For the first time in a millennium, Europe no longer plays a critical role in promoting Western civilization nor in world history at large. Ostensibly it should. Some 750 million people live on the European subcontinent. Europe still remains the most popular tourist spot on earth. Its hallowed architecture, art, infrastructure, and natural beauty still

In 12 months’ time, the city of Bradford in West Yorkshire will be on the cusp of entering its year as the UK City of Culture. There’s a huge amount to prepare and Shanaz Gulzar is the person tasked with creating and delivering the programme. In 2022 she was appointed as creative director of Bradford

Decades before ChatGPT, Tesla autopilot and Siri, there was Julian Feldman and a monstrous mainframe. It was 1968, and UCI’s interdisciplinary program in information and communication science had just become a pioneering, standalone computer science department. At the helm was Feldman, who had co-edited a groundbreaking anthology of AI research a few years earlier. His

 Just before Russian missiles rained down on Kyiv and several other Ukrainian cities in November of last year, two trucks raced out of the capital and sped towards the border with Poland. Inside were dozens of valuable artworks, which were prepared for transport by staff so they would not be damaged, or worse, destroyed in

Public art is nearly as old as human civilization itself, with countless monuments and statues erected over the eons. Though today public art is generally associated with temporary outdoor installations, New York City does have its fair share of permanently fixed alfresco artworks, including many modernist and contemporary examples dating from the mid-20th century onward.

Olivia Dean has been announced as the winner of the BBC Introducing Artist of the Year Award for 2023. The BBC Introducing Artist of the Year award is presented to an artist who has, with the support of BBC Introducing, made a significant impact that year and is on the path to stardom. The award

BARCELONA, Spain — The top Palestinian diplomat made a plea to extend the fragile cease fire in Gaza that is hours from expiring at a meeting of European Union members and Middle Eastern and north African countries that focused on diplomatic efforts to stop the Israel-Hamas war. “We have to find how to apply the

Brenda Lee has rocked around Christmas trees for 64 years. However, that scratches the surface of why the famously under 5-foot-tall, 78-year-old legend is a Country Music and Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Famer responsible for selling over 100 million records worldwide. She’s a prodigal pop talent whose ability to seamlessly weave gospel and jazz

Here, again, is my pick of ‘Good Reads’ from the books I read in 2023. I want to remind you, as I do every year, that these are not ‘book reviews’, which also explains the relative paucity of law books or books about the law. Many excellent ones have come my way this year, as

Mystical musicians, eccentric scientists, voyagers in curious contraptions—Remedios Varo (1908–1963) mixed notions from disparate fields of knowledge to create modern paintings suffused with material enchantment. Ciencia inútil, o El alquimista (Useless Science, or The Alchemist), 1955 Remedios Varo. Museo de Arte Moderno. INBAL / Secretaría de Cultura. © 2023 Remedios Varo, Artists Rights Society (ARS),