Prado masterpieces travel to China

Titian. Portrait of Philip II in Armor. c.1550-1551. Oil on canvas. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain.
Great Masters of the Prado Museum” will open on June 28th at the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) in Beijing.
The exhibition, which is part of an extensive programme to celebrate the Year of Spain in China, offers an extraordinary [...]

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (June 28, 1712 – July 2, 1778) was a Genevan philosopher of the Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French Revolution, the development of socialist theory, and the growth of nationalism. Rousseau also made important contributions to music both as a theorist and as a composer. With his Confessions and other writings, he [...]

Naipaul says writing tough, inspiration no problem

Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul said writing has got harder as he has grown older but inspiration still comes easily.
Although he has one book, “A Writer’s People”, coming out in September and another one planned, the 74-year-old author told Reuters on Tuesday he sometimes writes only half an hour a day.
“It’s harder now, because the [...]

Gustav Mahler – 5th symphony, mvt.1

Lucerne Festival Orchestra. Claudio Abbado, conductor. 2004.
Gustav Mahler

Essay on Waiting for Godot

by Michael Sinclair
The purpose of human life is an unanswerable question. It seems impossible to find an answer because we don’t know where to begin looking or whom to ask. Existence, to us, seems to be something imposed upon us by an unknown force. There is no apparent meaning to it, and yet we suffer [...]