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Culture

The Ten

Our curated selection of cultural highlights spans from LA trio Muna's electro-pop evolution to Marseilles' most relaxed art fair, featuring emerging galleries and artists under 40.

  • Issue #126
  • 8 min read
Neoclassical museum building with brick wings, central portico with fountain and red deck chairs in foreground.
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
Culture

In the picture

The future of Spain’s Prado Museum lies in the hands of Miguel Falomir – and his formidable team.

  • Issue #124
  • 3 min read
In the picture
Culture

Culture

A round-up of the best French television, film, music and media. Plus: art from New York and Ukraine.

  • Issue #121
  • 7 min read
Culture
Culture

Feast for the senses

France has an enviable history of nurturing some of the world’s great artists – so these galleries, bookshops and record shops could be hiding the next big thing.

  • Issue #121
  • 6 min read
Feast for the senses
Culture

Life in miniature

The bigger the better? Wrong, according to artists, directors and publishers reaching more engaged audiences with postage-stamp-sized paintings, smartphone TV shows and niche books with small print runs.

  • The Forecast #9
  • 11 min read
Life in miniature
Culture

Electric dreams

Japanese digital art collective TeamLab is using technology to remaster what it means to create and experience artworks. We took a stroll among the flowers in their brave new world.

  • The Forecast #9
  • 9 min read
Electric dreams
Culture

Play with your food

Architect and caricaturist Gustav Peichl finds many similarities between what he does and what he eats – but the main one is pleasure.

  • Issue #119
  • 4 min read
An elderly man in round glasses and a red puffer vest sits at an outdoor café table with an orange cap beside him.
Culture

Inner vision

The artist’s studio overlooks a busy scrapyard but inside it’s a pared-down sanctuary.

  • Issue #119
  • 3 min read
A bearded man in a suit reclines on a bold floral-patterned sofa reading a magazine, shoes discarded on the floor beside him.
Culture

Off the wall

Would you trust a student with a masterpiece? Oberlin College in the US has been renting out its collection since 1940.

  • Issue #119
  • 3 min read
A group of students cheerfully display framed artworks on the lawn outside a classical stone building.

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