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What €74,000 a year will buy you at Switzerland’s most remote boarding school
Children are often kept indoors as cold weather bites – but do they learn better by braving the chill? At Préfleuri, we discover why a nature-based education offers a true breath of fresh air.
Frieze Seoul director Patrick Lee on the galleries not to miss at the 2025 fair
Looking to experience Frieze Seoul like a local? Patrick Lee has shared his expert guide to the fair’s top galleries, museum shows and even the city’s most talked-about Korean barbecue.
From Paris to Amsterdam, art restoration is becoming a win for museum footfall
Watching paint dry is suddenly en vogue. Paris’s Musée d’Orsay’s surprise hit this season is a look at the ongoing restoration of Gustave Courbet’s “Un Enterrement à Ornans” (A Burial at Ornans). It is…
Vienna’s most naked secret lives in the open on the Danube
The Austrian capital’s artificial island hosts a community of nudists keeping the 19th-century tradition of “free bodies” alive. Here’s what one writer learned from those with nothing to hide.
The Battle of Denny Blaine: Nudists vs prudists on Seattle’s lakefront
A nudist beach. A children’s playground. An embattled mayor. And a chain-link fence. The common thread is a sordid and silly episode that has roiled Seattle’s politics – and its summer by the lake.…
How the Faroe Islands reversed the brain drain of an ageing population
The small community found a big answer to an ageing population crisis
An architect’s perspective on what city slickers can learn from country folk
There’s a stereotype that people in the countryside are resistant to change. This could not be further from the truth. In Referinghausen, a village where I grew up in the Sauerland region of southwestern…
Meet the daredevil stunt performers helping Europe’s film-making industry reach new extremes
As Spain bolsters its reputation as Europe’s top film-making hub, an academy near Barcelona is training the next generation of stunt talent in delivering on-screen action.
This human history expert says we’re wired to work, not relax – but here’s why it’s a good thing
Is it time to rethink work? Journalist Albert Steck asks economist Hans-Joachim Voth why meaningful labour may be key to our wellbeing, and why humans might be built more for purpose than pleasure.
