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,...

On May 15, 2024, in the small city of Handlova, the Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico (*1964) was shot four times by the...

Following the merger of three important Winterthur collections to form the Kunst Museum Winterthur and the March 23, 2024...

On April 8, 2024 in Beijing, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen had a clear message for the PRC leadership and Chinese...

The first setback for Europe in Slovakia came in October 2023 with the election of the Russia-friendly, left-wing populist Robert...

The 2024 local elections in Turkey were a disaster for President Erdogan and his corrupt, anti-democratic, conservative and...

The latest release of one of my favorite jazz pianists is called Lynne Arriale Trio: Being Human. It is her 17th album as a leader. The pianist-composer is joined by double bassist Alon...

Two years after Putin’s escalation of the war against Ukraine, the West is still not delivering enough ammunition and...

The 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries and caucuses have become a contest between the former president Donald Trump (*1946) and his former U.N. ambassador and former South...

[From our archives: 2003 film review] Neither George Clooney nor Catherine Zeta-Jones are among my favorite actors. When I found out that they are the stars of this movie by the directors...

Since July 1, 2021 Jean Imbert is the new French chef leading some 220 staff across the five restaurants at the Dorchester Collection Hôtel Palace Plaza Athénée in Paris, including the...

From October 5, 2023 until January 15, 2024 the exhibition and the epynomous catalogue Max Beckmann: The Formative Years,...

The exhibition at the Alte Pinakothek in Munich and the eponymous catalogue Venezia 500: The gentle revolution of Venetian...

The famous Baron Haussmann, born Georges Eugène Haussmann (1809-1891), was largely responsible for the major public works (les Grands Travaux) of the Second Empire, which shaped modern...

The catalogue Renaissance in the North: Holbein, Burgkmair, and the Age of the Fuggers accompanies the exhibitions Holbein and...

In his introduction to Age of Hope: Labour, 1945, and the Birth of Modern Britain (accept all Amazon cookies to go directly to...

From September 15, 2023 until January 22, 2024 the Berlinische Galerie, Museum of Modern Art, at Alte Jakobstraße 124–128 in Germany’s capital Berlin presents the exhibition Edvard...

ETH Zürich, the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, is best-known as one of the world’s leading universities, which...

From October 27, 2023 until January 21, 2024 Kunsthaus Zurich is presenting the exhibition Ernst Scheidegger: Photographer (English catalogue — we earn a commission: Amazon.com,...

Originally compiled in 2015 with the artist’s blessing, Mick Rock’s The Rise of David Bowie 1972-1973 (Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.fr, Amazon.de) is a multlingual (English,...