Culture

A quarter of the hundreds of remains from a mass burial in Álava, Spain, have wounds caused by clubs, arrows or stones

The room was used to store coal until 1955, and then sealed closed and forgotten for decades. A theory says that Michelangelo hid in the tiny space from ‘the wrath of Pope Clement VII’

The 90-year-old country legend, who revels he has always started the writing process by thinking up words rather than strumming chords, will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

The Louis Vuitton Foundation has opened a major retrospective that pays attention to aspects that have been little explored in the painter’s work

Fast-paced dialogue, pop culture and comfy sets made Lorelai and Rory cult figures. The show’s hashtag has 13 billion views on TikTok and more than a million views on Instagram

The most melancholy season of the year is usually associated with nostalgia and melodrama, and the work of directors like Douglas Sirk, John M. Stahl or Marcel Carné is perfect for it

Subtitles, dubbing and translations allow us to consume cultural products from anywhere in the world. But can the nuances of a remote language really be fully translated?

The show’s creator Laurie Nunn talks to EL PAÍS about her love of the teen genre, the writing process and the importance of having open conversations about empowerment and consent

The Mauritshuis gallery in the Netherlands and the Humboldt Forum in Berlin have joined forces in an exhibition that addresses the looting of art that has sustained European collections for centuries

Philosopher Anselm Jappe’s reissued biography breathes new life into the influential former leader of the Situationist International

Chenta Tsai Tseng — a Spanish musician of Taiwanese origin — turned insults into a stage name: Putochinomaricón. In their most ambitious project to date, they’re now working on deconstructing post-internet music

In the past, the zero meridian used to be established coinciding with the last known land, beyond which there was only unexplored ocean

‘Twilight Zone: The Movie’ was released 40 years ago while its director was on trial for involuntary manslaughter in one of the worst movie-set accidents ever

The Peruvian fossil hunter found the vertebrae of ‘Perucetus colossus,’ the most recent enigma of science

Another nail in the coffin of skinny jeans? Pleated khakis have won the generational battle

The most popular band in Scandinavian rock, which released a new album this month, refuses to grow up

Cierto Estudio is a cooperative that stands up to the masculine cliché in the sector. They dream of designing the sets for a Pedro Almodóvar film

In a new study, scientists from the University of Valencia analyzed the bones of the volcano’s victims to reconstruct the ancient disaster

Elizabeth Emanuel was one of the designers of the gown the princess wore at her wedding to Prince Charles. Four decades later, she reveals the secrets of the tailoring process

The brand’s Champagne maison presents a new vintage, which brings a generational change. Lucie Pereyra de Nonancourt, the founder’s oldest granddaughter, is now the head of the empire

A group of grandmothers in southern Italy prepare kilos of orecchiette on their doorsteps. Thanks to tourists, they have gone viral on social media

The Church of St. Mary at Wamba, in the province of Valladolid, Spain, has a spectacular cemetery with thousands of human remains dating from between the 9th and 17th centuries

Over 900 police chases of fleeing criminals each year make for a popular offering on city TV programming

Persecuted by the police and popularized on the streets of the Caribbean island, a subculture emerged in the mid-1990s that is now sweeping the world. EL PAÍS visited the home turf of reggaeton, to meet the movement’s old and new heroes