Name: World No Tobacco Day: Artist Sudarsan Pattnaik creates sand art
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Description: Indian globally renowned sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik has created a 50-feet sand sculpture to mark World No Tobacco Day. The artist from Odisha created the sand art at Puri Beach and wrote the piece aims to 'create awareness about the harmful effects caused due to tobacco' on Twitter. The artist has been creating artworks to mark this day for many years.

Indian globally renowned sand artist Sudarsan&nbsp;Pattnaik&nbsp;has created a 50-feet sand sculpture to mark World No Tobacco Day. The artist from Odisha&nbsp;created the sand art at Puri&nbsp;Beach and wrote the piece aims to 'create awareness about the harmful effects caused due to tobacco' on Twitter. The artist has been creating artworks to mark this day for many years.&nbsp;

Indian globally renowned sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik has created a 50-feet sand sculpture to mark World No Tobacco Day. The artist from Odisha created the sand art at Puri Beach and wrote the piece aims to 'create awareness about the harmful effects caused due to tobacco' on Twitter. The artist has been creating artworks to mark this day for many years.

Retail giant Amazon India has announced a 100 per cent fee waiver for artisans, weavers and female sellers for 10 weeks on its platform. The programme is a part of the retailer's Stand for Handmade campaign that aims to help more than 10 lakh small entrepreneurs in the country. Amazon's Stand for Handmade page features over 60,000 artisanal and craft products from 20 states across North, South, East, West and Central India.&nbsp;

Spain's famed opera house&nbsp;Teatro&nbsp;Real in Madrid is all set to reopen its doors on July 2 with a socially distanced opera. This makes it one of the world's first opera to resume entertainment with a full production of orchestra and soloists on offer. An offering of&nbsp;Verdi&rsquo;s La Traviata&nbsp;will be staged for the post-Covid-19 viewers. The show itself has been tweaked with new safety norms, reflecting the future of theatre amid an ongoing pandemic. The onstage performance has been choreographed in such a way that actors are always 2 metres apart. Members of the orchestra will wear a mask whenever possible. The seating capacity has also been halved to ensure no social distancing rules are flouted for cinematic joy.&nbsp;

To mark the end of pride month, Google has released a doodle in honour of trans rights activist Marsha P. Johnson. She is remembered&nbsp;as one of the key leaders of the 1969 Stonewall uprising, which has been a turning point in the history of&nbsp;the international LGBTQ+ rights movement.
Johnson, a performer and self-professed drag queen, reported added the initial P to her name as a&nbsp;response to those who questioned her gender, standing for 'Pay It No Mind.'&nbsp;
Last year, Johnson&nbsp;Marsha was posthumously honoured as a grand marshal of the New York City Pride March.&nbsp;

British artist, Andy Leek is celebrating the lifting of Covid-19 restrictions in the UK with a series of public artwork at London's King's Cross estate. His first installation called 'This Much' is inspired by the concept of social distancing that's become a way of life in the last three months. He hopes to turn the 'two-metre' distance rule into a new message about love and connection. In public spaces across King's Cross, messages of hope covered in UV paint or metallic glitter appear unknowingly, while an iconic 40-meter installation in laser-cut mirrored stainless steel is seen over Battle Bridge Place adjacent to King's Cross station. Andy Leek's residency will run until September.

A university in Japan has awarded the first-ever degree in ninja studies to&nbsp;Genichi Mitsuhashi, who spent two years honing his martial arts skills and examining the true nature of stealth fighters. He enrolled in the master's degree at Mie University&rsquo;s International Ninja Research Centre in spring 2018 and presented his thesis on how ninja managed mountain forests in Iga between the 17th and 19th centuries. The 45-year-old even bought a house in&nbsp;Iga province, the birthplace of the ninja, and cultivated his own rice and vegetables on the land to understand the practice.&nbsp;

Fireworks lit up the night sky in the Russian city of St Petersburg on Saturday as it marked the end of the school year with a special celebration.&nbsp;
The city held its annual Scarlet Sails event, which celebrates the end of the school year with a spectacular firework display and massive water show.
Despite restrictions currently in place to stop the spread of the coronavirus, the spectacle still went ahead but was held without young spectators this year.&nbsp;

Hundreds of gay people and transsexuals took part in a protest march in Berlin on Saturday, replacing this year's cancelled Pride celebrations in the city.
With the motto "Pride Berlin: Save our Community, Save our Pride," more than a thousand participants marched in protest for&nbsp;discrimination against LGBT+ communities.&nbsp;
Most of the people who took part in Saturday's march complied with coronavirus restrictions, such as social distancing and wearing face coverings.

Milton Glaser, the iconic graphic designer who adorned Bob Dylan&rsquo;s silhouette with psychedelic hair and summed up the feelings for his native New York with &ldquo;I (HEART) NY,&rdquo; died Friday, his 91st birthday.&nbsp;His wife informed NYT&nbsp;that the cause of death was a stroke.&nbsp;
In posters, logos, advertisements and book covers, Glaser&rsquo;s ideas captured the spirit of the 1960s with a few simple colours and shapes.
He was the designer on the team that founded New York magazine with Clay Felker in the late &rsquo;60s.&nbsp;

A collector in Spain reportedly took the help of a furniture restorer to tidy up a copy of a famous painting but the results were quite far off from the real deal. The artwork, which was originally painted by&nbsp;Spanish Baroque artist Bartolome Esteban Murillo, looks so botched after the restoration that it has gone viral on social media. While this isn't the first botched art restoration, people are laughing their hearts out at the effort and turning the set of before-and-after photos into hilarious memes.&nbsp;

Barcelona's iconic Gran Teatre del Liceu opera house re-opened on Monday but with a unique audience that wouldn't have to bother about social distancing!&nbsp;Eugenio Ampudia, a Spanish conceptual artist held a concert at the opera house for an audience of plants, and it was streamed online. He said he was inspired by nature during the pandemic. The audience comprised of 2,292 plants, which is the total seating capacity of the theatre. The plants will be handed over to health care professionals at a local hospital as a sign of gratitude for their work. According to the theatre, the innovative concert serves as a prelude to its 2020-2021 season.

