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Aus einem Gebäude, das eine so wechselvolle, sämtliche Lebensbereiche berührende Geschichte hat, konnte einfach nur ein Theater werden, findet der Intendant. Nun feiert die Wartburg ihr zehnjähriges Bestehen.

Wechselspiel der Flächen und Linien

Das Museum Wiesbaden zeigt Architekturaufnahmen des Berliner Foto-KünstlersThomas Florschuetz.

Philip Mueller is enjoying a second solo show

A young Austrian artist, Philip Mueller, whose gallery describes his painting as a "shamanistic ritual" that is carried out in a "dungeon" and one where every canvas "initiates a rite of passage" is showing the second in a three part series at Carbon 12 in Alserkal Avenue.

Pedrosa übernahm mit Sieg in Le Mans WM-Führung

Der Spanier Dani Pedrosa ist am Sonntag an die Spitze der MotoGP-WM gerast. Enttäuschend verlief das Rennen hingegen für Jorge Lorenzo, der Siebenter wurde,...

Verläßt Sturm das Jammertal?

Zum Abschluss der 34. Bundesliga-Runde empfängt Sturm Graz die SV Ried. Für Steirer wie Innviertler geht es um den möglichen Sprung auf Platz vier, auf dem...

Serena Williams war auch in Rom nicht zu stoppen

Serena Williams bleibt auf der WTA-Tour weiter das Maß aller Dinge: Die US-Amerikanerin gewann am Sonntag im Endspiel von Rom 6:1,6:3 gegen die...

Iran's Asghar Farhadi, China's Jia Zhangke make Cannes splash

Two directors from countries with tough film censorship brought bold and probing movies to the Cannes Film Festival on Friday -- one exploring China's social problems, the other delving into the mysteries of the human heart.Jia Zhangke's "Tian Zhu Ding" (A Touch of Sin) depicts facets of fast-changing China the government prefers to avoid: corruption, greed, violent crime and the growing gap between economic winners and losers. “Le Passe” (The Past), by Academy Award-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi,»»

Itzhak Perlman to play sold-out İstanbul concert next week

Itzhak Perlman, one of the world's best known violin virtuosos, is headed to İstanbul for a concert appearance later this month at the İstanbul Congress Center.Billed as one of the finest classical musicians of the 20th and early 21st centuries, the Israeli-American Perlman will be playing in İstanbul on May 28 in a sold-out appearance, whose tickets ranged in price from TL 84 to TL 550.Perlman plays the historic Soil Stradivarius, made in 1714, during the»»

Erzurum film festival wraps up to empty seats

Erzurum's eighth International Dadaş Film Festival wrapped up with a closing ceremony at Atatürk University's Cultural Center on Saturday evening with almost empty audience rows, angering Turkish movie veterans who were present to receive the festival's lifetime honors during the ceremony.The best film award of this year's festival, which ran from May 16-26 in the eastern province, went to “Lal Gece” (Night of Silence), about a teenage girl forced to marry an old man, directed by Reis Çelik. The film's veteran lead, İlyas Salman, won the best actor prize at the ceremony, which»»

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei takes inspiration from milk scandal

Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has taken inspiration from fears in China about milk safety for his latest work of art, a huge map of China made out of milk powder tins appearing at an exhibition in Hong Kong, which opened on Friday.Ai, whose 81-day detention in 2011 sparked an international outcry, has regularly criticized the government for what he sees as its flouting of the rule of law and the rights of citizens.His new work is made of more than 1,800 large tins of milk powder from seven popular brands, laid out on a Hong Kong»»

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