In terms of pure creative energy, few periods of the 20th century can match the architectural ferment that began with the dizzying upheavals of Russia’s 1917 revolution and ended in 1932, crushed under Stalin’s heel.The sheer range of visions, encompassing everything from the cool functionalism of the early Constructivists to the radical formal experiments of [...]
23/07/2007
‘I Am Not Afraid of Death’
SPIEGEL INTERVIEW WITH ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
Prominent Russian writer and Nobel Prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn on Russia’s turbulent history, Putin’s version of democracy and his attitude to life and death.
23/07/2007
“Girls of Riyadh” spurs rush of Saudi novels
Saudi Arabia has seen a literary explosion in the last two years after the success of “Girls of Riyadh”, a taboo-breaking novel that this month went on sale worldwide in English.Rajaa Alsanea’s insight into the closed world of Saudi women and their disappointments in love caused a storm in the conservative Islamic state where the [...]
23/07/2007
Bruegel to Rubens: Masters of Flemish Painting
The Royal Collection will feature Bruegel to Rubens: Masters of Flemish Painting, on view 28 September 2007 – 6 April 2008. This first exhibition ever mounted of Flemish paintings in the Royal Collection brings together 51 works from the 15th to 17th centuries, including masterpieces by Hans Memling, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Jan Brueghel, Van [...]
