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Glare Living Architects of Liberation: When Modernism Stopped Being Europe's Alone A pyramid in Abidjan, a library in Bolgatanga, banks and schools drawn as instruments of self-rule. MoMA's Architects of... The Secret Screen The Lucas Museum: A Building That Wants to Be a Character Renoir beside a lightsaber, illustration beside cinema, a green-roofed hull by Ma Yansong. The Lucas Museum of Narrative... The Poetry Bench Victoria Chang: Tree of Knowledge A eucalyptus cut down outside the window; three hundred people ordered out of Eureka in 1885; a twenty-page poem at the ... Glare Living Grammar of Forms: Couture That Wants to Be Read as Sculpture Silhouettes among bronzes, archive Dior beside new line, Lynda Benglis in the same air. Jonathan Anderson's Grammar of F... Glare Living A Serpentine: The Wall That Holds by Refusing to Stand Straight A crinkle-crankle wall, brick columns like a grove, a roof that barely decides to be a roof. LANZA atelier's 2026 Serpen... Empty Canvas In Minor Keys: Venice After Koyo Kouoh Not the fanfare — the minor key. The 61st Venice Biennale carries Koyo Kouoh's title and her absence: a call for softe... Glare Living Costume Art: The Met Stops Treating Clothes as a Guest Nearly 400 objects, all 19 of the Met's departments, garments hung as peers to painting and armour. Costume Art does not... Glare Living The Bicycle as Object of Desire: A Short History of the Beautiful Machine Two triangles, two wheels, a chain — and yet no object has been redrawn by more designers, dreamers and luxury houses.... Glare Living Sebastian Errazuriz: The Designer Who Refuses to Decorate A boat carved from a single fallen tree; a wardrobe that opens like a fan; sculptures that melt in protest. Sebastian Er... The Secret Screen Catherine Breillat: The Sleeping Beauty France's great provocateur takes on Sleeping Beauty — and refuses to let her merely sleep. Catherine Breillat's La Bel... The Poetry Bench Robinson Jeffers: The Poet Who Built With Stone He hauled granite boulders up from the Carmel shore and built his house and a four-storey tower with his own hands. Robi... Empty Canvas Akseli Gallen-Kallela: The Painter of Finland's Soul A nation barely allowed to be a nation found its face in one painter's brush. Akseli Gallen-Kallela turned the Kalevala ... Empty Canvas French Fries Killing Lovers: Bugo (Cristian Bugatti) at New Delhi A sign six metres by three, reading 'French fries killing lovers', installed on a street in Ghaziabad outside New Delhi ... Empty Canvas In Praise of the Visible Hand The wobble in the line, the thumbprint in the clay, the seam that didn't quite meet — for a decade these were errors t... The Secret Screen The Camera at Two Hundred Two hundred years ago a Frenchman left a pewter plate in the light for the better part of a day and came back to find th... The Secret Screen Alex Prager and the Art of Mise-en-Scène She builds her photographs the way a director builds a scene: synthetic wigs, retro costume, a heroine frozen mid-story.... The Secret Screen The Fund That Saves Women's Cinema It is the only program in the world that exists to save films in which women were essential. On the Women's Film Preserv... Empty Canvas Marina Abramović: 512 Hours Three empty rooms. No phones, no cameras, no watches. For 512 hours Marina Abramović offered the public nothing but her... Glare Living The Spacelander: The Bicycle That Came From the Future A biomorphic fibreglass body, built-in dynamo, curves like a parked rocket. Benjamin Bowden's Spacelander sold barely 50... Empty Canvas The Color Project: Adrien Broom's Rooms of One Hue A girl steps through a series of rooms, each one drowned in a single saturated colour — red, then blue, then gold. Adr... Empty Canvas CURVY: A Decade of Women Who Draw Since 2003, CURVY has put 100 female illustrators in print every year — from the obvious art capitals to Malta, Moscow... The Secret Screen Becoming Stanley Kubrick: The Director Before the Director Before the films, there was a camera. At seventeen Stanley Kubrick was selling photographs to Look magazine; by twenty-o... Empty Canvas Art Is a Relationship A watercolour pond of goldfish laid on a greenhouse floor; a plaster girl hidden among the plants; a family studied like... Empty Canvas March Studio: Designing With What's Left Over Founded in 2007 on a shoestring, March Studio turned scarcity into a method — recycled materials, leftover packaging, ... Empty Canvas Sandrine Pelletier: Goodbye Horses Wool dipped in molten latex and tar, spread thinly over a horse-shaped mould, the