drum Bridge at Meguro from the 'One Hundred Famous Views of Edo' series. Date: 1857

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Michi-zane Sugawara visiting the Temple on Mt Tamuke Nara

Poet Michi-zane Sugawara visiting the Temple on Mt. Tamuke Nara, the scene of his poem.

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Suruga-cho

Utagawa Hiroshige of the urban bustle of the street Suruga-cho with stylised clouds and Mount Fuji in background. Part of the 'One Hundred Famous View of Edo' series.

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Bearded warrior in front of broken bridge

Toyohara Kunichika print of a bearded warrior in front of broken bridge.

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Marie Lukacova

Six finalists, including some foreign names, will compete for the 30th Czech Jindrich Chalupecky Award for young visual artists with the winner to be announced in late November or early December, the organisers said at a press conference today, on Tuesday, January 15, 2019. Among the finalists are Andreas Gajdosik, who uses social networks to create artistic objects, Baptiste Charneux, a Frenchman living in Prague who works with ceramics, filmmaker Marie Lukacova (photo), painter Pavla Malinova, Alma Lily Rayner, Israeli-born activist who focuses on the topic of sexual violence, and the Comunite Fresca group of Dana Balazova, Marketa Filipova and Marie Stindlova. The jury said that the finalists from outside the Czech Republic prove that they also contribute to forming the Czech artistic scene. The finalists' exhibition will take place in autumn in the Moravian Gallery Brno and will also show works of British artist Tai Shani. (CTK Photo/Roman Vondrous)

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Baptiste Charneux

Six finalists, including some foreign names, will compete for the 30th Czech Jindrich Chalupecky Award for young visual artists with the winner to be announced in late November or early December, the organisers said at a press conference today, on Tuesday, January 15, 2019. Among the finalists are Andreas Gajdosik, who uses social networks to create artistic objects, Baptiste Charneux (photo), a Frenchman living in Prague who works with ceramics, filmmaker Marie Lukacova, painter Pavla Malinova, Alma Lily Rayner, Israeli-born activist who focuses on the topic of sexual violence, and the Comunite Fresca group of Dana Balazova, Marketa Filipova and Marie Stindlova. The jury said that the finalists from outside the Czech Republic prove that they also contribute to forming the Czech artistic scene. The finalists' exhibition will take place in autumn in the Moravian Gallery Brno and will also show works of British artist Tai Shani. (CTK Photo/Roman Vondrous)

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Comunite Fresca group of Marketa Filipova, Marie Stindlova and Dana Balazova

Six finalists, including some foreign names, will compete for the 30th Czech Jindrich Chalupecky Award for young visual artists with the winner to be announced in late November or early December, the organisers said at a press conference today, on Tuesday, January 15, 2019. Among the finalists are Andreas Gajdosik, who uses social networks to create artistic objects, Baptiste Charneux, a Frenchman living in Prague who works with ceramics, filmmaker Marie Lukacova, painter Pavla Malinova, Alma Lily Rayner, Israeli-born activist who focuses on the topic of sexual violence, and the Comunite Fresca group (photo from left) of Marketa Filipova, Marie Stindlova and Dana Balazova. The jury said that the finalists from outside the Czech Republic prove that they also contribute to forming the Czech artistic scene. The finalists' exhibition will take place in autumn in the Moravian Gallery Brno and will also show works of British artist Tai Shani. (CTK Photo/Roman Vondrous)

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Alma Lily Rayner

Six finalists, including some foreign names, will compete for the 30th Czech Jindrich Chalupecky Award for young visual artists with the winner to be announced in late November or early December, the organisers said at a press conference today, on Tuesday, January 15, 2019. Among the finalists are Andreas Gajdosik, who uses social networks to create artistic objects, Baptiste Charneux, a Frenchman living in Prague who works with ceramics, filmmaker Marie Lukacova, painter Pavla Malinova, Alma Lily Rayner (photo), Israeli-born activist who focuses on the topic of sexual violence, and the Comunite Fresca group of Dana Balazova, Marketa Filipova and Marie Stindlova. The jury said that the finalists from outside the Czech Republic prove that they also contribute to forming the Czech artistic scene. The finalists' exhibition will take place in autumn in the Moravian Gallery Brno and will also show works of British artist Tai Shani. (CTK Photo/Roman Vondrous)

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Pavla Malinova

Six finalists, including some foreign names, will compete for the 30th Czech Jindrich Chalupecky Award for young visual artists with the winner to be announced in late November or early December, the organisers said at a press conference today, on Tuesday, January 15, 2019. Among the finalists are Andreas Gajdosik, who uses social networks to create artistic objects, Baptiste Charneux, a Frenchman living in Prague who works with ceramics, filmmaker Marie Lukacova, painter Pavla Malinova (photo), Alma Lily Rayner, Israeli-born activist who focuses on the topic of sexual violence, and the Comunite Fresca group of Dana Balazova, Marketa Filipova and Marie Stindlova. The jury said that the finalists from outside the Czech Republic prove that they also contribute to forming the Czech artistic scene. The finalists' exhibition will take place in autumn in the Moravian Gallery Brno and will also show works of British artist Tai Shani. (CTK Photo/Roman Vondrous)

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Andreas Gajdosik

Six finalists, including some foreign names, will compete for the 30th Czech Jindrich Chalupecky Award for young visual artists with the winner to be announced in late November or early December, the organisers said at a press conference today, on Tuesday, January 15, 2019. Among the finalists are Andreas Gajdosik (photo), who uses social networks to create artistic objects, Baptiste Charneux, a Frenchman living in Prague who works with ceramics, filmmaker Marie Lukacova, painter Pavla Malinova, Alma Lily Rayner, Israeli-born activist who focuses on the topic of sexual violence, and the Comunite Fresca group of Dana Balazova, Marketa Filipova and Marie Stindlova. The jury said that the finalists from outside the Czech Republic prove that they also contribute to forming the Czech artistic scene. The finalists' exhibition will take place in autumn in the Moravian Gallery Brno and will also show works of British artist Tai Shani. (CTK Photo/Roman Vondrous)