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Artistic gymnastics

Artistic gymnastics: the best-known FIG gymnastics discipline, with six men's and four women's apparatus events, scored since 2006 by open-ended D-score plus E-score, distinct from rhythmic and trampoline gymnastics.

Artistic gymnastics at the 2026 Mediterranean Games

Artistic gymnastics at the XX 2026 Mediterranean Games in Taranto, Italy, 25 Aug-2 Sep 2026 at Grottaglie Sports Hall; Italy won women's team gold (157.750) and 14 artistic medals, Benedetta Gava three golds.

Artistic language

Artistic language (artlang): a conlang category created for aesthetic or fictional purposes, from Tolkien's Elvish languages to Klingon, Na'vi, and Dothraki, distinct from auxiliary (auxlang) and engineered (engelang) constructed languages.

Artistic License (software license)

The Artistic License is a free and open-source software license written by Larry Wall for Perl; Perl 5 is dual licensed under it and the GPL.

Artistic swimming

Artistic swimming, known as synchronized swimming until 2017, is an aquatic sport in which solo, duet, and team routines are judged on difficulty, synchronization, execution, and artistic impression.

Artistic swimming at the 2026 Asian Games

Artistic swimming at the 2026 Asian Games (Aichi-Nagoya, September 19 to October 4, 2026) features duet and mixed team events, both contested September 27, 2026.

Artistic swimming at the 2028 Summer Olympics

Artistic swimming at the 2028 Summer Olympics (LA28): duet and team events at the Long Beach Aquatics Center, July 25-29, 2028; mixed team event allowing up to two men per eight-athlete team; team medals by aggregate of technical, free, and acrobatic routines.

Artistic symbol

Artistic symbol: an art element standing for an emotion, idea, or philosophy; studied via Goethe's symbol/allegory contrast, Cassirer's symbolic forms, Langer, and Goodman's Languages of Art symbol-system theory with denotation and exemplification.

Artists and Models

Artists and Models (1955) is a Paramount musical comedy directed by Frank Tashlin, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis with Shirley MacLaine, about a sleep-talking roommate whose dreams fuel a hit comic book and attract spies.

Artists and repertoire

Artists and repertoire (A&R) is the record label and music publishing division responsible for scouting, signing, and developing artists and delivering their works. Key facts: US$7.1bn annual industry A&R and marketing investment; increasingly data-driven scouting; male-dominated gatekeeping role; Chinese equivalent called qihua (企划).

Artists Equity

Artists Equity is an independent, artist-led film and TV studio founded in November 2022 by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, and RedBird Capital's Gerry Cardinale, backed by at least $100 million, known for Air, The Accountant 2, The Rip, and profit-sharing with cast and crew.

Artists with the most number-ones on the Billboard Hot 100 chart

Ranking of artists with the most Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles: The Beatles lead with 20, Mariah Carey 19 among soloists, Drake 14; 13 acts have 10 or more; chart began 1958.

Artists4Ceasefire

Artists4Ceasefire is a volunteer collective of entertainment figures founded October 20, 2023, known for its open letter to President Biden and red ceasefire pins worn at the 2024 Oscars, calling for a permanent Gaza ceasefire, hostage release, and humanitarian aid.

Artiva Biotherapeutics

Artiva Biotherapeutics is a San Diego biotechnology company founded in 2019 as a spinout of South Korea's GC Cell, developing off-the-shelf allogeneic NK cell therapies and traded on Nasdaq since 2024.

Artjom Gilz

Artjom Gilz, born in 1987 in the Soviet Union, is a German actor based in Berlin known for Charité, Das Boot, Milk & Honey, and the Peacock thriller Ponies.

Artms

Artms (아르테미스) is a South Korean girl group formed by Modhaus, known for reuniting five former Loona members. They debuted on May 31, 2024, with the album DALL.

Arto Harkonen

Arto Härkönen (Arto Kalevi Härkönen), born 1959 in Helsinki, Finnish javelin thrower; won 1984 Los Angeles Olympic gold with 86.76 m, first left-handed Olympic javelin champion, personal best 92.40 m.

Arto Koivisto

Arto Koivisto (born 1947, Isojoki, Finland) is a Finnish cross-country skier; at Innsbruck 1976 he won gold in the 4 x 10 km relay and bronze in the 15 km, and was second in the 1975-76 unofficial World Cup behind Juha Mieto.

Artocarpus

Artocarpus (breadfruit genus) is a Moraceae tree genus of about 70 species from tropical Asia to the western Pacific, with Borneo as its ancestral range; it yields jackfruit, breadfruit, cempedak, and marang, with compound syncarp fruits up to 45 kg.

Artocarpus integer

Artocarpus integer, cempedak (champada, chempedak), a Moraceae fruit tree native from Peninsula Thailand to Malesia, related to jackfruit and breadfruit; aromatic 0.6–3.5 kg fruits, teak-strength timber, IUCN Least Concern.

Artomatix

Artomatix was a Dublin software startup founded in 2014 as a Trinity College Dublin spinout; its ArtEngine tool automated 3D art production, and Unity Technologies acquired it in 2020.

Artpop

ARTPOP (Artpop) is Lady Gaga's fourth studio album, released November 11, 2013 on Interscope; an EDM-driven, Jeff Koons-covered art-pop project whose singles underperformed but whose reputation has since been reassessed upward.

ArtRave: The Artpop Ball

artRAVE: the ARTPOP ball, Lady Gaga's fourth headlining tour supporting Artpop (2013), ran May 4 to November 24, 2014, grossed $83 million, and featured LeRoy Bennett's three-stage Lucite catwalk design.

Arts and Crafts movement

The Arts and Crafts movement, a British design and social reform movement of the late 19th century led by William Morris and inspired by John Ruskin, opposed industrial mass production, took its name from the 1887 Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, and influenced Art Nouveau, the Bauhaus, and mingei.

Arts in the Philippines

Arts in the Philippines: sining, spanning precolonial indigenous forms, Spanish colonial sacred art, and a modern contemporary scene; eight arts per the CCP Encyclopedia; PHP2.12-trillion creative economy.

ARTS-021 (AVZO-021)

ARTS-021, renamed AVZO-021, is Allorion Therapeutics' oral selective CDK2 inhibitor licensed to Avenzo Therapeutics in 2024; in Phase 1/2 (NCT05867251) for HR+/HER2- breast cancer and CCNE1-amplified solid tumors, investigational, not FDA approved.

Artsakh (historical province)

Artsakh (Orkhistena) was a historical province of ancient and medieval Armenia in the Lesser Caucasus, later Nagorno-Karabakh; ruled by Arabs, Bagratids, melikdoms, Russia, Soviet Azerbaijan, emptied of Armenians in 2023.

Artsvashen (Արծվաշեն)

Artsvashen (Armenian: Արծվաշեն; Azerbaijani: Başkənd) is a 38.1 km² Armenian exclave inside Azerbaijan's Gadabay District, captured by Azerbaijan in August 1992; distinct from Azerbaijani enclaves in Armenia.

Artsy

Artsy is a New York-based online marketplace for discovering and buying fine art, founded in 2009 by Carter Cleveland and known for its Art Genome Project classification system.

Artsyz Raion

Artsyz Raion (Арцизький район) was a raion of Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Artsyz; created 1940, dissolved 1963, restored 1966, liquidated in the 2020 reform and merged into Bolhrad Raion.