Great Europeans: Geert Mak
On Monday November 11th the journalist Rosie Goldsmith begins a new series of public interviews & discussions at King’s Place in London on the state of Europe today. Goldsmith is … Read more...
View ArticleAnna Godlewska – Director of the Polish Cultural Institute
Anna Godlewska knows her way round the cultural labyrinths of two very different European cities. Four years ago she was working at the Polish Cultural Institute in Prague, which had … Read more...
View ArticleAngela Kaya, Director of the Goethe Institute in London
The minute you set foot inside the Goethe Institute in Kensington you are confronted with a startling cacophony of colours running riot over the hallway and stairs. It’s hardly typical … Read more...
View ArticleThe Art of Living
“Everything is positive!” Greece has assumed the mantle of Presidency of the European Union for the first half of 2014, but it is inevitable that people’s first anxiety is the … Read more...
View ArticleInterviews with translators: Domingo Vilar, Dominique Manotti, Marcello Fois,...
Do you remember the “More crimes accross the continent” event? This symposium on continental crime writing and its translation into English consisted in workshops with authors and translators in which...
View ArticleThe Tale of a White & Black Minstrel
Jonathon Brown speaks to Robert Turnbull about his new Piano Festival in south-west France Come what may, the concept of the bijou festival survives; perhaps, come what may, their hour … Read more...
View ArticleMigration Museum Project
The history of Britain has often been a story of migration, from William the Conqueror and the Normans to the Poles and other Central and Eastern Europeans who moved to … Read more...
View ArticleInterview with Isabel Lucena of the The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Calouste Gulbenkian was a truly multicultural man. A wealthy Armenian businessman born in the Ottoman Empire, he lived at various times in London, Paris and Portugal, and spent a lifetime … Read more...
View ArticleInterview with François Croquette
Marie d’Orliac must have been a determined young French woman. Back in 1910 she persuaded the French government that what London needed was a special place where French people could … Read more...
View ArticleInterview with Nicholas Tromans
How do you breathe new life into the studio museum of an artist who died over a century ago and make it relevant to today? These are the kinds of … Read more...
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