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...

Update added on August 17, 2016 at 09:35 Swiss time: On August 16, for the first time since the Second World War, a foreign...

Elisabeth “Liz” Truss (*1975) is the new Secretary of Justice, taking over from Michael Gove (*1967), who has been ousted...

[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...

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...

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....

Pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja chose the title “intuitive pilgrimage” to describe her 70th anniversary box-set. It consists of...

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,...

The afternoon tea is an English institution that lives on not only in the Commonwealth, but for instance in Paris too. In January...

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...

The “ Tsainami ” has swept the KMT away in Taiwan. The opposition leader Tsai Ing-wen has been elected President of the...

Mario Centeno designated as next finance minister of Portugal The center-right President Anibal Cavaco Silva has approved the new...

The center-right President Anibal Cavaco Silva named the Socialist Antonio Costa as Portugal’s new prime minister. In the...

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,...

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...

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...

Added on October 5, 2015 at 08:35 CET: With 99.23% of the vote counted and only 4 more seats to attribute, Portugal Ahead wins...

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...

The last, great exhibition and catalogue with sculptures by Pablo Picasso (I have seen) took place at Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in the year 2000 (review), curated by Werner Spies. On...

As a great KKK admirer—no, not the Ku Klux Klan, but the artists Kirchner, Klee and Kandinsky —, a visit to the great Klee and Kandinsky exhibition at Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern...