Art lovers witnessing the birth of the fringe festival in 1947 Edinburgh may have felt an intriguing twinge of familiarity. After all, the creation of a rebellious exhibit to protest the stodgy Paris Salon was something their art form had seen 84 years earlier. In the role of the (actually wonderful) Edinburgh International Festival, there […]

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In the exhausted aftermath of World War II, when even the victors faced visible and emotional devastation, a group of arts visionaries in Edinburgh, Scotland, figured out what their city truly needed. And maybe the world needed it too. Someone had to celebrate centuries of pan-European culture and the classical music, dance and theater it […]

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