Musical Critic

Pulsars are often extremely precise in their timings, especially those with rotation rates on millisecond scales, 144 of which are included ...

Quantum mechanics gives an apparently flawless description of the forces that dominate at the atomic scale. Albert Einstein’s theory of gene...

“Thanks to careful excavation methods and various new archaeological technologies, the team was able to show that the tombs were built in se...

These floating tongues of ice extend from the main ice sheet into the ocean, and play a key role in holding back the glaciers behind. But as...

Abigail Anderson and Cara Wall-Scheffler of Seattle Pacific University and their colleagues report that 79 percent of the 63 foraging societ...

Amini's death in custody after her arrest by Iran's morality police sparked mass protests. The prize is awarded by the European Parl...

The simulation hypothesis is a philosophical theory, in which the entire universe and our objective reality are just simulated constructs .

In Taking Sides (1995) he offered a surprisingly sympathetic view of Wilhelm Furtwangler, who remained as conductor of the Berlin Philharmon...

I In Proust's world of memories deep, A timeless journey, secrets to keep. In madeleines and tea's sweet brew, A flood of recollecti...

Whether or not you know the life and work German-Venezuelan artist Gego (1912–1994) may depend on where in the world you call home. The deep...

Experts say it’s one of the most impressive private art collections in the world. Made up of over 300 pieces — including works by Picasso, M...

UN human rights experts have raised urgent concern and pressed the Chinese government to provide information about nine Tibetan environmenta...

Famously leaving his homeland for France in 1975 after earlier being expelled from the Czechoslovakian Communist party for “anti-communist a...

"I think that sound and color are not completely detached from each other," the composer told NPR last year. "That's mayb...

The trumpeter Miles Davis once said: “All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal,” writing in his memoir that his friend had “knocked me out ...

Kara-Murza reacted calmly as the judge read the verdict and sentence in a quick monotone. His lawyer, Maria Eismont, later quoted him as tel...

On April 2, 1976, Max, 33 years old, and student Maria de Lurdes, 19, were traveling in a car when a bomb was triggered that killed them. Th...

José Duarte, an unavoidable figure in the dissemination of jazz, also appeared on television, on RTP2, with programs such as “Outras Músicas...

Emily Kame Kngwarreye’s warm-toned abstract paintings use dots and lines specific to her Aboriginal heritage to create immersive works of ar...

Phyllida Barlow was one of the most important British sculptors of her generation, whose work often transformed quotidian materials—plywood,...

Dorothea Tanning  was born in 1910 in the small town of Galesburg, Illinois in the United States. She died in 2012 in New York, aged 101. Am...

In the centuries since there have been gifted sisters whose lives were less anguished—Maria Anna (“Nannerl”) Mozart, Fanny Mendelssohn, Gwen...

 

Starting with the simple geometric forms that she favored—in this case concentric squares—Molnár introduced random patterns of disruption th...

Jean-Luc Godard, the French-Swiss director who was a key figure in the Nouvelle Vague, the film-making movement that revolutionised cinema i...

hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Karina Canellakis

‘They beat girls just for smiling’: life in Afghanistan one year after the Taliban’s return .  Mursal Nabizada, a former lawmaker in the Afg...

The American purchase of Alaska was another legacy. After Crimea, the young tsar knew he could not defend this distant frontier and decided ...

The leak also contains texts between Kalanick and  Emmanuel Macron , who secretly helped the company in France when he was economy minister,...

Lawyers for Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich argue he should not be sanctioned because his ties to the Kremlin are weak, but new documents ...

“the existence of music-selective responses in the brain does not imply that the responses reflect an innate brain system. An important ques...

hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Susanna Mälkki

earlier in the war the Soviet forces had invaded Poland following a secret agreement with the German Nazi government, and carried out atroci...

Turku Philharmonic Orchestra

Certain artistic subject matter overlaps between the two as well—both make references to the Kennedys and Coca Cola. As a Venezuelan artist,...

Despite being behind bars, he has called for protests against what Russia calls its special military operation in Ukraine. His supporters no...

Early in his presidency, Putin earned praise for bringing to heel the tycoons who had plundered Russia’s economy in the 1990s. Some signaled...

Millions in forced labour camps. And the attempt to erase a people’s history and culture. These abuses are the product of one man, Chen Quan...

close to 20% of the country’s wealth is stashed in offshore jurisdictions like Cyprus, the Seychelles, the British Virgin Islands — even the...

It’s a hard lesson that Stalin murdered upwards of 20 million people while trying to modernize and industrialize Russia. It’s hard to see th...

Media accounts report that long-range, nuclear-capable Tu-22M3 bombers and MiG-31K strike fighter jets carrying the latest Kinzhal hypersoni...

"whether or not a nation succeeds or fails depends on how the people in that society themselves organize that society " Around 30%...

Portugal, through 6 national and 10 regional programmes, benefitted from EU funding of EUR 29.4 billion under the 2014-2020 ESIF programmes....

On May 7, 1996, a detainee was killed, beheaded, and his body and head were hidden in different places at the GNR station in Sacavém. A 37-y...

On the morning of 27 January 1945 the Auschwitz-Birkenau camps still held some 7,000 prisoners. Over a million people deported to Auschwitz ...

In Europe, the number of murders of journalists has tripled this year compared to the previous two years. In 2021, the International and Eur...

Since the mid-1990s, Morris has honed a visual language of geometric, color-blocked paintings and installations that derive from the man-mad...

German artist Benedikt Partenheimer (b. 1977) uses concept-led photography and subtle optical tricks to reveal the invisible effects of clim...

The Council of Europe's Anti-Torture Committee (CPT) has recommended that the Portuguese authorities take firm action to prevent police ...

Himalayan glaciers are undergoing rapid mass loss but rates of contemporary change lack long-term (centennial-scale) context . "Widespr...

Alexei Navalny’s daughter Daria Navalnaya received the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize on behalf of her imprisoned father at a ceremony...

Even as governments worldwide responded to the Pandora Papers with major financial reforms, other governments and their supporters responded...

There is  high confidence  that permafrost temperatures will continue to increase, and that there will be increases in active layer thicknes...

the global garment industry’s role as a major polluter is often overlooked by consumers. But recent years have seen it described as “the wor...

Freire, who is remembered as one of the greatest pianists of the second half of the 20th century, passed away during the night on Sunday 31 ...

The oil giant knew their core business was causing global warming almost 50 years ago. They covered up the truth, funded misinformation, lie...

Maria Ressa, the chief executive and cofounder of Rappler, and Dmitry Muratov, the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, were named as this year...

Millions of leaked documents and the biggest journalism partnership in history have uncovered financial secrets of 35 current and former wor...

 

An Afghan woman was reportedly set on fire by Taliban fighters because they were dissatisfied with her cooking amid a wave of capricious att...