Georg Baselitz has been stirring up controversy for over half a century. The artist, who is now 83, was the subject of an obscenity trial in the 1960s over his painting of a young boy holding an ...

You’ve probably heard that every year, the average person swallows six (or three, or eight) spiders while they’re asleep. The statistic is completely invented, not to mention impossible to prove under ...

Encountering the first upside down figure in the massive retrospective of German artist Georg Baselitz may seem at first to an unaware visitor to be an installation lapse. But walk a little farther ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It’s early summer in the Georg Jensen workshop in Copenhagen, and the young apprentices and masters – all known ...

On November 8, 1939, Georg Elser, a German carpenter, almost changed the course of history. But his bomb missed killing Adolf Hitler by 13 minutes. It would take postwar Germany decades to acknowledge ...

An online photo featuring Princess Elisabeth of Belgium and Prince Georg of Liechtenstein had some hopeful of a royal romance A photo showing Princess Elisabeth of Belgium and Prince Georg of ...

Perched on a steep hilltop in southern Germany, the striking turrets of Hohenzollern Castle rise in contrast to the rolling countryside that surrounds them. The fortress is the ancestral seat of ...