Some artists speak first about their work. Sanjeeta Bhattacharya speaks about places: the streets of Delhi, Bengali folk songs, the echoes between India and flamenco, and the invisible threads connecting people across borders. Singer, songwriter, actor, and one of the voices quietly…
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Beauty has never been more visible, or more exhausting. At Bozar in Brussels, Picture Perfect gathers more than sixty artists to question the faces, bodies and fantasies we have been taught to desire. From rhinoplasty clinics in Tehran to queer portraiture, bodybuilding,…
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From Harajuku to Paris, the Design Museum’s major new retrospective traces how NIGO quietly transformed streetwear into global culture. There are designers who create clothes, and then there are those who reshape the visual language of an entire generation. For more than…
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Beneath the concrete span of the Gbagada expressway bridge, young boxers, girls and boys alike, train with quiet determination. At Confidence Boxing Club, the street becomes a gym, and each session a testament to discipline, resilience, and community. These photographs by Morgan…
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A script from Annie Hall, rare fashion pieces, photographs, furniture and private objects: the Bonhams sale reveals Diane Keaton not as a Hollywood icon, but as a meticulous editor of atmospheres. There are actresses whose style belongs to cinema, and then there…
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Hawaiian writer Megan Kamalei Kakimoto on body, colonization, myth, and the power of stories to resist forgetting. At the crossroads of myth, memory and resistance, Megan Kamalei Kakimoto is part of a new generation of writers reshaping contemporary literature from the inside.…
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Curated by Suryakant Sawhney, this playlist moves through Delhi the way the city moves through you, in waves, in fragments, in sudden shifts of light. It is less a selection of tracks than a cartography of moods. From the retro elegance of…
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In Venice, this spring, beauty refuses to behave. In a palace still intact, before its restoration, suspended between past and disappearance, the Fondazione Dries Van Noten opens its doors. The setting: Palazzo Pisani Moretta, resting on the Grand Canal. The gesture: a…
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In 1981, at the lowest point of his life, Marvin Gaye quietly disappeared from the American music scene and resurfaced somewhere unexpected: Ostend. Belgian writer Serge Honorez explores this little-known episode when a quiet North Sea city, far from Motown and Los…
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