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...
Ones To Watch: London 2017 World Athletics Championships
Usain Bolt (Men’s 100 Metres) In what are set to be Usain Bolt’s final races before retirement, the greatest sprinter of all time – the reigning world record holder in the men’s...
Cultureteca 13.09.15
We meet Cultureteca in Petersburg this week, as the State Hermitage Museum opens an exhibition on the explorer Ibn Battuta; in New York, as amid US Open tennis, trouble – in the form...
Daily Visual 11.09.15: Diamond League Finals
Friday night in Brussels – officially the AG Insurance Memorial Van Damme – saw the final IAAF Diamond League meet of the 2015 athletics season. The climax of the Diamond League is in fact...
2015 World Championships in Athletics: Bloopers
Prior to the men’s 100 metres final on Sunday evening, as the nine competing athletes stood out on the track in the Bird’s Nest stadium and the world’s attention focused on Usain Bolt and...
2015 World Championships in Athletics: Duels
The 2015 World Championships in Athletics – the 15th IAAF World Championships – took place last week in Beijing. Over nine days, from Saturday 22 August to Sunday 30 August, and sixteen...
Daily Visual 22.08.15: World Championships in Athletics Day One
The 2015 World Championships in Athletics commenced today in Beijing. The largest sporting event to take place in the Bird’s Nest stadium since the 2008 Summer Olympics, the World Championships will run until next Sunday,...
Daily Visual 25.07.15: Anniversary Games 2015
Previously known as the London Grand Prix, since 2013 the athletics meet held in the English capital each July has been dubbed the Anniversary Games: commemorating the 2012 London Olympics, and taking place...
Daily Visual 15.07.15: Kenyan Athletes Walk for Peace
Today some of Kenya’s greatest distance runners – organised and led by 2010 Commonwealth marathon gold medalist John Kelai, and scheduled to include former marathon world record holders Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich, Paul Tergat,...