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Apr 14, 2026 at 17:50 987

Bye, bye Orbán! Péter Magyar and his Tisza party win a two-thirds majority in the 2026 Hungarian parliamentary election

Bye, bye Orban! Péter Magyar (*1981) and his oppositional Tisza party win a two-thirds majority in the 2026 Hungarian parliamentary election—despite all of Viktor Orbán’s (*1963) repeated gerrymandering, the control of roughly 80% of the media in Hungary, and repeated election handouts to retirees and rural residents, who make up his core constituency. On April 12, 2026 the...

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...

Mar 11, 2026 at 11:10 Global Nuremberg 1300-1600

Already since September 25, 2025 and only until March 22, 2026 Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg shows the exhibition GLOBAL Nuremberg 1300–1600. It explains how the city of Nuremberg (Nürnberg)...

Jul 15, 2023 at 11:44 2587

Astor Piazzolla biography, albums La Camorra and Tango: Zero Hour

Astor Piazzolla revolutionized the traditional tango with the help of his knowledge of jazz and classical music, which he had...

Jul 03, 2023 at 15:35 1513

Enough evidence to send Trump to jail

Former president Donald Trump’s public and private statements and actions constitute enough evidence to send him to jail....

Jun 27, 2023 at 19:49 3429

The Tsar is naked

The aura of Russia’s brutal dictator Vladimir Putin as the untouchable strongman in the Kremlin who, like a puppet master, is masterfully playing one faction of the regime against the...

Jun 22, 2023 at 16:13 3807

Scholz and Macron are not doing enough for Ukraine

The West must and easily can outspend Russia in Ukraine. The so-called Franco-German couple must lead and make a much more...

Jun 19, 2023 at 16:31 14684

Christoph Poppen conducts the Madeira Classical Orchestra

On June 17, 2023 at the invitation of Norberto Gomes, Artistic Director of the Madeira Classical Orchestra, Christoph Poppen...

Jun 14, 2023 at 22:53 3236

Silvio Berlusconi

Italy’s furbissimo ladrone aka Silvio Berlusconi (September 9, 1936 – June 12, 2023) got a state funeral today. He was one of Italy’s richest men. He died a multi-billionaire....

Jun 14, 2023 at 17:24 4979

A 2003 biography of Silvio Berlusconi

[Today, June 14, 2023 took place Berlusconi’s state funeral in Milan. Therefore, from our archives, part of an article...

Jun 02, 2023 at 20:15 2373

Cindy Sherman – Anti-Fashion

The exhibition concept for Cindy Sherman – Anti-Fashion at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart from April 21 until September 10, 2023 was elaborated and realized by Alessandra Nappo...

May 29, 2023 at 17:54 2404

Erdogan managed to steal another election in Turkey

What took place in Turkey on May 28, 2023 was neither fair nor an election but an “election” farce. Recep Tayyip...

May 25, 2023 at 14:45 2477

Movie review: Casablanca

Casablanca is one of the great classic movies thanks to its timeless ingredients: lost love, romance, intrigue, mystery and melodrama set against the background of the Second World War. The...

May 24, 2023 at 22:10 2197

Today, Tina Turner died at the relatively young age of 83

Instead of an obiturary for Tina Turner, who died at the relatively young age of 83 in her home in Küsnacht (Switzerland), after...

May 22, 2023 at 12:13 41780

The Madeira Classical Orchestra plays Baruch Berliner and Beethoven

The world needs new classical music compositions in order to renew the genre. The Artistic Director of Madeira Classic Orchestra,...

May 14, 2023 at 22:05 2911

Erdogan has largely ruined Turkey and the majority of Turks

While I am writing these lines, it remains unclear who will become Turkey’s next president and which parties will have a...

May 01, 2023 at 23:34 98886

The Madeira Flower Festival Concert starring soprano Viktorija Miškūnaitė

Since 1998 the Orquestra Clássica da Madeira has been performing the island’s Flower Festival Concert. The 2023 edition on...

Apr 25, 2023 at 13:42 2618

The exhibition at the Musée de Montmartre: Surréalisme au féminin?

At 12 rue Cortot in Montmartre, Paris, once lived, worked and and gathered many famous artists. Among them was Auguste Renoir...

Apr 17, 2023 at 11:18 214544

Albrecht Mayer and the Orquestra Clássica da Madeira

Born in Erlangen in 1965, Albrecht Mayer is not only the principal oboist of the Berlin Philharmonic but, as he told me in...

Apr 03, 2023 at 20:00 1926

Islamic Art

Some people living today assume that the West has always been leading the world. However, in 2004, John M. Hobson noted in The Eastern Origins of Western Civilizations (Cambridge, p. 272;...