The 83rd Venice International Film Festival is taking place on the Lido from 2 to 12 September 2026. One of the world’s oldest and most influential film festivals has already become a major focus of international film coverage in its opening days.
Comparing cultural spending in Northern Europe is somewhat more complicated than it might appear at first glance. National statistical offices use different accounting systems, while culture is most often included within broader categories such as “recrea
After almost a thousand years in France, the Bayeux Tapestry has returned to English soil. On 2 September, King Charles III and French President Emmanuel Macron viewed the historic work at the British Museum.
28 August, Austria. A diamond necklace once belonging to has been stolen in broad daylight from Vienna’s Museum of Applied Arts (MAK). The platinum piece, set with 673 diamonds weighing more than 200 carats in total, was created by Van Cleef & Arpels in
This summer, 200 square metres of wool appeared on the Tsanfleuron Glacier in the Alps. Two 10-by-10-metre woollen blankets were laid over the ice alongside an equivalent section covered with conventional synthetic geotextile.
Even within the EU, statistical agencies do not always calculate cultural expenditure using the same methodology. The harmonized COICOP classification includes a broad category called “recreation, sport and culture.” However, national statistics may group
International comparisons of cultural spending need to be treated with caution, as national statistical agencies do not use fully consistent categories. In the EU, expenditure may be reported under “culture, sport and recreation”; in the United States, un
In the city of Villena, in Spain’s Alicante province, thieves broke into the local MUVI museum on the night of 27 August and stole a substantial part of the celebrated Villena Treasure, one of Europe’s most important collections of Bronze Age goldwork. Th
The 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival emerged as a meeting point for several of the defining concerns of contemporary European cinema: historical memory, political unease, the discovery of new voices and an increasingly urgent conversation about the future of s