Operation Absolute Resolve against Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela was successful in the sense that the dictator and his complicit...

The French model, actress, singer and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot (September 28, 1934—December 28, 2025) became a sensation in the United States in 1957 thanks to her film And...

On December 19, the European Union summit regarding aid for Ukraine ended with mixed result. On the positive side, the EU agreed...

Already since September 4, 2025 and until January 18, 2026 the Leopold Museum in Vienna presents the exhibition Hidden Modernism:...

Switzerland perceives itself as a neutral state. Many Swiss think that their country was not involved in colonialism. But an exhibition at the Swiss National Museum Zurich (Schweizerisches...

The worldfamous Benin Bronzes in the British Museum are part of thousands of artefacts looted in 1897 by the British army in Benin City, the capital of the Kingdom of Benin, located in what...

Together with Mercedes-Benz, Ferrari is probably the most famous name in the world of cars. In a new, lavishly illustrated TASCHEN book, the writer and journalist Pino Allievi explains...

From September 26, 2025 until January 18, 2026 the LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur in Münster is showing the exhibition Kirchner. Picasso. Subsequently, the show will travel to the...

Together with Nova Gorica in Slovenia and Gorizia in Italy, Chemnitz is the European Capital of Culture 2025. In this context, the exhibition Edvard Munch. Angst at Kunst Sammlungen...

On September 28, 2025 some 3,3 million voters had the right to vote in the 2025 Moldovan parliamentary election. Over 800,000 of...

In 2014 the Canadian conductor (and pianist) Yannick Nézet-Séguin (*1975) and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe (founded in 1981)...

Friedrich von Amerling (1803–1887) was one of Vienna’s leading artistic personalities of the Bie­dermeier period. He...

Narendra Modi’s (*1950) India has a long way to go to catch up with the pseudo-Communist rival China in the Asian century....

From April to November 1925, Paris showed the landmark Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes,...

President Trump’s presidencies strongly ressemble trashy American reality-TV shows. But unlike The Apprentice, his actions...

From June 16 to June 22, 2025 the world’s leading art fair, the original Art Basel in Switzerland, attracted 88,000 visitors (compared to 91,000 in 2024 and 82,000 in 2023.) who could...

In a televised address from the White House, President Donald Trump said that the United States had “completely and totally...

The Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei aka Iran’s bloody, corrupt dictator said after the Israeli attacks on Iran’s...

The craziest part of the relationship between Donald Trump and Elon Musk is not that it fell apart so quickly, but that it came...

With Rembrandt. The Complete Paintings, Volker Manuth, Marieke de Winkel and Rudie van Leeuwen offer readers a view at 329 works made by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) during his lifetime,...