Milo Rau new artistic director of the Wiener Festwochen
The Swiss director Milo Rau, 46, will be the new artistic director of the Wiener Festwochen. He succeeds Christophe Slagmuylder, who surprisingly announced in autumn that he would be leaving…
Golden Boy Mummy Carried 49 Amulets, CT Scans Reveal
Madrid. CT scans allowed develop digitally to the approximately 2,300-year-old intact mummy of a high socioeconomic Egyptian teenager. The body was equipped with 49 amulets of 21 different types, many of them…
Francisco Umbral Award for “Of Beasts and Birds” goes to Pilar Adón
For her book “Of Beasts and Birds,” Pilar Adón has been given the 12th Francis Threshold Award by the Francisco Threshold Foundation (Gutenberg Galaxy). The Francisco Umbral Foundation and the…
Russian or international culture? In the performance hall, “the world’s most challenging piano concerto” is being performed
Classic. Kirill Gerstein is a solo pianist conducting the Radio Symphony Orchestra under Nicholas Collon. – Tarkiainen, Elgar, and Rachmaninov. Do you like Russian music? When Sergei Rahmaninovilla composed his…
Sonja Anders becomes artistic director of the Thalia Theater
From August 1, 2025, Sonja Anders will be director of the Thalia Theater in Hamburg. She follows Joachim Lux, as the Hamburg Senate announced on Wednesday.The daily mirror app The latest…
Hamburg now has a new artistic director
It was quick. Sonja Anders’ employment at the Hanover Theater as artistic director was extended in July of last year to include the 2028–2029 season. In 2025, she will relocate…
The intense reds of Carpaccio come out of their natural habitat
Venice. Most people think of the rich Italian appetizer of thin layers of beef when they read the word carpacciobut few know that it is named after the Renaissance painter Vittore…
Iranian filmmakers call for the release of Jafar Panahi
Iran’s main filmmakers’ union has called on the authorities to release dissident filmmaker Jafar Panahi on January 17. AFP/Behrouz Mehri Opposing the regime, the director, Golden Lion 2000 for The circle and Golden…
A painting by Artemisia Gentileschi’s allegory regains its beauty after being stripped down and edited
In January 2023, American restaurateur Elizabeth Wicks was working on Artemisia Gentileschi’s Allegory of the Inclination at the Casa Buonarroti museum in the heart of Florence. AFP/Andreas SOLARO At the…
About half of Britons support the next extreme step towards Prince Harry
The docu-series of Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle, which aired on the streaming giant Netflix last month, continues to generate buzz, and now it seems that the couple…