The Norwegian Nobel Committee awards the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to the South African jurist Navanethem Pillay. What the Committee said.
Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai share the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.
Francis Halzen wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of astrophysical neutrinos.
Before The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov was a medical student in Moscow paying his way with jokes. In the early 1880s he…
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.
SIFFA returns to London in November 2026 for its 16th edition: what is confirmed so far, the Prokofiev Challenge, and how the 2025 anniversary edition…
By Alexander Stone Britain never set out to become a home for the Russian avant-garde. It has no equivalent of the Stedelijk Museum’s Malevich holdings…
By Lana Sterling William Morris, a central figure in the Arts and Crafts movement, sought to revive traditional craftsmanship and bring beauty into everyday life,…
Anne Carson, the Canadian poet, essayist and translator, wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. What the Swedish Academy said, and what the work is.
In the first days of 1603 the Roman nobleman Ciriaco Mattei paid Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio 125 scudi for a painting of the arrest of…