Culture
Can art defend democracy? Raoul Peck discusses his urgent new film, ‘Orwell: 2+2=5’
Raoul Peck explores the radical power of art, arguing that films, stories and images can cut through manipulation, re-engage citizens and play a decisive role in the defence of under-threat democracy.
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Martin Krasnik is the newspaper veteran restoring trust in the media with Denmark’s most resilient title
In the first of our new series featuring editors working to rebuild confidence in the media in the age of free content and misinformation, we meet the cool-headed Dane of weekly title ‘Weekendavisen’.
Is ‘Jeremy’s Bathhouse’ the strangest exhibition at Art Basel Hong Kong?
During the city’s biggest art week, artist Chan Wai Lap unveils a surreal bathhouse inspired by a lonely snail – inviting visitors to soak, connect and rethink intimacy in a very unexpected installation.
Collecting history: Ancient antiquities dealer Galerie Chenel offers the world’s oldest collectables
From first-century artefacts to ancient Egyptian sculpture, the Paris gallery deals in some of the world’s rarest and most exquisite objects. But what truly sets them apart is their curatorial eye.
The London art director collecting Earth’s rarest sculptures: Meteorites
Jethro Sverdloff, co-director of London’s Art Ancient, believes cosmic material is the next frontier in the art collectors’ market.
Missing old-school audio? Press play at Dug Factory, Tokyo’s boombox specialist and analogue empire
Tokyo-based collector Junichi Matsuzaki has spent more than two decades amassing retro audio units. Here he lets us in on his prized collection of 5,000 items.
Hong Kong’s ‘boothless’ Pavilion art fair invites visitors to contemplate and connect
The collaborative Asian art fair will feature 25 galleries from around the world, including New York’s 47 Canal, London’s Norito and Seoul’s S Angheeut.
‘People don’t expect it’: Art Basel Hong Kong director lauds the fair’s public programme
We sit down with the director of Art Basel Hong Kong, Angelle Siyang-Le, to discuss the city’s cultural coming of age, new features of the fair and the best places for dim sum.
‘You have to go into it head-on’: Oscar-nominated Miyako Bellizzi on kitting out ‘Marty Supreme’
Oscar-nominated costume designer Miyako Bellizzi on why crafting garments from scratch is the key to achieving authentic period worldbuilding.
Oscar-winning costume designer for ‘Frankenstein’ on crafting colourful characters with Guillermo del Toro
Costume designer Kate Hawley discusses designing a cohesive, contemporary, neo-gothic world for Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ and collaborating with Tiffany & Co.
10 of the best bookshops in Paris
Too many places have lost their love of print. But the French capital is a haven for anyone who wants to lose themselves in a thriller or even teach their children to read.