wire skeleton then pulled out — leav... Empty Canvas Two Words With: Olivier Valsecchi Bodies dissolving into clouds of ash, half-sculpture, half-disappearance. The French photographer Olivier Valsecchi talk... Empty Canvas Olivia Fraser: The Modern Miniaturist Hand-ground lapis and malachite, paper burnished smooth, brushes of a few squirrel hairs. The Scottish-born painter Oliv... Empty Canvas David Pidgeon: The Designer Who Aims for the Moon “Aim for the moon.” David Pidgeon can't draw to save himself, by his own admission — and yet his typographic exper... Glare Living Erba Cycles: Bicycles Grown, Not Welded Steel frames since the nineties, then a turn to something stranger: bamboo and hemp, grown rather than mined, lashed by ... Empty Canvas One Billion Rising: The Day the World Danced On V-Day's 15th anniversary — 14 February 2013 — one billion women and those who love them were called to walk out, ... Glare Living Kenton Sorenson: The Slow Craft of Leather It began with a case for a pair of hair shears, twenty-five years ago. A barber turned leather craftsman, Kenton Sorenso... Glare Living The Parisian Catwalks with Tvscia Of all the emerging names at Paris fashion week, one stood out: Tvscia, born in Tuscany from Elisa Soldini and Lucia Pad... Glare Living The Moynat Bicycle Trunk Waterproof canvas, a triple-curved base that cradles the front wheel, porcelain goblets and a fold-out table for two. Mo... Premium Living Kalon Surf: Your Luxury Surfing Holiday in Costa Rica Kalon means profound beauty — and on Costa Rica's southern coast, a ten-guest boutique surf resort tries to live up to... Glare Living People Have the Power: Green Hill Has Been Closed What should have been an ordinary sweltering Wednesday in July became a landmark day for everyone who believes in animal... Empty Canvas Vikram Kushwah: Reliving Childhood Memories Misty forests, floating books, girls in vintage dress caught mid-reverie. Vikram Kushwah makes fashion photographs that ... Glare Living Blood Ivory More than 200 elephants killed inside a single national park in one month; over 3,000 across Africa in a year. A look at... Glare Living The 1970 Plymouth Barracuda: The Pony Car That Got the Last Laugh First to the party and then forgotten, the Plymouth Barracuda finally got its revenge in 1970 — with the 426 Hemi, the... Empty Canvas Irving Penn and Issey Miyake: A Visual Dialogue A designer in Tokyo, a photographer in New York, garments crossing an ocean between them. For more than a decade Irving ... Glare Living Earth Day on the High Line More than a billion people mark Earth Day. On New York's High Line, the Fluxus artist Alison Knowles celebrated it the b... The Poetry Bench Suggested by Olivia: Emily Dickinson, 'Fame is a Bee' “Fame is a bee. / It has a song — / It has a sting — / Ah, too, it has a wing.” In four lines Emily Dickinson ca... Empty Canvas Kat Bjelland Would Love It: Meadham Kirchhoff's Kinderwhore Revival Meadham Kirchhoff drew their broken-doll romance from Courtney Love. But the babydoll dress was Kat Bjelland's first —... Glare Living If Cameras Could Talk: The Agfa Clack Cheap, plastic, almost a toy — and still quietly beloved. The Agfa Clack is a 1950s box camera that turns 120 film int... Glare Living Louis Vuitton's Bicycle Polo Fixie, by Philippe Starck A fixed-gear bicycle built for the odd, elegant sport of bike polo — designed by Philippe Starck for Louis Vuitton, dr... Glare Living Car Lust: The 1971 Triumph Stag Drawn by Michelotti, powered by a bespoke V8, braced by that signature T-bar roll hoop — the 1971 Triumph Stag was mea... Premium Living The Art of the Accessory Two words for a personal style: comfy and vintage. Basics need not mean minimalism — the real self lives in the access... The Secret Screen Jess + Moss Two second cousins, one rural Kentucky summer, and the whole fragile architecture of adolescence. Clay Jeter's debut Jes... Glare Living Creme Cycles: Classic Looks, Quiet Modernity Found in a friend's attic: a pile of beautiful old bicycle parts, and the realisation of how little care goes into today... Glare Living Firenze & Fashion Shops lit until midnight, Palazzo Vecchio thrown open, aerial dancers and projected light over Piazza della Repubblica, ... The Secret Screen Robert Gumpert: A Storyteller in Black and White Police stations, jails, death row, the coded grammar of a convict's tattoos. Robert Gumpert doesn't take pictures so muc... Glare Living Knife & Saw's Bike Shelf: Storage as Furniture In cramped apartments in San Francisco and New York, bikes lean against bookshelves and clutter hallways. Chris Brigham'...