Fernando Augusto Pacheco
Paris 2024 Olympics: Athlete profiles
As the summer Games approach, we speak to seven contenders about their unique journeys to Paris 2024.

Culture agenda: This year’s Cannes Film Festival, Mexican quarterly Manera and a Q&A with Amos Rex
Film – FranceCannes heat From 14-25 May, the Cannes Film Festival is at the starting line of the race to the Oscars. After 2023’s memorable line-up, the 77th edition of the festival embraces a…

The Agenda: Design
Lisbon Design Week and a mid-century cooking school's new recipe for success.

The Agenda: Culture
Brazil’s publishing push, the Venice Biennale at 60 and Hans Zimmer’s world-building.

World first
Spring’s artistic highlights include the reissue of a classic French album, a retrospective on Dutch-American painter Willem de Kooning and the long-awaited return of Spanish director Victor Erice.

Rich seams
From a vivid musical celebration of Chinese heritage to a Romanian modernist pioneer’s timely retrospective, we select the best of the month’s art and culture.