Saoirse Ronan and Jack Lowden welcomed their first child. Ronan first sparked pregnancy rumors when she attended the Louis ...

The Federal Reserve in DC is run by a Board of Governors, and the sitting US president nominates one of these governors as chair. But they are technically only the chair of the board, not the FOMC ...

Once the seat of the Catholic popes, Avignon only became a part of France in 1791. Next month, Europe’s greatest drama festival will take place in the shadow of its vast papal palace. Avignon has ...

A few nights before the French took their final vote in this summer’s snap parliamentary election, Tiago Rodrigues, the director of the Festival d’Avignon, staged an all-night, ad-hoc rally against ...

This week on arts24, Eve Jackson is in the studio while our reporter Olivia Salazar-Winspear is on the ground at one of the world’s most iconic theatre gatherings – the Avignon Festival in southern ...

With striking premieres in the main program and enchanting discoveries on the supplementary Fringe, the eminent event in European theater is flourishing after some difficult years. By Laura Cappelle ...

A feminist collective, the Amazons of Avignon, has been plastering the walls of the city with testimony from the trial of the 51 men who were convicted in the Gisèle Pelicot rape case. By Catherine ...

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Pablo Picasso, it is said, worked until the day he died at the age of 91 on April 8, 1973. This weekend marks the 50th year since the Spanish artist’s passing. Five decades on, we are still grappling ...