Saturday night #London #RonnieScott‘s Dele Sosimi Afrobeat Orchestra Dele Sosimi, the Nigerian-British Afrobeat Ambassador, Musician and Educator, has been at the heart of the global Afrobeat scene since relocating to the UK in December 1995. www.ronniescotts.co.uk/find-a-show/...

🎥 Wenn es Nacht wird in London Doku über eine der spannendsten Metropolen Europas www.3sat.de/kultur/kultu...

Ein wirklich schönes Portrait meiner kleinen Welt in London im Spiegel heute. ❤️ #Giftlink

Have your say: List your top 5 Irish novels of all time. #top5irishnovels

Hollywood in the Trump era doesn’t go to Cannes For the first time in years, the French festival is not screening a single film from a major studio. Fear of political questions, soaring promotional costs, and the risk of harsh reviews looms large

Four nominations in one year - the actress who could make Oscars history No film star is having a year as good as Sandra Hüller. With Project Hail Mary smashing the box office, and new film Fatherland earning rave reviews at Cannes, she could do the unprecedented. #Film #SandraHüller

Four nominations in one year - the actress who could make Oscars history No film star is having a year as good as Sandra Hüller. With Project Hail Mary smashing the box office, and new film Fatherland earning rave reviews at Cannes, she could do the unprecedented. #Film #SandraHüller

May 17, 2026 Notting Hill, London #weekend

Let it be clear: you are wanted here.

May 17, 2026 Notting Hill, London #weekend

Morning all. Photographer Niall McDiarmid Summerstown, London, 2017.

Frida Kahlo didn’t become one of the most famous figures of the 20th century by chance. The popular image of the artist was a carefully constructed avatar — proof, according to the costume designer Jon Bausor, that “she was a living work of art.” 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/s...

In den Metropolen Afrikas setzt eine junge Modedesign-Avantgarde mit visionären Entwürfen Trends und verändert das Bild, das die Welt von Afrika hat. Mit avantgardistischen Entwürfen setzen Modemacher:innen alte afrikanische Stoffe und Textiltechniken wieder in Wert. — arte

Frida Kahlo didn’t become one of the most famous figures of the 20th century by chance. The popular image of the artist was a carefully constructed avatar — proof, according to the costume designer Jon Bausor, that “she was a living work of art.” 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/s...

Britain seems to finally have an eye for art from the Asia-Pacific, with several big recent exhibitions, including the new Rising Voices show at the V&A. Why did it take so long? Oliver Giles, The Guardian 🎨

🎥 Wenn es Nacht wird in London Doku über eine der spannendsten Metropolen Europas www.3sat.de/kultur/kultu...

Saturday night #London #RonnieScott‘s Dele Sosimi Afrobeat Orchestra Dele Sosimi, the Nigerian-British Afrobeat Ambassador, Musician and Educator, has been at the heart of the global Afrobeat scene since relocating to the UK in December 1995. www.ronniescotts.co.uk/find-a-show/...

Photo London 2026 An installation by artist Alfredo Jaar consisting of 2,128 lightboxes displaying all #LIFE magazine covers from 1936 to 1996. #Photography #London

„More than anything else, it is my hope that my work will make people know that they are not alone!" Misan Harriman Thank you for your amazing photography, Misan, and for the openness and kindness when we met at the Photo London today. @misanharriman.bsky.social #photolondon

We will continue to choose hope over fear, unity over division.

“Fatherland” www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

Muslim socialist destroys New York by taxing the rich, eliminating the deficit and improving public services open.substack.com/pub/normalis...

Friday night in London 🎼 www.ronniescotts.co.uk

May 15, 2026 First thing in the morning, a visit of the London Coffee Festival ;-) www.londoncoffeefestival.com #London

Galerie Peter Sillem, Frankfurt, presents a series of vintage prints by Ute and Werner Mahler at #PhotoLondon, including a selection of their fashion photographs from behind the Berlin Wall in the days of the GDR. 📷 Ute Mahler, Julia - Deutschland, 1981 www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Day 1 in London Camden Town, Brixton May 13, 2026

London has been named the best city in the world for culture by global online magazine Time Out. The capital was recognised for its large, high-quality, accessible cultural scene, which included "theatre, art galleries, museums, literary festivals, live music and comedy. — BBC

London May 13, 2026 📷 Arrival at Victoria Station

For all who believe in the enduring power of the photographic image: Photo London 2026, May 14-17th www.olympia.co.uk/events/photo...

