Greek PM bemoans lack of progress on return of Parthenon marbles
Kyriakos Mitsotakis to raise issue of ‘reunification’ of sculptures when he meets Rishi Sunak this week Talks over a possible return of the Parthenon marbles...
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Björk turns up the volume in attack on industrial salmon farming in open pens
Icelandic singer condemns ‘terrible suffering’ of salmon farming with proceeds from her new single with Rosalía going to activists The Icelandic singer Björk has condemned...
Venice Biennale’s new, rightwing director has art world guessing
Meloni’s party is pleased by the appointment but Pietrangelo Buttafuoco has surprised before – not least by adopting Islam When Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, the incoming new...
Édith Piaf’s voice re-created using AI so she can narrate own biopic
In-development film comes after controversy around the re-creation of late stars’ voices, such as Anthony Bourdain Sixty years after her death, Édith Piaf’s voice will...
‘Can we save the wild salmon of Iceland?’: Björk releases song to fight fish farming
Singer talks about ‘lost’ song, a collaboration with Rosalía, and how artists pick up on the environmental emergency Thousands of salmon escaped an Icelandic fish...
Ireland’s embrace of Zombie song at Rugby World Cup stirs debate over lyrics
Fans seen singing the Cranberries’ hit in stadiums but some Irish republicans are unhappy at revival Twenty years after a lethal IRA bomb inspired its...
Prado show examines how images helped fuel centuries of antisemitism in Spain
A new exhibition chronicles the shifting lenses through which Spain’s Catholics saw the country’s Jewish population The jet, horn, silver and coral amulets placed around...
Prize-winning Polish film on refugees opens to government backlash
Agnieszka Holland’s Green Border tells story of brutal treatment of a Syrian family trying to get to Europe A prize-winning film sharply critical of the...
Don’t cut British shows from streaming platforms in Europe, say German MEPs
French and German politicians are in a standoff over a quota designed to boost European productions Brussels must not “shut the door” on British film...
Toto Cutugno whose song L’Italiano was No 1 across Europe dies at 80
Singer’s big hit, stuffed with cliches about Italian life, was irresistible to millions as far away as Russia and Georgia Toto Cutugno, the singer whose...