Unveiling its flagship &ldquo;Kumhar Sashaktikaran Yojana&rdquo; in Pokhran, a small district in Rajasthan, the&nbsp;Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) will help revive the glory of the region as a pottery site. The body has distributed 80 electric potter wheel to potter families of Pokhran&nbsp;who have been working with the craft for decades but find little support or patrons. The sale of pottery products will also be taken care of by the commission as they will be provided to railways stations of nearby Barmer and Jaisalmer where eatables are to be sold in only earthen or terracotta pots.&nbsp;

People are playing dress-up and&nbsp;re-creating Vogue covers with themselves as the models. But, there is more to the fun little #VogueChallenge&nbsp;than it seems. The trend mushroomed from the Black Lives Matter movement, as a way for people to create awareness about the lack of people of colour on the covetable&nbsp;magazine's cover. The challenge that began on Tik&nbsp;Tok&nbsp;was quick to go viral on other platforms including Instagram&nbsp;where people have used it over 187,000 times.&nbsp;

A Surat-based art teacher, Tulsi Patel, gave a visual representation to Covid-19 crisis and the impact it's had on urban and rural areas with an artistic twist. Patel used the walls of his home as a canvas and the warli folk painting technique to represent various corona warriors. He even drew out the struggle of the migrants. Warli art is a tribal style of art, typically used by people hailing from the North Sahyadri Range and originated in Maharashtra.

Anonymous street artist Banky's stolen mural, created on the door of Paris' Bataclan concert hall, has been found in Abruzzo in Italy. The creation of a veiled female figure was believed to be a tribute to the Bataclan terrorist attack victims that killed 90 people in 2015. According to French investigators, a group of thieves ran away with the artwork in a truck in 2019 and work was on to nab them for over a year. Finally, it was found in a farmhouse in Teramo by Italian Police and French investigators. More details of its recovery will be released soon.

Not many people know this but Freddie Mercury, the late British singer, songwriter&nbsp;and lead vocalist of the rock band Queen, was actually born&nbsp;in Zanzibar, a small island off the coast of Tanzania. The first-ever museum dedicated to the legendary&nbsp;rockstar&nbsp;is fittingly located in his birth town. Mercury's actual name was&nbsp;Farrokh Bulsara&nbsp;and the museum traces his life from his&nbsp;Zoroastrian roots to his schooling in India all the way to becoming one of the greatest musicians of all time.&nbsp;

An unprecedented world gives birth to icons that are as unprecedented as itself. With more than 562,000 followers and 8.6 million likes, @.baby.frogs is a Tik Tok&nbsp;account dedicated to videos of tadpoles and of course frogs. Run by 17-year-old Hannah McSorley, who reportedly has a collection of 37,000 tadpoles in her possession, the account started as a lockdown&nbsp;project and has garnered a cult fandom of intrigued followers. For instance, a&nbsp;video of one of the tadpoles' funeral was viewed 1.8 million times. But McSorley&nbsp;isn't alone in the tadpole influencer&nbsp;business. The hashtag #tadpoles has 109.6 million views on the video-blogging&nbsp;platform which is proof that there are plenty&nbsp;more obsessed with this niche.

The National Library of Israel (NLI) in Jerusalem is opening digital access to over 2,500 rare Islamic manuscripts and books from its world-class collection for free. With descriptions in Arabic and English, literary works and version of the Qu'ran decorated with gold leaf and lapis lazuli dating as far back as the 9th century will be available for free access online.&nbsp;The collection includes an exquisite Iranian copy of Persian mystical poet Nur al-Din Jami's&nbsp;work, produced in 1484 just a few years after its composition, during the poet's lifetime.&nbsp;

Scientists from the University of Exeter&nbsp;have found that when it comes to fighting for food, the brightest flamingos in the group are the most aggressive. The intriguing research finds that a&nbsp;bright pink plumage is an indicator of good health among the bird species. Published in the journal Ethology, the research team suggested that when feeding birds in captivity it is important to feed them in a large space so that they squabble less and spend more time in consuming food. The same study has also found that when flamingos are ready to breed, they exhibit a deeper flush of colour and return to a paler hue post becoming parents.&nbsp;

Artist and activist, Banksy&nbsp;has unveiled a new artwork on Instagram&nbsp;that shows support for the ongoing Black Lives Matter protest in the US. The artist,&nbsp;known for keeping his identity under wraps, wrote 'people of colour are being failed by the system.' The artwork shows a blurry black figure in a portrait alongside a candle which seems to be setting fire to a flag of the&nbsp;USA&nbsp;that is hanging&nbsp;above it.&nbsp;

It could be the last dance for Madrid Flamenco Bar&nbsp;Casa Patas, which is downing its shutters amid the&nbsp;Covid-19 pandemic. For over 40 years, its flamenco hall called tablao&nbsp;has played host to numerous outstanding performances. Flamenco is a form of art, comprising of music, dance and guitar linked to traditions of southern Spain. While restrictions in Spain have been eased, the bar relied on the tourism industry for its clientele, which has suffered a sharp decline, owner Martin Guerrero told news agency&nbsp;Reuters. While there are no plans of reopening just yet, the owner does hope to revive the business in future.&nbsp;

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