LONDON — In November 2006, Marina Litvinenko watched her husband, Alexander, die in a London hospital. The Russian spy-turned-whistle-blower — whom she called Sasha — had drunk green tea laced with the radioactive element polonium. President Vladimir Putin probably approved the murder, a public inquiry in Britain later said.
LONDON — The West End is traditionally seen as a genteel place where crowds flock to sit amid Victorian opulence, watching the world’s great actors and musical stars in quiet reverie.
The rapper ASAP Rocky was charged Thursday with having committed an assault causing actual bodily harm June 30 in Stockholm, Swedish prosecutors said in a statement.
The rapper ASAP Rocky was charged Thursday with having committed an assault causing actual bodily harm June 30 in central Stockholm, Swedish prosecutors said in a statement.
Founded in 1669 by Louis XIV, and with a modern-day budget of over 200 million euros ($222 million), the Paris Opera is one of the oldest and most powerful music-theater companies in the world. But it has struggled to find a successor to Stéphane Lissner, its director since 2014.
LONDON — Margaret Atwood’s novel “The Testaments,” the highly anticipated sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale,” was announced here on Wednesday as one of the books in the running for the Booker Prize, Britain’s most prestigious literary award.
LONDON — Margaret Atwood’s novel “The Testaments,” the highly anticipated sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale,” was announced here on Wednesday as one of the books in the running for the Booker Prize, Britain’s most prestigious literary award.
LONDON — One of Britain’s most popular daytime television programs was canceled on Wednesday, following the death of a guest who failed a lie-detector test trying to prove that he was faithful to his wife.
On April 23, about a week after the fire at Notre Dame in Paris, designer Mathieu Lehanneur unveiled his plan for a new spire for the cathedral: a gleaming, 300-foot flame, made of carbon fiber and covered in gold leaf, that would be a permanent reminder of the tragedy.
Woody Allen’s latest movie, “A Rainy Day in New York,” a romantic comedy starring Timothée Chalamet and Elle Fanning, was dropped by Amazon last year. There is no sign it will be released in the United States.
LONDON — The Turner Prize, Britain’s most high-profile art award, has canceled a sponsorship deal after gay rights campaigners criticized it for accepting money from Stagecoach, a transportation company.
Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” about an actor and his stunt double in the 1960s, will have its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this month, the festival announced Thursday.
LONDON — Tai Shani, a self-taught artist who creates elaborate fantasy worlds “beyond patriarchal limits,” and Helen Cammock, whose work has explored the role of women during the conflict in Northern Ireland, have been shortlisted this year for the Turner Prize — British art’s highest accolade.
In April 1919, the architect Walter Gropius founded one of the most influential art and design schools ever: the Bauhaus. Students learned to focus on simplicity and functionality. Teachers favored primary colors and bold shapes. Seeing the school as a hotbed of utopian intellectualism, the Nazis forced its closure in 1933, scattering Bauhaus teachers, students and aesthetics across the globe.
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