Here’s a new answer to the old question ‘why is there something rather than nothing?’ (It’s neither simple nor easy) ...

A wayfaring cosmopolitan who never gets stuck, the dilettante is the right anti-hero for our hyper-specialised age ...

Wherever people are confined, displaced, silenced or made disposable, fugitive forms of knowledge and imagination emerge ...

In the summer of 1646 the idea of equality gained new and profound depths. We are still catching up with the consequences ...

Goats everywhere! Three-hour handstands! Magical doorknobs! Discover a whole new way of looking at a Cubist masterpiece ...

A strange man arriving on camelback – the artist Nora Abbott animates her grandfather’s story of a prospector’s last ride ...

Ancient specimens reveal how animals began to move half a billion years ago – and even the first known example of ‘handedness’ ...

Grief is not only for the dead. When we are unable to honour other profound losses, we become strangers to ourselves ...

From Colombia to Syria, I’ve seen that capitalist logic can’t help to rebuild postwar countries but cooperatives can ...

A very modern conception of womanhood: in the Jazz Age paintings of Tamara de Lempicka, women were bold, free and stylish ...

In his short documentary Their Eyes, the French filmmaker Nicolas Gourault spotlights the voices of several of these ...

Serving as living metaphors, an artist’s self-contained miniature worlds show us the wondrous and fragile beauty of our ...