Announcing the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry last week, won by Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi ...

D’Angelo, that Pentecostal preacher’s son, the man Robert Christgau called ‘R&B Jesus’, has died, and, with ...

Global Progress Action was in London at the end of last month, filling Methodist Central Hall with politicians and ...

Controversy over Cecil Rhodes began long before the recent campaign to remove statues of him from the University of Cape Town and the front of Oriel College, Oxford. Schreiner’s accusations led Rhodes ...

John Heartfield was forced to leave Germany in 1933. Even before the Nazis put him on their hit list, his art had ...

A version in Scots of a Sumerian hymn to the goddess of love and war, attributed to the priestess Enheduanna of Ur (fl. 2255 BCE), the world’s earliest identifiable author. As well as praising the ...

A s a boy, the Romanian-born artist Avigdor Arikha spent part of the Second World War in a labour camp in western Ukraine, where he was given a small sketchbook and pencil by a sy ...

Gustave Flaubert’s first three novels, Madame Bovary, Salammbô and L’Éducation sentimentale, were all published ...

The Annual Report of the Director of the National Gallery for 1888 announced the display of three painted wooden panels ‘under glass’. The panels were almost two thousand years old and had been ...

Global Progress Action was in London at the end of last month, filling Methodist Central Hall with politicians and think tankers of broadly defined ‘progressive’ politics from around the world. On the ...

At sunset on a clear day you can see thirty miles across the Río de la Plata from Colonia de Sacramento to the skyscrapers of Buenos Aires as the sky behind them turns orange. Julio Cortázar once ...