Culture

Stories within stories: that of the scene that a painting tells; that of the artist who captured that image; that of the materials he used; that of the object itself,…

Imposter syndrome and the struggle to achieve success also applies to stars. It can happen even if your name is Hugh Jackman or Kate Hudson, even though today they are…

In 1984, Metallica released Fade To Black, an acoustic ballad integrated into his album Ride The Lightning. That a band of thrash metal incorporating a slow and melodic song was…

Not everything can be smelled at the Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf. Nazism, for example. When the curator of the exhibition reached this traumatic episode in history, he decided to ignore it,…

A torch burns, illuminates and leaves a trace. That’s what the writer Karl Kraus did with The torch (The Torch), the magazine that from 1899 until his death in 1936…

The numbers are dizzying: 89,000 murals for facades, 500,000 for shop windows, four million small format posters, hundreds of thousands of entries and 1,300,000 hand-on programs Today’s run during 2025…

Some records, many confirmations and good news. Or bad, for those who look with terror at the overcrowding in museums. The fact is that the attendance figures in 2025 at…

The American actor and singer Will Smith has been sued by the violinist who was working on his last tour, who has accused him of sexual harassment, unjustified dismissal and…

In the first decades of phonography, listening to a symphony orchestra on record meant accepting a sound fiction: a reduced ensemble, without real bass or dynamic contrasts, very far removed…

The origin of the Vienna Philharmonic’s invitation to Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Montreal, 50 years old) to conduct its prestigious New Year’s Concert has a relationship as unexpected as it is revealing…