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The band’s former drummer is releasing a country album at the age of 84. ‘If a country act was going around England, they always went to Liverpool. Sister Rosetta Thorpe blew me away,’ he tells EL PAÍS

Egyptian hieroglyphics were used 3,250 years before our era, but there is an even older precursor: the cuneiform writing of Mesopotamia

An exhibition by the Hawaiian artist, ‘Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom,’ will be shown at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao through March 16

Tourists and foodies from all over the world are flocking to Spanish bars, restaurants and bakeries for a slice. An inside look at one of the most unexpected gastronomic phenomena of recent times

Some have created a buzz, others have elevated new fashion icons, and some have shattered the last taboos of ageism. Here are the outfits that made the biggest impact of the year

‘The New Yorker’ reporter is publishing a Spanish-language compilation of his articles. After abandoning X, he says, ‘Social media is a toxic swamp’

In the small village of Oostduinkerke, on the shores of the North Sea, a community of 12 families maintains an ancient custom declared by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage

The English actor is nominated for a Golden Globe for his role as a heroin-addicted writer in Luca Guadagnino’s new film and is tipped to work again with the Italian director

The photojournalist and poet B.A. Van Sise explores the fragility of endangered languages in his book and Los Angeles museum exhibition, showcasing 50portraits that tell the stories of languages on the brink of disappearing forever

Stars such as Marlon Brando, Michael Caine and John Wayne have won prestigious awards and are true legends of the screen, but there was one day when they made a misstep and accepted a role that would become an indelible stain on an otherwise (almost) perfect career

Today we use words and concepts coined by thinkers such as Plato or Epicurus, although often with a different meaning

Thirty-five years after the fall of the German Democratic Republic, a ‘mental wall’ continues to divide the country, including in its literature. EL PAÍS took a trip through Berlin, Jena and Leipzig in search of the great German novel, written today by authors like Jenny Erpenbeck and Clemens Meyer

Violent, funny and visually iconic, the show by Korean director Hwang Dong-hyuk was the most-watched series on Netflix. In an interview, the director confesses that success has left him exhausted. The second season is coming out on December 26, while the third will be released in 2025

An exhibition at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid brings back memories of the lakeshore home that the artist and her famous partner Wassily Kandinsky shared in Murnau before the war tore them apart

We spoke with the unlikely partners Alexey Pajitnov and Henk Rogers about the challenges they overcame to get the video game marketed beyond the Berlin Wall. Their adventure inspired a movie and forged a relationship that endures four decades and 520 million games later

Edo Costantini and Delfina Braun, a couple of Argentine artists based in upstate New York, have just successfully ended an exhibition in Manhattan in which they explored the contradictions contained within a plant that heals and at the same time generates great pain in humanity

The Miami artist, creator of the mural at the entrance of One World Trade Center, was in a coma for four months after a stroke caused by the coronavirus

In his book, ‘The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England,’ historian Marc Morris recounts the turbulent era between the abandonment of Britain by the Romans and the Norman conquest

A collective made up of writer Valeria Luiselli, Ricardo Giraldo and Leo Heiblum presents the piece’s Study #1 and #2 at the land-focused Día Art Foundation

Directed by Errol Morris and based on a book by journalist Jacob Soboroff, the documentary tackles the controversial separation of migrant families during Donald Trump’s first term in office, likely to be repeated on a greater scale during Trump 2.0

Edward Berger’s movie ‘Conclave’ delves into the complex deliberations surrounding the election of a pontiff in a murky and politically charged environment

Science fiction authors like Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein have inspired figures such as Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, who, adopting the persona of strongmen, fantasize about saving humanity

The director, twice nominated for a Goya and creator of series such as ‘Merlí' and ‘Raising Voices’, admits to EL PAÍS that he contacted women on social media for two of his projects, but claims that ‘they were never explicit job offers’

The group’s biggest hit from 1978 has come back to the forefront due to its unexpected use at Donald Trump’s political rallies and the reaction of its controversial co-writer to those who claim it as an anthem for the LGBTQ+ community

A team of scientists subjected volunteers to a brain scan and perceptual analysis while they listened to the sound of the rare instrument