Hotel Porto Santa Maria in Funchal — the city name is the adjective of the Portuguese word for “fennel” — is part...

On September 29, 2020 (US time) the first presidential debate between President Donald J. Trump and his challenger Joe Biden took...

In the summer of 1945, the famous war photographer Robert Capa documented the German capital, bombed to the ground. From September 9, 2020 until April 30, 2021 a selection of 120 of those...

Instant time travel? Yes, that’s possible! Listen to Georg Friedrich Händel’s (aka Handel) Agrippina and, with the...

The book Kairouan or how Paul Klee became a Painter was written in 1921 by Wilhelm Hausenstein, one of the first to recognize the...

From August 29 until November 29, 2020 the Gerhard Richter Archiv at the Saxony state museum Albertinum in Dresden showcases Gerd...

Here comes the full transcript of President Trump’s Republican National Convention (RNC) speech, held on August 27,...

Full transcript of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s speech to the 2020 Democratic National Convention (DNC), as...

A history of Babingtons Tea Rooms In 1893, two young English ladies decided to establish a tea room in the Eternal City: Isabel Cargill, daughter of Captain Cargill, founder of the city of...

The American critic, curator and author Richard Speer has written a wonderful and enlightening book called The Space of Effusion: Sam Francis in Japan. It was published in connection with...

Near Baghdad International Airport in Iraq on January 3, 2020 a United States drone strike ordered by U.S. President Trump...

Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers Illuminated is a scientific publication by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam (Amazon.com,...

In 2019, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam showed the exhibition Van Gogh and the Sunflowers. A Masterpiece Examined and published a catalogue with the same title. The museum showed the...

President Donald Trump is unfit to lead the United States through the pandemic, the economic and social crisis, the peaceful...

Once again, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has shown that he is a survivor. Last, but not least, this is due to...

Before my remarks on the Liberal Democrat internal report regarding the December 2019 electoral defeat, let’s remember...

Historians may one day recognize the year 2020 as the beginning of the Asian century. In any case, the response of too many European countries as well as the United States to the novel...

Today, April 29, 2020 at Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons, Prime Minister Boris Johnson was absent, still...

[Added on May 6, 2020: good news! The exhibition is now open to the public. You just have to wear a mask, wrapping yourself...

From March 9 until June 16, 2019, the exhibition Picasso: The Late Work. From the Collection of Jacqueline Picasso was shown at...