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First major Franz Marc exhibition in over 20 years opens in Düsseldorf

“Franz Marc. The Quest for a Better World”: From today, the first comprehensive exhibition in over 20 years at K20 in Düsseldorf (Germany) invites you to discover the life and work of Franz Marc. Born in 1880, the painter became one of the leading figures of German Expressionism and co-founded the artist group “Der Blaue Reiter”. His iconic animal paintings and works in vibrant colours are as captivating as ever. The exhibition includes over 120 paintings and works on paper…

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12/09/2026
Culinary Arts

Bruno Verjus will close his restaurant

Bruno Verjus will close his restaurant “Table – Bruno Verjus” on December 22nd, 2026. The self-taught chef, who was an entrepreneur, blogger and food critic in a previous life, is known for his distinctly product-focused cuisine. Opened in April 2013 and located in Paris’s 12th arrondissement, “Table – Bruno Verjus” today holds two Michelin stars and is ranked No. 8 in “The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2025”. On Instagram, Bruno Verjus explained: “Fine dining is dead at Table.” In the…

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10/09/2026
Culinary Arts

Michel Guérard (March 27th 1933 – August 19th 2024)

Michel Guérard, the inventor of Nouvelle Cuisine and Michelin-starred chef, has died at the age of 91 on Monday night. He shaped and changed French Haute Cuisine like few others, especially since the 1970s. He brought light dishes to the table where butter and cream had previously dominated. Born in the Paris suburb of Vétheuil in 1933 as the son of a butcher, his culinary career began in 1950 with an apprenticeship as a pastry chef. Just a few years…

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19/08/2024
Performing Arts

Fortunato Ortombina: Artistic director of La Scala?

Fortunato Ortombina is to become the new artistic director of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan from 2025 onwards, if the board of directors has its way. However, Ortombina does not want to move to Milan, as he told the daily newspaper “Corriere del Veneto” yesterday. The 63-year-old Fortunato Ortombina, who currently directs the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, shall take over from Dominique Meyer, whose tenure expires at the end of February 2025. Then Meyer will reach the age…

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13/03/2024
Fine Arts

Pritzker Architecture Prize for Riken Yamamoto

Riken Yamamoto is awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize, often referred to as the Nobel Prize of architecture. The 78-year-old Yamamoto is already the ninth winner from Japan – no country has produced more winners in the history of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. The architect is best known for his residential complexes in South Korea, the University of the Future in Hakodate in Japan and The Circle at Zurich Airport. With his projects he focuses on social interaction and community. The…

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10/03/2024
Culinary Arts

Michelin presents its Guides for Portugal and Belgium/Luxembourg

This year, the Guide Michelin recommends a total of 167 restaurants in Portugal, of which 30 are new to the selection, among those one two-stars (Antiqvvm, Porto) and four one-star restaurants (2Monkeys, Lisbon; Desarma, Funchal; Ó Balcão, Santarém; SÁLA by João Sá, Lisbon). The selection includes now eight two-stars and 31 one-star restaurants. The selection for Belgium and Luxembourg includes two new restaurants with two stars and nine new restaurants with one star. In total, the Guide Michelin Belgium and…

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03/03/2024
Culinary Arts

Guide Michelin unveils inaugural Busan selections

The Guide Michelin has added a new destination on its map: Busan joins the prestigious selection of restaurants eight years after Seoul became the first city in South Korea listed in the Guide Michelin in 2016. A total of 43 restaurants in Busan have been added to the Guide Michelin, including three-one-star, 15 Bib Gourmand, and 25 recommended restaurants. They complement a selection of 177 restaurants in Seoul, including three new one-star and two newly promoted two-stars restaurants. In total…

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23/02/2024
Fine Arts

Brâncuși’s long-lost sculpture exhibited

The bronze bust “Portrait d'Achille Baldé”, a work by the Romanian-French sculptor Constantin Brâncuși (1876-1957), was considered lost for a long time. Now it is being shown to the general public for the first time at the Bucharest auction house Artmark. Created in Paris between 1905-1906, this bronze bust was the last that the young Brâncuși created in the symbolist style of his teacher Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). Brâncuși then began carving in stone, found his own, increasingly abstract style and…

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21/02/2024
Culinary Arts

Guide Michelin returns to Austria

In January 2025 the Guide Michelin will release again a national edition of its restaurant and hotel recommendations for Austria. Already from 2005 to 2009 the Guide Michelin published an Austrian edition. Between 2010 and 2020, Vienna and Salzburg were part of the Guide Michelin Main Cities of Europe edition. With the beginning of the Covid-19-crisis, the Guide decided to highlight each destination of the Main Cities of Europe selection individually instead of producing a collective edition. Currently, there are…

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16/02/2024
Performing Arts

Seiji Ozawa (September 1st 1935 – February 6th 2024)

Seiji Ozawa has died at the age of 88 on February 6th 2024 at his home in Tokyo. The Japanese conductor, who first studied piano but in 1950 had to switch to composition and conducting after he broke two fingers in a rugby game, assisted both Herbert von Karajan and Leonard Bernstein. In 1970 Seiji Ozawa was appointed the – first non-European – Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony, a position he held until 1976. In 1973 he also…

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09/02/2024