Arts & Culture
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Raphael’s tapestries return to the Sistine Chapel
The tapestries are usually only displayed on rotation in the “Raphael Room” at the Vatican Museum, according to the Vatican.…
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Photography exhibit asks people to challenge victim blaming
The Arts University Bournemouth student has created a series of images with models posing for mugshots, holding up a reason…
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As Fates would have it – what we learn from minor players in Greek tragedies and Hollywood films
But how many remember the so-called secondary characters (nurses, soldiers, pedagogues) with whom the great heroes of the past appeared…
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Small Istanbul publisher sustains Armenian literature
Now Aras Publishing has launched a children’s division and opened a new editorial office, built with donations from readers, that…
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Breathtaking images from the Landscape Photographer of the Year competition
Mr Ershov beat 3,400 rival entries by 840 photographers from around the world. His images, above and below, show landscapes…
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“Parasite” Just Made Oscars History, Becoming The First Foreign-Language Film To Win Best Picture
The South Korean film Parasite earned the top prize at Sunday’s Academy Awards in Hollywood, making Oscar history by becoming…
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In the 1960s, these African American photographers came together to fight underrepresentation in the art world
The result was a collective called Kamoinge. Kenneth Dickerman The Washington Post The word comes from the Kenyan language of…
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Kirk Douglas, Indomitable Icon of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Dies at 103
Kirk Douglas, the son of a ragman who channeled a deep, personal anger through a chiseled jaw and steely blue…
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Performing Beethoven – what it feels like to embody a master on today’s stage
Yet unlike arts such as painting and sculpture, which communicate directly from the artist to the observer, these otherwise silent…
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Dinosaurs in Love hit song by 4yo draws on ‘spectrum of human emotion’ says music expert
Written and performed by nearly-four-year-old English girl Fenn Rosenthal, the song is about dinosaurs having a party, falling in love,…
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Stephen Fry adapts best-seller on Ancient Greek myths into album with Debbie Wiseman
Debbie Wiseman’s music was inspired by Stephen Fry’s Sunday Times bestseller Mythos – a collection of vivid works retelling Ancient Greek…
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Tsiolkas novel ‘Damascus’ wins Victorian Premier’s Literary Award
Mr Chiolkas’s first novel was 1995’s Loaded. In 2005 the Melbourne writer won the Age Book of the Year prize…
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Friday essay: Beethoven – an icon at risk of overexposure?
The figure is dressed in typical early 19th-century garb, cravat and jacket visible beneath a heavy outer cloak. Protruding from…
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Bertrand Russell’s home recordings discovered
Russell is regarded as one of the most significant British minds of the 20th Century – an eminent philosopher, an…
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Female Genital Mutilation – 1,600 girls living in Ireland are at risk
Female Genital Mutilation or Cutting refers to the ritual of cutting or removing some or all of a female’s external…
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Holocaust poetry and the reclamation of many identities
Starting in the 1930s, those first works foreshadowed the catastrophe that was soon to come. Marian de Vooght The Conversation…
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