Why a collector wants to part with her art
The people of Zurich were utterly horrified when Ingvild Goetz opened her new gallery in 1972 with a happening by Wolf Vostell criticizing Swiss arms deliveries to Angola. The settlement permit was gone. And...
And then the transgender flag flies
"Arabella" just goes along with it, as a somewhat dubious existence, as a kind of second-class "Rosenkavalier". And it is precisely with this problem opera by Richard Strauss that the director Tobias Kratzer wants...
When the inventor of “Maigret” was still a police reporter himself
He has fans all over the world - and some still don't know that Georges Simenon (1903 to 1989), who created one of the most famous detective characters with Inspector Maigret, was not French...
Extrapolations, Ted Lasso, Mandalorian – the series of the week
With the large number of new releases and sequels on Netflix, Amazon and Co., it is easy to lose track. What's worth it? What can you leave behind? Here are our picks of the...
The algorithm has always been hard currency
Kind of right and wrong again. But always in use, the rough compass of memory. Assigns philosophy to antiquity, art preferably to the Renaissance, science to modern times, and technology to modernity. The myth...
GPT-4 was invented 80 years ago
A characteristic of cyberspace is its potential for infinity. In a printed newspaper, to take the most obvious example, sooner or later every text must come to an end. The column ends, the page...
The most beautiful of all swan songs
When it became known at the beginning of September last year that the pianist Lars Vogt had died of cancer and was just 51 years old, it suddenly became very quiet in the loud...
The children's great despair of their mothers
The tenth birthday is a precarious event in a child's life. At least when it has the sometimes dubious honor of starring in a German film. A lot is demanded of ten-year-olds. Because adults...
"Shakespeare is a great projection screen"
Two elderly boys, 55 and 52 years old, on whose faces the not always funny pop life has milled some not uninteresting marks, are sitting in Berlin's Paris Bar and alternately clinging to a...
That's what Tarantino's last film is about
Haven't we all speculated that Quentin Tarantino's tenth and last film could be before he retires to writing: A third part for "Kill Bill"? A sequel to Star Trek? A "Django/Zorro" that unites the...