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...

The current exhibition at Fondation Beyeler in Riehen (Switzerland) is dedicated to the painter and sculptor Paul Gauguin...

A history of the Galician city of Lviv (Lwów in Polish, L’vov in Russian, Lemberg in German and Leopolis in Latin) has to...

At the end of 1998, the Old Town of the Galician city of Lviv (Lwów in Polish, L’vov in Russian, Lemberg in German and Leopolis in Latin), which has completely preserved its Medieval...

After the 2015-election, it was clear that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would form a right-wing government. He had already moved further to the right at the end of 2014. As a surprise...

The new Estonian coalition government As expected, the relative winner of Estonia’s 2015-parliamentary election, Taavi...

There is nothing new under the Israeli sun. Bibi has already governed for some nine years. After the 2015 legislative election,...

On March 6, 2015 Brazil’s Supreme Court has given the green light to federal prosecutors to investigate 49 people,...

Correction added on April 16, 2015 at 20:33 CET: The Social Democrats lost indeed 4 seats compared with 2011, but now control...

Review, history, anecdotes and design of the palace at avenue Montaigne In February 2015, I finally had the chance to rediscover the renovated and enlarged Hotel Plaza Athénée in Paris....

Le Relais Plaza is the famous brasserie at the elegant Hotel Plaza Athénée in Paris, situated at 25, avenue Montaigne. Constant...

Christophe Moret has rightly been awarded a second Michelin star (Added on February 1, 2016 at 17:54 CET). Biography of Christophe Moret The executive chef at Shangri-La hotel Paris,...

Israeli politics have always been volatile. New parties emerge, existing parties merge, politicians change parties and alliances. When Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu sacked his finance...

The exhibition Canaletto: Bernardo Bellotto paints Europe at Alte Pinakothek in Munich from October 17, 2014 until January 18,...

The early life of William Smokey Robinson The Motown record label owes its success to many people. The first to come to my mind are founder Berry Gordy and singer, songwriter, record...

The most important appointment in the new, largely unchanged, second government Valls, is the one of Emmanuel Macron as France’s new Minister of the Economy, the Industry and the...

Lauren Bacall was born Betty Joan Perske in the Bronx, New York City, on September 16, 1924. Her father was a Jewish immigrant from Poland, her mother a Jewish immigrant from Romania. She...

Nicola Benedetti was born on July 19, 1987. She grew up in the small Scottish town West Kilbride. She has a brother and a sister. Both her parents are Italian born, but moved to Scotland as...

At the end of 2008 and in early 2009, Israel already fought a war against Hamas. Only a regime change in the Gaza strip would have “justified” such a large scale operation which caused...