From ‘Mouthful of Birds’ to ‘Good and Evil and Other Stories,’ the Argentine writer has built one of the most distinctive and unsettling bodies of work in Spanish-language literature. In an interview in Berlin, where she has lived since 2012, she looks back on her career and reflects on a troubled present in which the anomalous threatens to become the norm
Weight-loss drugs and anti-aging treatments are shaping contemporary culture. New works of fiction portray a society terrified of fat, aging and any body that deviates from the norm
The US is being represented at the great art event by Alma Allen, a self-taught sculptor who was chosen after a late call reoriented towards MAGA ideology
The Spanish director’s new film, ‘Bitter Christmas’, is his most intimate work: a story about grief and depression that questions the extent to which a filmmaker can draw inspiration from other people’s lives. In it, every mirror reflects his own image
In Lyon, the singer unveils a show with a theatrical and pop spirit that focuses on her new album without abandoning her flamenco roots or the greatest hits from ‘Motomami’
The author, a voice of racial consciousness in the United States, speaks of his 2024 book ‘The Message’ and how language can make violence presentable
The Franco-German political scientist, who heads the Research Division of the Atlantic Alliance, has the mission of anticipating conflicts in order to try to prevent them
In his work, the German thinker explores the usefulness of political projects that aspired to reinvent society, even though they inevitably ended in failure
The Cartier Foundation and Art Basel Paris illustrate the growing influence of private initiative in the French capital’s cultural scene. The trend is at once revitalizing the industry and threatening the role of the public sector
‘Not being pure doesn’t make you any less legitimate. It’s a very effective way to discredit and demobilize us,’ says the leader of Fridays for Future in Germany
The director returns to the ‘Avatar’ saga with a third film set in a world in conflict that serves as a mirror of reality
A specialist in the nervous system, the researcher and author of ‘The Balanced Brain’ directs the Mental Health Laboratory at the University of Cambridge
On the 25th anniversary of his debut film, ‘Amores Perros,’ the Oscar-winning Mexican director presents an installation pieced together from material edited out of the movie and reflects on the violence that inspired it, his relationship with success, the mark left by the death of his son, and his new comedy with Tom Cruise
After the departure of its vocalist the experimental rock group, which has become a republic of six, reinvents itself with a more choral and luminous album
Theorists and artists such as Paul B. Preciado, Cindy Sherman, and Samantha Hudson analyze the cultural phenomenon led by the singer
In a new documentary presented at the Cannes Film Festival, director Raoul Peck uses the British writer’s thoughts to analyze a present marked by mass surveillance, the manipulation of language, and the advance of authoritarian governments
Having become one of the great cultural events in California, PST ART advocates dialogue between both disciplines with an ecological message that resonates in a landscape scorched by fires
On the 80th anniversary of the concentration camp’s liberation, its significance is being trivialized by tourism and popular culture. At the same time, this symbol of evil is being transformed and opened up to new forms of commemoration
A monumental exhibition dedicated to the avant-garde group of the 1960s is on display at the François Pinault Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris. The radical Italian movement is setting new records in the market and conquering museums around the world
For some of the winners of the award, which will be announced this Thursday in Stockholm, it was a ‘kiss of death.’ Many never wrote any more notable works, and others felt uneasy about the loss of their privacy
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Surrealist manifesto, an exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris proposes a new reading that broadens the role of women and non-Western voices
On its 65th anniversary, an exhibition in London questions the liberated reinterpretation offered by Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster film. The story of the successful toy is, in fact, a mix of emancipation and conservatism
An exhibition commemorates the demolition of the former parliament building in the German capital in 2008, an example of the persistent erasure of traces of socialism in the city
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, plunged into the river in a highly publicized event meant to show that the water is ready for the Olympic Games. But there is more to it than that, and a long history of failures
A Weimar exhibition reveals that dozens of professors and students at the school, a hotbed of artistic vanguard in 1930s Germany, were members of the party or accepted commissions from the Third Reich
The writer was one of the brightest stars of British literature when he debuted with ‘Politics’ at the age of 24. Converted to experimental prose, he returns with ‘The Future Future’, a historical novel that speaks of the present and searches for the roots of the #MeToo movement, the erosion of the patriarchy, and celebrity culture
The French writer and soldier, who also penned ‘The Bridge over the River Kwai,’ didn’t think that his portrait of a society in ruins would work well on screen. We are into the 10th film in the franchise