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Mar 13, 2025 at 14:48 380

From December 14, 2024 until March 29, 2025 and thanks to curator and writer Dieter Buchhart, the art gallery Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz in Switzerland is presenting the intimate show Jean-Michel Basquiat: Engadin. Accept cookies — we receive a commission; price unchanged — and order the English catalogue Jean-Michel Basquiat: Engadin ), Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2025, 76...

Mar 05, 2025 at 12:05 Full transcript of President Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress on March 4, 2025

Full transcript of President Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress on March 4, 2025: President Trump: Speaker...

Feb 16, 2025 at 14:15 Bill Evans in Norway: The Kongsberg Concert

On June 26, 1970 the jazz pianist and composer Bill Evans (August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980) played with his trio—Eddie...

Feb 04, 2025 at 10:57 Steve Schapiro. Andy Warhol and Friends

In 1965, the photographer Steve Schapiro (1934-2022), famous for documenting the civil rights mouvement in the 1960s and film stills of classic movies such as The Godfather (1972) and Taxi Driver (1976),...

Aug 22, 2024 at 14:51 599

The third day of the DNC 2024: Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Tim Walz

On the third day of the 2024 Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago, the likes of — among many others — Nancy...

Aug 09, 2024 at 16:51 1556

The Electoral Wardrobe at the Armoury (Rüstkammer) in Dresden

The Dresden Armoury (Rüstkammer) is one of the world’s foremost collections of historical arms and costumes. The Electoral...

Aug 06, 2024 at 21:51 850

Tim Walz is the running mate of Kamala Harris

The current Vice President Kamala Harris (*1964) has chosen Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (*1960) as her running mate in the 2024...

Aug 03, 2024 at 14:56 883

Andy Beshear or Josh Shapiro as running mate for Kamala Harris

[Added on August 4, 2024 at 15:06 Swiss time: According to CNN, Kamala Harris’s VP choice is down to Josh Shapiro, Tim Walz...

Jul 28, 2024 at 19:54 996

This time, Nikki Haley can’t be forgiven

Nikki Haley (*1972) served as President Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations from January 2017 until December 2018....

Jul 22, 2024 at 21:35 897

Kamala Harris will become the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party

It would be best if Democrats chose their new presidential candidate in an open convention, with politicians debating,...

Jul 22, 2024 at 01:12 653

Democrats should chose a centrist with executive experience who can win over independents and moderate Republicans

Finally, President Joe Biden realized that he had no path forward. The race to the White House became an impossible task for him...

Jul 21, 2024 at 21:06 3136

Louis in London — the last great performance by Louis Armstrong

On July 12, 2024 Verve Records released the great album Louis in London, presented as the last great performance by the most...

Jul 16, 2024 at 22:11 633

Trump’s running mate J. D. Vance

On July 15, Donald Trump (*1946) made his VP decision, chose ideology over eligibility and picked Senator J. D. Vance (*1984) as...

Jul 09, 2024 at 00:45 1390

Instability looms after the French parliamentary election

Before the 2024 European Parliament Election, the French President Emmanuel Macron had said that this election was about the EU,...

Jul 07, 2024 at 19:45 1660

The UK cabinet led by Prime Minister Keir Starmer

After the last parliamentary election, it took the Dutch seven months to form a (shady) coalition government. Having won an...

Jul 07, 2024 at 11:42 1592

Labour and Keir Starmer have not won, the Conservatives and Rishi Sunak have lost

Labour and Keir Starmer are the big winners of the House of Commons election with 412 out of the lower chamber’s 650 seats....

Jul 06, 2024 at 15:19 1263

The UK’s first-past-the-post voting system is unfair and leads to voter disaffection

Today, July 6, 2024 Keir Starmer said in his first press conference as prime minister: «We have a clear mandate.» That is a...

Jul 04, 2024 at 10:50 919

Labour led by Keir Starmer will govern the United Kingdom. Why Brexit remains a fairy tale and Rejoin is the best option

Thanks to consistent polls, we can already predict that Labour led by Keir Starmer (*Sept. 2, 1962) will govern the United...

Jul 02, 2024 at 14:51 569

Joe Biden is unfit to lead the United States

Joe Biden and his team wanted this unusually early, June 27 debate on CNN because the president is trailing the former president...

Jun 16, 2024 at 21:19 1557

Impressions of Art Basel 2024

Agnes Denes A giant work by the eco-pioneer and landart master Agnes Denes, born in Budapest in 1931, ornates the Art Basel entrance at Messeplatz (photograph on top of this page). In 1982,...