11 days to go until the new Taylor Swift album is out, and the pop star’s grip on the cultural world tightens once more, with a release party hitting cinemas…
The Italian government and the Association of Italian Municipalities (ANCI) have promoted the candidature of Italian cuisine as a Unesco Intangible Heritage Site. Italy already has 61 World Heritage Sites…
Created by presidential decree in February after Russia’s exclusion from the Eurovision contest three years ago, Intervision has named its inaugural winner. And despite what high-level Russian politicians say, the…
Not everyone will get to win a Nobel Prize. However, there’s the next best thing: the Ig Nobel Prize, which highlights unusual scientific research that provides both laughter and insight.…
A new Paul Thomas Anderson movie, healing from heartbreak with Welsh musician Cate Le Bon, and a meeting of medieval aesthetics and contemporary gothic. Here’s what’s happening this week. Read…
Lithuania’s Jewish community was one of the most devastated by the Holocaust in all of Europe. During the Second World War, between 90 and 95% of Lithuania’s Jewish population was…
30 artists from the Gaza Strip are presenting their work at the Greek Pavilion of the Gaza Biennale that’s on show around the world. Read More
One of Igor Mitoraj’s most spectacular works, the monumental sculpture “Tindaro”, went under the hammer this week at the Polswiss Art Auction House in Warsaw and fetched a record-breaking €1.6…
Marion Cotillard stars in French director Lucile Hadžihalolović’s fourth feature, a glacially paced adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Snow Queen”. Prepare to be entranced. And maybe a wee bit…
Jaden Smith has been named Christian Louboutin’s first-ever creative director, in a newly created role for the luxury house. And the internet is perplexed – to put it politely. Read…