Inside the main building of the International School of Film and Television (EICTV) in Cuba, the atmosphere is a mixture of warm conviviality and frenetic hard work. Each year, around 500 applicants...
The group representing university teacher-training centres has written to Michael Gove, the education secretary, to complain about “inexplicable delays” in the announcement of funding allocations for...
In the middle of the week, downtown Los Angeles was very much its usual self – with teenagers lining up to catch glimpses of the celebrities emerging from this year’s People’s Choice awards.
Hugh Gorman on a narrative that places the BP Gulf oil spill in context with the US' energy policy
Jon Turney probes the maverick mind and the bickering behind an interplanetary voyage
The flyleaf blurb describes Stephen Greenblatt as author of "the groundbreaking Renaissance Self-Fashioning". It was in this book, published in 1980, that Greenblatt's desire "to speak with the dead...
Among the many striking images in this study of the British campaign in Mesopotamia during the First World War is that of a British cavalry officer, riding up to a column of marching soldiers,...
Daniel Whiting assesses a philosophical argument that attempts to take us from 'doing' to 'saying'
The displays of the heads and body parts of the executed, which adorned bridges and city gates, offered a grim welcome to travellers as they approached medieval or early modern London. They can be...
With the assistance of science writer Steve Nadis, renowned mathematician Shin-Tung Yau, one of the main players in some of the most important recent advances in complex geometry, aims to bring a...
Confident protocols of cultural judgement have gone. Today, amid the competing voices of 'relativism', 'essentialism' and the hectic production of culture and opinion, 'our own response' to the arts...
OxfordLucien Pissarro in England: The Eragny Press, 1895-1914Lucien Pissarro (1863-1944), son of the Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, was himself a painter, engraver and printmaker. He also...
London has a new mini opera house at the King's Head Theatre in Islington, where OperaUpClose's Bangkok-set "ladyboy" production of Puccini's Madame Butterfly and a youthful take on Rossini's...
Janet Fluellen, our Director of Curriculum Development, has announced that Poppleton will "definitely not" be following the example of the University of Winchester and introducing a new degree in...
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on the real punchline of his diplomatic incident