A recently passed law provides opportunity to the family, who has been battling to get the painting back for 20 years. The legislation comes as a surprise after the last court decision ruled in favor of Spain’s right to keep the work
The Aboriginal Peoples Television Network is celebrating 25 years of broadcasting news, cultural and entertainment content in Canada for Indigenous groups and other audiences
A new study has shed light on an overlooked factor that played a key role in the destruction of the city: earthquakes
Michael McDowell’s book was released in 1983 and went unpublished for nearly four decades in the Old Continent. Those responsible for rescuing it discuss the keys to the success of a work that vindicates the act of reading for pleasure
The ‘Top Gun’ actor is handsome, charismatic, talented, has Tom Cruise in his corner and has been knocking on the doors of the Hollywood A-list for years. After the success of ‘Anyone but You’ and ‘Hit Man,’ the release of ‘Twisters’ is set to anoint him as the star of summer
The Cannes Festival is now screening ‘Marcello Mio,’ a film that celebrates the centenary of the great Italian actor and stars his daughter, Chiara. Her Oscar-nominated father spent his career being cast as a ladies’ man, even though the image didn’t match his persona
Authorities had to race to prevent the plundering of priceless heritage ranging from Roman ruins to medieval board games and a megalithic dolmen
In ‘Demon Copperhead’ the American author builds a saga about the impoverished Appalachian region and the opioid crisis. Inspired by Charles Dickens, the book won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
A BBC documentary about the Roman dictator shows how his excessive ambition for power ultimately overthrew a republican system. The film also draws parallels between him and current forms of populism
The Californian band, whose third release continues to be the best-selling album of all time by an independent label, is still playing, 30 years after its biggest success
The former family home of a series of rich industrialists from Milan was designed by Piero Portaluppi, a prolific Italian architect. Today, the residence is visited as a monument and used as a film set
Heartfelt tributes are being paid to Kurt Cobain, who left us 30 years ago, but none to Lee Brilleaux, a British rock figure who died a few hours before him and was relegated to a footnote in an obituary
In the United States, Latin music consumption registered a growth of 19.4 billion on-demand audio streams between 2021 and 2023, an increase of 24.1%
One of Austria’s premier cultural institutions has opened a third facility in Klosterneuburg, on the outskirts of Vienna, to showcase its holdings of post-1945 art
Director Rose Glass travels to Middle America to immerse herself in a world of violent rednecks and bodybuilding
An exhibition at the Tate Britain in London investigates the great American artist’s interest in the attire of his models, with 50 paintings on display along with the dresses that inspired them
It’s here to stay. Young bakers hail the flatbread as a star that is leading a peaceful and delicious revolt
Abstract at a time of a figurative boom, an activist but not overtly political, the American artist is exhibiting his black and white canvases at the Madrid headquarters of the Pedro Cera gallery
The Sicilian ‘instrument of God’ gathers hundreds of devoted Catholics at the top of a hill in Rome every third day of the month. She assures the public that her statue of the Virgin Mary cries blood and can multiply pizzas and gnocchi. The Church has prohibited her from hosting the monthly ceremony
She fell in love with flamenco as a child and moved to Seville to learn the ropes. Now in her mid-twenties, she is one of the most sought-after dancers on the scene
The anxiety felt during Holy Week by believers and agnostics alike, given the tragedy in Palestine, reflects a universal human struggle
On the 10th anniversary of the death of one of the stars of the ‘The Good Wife,’ its creators are still reeling from the unexpected response
It’s been 19 years since The Doctor returned to television after more than a decade and a half off the air. That’s but one milestone among the many of this 60-year-old series
The latest cinematic showdown between the two creatures along with the new Ghostbusters release sees iconic cities being demolished again, fueling a genre that has refined its visual spectacle but has lost its narrative quality
Fright or death: At 50 years old, the franchise’s protagonist is returning to flee from the masked killer once again
Prime Video hosts the debut of ‘Road House,’ a remake of one of the 1980s’ most beloved B-movies. The original’s nonsensical plot and buff Patrick Swayze have kept it near and dear to our hearts, and police departments have even deployed it in diplomacy trainings
Artist Fernando Sánchez Castillo used technology and history to reconstruct the painting destroyed in an 18th-century fire
