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New information about the mysterious Finnish artist Iria Leino: she bequeathed her fortune to yoga centres

New information about the mysterious Finnish artist Iria Leino: she bequeathed her fortune to yoga centres

Visual artist Iria Leino stands under the ladder.  The armpit has a light cat.  Black cat climbs ladders.
Iria Leino has a painting called Accident in the background, dating from 1969. The inclusion of the ladder and the black cat shows a sense of humour.

Iria Leino was a Finnish artist who worked in New York and shunned publicity. She left behind a thousand works that are now attracting interest around the world.

Since then, Leino’s works have received an extraordinary amount of international publicity. They have been exhibited and written about in prestigious publications.

Now Irja Leino’s apartment is empty: the last of her paintings went into storage this week.

– On Tuesday, I went to Iria’s loft. There were two moving vans in front of the building. It stopped. The windows had been washed and through them you could see the landscape for the first time. The spirit of Iria was no longer there,” says Sihvonen.

Leino had moved to the former factory building as early as the 1960s and lived for 56 years.

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Super-popularity and rambunctious youngsters: the movie version put Minecraft in the headlines – here are three phenomena from the cube world

Super-popularity and rambunctious youngsters: the movie version put Minecraft in the headlines – here are three phenomena from the cube world

The green Minecraft cubic character sits on the cubic bin.
The Minecraft film attracted more viewers in its opening weekend than the giant hit Barbie did a couple of years ago.

Disruptive behaviour in cinemas, endless creativity in the “digital sandbox”, a useful tool for teaching. Minecraft is all this.

He spent just under a week writing the code and put his creation out there for everyone to try.

*Minecraft* was born.

Since then, the game has grown into a true generational experience and popular culture phenomenon.

We list three things in this story that is good to know about *Minecraft *.

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