Plovdiv and Matera: 2019 European Capitals of Culture
As of 1 January 2019, Plovdiv (Bulgaria) and Matera (Italy) will hold the title of European Capital of Culture for one year.
European Commissioner for...
Camille Corot: Women
Camille Corot is best known as the great master of landscape painting in the 19th century who bridged the French neoclassical tradition with the...
Dawoud Bey: Night Coming Tenderly, Black
Dawoud Bey’s latest body of work is a series of black-and-white photographs that reimagine sites along the last stages of the Underground Railroad.
Photographer Dawoud...
Crystal Award Winners 2019
Conductor Marin Alsop, film director Haifaa Al-Mansour, and broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough, are the recipients of the 25th Annual Crystal Award, the...
Piero della Francesca. Monarch of Painting
On 7 December 2018, Russian Orthodox St Catherine’s Day, the monographic exhibition Piero della Francesca opens in the State Hermitage, bringing together works by...
The Sea Ranch: Architecture, Environment, and Idealism
One hundred miles north of San Francisco, perched on the edge of 10 miles of rugged, wind-swept California coast, is a touchstone of 20th-century...
Human rights on film: International festival celebrates mobile phone films for a cause
In honor of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, marked 10 December, the United Nations has allied with the Mobile...
Culture – the “X Factor” for Building Back Better after Conflict and Disasters
Culture is the foundation upon which cities are built. Cities are not just a collection of buildings but are people, their stories, and how...
Kashmir’s plural ethos and communal harmony
Peace is the foundation of prosperity among the nation states of the world and harmony forms the basic foundation of that enterprise.Man is the...
100 years of history: Historic hotel celebrates worker heritage
If you’re the curious sort who enjoys exploring historic sites in your free time, you’re far from alone.
Because people are fascinated with learning more...