Arabic Modernism: Modern art instead of exotic fantasies
Jewad Selim, Alqailoula, oil on canvas, 1958 Photo: © Estate Jewab Selim Everyone has certainly heard of heroes of modern art such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse or Fernand Léger.…
Hollywood: Francis Ford Coppola: Godfathers and Bankruptcies
Tender 85 years old: Francis Ford Coppola Photo: dpa/AP/Willy Sanjuan Visionaries with megalomaniac tendencies have a hard time, even if they have been established in their profession for decades. American…
Right-wing Russia: Alexander Dugin: Advance of the White Army
How influential is the media phenomenon Alexander Dugin? Foto: Imago/Pavel Kashaev/Russia Today It is one of the most prestigious universities in the country: The Russian State University for the Humanities…
EU Parliament: Sonneborn stops laughing
Martin Sonneborn: non-attached and pretty much alone in parliament Photo: dpa/Philipp von Ditfurth That’s what Martin Sonneborn gets out of it now. Instead of sitting back as a member of…
Champions League: Sad farewell: FC Bayern Munich against Arsenal London
Arsène Wenger’s sad exit from the Champions League against Bayern Munich in March 2017. Photo: imago/Jan Huebner Arsène Wenger has been FIFA’s director of global football development for a few…
Philippines: Wrestling: Fighting starlets between the sexes
Chelsea Marie knew she was trans as a child. She got into wrestling after watching a reality show about American female wrestlers on television in 2016. Photo: Carlo Gabuco The…
Theater: What rhymes with vomit?
Pretty flashy: things are unusually boulevard-like here at the German city theater. Photo: Thomas Aurin Can you actually say that – the German equivalent of “cunt”? On stage? In any…
Cottbus State Theater: “Tosca”: wheels of destruction
A stroke of luck in terms of singing and play: Andreas Jäpel as the power-drunk police chief Scarpia Photo: Bernd Schönberger/Staatstheater Cottbus When the Cottbus choir, singers and directing team…
Netflix: Series “Ripley”: Aesthetics of Inequality
A masterful Andrew Scott as Tom Ripley, in a brilliant film adaptation of the novel. Photo: Netflix The path to the top is long and difficult for people from far…
Avant-garde art: “The actionists continued Viennese modernism”
Would probably not leave you indifferent today either: the “Art and Revolution” campaign, in which four artists, among other things, relieved themselves naked, injured themselves and masturbated while singing the…