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

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

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

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

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

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...