In the small Finnish municipality of Kaustinen, home to just over 4,000 people, musicians outnumber local residents for one week every July. The Kaustinen Folk Music Festival, held from 13 to 19 July 2026, set a new attendance record.
For Tomorrowland, whose global identity rests heavily on synchronised fireworks, pyrotechnic displays and monumental stage design, the decision represented more than a technical restriction: it challenged the very model of spectacle on which the festival
Every year, from 6 to 14 July, the capital of Navarre becomes a city that seems, for a time, to suspend its own rules. For nine days, Pamplona moves to the rhythm of religious processions, street music, dancing, concerts and late-night revelry. The festiv
…In my lecture on blue, I showed Konrad Krzyżanowski’s 1914 painting By Candlelight, created in Volhynia at his wife’s estate.
In 2026, the Bayreuth Festival marks the 150th anniversary of its founding. Yet the occasion increasingly looks less like an unqualified celebration of musical genius. Alongside discussions of the Festspielhaus’s exceptional acoustics, new productions and
British actor Anthony Hopkins, 88, has signed with Decca Classics and is preparing to release Life Is a Dream, an album of his own orchestral music. The record is due on 21 August 2026. Its first single, Bracken Road, from the piano-and-orchestra suite 19
The release of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has sparked a debate in Greece that goes well beyond the usual controversy over casting. The discussion began before the film’s international rollout on 16–17 July 2026, following the publication of casting d
The 80th Festival d’Avignon, running from 4 to 25 July, is less concerned with taking stock than with posing a series of uncomfortable questions — about death, violence, memory, political responsibility and the capacity of art to respond in times of socia
The 60th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has concluded in the Czech spa town. Held from 3 to 11 July 2026, the anniversary edition brought together star appearances, retrospectives, international premieres and competitions showcasing emerging fil