Culture
Is cooking art? Denmark is chewing over the divide between meal and masterpiece
From El Bulli to The French Laundry, the ambitious techniques in fine dining show the parallels between palate and palette.
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The new books, films, music and TV to add to your April list
From a lyrical narrative exploring memory in a digital world to a long-awaited second season of a hit TV show, here’s a list of new titles to occupy your free time this April.
How photographer Greg Girard captured the hidden sides of Hong Kong and Tokyo
Greg Girard’s photographs of Tokyo and Hong Kong reject spectacle, focusing instead on overlooked lives, hidden bars, subtle encounters and the freedom that comes with observing as an outsider.
Five exhibitions to see in Hong Kong during Art Basel 2026
Seen all there is to see at Art Basel Hong Kong? Then flag down a red taxi and head to these five art shows that are not to miss on your visit.
Fondazione ITS illuminates fashion’s overlooked players with its exhibition ‘Exposure – The Power of Being Seen’
A new exhibition in Italy sheds light on the often under-appreciated influence of stylists. The duo behind the show guide Monocle through a hidden world where high fashion meets politics and pop culture.
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.
