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May 17, 2026 at 20:21 3148

Helen Frankenthaler at Kunstmuseum Basel

We live in the age of gender studies, in which too many art historians and curators attempt to “discover”, “rediscover”, or “reassess” seemingly forgotten or overlooked female artists. In many cases, these female artists are rightly overshadowed by better male artists—not because men are better artists, but simply because there were so many more male artists than female...

Apr 14, 2026 at 17:50 Bye, bye Orbán! Péter Magyar and his Tisza party win a two-thirds majority in the 2026 Hungarian par...

Bye, bye Orban! Péter Magyar (*1981) and his oppositional Tisza party win a two-thirds majority in the 2026 Hungarian...

Apr 06, 2026 at 19:15 Gustave Courbet: realist and rebel

The French painter Gustave Courbet (1819–1877), born into a wealthy farming family in a provincial town, revolutionized the pictorial language of 19th-century art by making the visual reality of his time the...

Apr 05, 2026 at 16:02 Félicien Rops: Laboratory of Lust

Even in today’s sexualized world, the erotic and pornographic works of the master of Belgian Symbolism, Félicien Rops (1833–1898), have the power to lure audiences out of their comfort zones. They...

Jul 14, 2016 at 13:27 3251

Liz Truss is the new British Secretary of Justice

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

Jul 01, 2016 at 11:57 3950

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 22:48 797

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 1076

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 13, 2016 at 17:51 4495

Elisabeth Leonskaja: Franz Schubert late piano sonatas

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

Mar 01, 2016 at 21:52 2262

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,...

Feb 01, 2016 at 17:47 2574

Afternoon Tea 100% Vegan at the Shangri-La Hotel, Paris

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

Jan 25, 2016 at 11:42 2153

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...

Jan 17, 2016 at 19:05 1968

The Tsainami has swept the KMP away in Taiwan. Opposition leader Tsai Ing-wen elected president.

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

Nov 26, 2015 at 15:02 2327

The new Portuguese government. The cabinet of Prime Minister Antonio Costa

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

Nov 24, 2015 at 20:03 1726

The Socialist Costa named prime minister in Portugal

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

Nov 23, 2015 at 11:26 3774

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 7971

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 1513

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...

Oct 05, 2015 at 02:02 1408

Coelho won in Portugal but lost his absolute majority

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...

Sep 28, 2015 at 10:59 2776

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...

Sep 22, 2015 at 17:22 1932

Picasso Sculpture

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...

Jul 23, 2015 at 22:01 5771

Klee and Kandinsky

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...