Art & Culture

It’s not just Germans who know the “little yellow books” of classic literature. From South Africa to the US, Reclam publisher’s paperbacks are unmistakable symbols of German culture — and they now have their own museum....

Who is old when and where? “Grey is the New Pink,” a multimedia exhibition in Frankfurt, seeks to answer the question. DW talked to the curator. Alice Pawlik: From a biological point of view, ageing is...

It is morning in New Orleans and Beth Ditto is getting ready for the day: plucking her chin hairs as she speaks to me over the phone, while picking out a black dress light enough for...

For Aghiad Malik, a refugee from Syria, blood had only ever symbolised one thing: death. “It was a nightmare, seeing red on the streets,” he says. “Even to think about blood was horrific.” But soon it...

If you’re looking for a study in contrasts, you could do worse than compare the two albums released this autumn with Marianne Faithfull’s name on the cover. The first is Come and Stay With Me, a collection...

In 1863, the French artist Édouard Manet painted Olympia, a reclining nude prostitute, shedding a scandalous light on Parisian brothel culture. But while much of the attention has been on the white model in the painting, Victorine...

Halfway through Tate Britain’s loving homage to the Victorian “visionary” Edward Burne-Jones I was startled to see a painting I gave a damn about. It’s a portrait of William Graham, colonial businessman, Liberal MP and art collector. His emaciated,...

Winning the Man Booker prize is clearly a life-changing event, but never more so than in the case of Tuesday night’s surprise success, Anna Burns, who became the first Northern Irish writer to win the £50,000 award for...

A sequence of sonnets written during the first 200 days of Donald Trump’s presidency is just one of the “intensely political” poetry collections shortlisted for the most valuable award in British poetry, the £25,000 TS Eliot...

How did Japan’s most celebrated photographers chronicle their country in the second half of the 20th century? Its landscapes, customs and cities all feature in a major show at Washington’s Arthur M Sackler Gallery. My Wife...