Sophie Scholl as a member of the Nazi resistance group "White Rose" should be familiar to most. But what about Margaret Hamilton or Navanethem Pillay? Despite their undisputed achievements for the general public, many women - the US computer scientist Hamilton was involved in bringing the first humans safely to and from the moon in the late 1960s, the South African-born lawyer Pillay has been the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights since 2008 - far less known than...
If you want to make a splash as a young chef today, quickly and easily, you should cook like the great role models between 1900 and 1980: with ingredients from all over the world that are as exotic as possible. This can cause a stir again, because the new credo is: Cook sustainably, regionally and seasonally so that you conserve resources and do not harm the environment. There is hardly a kitchen artist far and wide who does not mention...
Mamadou Boye Diallo shakes a few hands every few meters. How's it going? high five wave. The 31-year-old in a patchwork jacket and sandals knows everyone here in Medina, one of the oldest districts of Dakar: the street artist who builds chairs out of wood and cow horns. The mothers washing clothes in the yard. Or the old man in the plastic chair: "That's Youssou N'dour's father, he boss you quarters." Diallo, whom everyone here calls Modboye, is a kind...
A war like that changes everything. Just over two months ago, 25 people were still working in the Mirali restaurant in Kiev. Now three of them are on the road in Germany, cooking for the Ukraine in starred restaurants together with the teams there. This Sunday evening they are guests in the Munich mural, together with chef Joshua Leise and his people. The Mirali restaurant is located in a commercial area in Kyiv and is now closed, says chef Mirali...
Video Ringo Starr: a mural for Liverpool STORY: Liverpool, UK Ringo Starr at his home Brand new: a mural of the Beatles drummer not far from his childhood home Image by Liverpool artist More The mural adorns the wall of a house that used to house the Empress Pub. Ringo's mother once worked there as a waitress. Starr, aka Richard Starkey, grew up just a stone's throw away. #Subjects source site-1
If it has been visible for several months in Grenoble, the work Bad religion? by the artist Goin has been creating controversy for a few days. This fresco showing a veiled woman carrying a yellow star has indeed been denounced recently by the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (Crif). Since Thursday, she has even been the subject of an investigation, ordered by the Grenoble prosecutor's office, for "disputing the existence of crimes against humanity". This stenciled work, which...
A Banksy mural has disappeared from the east English seaside town of Lowestoft. The picture showed a child with a sun hat and a sand shovel. It is believed to have since been sold to a collector.When Banksy spray-painted the mural on the house wall over some loosened floor tiles last summer, it looked as if the child had uncovered a pile of sand under the pavement. In all, Banksy's so-called "Great British Spraycation" gave the run-down holiday resorts on...
