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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
Design

Observation: Creative bloc

The artsy types at Eurolab think the EU’s tired branding has too easily ceded the field to nationalists and populists. We hear about their new vision.

  • Issue #116
  • 5 min read
Back of person's head wearing white cyclist helmet with text overlay about European multilingualism and freedom of movement.
Affairs

Ghosts of the past

Belgium has opened a new embassy in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This soft-power flourish will struggle to repair relations with the old colonial master, with the DRC on a worrying course.

  • The Forecast #8
  • 8 min read
Ghosts of the past

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