Pro-Israel journalists and politicians in Germany target a Palestinian arts and culture festival, its curators and...

Migration raises more fundamental questions than 'should these people be here': it probes into the very essence of...

Here are fourteen reasons for the celebration of this work of genius, beginning with seven celebrating what Pride...

The development of Egypt's military-brand nationalism over the past year can be traced in a series of formulaic,...

When people are dying in their thousands, why should we care about the destruction of artefacts? Cultural violence...

An audio documentary uncovering the illicit trade in antiquities in post-revolution Egypt.

A review of Omar (2014), the most recent offering from the Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad, which portrays the...

In the internal exile in which Romanticism has languished in post-war Germany, encounters with feral boys (even...

Art schools are vital eco-systems that both reflect and contribute to the health of the society in which they are...

Gossamer or spider web shawls have been knitted in Orenburg for generations. The tradition nearly disappeared, but...

London’s Pushkin House is hosting a retrospective of Russian director Marina Goldovskaya’s documentaries under the...

The Tate Britain exhibition, ‘Migrations: Journeys into British Art’ highlights migrants’ central role in the...

A British theatre company has brought a play about final hours of Sergei Magnitsky’s life to the London stage. Irina...

Only Connect is a London-based theatre company of actors made up of former prisoners and young people at risk of...

The lengthy and vastly expensive restoration of Moscow’s famous Bolshoi Theatre comes to fruition on 28 October,...

Translating Alexander Pushkin’s novel The Captain’s Daughter launched Robert Chandler on a journey of revelations...

Russia’s greatest poet Alexander Pushkin is notoriously hard for non-Russian speakers to appreciate. So Susan...

Andrei Khrzhanovskii’s recent Russian film about the poet Joseph Brodsky evokes elements of his childhood, internal...

The poet Andrei Voznesensky died on 1 June. One of the former “big 4” Soviet poets, he managed to hang on to his...