Until May 26, 2019 you can visit the outstanding exhibition The Young Picasso: Blue and Rose Periods at Fondation Beyeler in...

Today, February 15, 2019 Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has called early general elections for April 28, 2019....

On his ascent to the throne in 669 BC, the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal was the most powerful individual on the planet. From his capital in Nineveh, situated east of the River Tigris in the...

After the Brexit vote, when Theresa May took over the job as prime minister from David Cameron, she famously said: Brexit means...

Since his first days as a conductor, Sir Simon Rattle has been a Sibelius fan. In December 2014 and February 2015, celebrating...

Turkey’s economic future looks grim President Erdogan’s and the AKP’s wins in the 2018 presidential and...

In August 2015, Marina Abramovic and the Swiss psychoanalist Jeannette Fischer met at the artist’s Hudson house for four days, wired up with microphones. Those recordings form the...

Nina Schleif has written a book on Andy Warhol’s early years entitled Andy Warhol. Drag & Draw: The Unknown...

Since July 2015, the elegant Shangri-La Hotel, Paris hosts its vegan 100% Green Dinners on the first Thursday of each month....

The Credit Suisse-sponsored exhibition Monet & Architecture (Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr) at the National Gallery in London ends on July 29, 2018. Over 20 years...

The photo book A Vision Shared by Hank O’Neal was first published in 1976 (order the 2017 re-issue from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.fr, Amazon.de). It documents efforts...

Erdogan has not won the elections in Turkey. How come? No elections took place in Turkey. It was a farce. Some time ago already,...

In a second attempt, Giuseppe Conte managed to become Italy’s new prime minister and to form a government that was both...

In the light of the fairy-tale coalition program of the Italian populist parties Five-Star-Movement and Lega, which promise at...

Italy’s political turmoil is far from over. Luigi Di Maio, the leader of the populist Five-Star-Movement, wants the Italian...

Giuseppe Conte is now indeed Italy’s new prime minister, but it took a second attempt. On June 1, Conte presented another...

Whenever you think it impossible to find a president more incompetent than the previous one, the US electorate proves you wrong. After Bush The Torturer, they found Obama The Messiah and...

As the polls had predicted, the Social Democrats (SPD) say Yes to another grand coalition with Merkel’s Christian Democrats...

Updated on February 16, 2018 at 09:34 Berlin time: According to a poll by Infratest Dimap for the German public television...

The British cellist Jacqueline “Jackie” du Pré (* Oxford, January 26, 1945; † London, October 19, 1987) remains in the hearts of classical music lovers around the globe, not just...