Culture

The so-called Bubble House on East 71st Street in Manhattan’s Upper East Side has found a buyer, but its new owners may erase the distinctive façade that made it a local landmark

After publishing acclaimed biographies of writers Clarice Lispector and Susan Sontag, the latter of which won a Pulitzer Prize, the author turns in ‘The Upside-Down World’ to the lives and the misconceptions surrounding the painters of the Dutch Golden Age

Journalist Lorenzo Ayuso explores the work of the Belgian actor in a new book that argues that he deserves to be regarded as both an actor and an auteur

The film festival opens with ‘Ink,’ a drama about the rise of ‘The Sun,’ and a biopic of the pioneering photojournalist killed during the Spanish Civil War

‘The Disasters of War,’ by the Colombian artist, is shown at Fragmentos, the cultural space built from weapons surrendered under Colombia’s peace deal

Tired of oversight and institutional suffocation, the members of El Ciervo Encantado, a benchmark of Cuban performance, have broken away from the state apparatus and are continuing their work in independent venues

‘Orlanda,’ the novel that inverts Virginia Woolf’s ‘Orlando’ and won the Belgian writer the Médicis in 1996, is being reissued in Spanish

The famed consumer advocate is taking on the secrecy surrounding AI data centers, reigniting the fight that made her a household name

The Dutch artist only signed 15% of his 840 known paintings

The first Black African artist to be recognized on the Walk of Fame has spent more than four decades proving that her continent’s music never needed to adapt in order to be universal

The leader of the European country has just unveiled an exhibition in Berlin featuring bronze sculptures created from 3D-printed designs

Alicia Esteve invented Tania Head, a woman who said she escaped the World Trade Center and lost her fiancé in the attacks. Kike Maíllo and Markos Goikolea reconstruct her deception in a new documentary

The country legend, who died at 80, was born in a one-room cabin in an isolated village in rural Tennessee. With fame and fortune, she built a business empire that gave back to the place she called home

The theft of 210 sculptures of the composer has cast a shadow over celebrations marking the 270th anniversary of his birth. In 2024, another 115 miniature Wagner statues disappeared from the Bayreuth Festival

The British actor, who appeared in films such as ‘Muppet Treasure Island’ and was the first actor to play Pennywise in an adaptation of ‘It,’ suffered a stroke in 2012 and afterward withdrew from public life

The American singer-songwriter has died after a career spanning more than six decades

The expert is stepping away from teaching after a lifetime spent researching and writing about Franco, the Spanish Civil War and the violence of the 20th century. He warns that the values forged in the aftermath of World War II and in rejection of its atrocities are beginning to erode. The danger, he argues, comes not only from fascism but also from a technological oligarchy that may undermine society’s ability to agree on what is true

‘Comics Unleashed’ brings together a roster of comedians specialized in offending no one, a shift that marks the decline of political humor on US television

The Mexican writer returns to historical fiction with a new novel that will be published this fall. Translated as ‘The Hungry God,’ it is a story about the genesis of the Aztec Empire

The sex industry continues to expand. Across Europe, the debate over whether to regulate or abolish it has returned to the political spotlight

From ‘Mouthful of Birds’ to ‘Good and Evil and Other Stories,’ the Argentine writer has built one of the most distinctive and unsettling bodies of work in Spanish-language literature. In an interview in Berlin, where she has lived since 2012, she looks back on her career and reflects on a troubled present in which the anomalous threatens to become the norm

For four decades, photographer Claude Nori traveled the French and Italian coasts, seeking to document the everyday scenes and rituals that unfold along their shores

The American star’s new tour offers cheaper seats from which neither the stage nor the screens are visible

On the 90th anniversary of the poet’s execution, scholar Andrés Soria Olmedo retraces his steps through the tragic summer of 1936

The 20-year-old Swiss student owns more than 60,000 cards from the universe created by Satoshi Tajiri. Built together with her father over the course of a decade, they are now up for sale, but not just any buyer will do