LONDON — In November 2006, Marina Litvinenko watched her husband, Alexander, die in a London hospital. The Russian spy-turned-whistle-blower — whom she called Sasha — had drunk green tea laced with the radioactive element polonium. President Vladimir Putin probably approved the murder, a public inquiry in Britain later said.
LONDON — The West End is traditionally seen as a genteel place where crowds flock to sit amid Victorian opulence, watching the world’s great actors and musical stars in quiet reverie.
The rapper ASAP Rocky was charged Thursday with having committed an assault causing actual bodily harm June 30 in Stockholm, Swedish prosecutors said in a statement.
The rapper ASAP Rocky was charged Thursday with having committed an assault causing actual bodily harm June 30 in central Stockholm, Swedish prosecutors said in a statement.
Founded in 1669 by Louis XIV, and with a modern-day budget of over 200 million euros ($222 million), the Paris Opera is one of the oldest and most powerful music-theater companies in the world. But it has struggled to find a successor to Stéphane Lissner, its director since 2014.
LONDON — Margaret Atwood’s novel “The Testaments,” the highly anticipated sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale,” was announced here on Wednesday as one of the books in the running for the Booker Prize, Britain’s most prestigious literary award.
LONDON — Margaret Atwood’s novel “The Testaments,” the highly anticipated sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale,” was announced here on Wednesday as one of the books in the running for the Booker Prize, Britain’s most prestigious literary award.
On April 23, about a week after the fire at Notre Dame in Paris, designer Mathieu Lehanneur unveiled his plan for a new spire for the cathedral: a gleaming, 300-foot flame, made of carbon fiber and covered in gold leaf, that would be a permanent reminder of the tragedy.
LONDON — The Turner Prize, Britain’s most high-profile art award, has canceled a sponsorship deal after gay rights campaigners criticized it for accepting money from Stagecoach, a transportation company.
Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” about an actor and his stunt double in the 1960s, will have its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this month, the festival announced Thursday.
In April 1919, the architect Walter Gropius founded one of the most influential art and design schools ever: the Bauhaus. Students learned to focus on simplicity and functionality. Teachers favored primary colors and bold shapes. Seeing the school as a hotbed of utopian intellectualism, the Nazis forced its closure in 1933, scattering Bauhaus teachers, students and aesthetics across the globe.
The Vienna State Opera’s ballet academy vowed to reform its practices after former students and staff said dancers as young as 11 were kicked, scratched and handled roughly in classes.
LONDON — Polish author Olga Tokarczuk could repeat as the winner of the Man Booker International Prize, arguably the world’s most significant award for literature translated into English, after she was shortlisted for the honor Tuesday. Five of this year’s six nominees were women.
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