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Art

Making history

The Victoria and Albert Museum’s experts are rallying to move its vast store to a modern facility.

  • Issue #127
  • 3 min read
Making history
Affairs

In the right direction

Stockholm is dynamic and progressive – but challenges remain. We meet mayor Anna König Jerlmyr to talk shop.

  • Issue #127
  • 3 min read
In the right direction
Culture

The opener

Why you should slow down for roundabouts, kill moths and consider a cowbell conundrum.

  • Issue #127
  • 6 min read
The opener
Fashion

Crowning glory

It’s easy to recall iconic hairstyles but harder to find one that suits you. We took a trip to Los Angeles to lift the lid on the latest styles and salon cultures.

  • Issue #127
  • 11 min read
Woman with natural curly afro hairstyle and side part on a Los Angeles street.
Culture

Directors’ cut

The more incendiary the conversation around cultural topics becomes, the more museum directors take on the role of mouthpieces for how society should deal with thorny issues.

  • Issue #126
  • 9 min read
Yuki Pan, director of Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, standing outside the museum's neoclassical entrance
Society

Protected status

If you’re in charge of policing one of the safest cities in the world, pressure and pride go hand in hand.

  • Issue #126
  • 3 min read
White food truck with green and yellow accents displaying pork products and signage on its exterior.
Affairs

Privacy alerts

From social media to mass surveillance, we know that we are losing the ability to be private, to have lives for us and our children that are off-grid. But we can regain some control.…

  • Film
  • 1 min watch
Privacy alerts
Affairs

Puppy power

Inside Hong Kong's Police Dog Unit, where golden labradors swim laps, springer spaniels earn public-voted names, and a 20 per cent expansion prepares the force for busier borders ahead.

  • Issue #125
  • 3 min read
Puppy power
Business

Business and pleasure

They shouldn’t be mixed, right? Wrong. But what can we do to make offices more appealing without making them full of bean bags and silly slides? These HQs have the balance right.

  • Issue #125
  • 7 min read
Illustration of a businessman in a gray suit sitting on a wooden bench with a briefcase beside him.
Affairs

Fired up

Meet the team with a burning desire to protect Kyoto’s Kiyomizu-dera temple.

  • Issue #125
  • 3 min read
Fired up

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