The first cabinet of Keir Starmer includes obviously the Labour leader Keir Starmer as prime minister. He is the most popular politician in the UK (Yougov poll published on July 5). But even he is ...

Der in Frankreich lebende, 1945 in Donaueschingen geborene Ausnahmekünstler Anselm Kiefer sagte in einem Gespräch 2016 auf die Frage: „1990/91 hatten Sie Ihre große Retrospektive in der ...

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 ...

The famous Kronenhalle is a legendary restaurant with brasserie, dining halls and bar in Zurich, Switzerland. Joan Miró called it “pays de rêve”, hence the title of a new, richly illustrated book, ...

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 Paris.

Die Tradition lebt unter Sir Rocco Forte in zeitgemässem Gewand weiter Eine der besten Londoner Adressen ist Brown’s Hotel, im Herzen von Mayfair gelegen. Das 1837 in der Albemarle Street eröffnete ...

The Dresden Armoury (Rüstkammer) is one of the world’s foremost collections of historical arms and costumes. The Electoral Wardrobe (Kurfürstliche Garderobe) at the Armoury bears unrivalled testimony ...

The Austrian-born actress Christine Kaufmann has died in a Munich hospital in the night to March 28, 2017. At 72, she lost her battle with leukemia. Her daughters Alexandra and Allegra and her ...

Following the merger of three important Winterthur collections to form the Kunst Museum Winterthur and the March 23, 2024 official reopening of Villa Flora after a renovation which cost CHF 11 million ...

Silvio Berlusconi was born on September 29, 1936. The son of a Milanese middle class family, his father was a bank clerk, studied law at the University of Milan, and wrote a thesis on advertising ...

We live in the age of gender studies, in which too many art historians and curators attempt to “discover”, “rediscover”, or “reassess” seemingly forgotten or overlooked female artists. In many cases, ...