Cultureteca 24.11.19
When the Wallace Collection in London was bequeathed to the nation in 1897, one of the conditions of the bequest was that no work should ever leave the collection, but should remain...
Cultureteca 17.11.19
Monday cheer came in the cherished form of Jeff Garlin, who revealed via a post on Instagram that Curb Your Enthusiasm is back in January with season ten. The ninth season of...
Cultureteca 10.11.19
In an increasingly familiar refrain, the week kicked off with Martin Scorsese having to defend his stance on comic book movies, courtesy of an opinion piece in The New York Times. In...
Cultureteca 03.11.19
On Monday morning, media outlets reported that the iconic and sometimes scabrous film producer Robert Evans had died over the weekend at the age of 89 years old. After a brief career...
Cultureteca 27.10.19
Following a members-only preview on Friday night and a free-for-all celebration on Sunday, amid protests over the financial ties of several board members, on Monday New York’s Museum of Modern Art officially...
Cultureteca 20.10.19
Flouting convention, the 2019 Booker Prize for Fiction was awarded to two authors, Margaret Atwood for The Testaments and Bernardine Evaristo for Girl, Woman, Other. Atwood’s novel, written from the perspective of...
Cultureteca 21.05.17
Best-Preserved Nodosaur Goes on Display in Alberta This week the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Alberta, Canada unveiled what has been described as the world’s best-preserved armoured dinosaur. A newfound species...
Earthy Anecdotes: Alex Ferguson, Mick Harford, And The League That Got Away
In the winter of 1991, Manchester United stood atop the English Football League, and appeared ready to finally grasp the title which they had been eyeing enviously for so long. It was...
Beginning with the Beguine: Dances Named in Popular Song
From the time it began to flourish on record and on the big screen in the 1930s, to the present day and inescapably beyond, popular music has tapped and swayed to the tune...