Gitmo offers several classes for detainees literacy (Arabic and Pashto), English-as-a-second-language, and art and also allows for at least four hours of recreation a day, sometimes in groups.

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An offshoot of art nouveau, Catalan modernisme was kick-started by the reawakening of the region's art and language during the late 19th century, following 200 years of suppression by their Spanish overlords.

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From 1956 they walked, talked and drank together all over Paris, rake-thin writer and corkscrew-haired artist, ranging with formidable scholarship over art, literature, music and language.

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Aboriginal art's origins lie in a pre-hieroglyphic age, a time when there was no written language.

ECONOMIST: Aboriginal art