“The first time I came to London, I was 17,” the violinist Joshua Bell, now 54, told me. We were at dinner together following a recent performance of his at Wigmore Hall, a small but renowned concert hall. “I came with my parents to make my first album,” he continued. “This was in the ’80s, […]
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The British painter David Hockney grabbed the art world’s attention in the 1960s and ’70s with fun and glamorous depictions of Californian life. They included striking images of nude sunbathers lying alongside glistening swimming pools and socialites in their sleek, modernist homes. Then, Hockney discovered technology. In 1982, he began exhibiting works made with Polaroid cameras. […]
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Some were jewel-encrusted diadems worn by Angkor royalty as far back as the 9th century. Other items were also treasured legacies of Cambodia’s past: belts and necklaces woven from fine gold filaments, or body ornaments shaped into rosettes and scrolling vines. All were part of a hoard of 77 gold relics that Cambodian officials believe […]
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In a shock to this year’s awards season, “All Quiet on the Western Front,” a German-language movie set in the trenches of World War I, was the big winner at the EE British Academy Film and Television Arts Awards in London on Sunday night. The Netflix movie was named best picture at the awards, commonly […]
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On Saturday night at a glittering ceremony in London, the pop star Harry Styles was named artist of the year at the Brit Awards, the highest honor at Britain’s equivalent of the Grammys. After punching the air as he headed onstage, the singer then thanked his family, his mother and his former bandmates from One […]
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It was Friday night, in a 2,000-person capacity nightclub in London, and the dance floor was packed. A heavy-duty sound system pounded out house music and a huge disco ball turned overhead. Only one thing was off: It was 9.30 p.m. A woman in the crowd gleefully yelled to the throng of people around her: […]
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LONDON — A London police officer was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison for violence against 12 women over a 17-year period, a series of attacks in which a judge said he took “monstrous advantage” of his victims as he abused his power as a police officer. The case of the officer, David Carrick, […]
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The Marcus Lipton Youth Club is the last dedicated youth center still standing in its pocket of South London. Every day, the center opens its steel security gates to an area of the city plagued by youth violence, where half the children live in poverty. But Marcus Lipton is teetering. Nearly half of London’s youth […]
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