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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

The Ten

Hot Chip embraces euphoria, a Dutch munitions factory reinvents itself as a cultural hub, and a 94-year-old Lebanese poet finally gets her moment. Ten reasons to pay attention this week.

  • Issue #124
  • 8 min read
The Ten
Culture

Star turn

Abstract artist Frank Stella had his first Moma retrospective 50 years ago. We caught up with him as he prepared to show his latest colourful work, partly inspired by his smoking habit.

  • Issue #123
  • 6 min read
Star turn
Culture

The Ten

From Japanese City Pop vinyl to Chernobyl's nuclear horror and a one-man indie triumph, ten carefully chosen cultural picks to guide your week with discernment.

  • Issue #123
  • 8 min read
Emily Watson as a Soviet physicist in the Chernobyl mini-series, wearing a black coat and hat in a institutional hallway.
Culture

Space man

Tavares Strachan has an unusual CV: not many artists have trained as a cosmonaut.

  • Issue #122
  • 3 min read
Space man
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

Clean canvas

A Victorian bath house in south London has been reborn as an inviting – and very timely – new gallery space serving Goldsmiths’ art college and the community beyond.

  • Issue #118
  • 8 min read
Clean canvas
Art

On display: New Museum

The New Museum on Manhattan’s Lower East Side has been championing the contemporary since its inception in 1977. We meet the team dedicated to bringing new artists to wider attention.

  • Issue #118
  • 4 min read
On display: New Museum

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