German artists sign open letter against TV show host accused of sexism
Choice of Thilo Mischke, author of Around the World In 80 Women, for ARD’s flagship arts show criticised More than 100 prominent German writers and...
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Testament to Spain’s golden age to open up its secret spaces after €6m revamp
Unesco-listed San Lorenzo de El Escorial was fulfilment of Philip II’s dream of raising monastery in a ‘desert’ Despite perching imperiously on a mountainside near...
Painstaking work to conserve Ireland’s oldest paper documents begins
Delicate 650-year-old pages to be preserved are some of the island’s most important historical texts Work has begun to conserve and digitise one of the...
DJ Alfredo, icon of Ibiza’s dance music scene, dies aged 71
DJ whose anything-goes spirit had a huge influence on British club culture had suffered a stroke in 2021 DJ Alfredo, who had a significant influence...
Ethiopian resistance hero’s family tries to reclaim medal taken by Italian troops
Ras Desta Damtew’s solid gold Imperial Order of the Star of Ethopia failed to sell on auction site this month The descendants of a hero...
Icelandic fishing giant Samherji sues art student for spoofing corporate website
High court told ‘culture-jammed’ apology for high-profile corruption scandal ‘did not qualify as parody’ Iceland’s biggest fishing company is suing an art student at London’s...
French first lady Brigitte Macron to make cameo in Netflix’s Emily in Paris
Despite criticism of the series in France, Macron will appear as herself in the show’s fourth season when new episodes arrive on Thursday French first...
Film suggests Nazis’ lead propagandist had role in 1939 massacre
Letter in Leni Riefenstahl archive appears to claim her set instructions led to deaths of Polish Jews, says director A new documentary on the Nazis’...
Alain Delon buried in ‘strictest privacy’ in grounds of his estate
French actor, who died aged 88 last Sunday, had expressed wish to be buried like ‘anyone else’ Alain Delon had expressed the wish to be...
Native American author Tommy Orange selected as the next Future Library writer
The Pulitzer prize-shortlisted novelist behind books including There There and Wandering Stars will pen a manuscript that won’t be published until 2114 The next book...
