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Jun 12, 2025 at 13:12 439

From Trump vs. Musk to Trump vs. California

The craziest part of the relationship between Donald Trump and Elon Musk is not that it fell apart so quickly, but that it came about at all. Since the 1980s, Trump has been running around talking about the beauty of tariffs, whereas Elon Musk and other (often libertarian) tech billionaires are dreaming of a night watchman state (Nachtwächterstaat) offering free trade; incidentally,...

May 16, 2025 at 15:38 Rembrandt. The Complete Paintings

With Rembrandt. The Complete Paintings, Volker Manuth, Marieke de Winkel and Rudie van Leeuwen offer readers a view at 329 works made by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) during his lifetime, in what is known as...

May 15, 2025 at 07:00 Neue Sachlichkeit / New Objectivity exhibition at Neue Galerie New York

Since its founding in 2001, Ronald S. Lauder’s museum Neue Galerie New York has focused on Austrian and German art from 1890 to...

May 01, 2025 at 21:22 Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits

From March 30 until September 7, 2025 in partnership with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston shows the exhibition Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits, the first show devoted...

Apr 05, 2000 at 13:20 2307

Poncho Sanchez

Biography and CD / album review of Latin Soul Music is a matter of taste. Poncho Sanchez, a Latin jazz and salsa singer and percussionist, has won a Grammy Award in 1999. Poncho Sanchez is...

Apr 01, 2000 at 13:12 2029

A short history of Taiwan

History is no one-way street. It is among other things a combination of options, choices and coincidence. Before the fall of the Qing dynasty the first (limited) Chinese elections took...

Apr 01, 2000 at 00:00 4308

Zoltán Kocsis

Born in Budapest in 1952, the pianist, composer and conductor Zoltán Kocsis commenced his musical studies when he was 5 years old and continued them at the Béla Bartók Conservatory from...

Apr 01, 2000 at 00:00 3593

Joachim-Ernst Berendt 1922-2000

Joachim-Ernst Berendt: The Jazz Book: From Ragtime to Fusion and Beyond. Paperback, 6th-1997 revised ed. (1992), 541 p. Order English versions of The Jazz Book from Amazon.com,...

Apr 01, 2000 at 00:00 2709

Jiang Zemin

Bruce Gilley: Tiger on the Brink. Jiang Zemin and China’s New Elite, Berkeley and Los Angeles, London, University of California Press, 1998, 395 S. Order the book from Amazon.com....

Feb 03, 2000 at 13:06 1515

The First World War in British perspective by John Keegan

In the First World War, 2 million Germans, 1.7 million Russians and 1.7 million French, 1.5 million men of the Austrian-Hungarian...

Jan 01, 2000 at 00:00 1013

Interview with Cornelio Sommaruga, President of the ICRC

Cosmopolis exclusive interview with Cornelio Sommaruga, President of the ICRC, late December 1999: ‘In the long run, it is...

Jan 01, 2000 at 00:00 1299

Lilia Shevtsova: Yeltsin’s Russia: myths and reality

People interested in an account of the Yeltsin era should turn to Lilia Shevtsova: Yeltsin’s Russia: myths and reality....

Jan 01, 2000 at 00:00 220

Hilary Spurling: The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse: the Early Years, 1868-1908

Hilary Spurling is no art historian, but a broadly acclaimed biographer (e.g.: Paul Scott). After eight years of research on the...

Jan 01, 2000 at 00:00 1903

L.A. Confidential

Based on the novel written by James Ellroy (written 1988/89), L. A. Confidential (1997) is one of our favourite movies of recent years and an exception since most of the other excellent...

Jan 01, 2000 at 00:00 285

John Russell: Matisse. Father & Son

The former art critic of The Sunday Times (1949-74) and The New York Times (1974-1990), John Russell, in his book Matisse. Father...

Nov 30, 1999 at 13:31 2871

The Blair Witch Project

Film review: “In October 1994, three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was...

Jan 01, 1999 at 00:00 3934

Biography of Dizzy Gillespie

The biography by Alyn Shipton: Groovin’ High. The Life Of Dizzy Gillespie. OUP, 1999, 422 p. Get the paperback edition from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk. Sheet music by Dizzy...

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