Ken Burns’ Jazz documentary series (10-DVD box-set: Amazon.com; 4-DVD-set: Amazon.de; Amazon.co.uk.) aired in the United States on PBS in January. Cosmopolis is based in...

Martha Argerich was born in Buenos Aires in 1941. At 3, she played the piano for the first time. Two years later, she began taking piano lessons with Vicenzo Scaramuzza. At 8, she made her...

This biography and filmography is based on the book by Graham McCann: Cary Grant – A Class Apart. The hardcover edition was published in 1997 by Columbia University Press, 348 pages...

Biography of Jane Monheit Born on November 3, 1977, Jane Monheit grew up on Oakdale, Long Island. At the age of 2, she is said to have begun singing Somewhere Over the...

The biography of Albert Barnes and the history of his foundation Biography added in January 2001: Albert Barnes was born in Kensington in 1872, a working-class Philadelphia neighborhood. As...

The exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Barbara Haskell, hardcover, September 2000, 128 p. Get the catalogue from Amazon.com. Since Edward Steichen’s (1879-1973) death,...

The historian Ian Kershaw was born in 1943. He studied in Liverpool and Oxford. From 1968 to 1989, he taught at the Universities of Manchester and Nottingham. Since 1989, he is professor of...

Michael Burleigh was born in 1955. Originally a medievalist at the University College of London and a Research Fellow at Oxford, he spent six years as a Professor at the London School of...

After Detroit and Boston, the exhibition Van Gogh: Face to Face — the Portraits makes the final stop of its tour at the...

Lynne Arriale Trio concert review: concert at the baroque hall of the Bären in Häggenschwil, Switzerland, November 17, 2000 On...

Biography of Montesinos and analysis Vladimiro Ilyich Montesinos is not only the former de facto chief of the Peruvian...

Valery Gergiev was born in Moscow in 1953 to Ossetian parents. He spent his youth in the Caucasus. For a Russian career at a relatively old age, he learned to play the piano. At the...

The exhibition Klimt und die Frauen at the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere Vienna, Austria, until January 7, 2001. Catalogue, English edition Klimt’s Women: Amazon.com,...

Jim Lehrer had the honor to arbitrate the first presidential debate, televised by CNN. Lehrer was born in Wichita, Kansas, in...

The The White House Staff is a sequel to Patteron’s 1988 book, Ring of Power (Amazon.com). The author has interviewed some 130 men and women over the course of three years....

From the introduction in the book Fiction Reconstructed by Marina Grzinic. Published by the permission of the author. Order the...

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is one of the great artists of the 20th century. The Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris dedicates a comprehensive exhibition to his — despite a publication by...

Alberto Fujimori was born in Lima, Peru, in 1938. He has a degree in agronomic engineering from the Agricultural National...

After 26 years in the service of the German city of Leipzig, Johann Sebastian Bach died on July 28, 1750. The Bach-year is still...

Malcolm Boyd’s Bach-biography from 1983 has been re-issued in German in the year 2000 by DVA. It covers the life and work of Johann Sebastian Bach, who died 250 years ago [English...