The World of Yesterday: Stefan Zweig, great Austrian writer, poet & translator, witness to collapse of Habsburg Empire & rise of Nazism; died in despair in 1942. His memoir Die Welt von Gestern was published just after his death. The best English translation is by Anthea Bell (2013).

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There are books that are never read. And there are books that are allowed to wait patiently—in the certainty that you will discover them for yourself someday.

‘A Man in a Hurry’, Tubby Hayes at Ronnie Scott's (2015) by Ed Gray edgrayart.com/gallery/london/west-end/soho-soul-tubby-hayes-a-man-in-a-hurry/

🎧 Sunday night 🎼 Lusaint - Love bites back

Nightfall at Paisley Road Toll in Glasgow, with the 1899 former Ogg Brothers Department Store, topped by the Spirit of Commerce and Industry, against a darkening sky. #glasgow #architecture #glasgowatnight #nighrphotography #paisleyroadtoll

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„I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.“ Happy 100th birthday to Sir David Attenborough! 📷 © Sam Barker, Sir David Attenborough 2015 #NationalPortraitGallery

🎼 The iconic London jazz venue Ronnie Scott’s ‚is going Bach to the future‘. The legendary jazz club embraces classical with new weekly orchestral performances in its refurbished space

🎨 DIE ALCHEMISTINNEN In einer Ausstellung im Mailänder Palazzo Reale würdigt Anselm Kiefer das Wirken vergessener Wissenschaftlerinnen von der Antike bis zur Aufklärung, die mit naturwissenschaftlichen und spirituellen Experimenten versuchten, die Zustände, in denen sie lebten, zu verbessern.

#YoungPhotography is a new international platform on Instagram that serves to facilitate the exchange of ideas among young photographers and institutions promoting emerging talent. You are warmly invited to participate. lnkd.in/dUxk_Zt7

There are books that are never read. And there are books that are allowed to wait patiently—in the certainty that you will discover them for yourself someday.

One of the best bookshops I've ever visited at the gradel I listed former Wool Exchange, Bradford - Built in the spirit of the great Flemish cloth halls — architecture not merely as utility, but as something capable of raising the human spirit.

The Pulitzer Prizes are here. Amid the great work of many, two winners stand out for me. Julie Brown, the Miami Herald reporter who kept alive the Epstein story, and M. Gessen of The New York Times for reported essays on authoritarian regimes. Here's the rest: www.pulitzer.org/prize-winner...

Sie war das Gesicht des freien Deutschland. Als Hollywoodstar sang sie an den Fronten des Zweiten Weltkriegs für die alliierten Truppen. Als sie gefragt wurde, warum sie Antifaschistin geworden sei, antwortete sie: „Aus Anstand.” Marlene Dietrich, gestorben am 6. Mai 1992

Banksy. Genius.

You know, if I had a billion dollars I might not even know what to spend it all on. I might have to give some of it away.

Die ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS startet gemeinsam mit 15 anderen Stiftungen den eigenen Server ‚stiftungen.social - Eine demokratische Instanz’ auf #Mastodon, um „ein unabhängiges soziales Netzwerk außerhalb des Big-Tech-Kosmos zu stärken.“ Manuel J. Hartung www.linkedin.com/posts/manuel...

Die Welt in seinem Licht Sechs Fragen zu Claude Monet – seinem Leben, seiner Kunst und seinem Geheimnis Hanno Rauterberg @zeit.de 👉 www.staedelmuseum.de/de/monets-ku...

ROSALÍA - Berghain (Live at The BRIT Awards 2026) ft. Björk youtu.be/7fyufPkXLbs Jagoda Marinić hat Rosalias Auftritt in Berlin besucht und in ihrem heutigen Newsletter eine kluge und zugleich empathische Konzertkritik geschrieben. jagodamarinic.substack.com

„Ich habe Mut nicht im Studium gelernt, oder im Fernsehstudio. Ich habe ihn von Frauen gelernt im Nahen und Mittleren Osten. Besonders von den Frauen im Iran. Frauen, die wissen, was es bedeutet, Angst zu haben und trotzdem handeln. (..) Diese Frauen sind mein Maßstab.“ Natalie Amiri