Apr 17, 2025 at 14:32 The Art of the Kronenhalle Zurich
Apr 17, 2025 at 14:32 The Art of the Kronenhalle Zurich
Jan 15, 2024 at 13:47 The Hôtel Plaza Athénée in Paris

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Apr 17, 2025 at 14:32 821
The Art of the Kronenhalle Zurich

The famous Kronenhalle is a legendary restaurant with brasserie, dining halls and bar in Zurich, Switzerland. Joan Miró called it “pays de rêve”, hence the title of a new, richly illustrated book, edited by Sibylle Ryser and Isabel Zürcher, which focuses on the restaurant’s artistic heritage: Pays de rêve: The Art of the Kronenhalle Zurich, Scheidegger and Spiess, October...

Nov 07, 2016 at 19:36 725
The case against Hillary Clinton

The case against Hillary Clinton is strong. One of the latest reasons not to vote for her: Donna Brazile. The former DNC chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned after Wikileaks emails led...

Oct 06, 2016 at 15:57 1312
Van Gogh On the Verge of Insanity

Bernadette Murphy discovered a hitherto unknown document relating to the cutting of Van Gogh’s ear. This discovery led the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam to organize the exhibition On...

Jul 01, 2016 at 11:57 2613
Scottish tea

[Added on January 31, 2024: Just stumbled upon older articles from 2019 and 2022 saying that Thomas Robinson, often known as Tam O’Braan (as in my article below) or Thomas...

Jun 05, 2016 at 22:48 365
Degas: A Strange New Beauty

The catalogue and exhibition Degas: A Strange New Beauty at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City from March 26 until July 24, 2016 explore Edgar Degas’ experimentation in...

May 12, 2016 at 13:08 599
Senate suspends President Rousseff

Senates suspends President Rousseff (article added on May 12, 2016 at 13:08 Swiss time) With 55 against 22 votes, the Brazilian 81-seat Senate has suspended President Rousseff for 180 day....

Mar 01, 2016 at 21:52 1362
Munch : Van Gogh

At the last weekend of its opening, I had the chance to visit the very recommendable Munch : Van Gogh exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam which closed on January 17 (Amazon.com,...

Jan 25, 2016 at 11:42 1123
President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa

The newly elected, center-right president of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa presents himself a man of national unity On January 24, 2016 the Portuguese voters took a clear decision. In...

Nov 23, 2015 at 11:26 2859
Macri promises change in Argentina

With more than 98% of all votes counted, the opposition candidate Mauricio Macri (*1959) of the Let’s Change Coalition won 51.4% of the vote in the Argentinean presidential election,...

Nov 18, 2015 at 18:28 5548
The cellist Sol Gabetta

Her warm, sometimes emotional and virtuoso sound, together with her unpretentious attitude, have won Sol Gabetta admirers around the globe. Biography of the cellist Sol Gabetta In the...

Nov 03, 2015 at 17:49 1050
Portugal’s minority government

The almost impossible happened, the three main oppositional, left-wing parties and their leaders, who don’t like each other and represent incompatible programs, decided to form a...

Sep 28, 2015 at 10:59 2233
Austria is moving to the right

The regional election in Upper Austria Among the famous citizens of the region of Upper Austria (Oberösterreich), with its capital Linz, are unpleasant people such as Adolf Hitler, he was...