Culture

Everything in the biography of António Lobo Antunes was capital, cyclopean, colossal. So is his death. The gap left by the greatest Portuguese writer of contemporary literature is one of…

At 9:00 in the morning, Pedro Sánchez responded to Donald Trump’s threat to cut all commercial relations with Spain with four words: “No to war.” At 11:00, also in Madrid,…

Cameras, journalists, friars, carabinieri and a lot of expectation. The Basilica of Saint Agnes Outside the Walls, in Rome, became the setting this Wednesday for a long-awaited presentation that had…

The interview with Tamar Novas (Santiago de Compostela, 39 years old) had two stages. The first was at the Brunetti cafeteria in Madrid where he arrived, bought a package of…

Long before artificial intelligence could revive the dead, the 091 were reborn from the ashes. And, unlike cutting-edge technology, theirs was real. It remains that way. “Here we are. Back…

Art, books and architecture are the three pillars on which a new space is built that combines the project of Elena Foster’s Ivorypress publishing house with her husband’s Norman Foster…

It was extremely unlikely that a Visigoth king would die peacefully in his bed. These nobles of Germanic origin had the unhealthy habit of exterminating each other. So we don’t…

The Portuguese Gonçalo M. Tavares has been awarded the Formentor Prize for Letters 2026. The jury has awarded the writer, according to the minutes, “for revealing the unexpected implications of…

Before being Picasso, pioneer of cubism, decisive figure in 20th century art and confessed atheist, Pablo Ruiz (1881-1973) was a child educated in a deeply Catholic environment. That cultural baggage,…

The European Alliance of Academies, to which the Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid (CBM) belongs, announced this Monday the creation of a project partially financed by the European Union…