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This afternoon, Sara Cox finished her epic 135-mile run which has raised over £9.5 million for Children in Need...
November 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
One-third of America's museums have lost government grants or contracts since Donald Trump took office. The findings released by the American Alliance of Museums, shed new light on the challenges cultural institutions are facing under the Trump administration...
November 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Anna Ancher, who, despite her centrality to Danish art history, is only now being given her first solo exhibition in the UK at Dulwich Picture Gallery, focusing on her depiction of her town and, above all, her virtuosic handling of the shifting Nordic light...
November 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 AM
The Spanish composer and pianist, who along with Isaac Albéniz, Francisco Tárrega, and Enrique Granados, is considered one of Spain's most important musicians of the first half of the 20th century.

Manuel de Falla
November 23, 1876 – November 14, 1946
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Acclaimed director Zhang Yimou #botd has won numerous awards and recognitions, including three Academy Award nominations for Best Foreign Language Film for Ju Dou, Raise the Red Lantern, and Hero...
November 14, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Narciso Yepes #botd — Considered one of the finest virtuoso classical guitarists of the twentieth century, a benchmark in his career came in 1964 when he unveiled his ten-string guitar, an instrument he had developed with renowned guitar maker José Ramírez.
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Sullivan’s Travels
Writer/director Preston Sturges
Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake #botd

The New York Times rated this comic masterpiece brilliant, praising Sturges's mix of escapist fun with underlying significance, and ranked it as one of the best films of 1941.
November 14, 2025 at 9:22 AM
"Those who have seen Louise Brooks #botd can never forget her. As soon as she takes the screen, fiction disappears along with art. She embodies all that the cinema rediscovered in its last years of silence: complete naturalness and simplicity..." — Henri Langlois
November 14, 2025 at 9:21 AM
"For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance..."

Aaron Copland #botd
November 14, 2025 at 9:20 AM
"Colour is my daylong obsession, joy and torment..."

Claude Monet #botd

Champs de coquelicots près d’Argenteuil
Oil on canvas, 1875
November 14, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, 1965
November 13, 2025 at 8:40 AM
The American chemical technician and union activist, known for reporting health and safety concerns in a nuclear facility, died in a mysterious car accident on the way to meet a New York Times reporter...

Karen Silkwood
February 19, 1946 – November 13, 1974
November 13, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Miracolo a Milano
dir. Vittorio De Sica, 1951

“I have been asked why I made Miracle in Milan. What won me over to the idea imagined by Zavattini was the humanity of the central figure, who is closely related to the characters in Bicycle Thieves...”
November 13, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made, De Sica's Academy Award–winning Bicycle Thieves defined an era in cinema...

Vittorio De Sica
July 7, 1901 – November 13, 1974
November 13, 2025 at 8:33 AM
“When Jean Seberg #botd is on screen you can’t look at anything else. Her every movement is graceful, each glance is precise. The shape of her head, her silhouette, her walk...” — François Truffaut

À bout de souffle, 1960
November 13, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Susie Wolff is managing director of the F1 Academy, the all-female racing championship she has led since 2023. The aim is to offer young women opportunities to develop in competitive racing with the long-term ambition of producing a female F1 driver.
November 12, 2025 at 9:11 AM
November 12, 2025 at 9:11 AM
"I am very grateful to all those who made this recording possible. This was a deeply personal project for me, one I had promised to John a few months before his death...” — Steven Isserlis
November 12, 2025 at 9:08 AM
"Music and a sense of another presence always went hand in hand. When I was three, I would improvise music, and my grandfather would act as an audience and used to applaud. I would imitate things like thunder and rain."

John Tavener
January 28, 1944 – November 12, 2013
November 12, 2025 at 9:08 AM
"I love walking in the woods, on the trails, along the beaches. I love being part of nature. I love walking alone. It is therapy. One needs to be alone, to recharge one's batteries..."

Grace Kelly #botd
November 12, 2025 at 9:07 AM
"Greta Garbo belongs to that moment in cinema when capturing the human face still plunged audiences into the deepest ecstasy...”

Roland Barthes #botd
November 12, 2025 at 9:06 AM
"Days after news broke that Diane Keaton had passed away at the age of seventy-nine, we’re still just beginning to sort through what’s keeping us from letting go..."

David Hudson | Criterion : www.criterion.com/current/post...
November 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Bob Dylan — London, 1965
📷 Barrie Wentzell
November 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Robert Vaughn, as Senator Walter Chalmers in 'Bullitt'. The film is notable for its extensive use of practical locations and stunt work.

Robert Vaughn
November 22, 1932 – November 11, 2016
November 11, 2025 at 7:56 AM