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How to stay busy and important this month in America's Finest City

Artist Patrick Lay explains his process.

Writer Dave Maass and artist Patrick Lay discuss their new graphic novel, based on an obscure opera by two victims of the Holocaust.

"This is beautiful and strange," Neil Gaiman says, describing it as "heartbreaking and affecting... a reminder of what art is for."

Throughout his life, Canetti maintained his commitment to a humanity undivided by the artificial lines of a nation or state and standing as one collective whole.

Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis will see Peter Kien and Viktor Ullmann's 1943 opera, penned during their time in Theresienstadt, adapted as a comic.

An ordinary winter evening in the Legation Quarter of Peking, where foreign embassies and consulates were located, January 7, 1937. Cold. The heavy sound of Japanese armored cars, out on patrol down the busy shopping streets that flank the Forbidden City. (Japan would occupy the city seven months later.) The martial sounds and the crowds seem not to distract a couple of

Anzeige Eine Erzählung ist es eigentlich nicht, auch wenn Stephan Weitzel mit dem Verlagsmitarbeiter Hannes Franzmann einen Erzähler nach Leipzig schickt, der hier am Rande langweiliger Beratungen an einem Stadtrundgang teilnimmt. Und seine Überraschungen erlebt. Und so wird das Buch eher ein Stadtrundgang, einmal rund um den Ring und voller Überraschungen, auf die Franzmann so nicht gefasst war. Was auch am Stadtführer liegt, einem gewissen Peter Kien, der den Teilnehmern diese...

The 15th edition of the International Spring Orchestra Festival (ISOF) will be taking place next month. Inspired by music from Germany labelled ‘Degenerate’ and banned by the Nazi authorities between 1933 and 1945, the ISOF will host seven concerts over five days in various locations, mainly in Valletta. International guest artists – including some familiar faces on the local classical music scene – are flying in from all over Europe to join their Maltese counterparts. “Despite the pa...

8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Jonathan Plowright. The British pianist opens this concert with Busoni’s arrangement of Bach’s D minor Chaconne which was performed by Busoni himself at the opening of the Hall almost 120 years ago. This is followed by the six pieces that make up Liszt’s Consolations S172. The concert closes with Grieg’s Holberg Suite Op. 40, originally written for piano before Grieg adapted it for string orchestra. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE 1...