Gérard Depardieu to appear in Paris court over sexual assault allegations
Actor, 76, denies claims made by assistant director and set designer who worked with him on Les Volets Verts Gérard Depardieu will become the most...
Category : Culture
Mutiny brews in French bookshops over Hachette owner’s media grip
Booksellers take stand against influence of conservative billionaire by limiting orders of his company’s books and placing them on lower shelves A conservative Catholic billionaire...
Goodbye Lenin: Finnish museum reinvents itself in response to shifting relations with Russia
Former Lenin Museum in Tampere, which opened in 1946 as a symbol of Finnish-Russian friendship, has rebranded amid Ukraine war A Finnish museum dedicated to...
Emilia Pérez movie wins top Spanish film prize amid Karla Sofía Gascón furore
Best European film at Goya awards goes to movie at the centre of a storm over past social media posts written by its star, Karla...
Rediscovered, a young English novelist’s warning of the Nazi threat
Crooked Cross, Sally Carson’s ‘electrifying masterpiece’ from 1934, to be republished Sally Carson was not an oracle or a prophet, just a young woman from...
Beethoven and Marie Curie compete with birds to appear on new euro notes
European Central Bank picks two themes for redesign submissions: ‘iconic personalities’ or rivers and birds He was a master of notes, and now the German...
Three arrested after ancient Romanian artefacts stolen from Dutch museum
2,500-year-old Helmet of Cotofenesti among objects taken after thieves used explosives to enter building Dutch police have arrested three men in connection with the robbery...
Louvre’s decision to move Mona Lisa is a misguided act of snobbery
Crowds give life to the Paris museum and the painting is a silent, compelling mystery at the heart of the hubbub What a wonderful headache...
Carl Bloch’s lost masterpiece Prometheus Unbound finds fame again in Athens
Work that made its creator a superstar then mysteriously disappeared is mesmerising art lovers once more It was commissioned by a Greek king, made its...
Visiting leaky, crowded Louvre is ‘physical ordeal’, museum’s boss says
In leaked memo to culture minister, Laurence des Cars sounds alarm over state of Paris art gallery Visiting the Louvre has become a “physical ordeal”...
