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Monday, May 18, 2026

Strong friendships provide emotional comfort, encouragement, and a sense of connection during both good and difficult times

Constant insults, humiliation, manipulation, or dismissive behavior can damage confidence and self-worth

Sharing your emotions and being vulnerable with someone takes both physical and emotional energy

Friends listen, understand feelings, and provide reassurance during stressful situations

Toxic friendships often create stress, anxiety, sadness, or emotional exhaustion

Three subtle signs your feelings are being dismissed

A therapist breaks down situations that seem harmless, but are not

Person wearing a Guy Fawkes mask with a flower tucked behind one ear

Economy & Politics

How media manufactures “the expert”

When influece replaces knowledge in the age of simulation

Windsor Castle viewed across the River Thames, reflecting England’s historic royal landscape, UK

Summer in Windsor: where history still lives

A reflective journey through Windsor’s royal landmarks, riverside charm, and timeless atmosphere

Weathered hands gliding across the oud’s strings, representing the preservation of Morocco’s musical memory

Raymond Allon and the soul of Shaabi

How Raymond Allon preserved Morocco’s folk traditions through music rooted in memory, storytelling, and cultural identity

On the Street

Close-up of ice cream cones with natural ingredients

Ice cream, the way we remember it

Less sugar, riper fruit, and the return of a thoughtful treat

Illustration by Paola Bilancieri

Don Quixote’ is still alive

Argentina's fighter for the unjust

The art of memory

The art of memory

A brief comparative history of mnemonics. Part One

Janet Stayton. Homage to Claude

Arcadia at Clare Hall, Cambridge

Halloween is coming...

Halloween costume ideas

What to wear this year

A hand touching the throat of a patient, symbolizing chronic illness, fatigue, exhaustion, and thyroid dysfunction

Science & Technology

Living between the lines

Medical gaslighting and the struggle for validation in chronic illness

Architecture & Design

A forgotten factory space with high ceilings and exposed framework, representing the potential for converting industry into habitation

Adaptive reuse in residential architecture

How repurposed buildings are addressing urban growth, cost, and environmental concerns

The Palais de la Porte Dorée is an exhibition hall located at 293 Avenue Daumesnil, on the edge of the Bois de Vincennes in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France

Art Deco: the geometry of prestige

A perspective on the spatial language of society

Art

Cover of the book Michelangelo and the dream of the Sistine Chapel co-authored by Valentina Ansuini and Jade Bajeot and Illustrated by Sabrina Gabrielli

Michelangelo and the Dream of the Sistine

An illustrated children’s book about Michelangelo and his challenging work in the Sistine Chapel

Artist Ellsworth Kelly recalls his first encounter with abstraction and reflects on how his decades-long fascination with line, form, and color shaped both his paintings and his creative process. This video was filmed shortly before his passing in 2015 by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA

Ellsworth Kelly: monumental space

Shaping perception and movement through color, form, and scale

Culture

The signing of landmark civil rights legislation in the 1960s marked a pivotal moment in U.S. civil rights history, one of Ramparts Magazine's concerns

Ramparts Magazine’s revolutionary rhetoric

Ramparts Magazine was both a product and purveyor of a revolutionary age

A digital painting of an old clock transforming into a melting form, in the surrealist style of Salvador Dalí

The mystery of time between illusion and reality

Do we really live in the present?

Economy & Politics

A lone soldier stands silhouetted against a burning, war-torn city, where conflict, power, and silence converge at the edge of collapse

The privatization of violence

Disaster capitalism, legal immunity, and the rise of corporate warfare in the post–cold war order

A family watches televised war coverage on the evening new

When war became a screen event

Baudrillard, the Gulf War, and the violence that returned home

Entertainment

As the opening track, “The Fate of Ophelia” marks the start of Taylor Swift’s twelfth studio album, The Life of a Showgirl

Rating Taylor Swift’s "The life of a showgirl"

A personal listening journey through love, growth, and surprise

An old-school arcade with iconic Sega machines, representing the resurgence of retro gaming as a modern passion

How old consoles became modern-day investments

Understanding how simplicity, rarity, and nostalgia drive today’s retro game prices

Fashion

People wearing white-themed shirts with slogans such as ‘No Planet B,’ representing sustainable fashion and eco-friendly clothing for the future

Regenerative fashion and the future of clothing

How soil, style, and communities can thrive together

McQueen Spring Summer 2026 explores subconscious desires as they surface, tracing a journey from longing to deliverance while surrendering to the raw power of nature

McQueen SS26: where ritual meets rebellion

Seán McGirr revives McQueen’s wild spirit with pagan theatrics and ultra-low silhouettes

Feature

She believed she was the heat, and as the heat, she felt everything ancient about it, and the primal knowledge that came with it

Death, life, and a return to imagination

A tale of fire thieves

A woman surrounded by layered foliage and quiet air, representing the slow, unseen shifts within identity

Becoming Alice: through the glasshouse

How a moment of confusion opens Alice to a more expansive understanding of who she can be

Food & Wine

Clouds over the vineyard-covered hills of Oltrepò Pavese, Italy

Barbacarlo: a cru, a conflict, a victory

How one vineyard reshaped the meaning of origin in Italian wine

Inside the chef’s counter kitchen at Saison in San Francisco, California, photographed on March 6, 2015

Noma and the cost of culinary excellence

As allegations against René Redzepi resurface, the fine dining world is forced to confront the human cost of perfection

Science & Technology

Avoid the damage of exposing your personal information online by understanding how phishing websites work and how to act when the problem appears

How to defend your data

Expert tips to identify phishing websites and prevent data theft

A man sits in quiet reflection as a symbolic parliament unfolds behind him—each figure representing the many voices, conflicts, and negotiations within the human mind

Governance within: the mind as a living parliament

Exploring the inner negotiations between emotion, reason, and self through psychology, engineering, and AI

Sport

Pensive, a young chess player competes against a chess software

Precision without pulse: playing chess against AIs

Chess has always been about one thing, and it is the human mind

A young boy gripping his bat with determination, reflecting the early spark of competitive spirit

The $50,000 child: when youth sport became a luxury

How rising costs, elite programs, and parental pressure have transformed youth sport into an expensive pursuit

Travel

A woman drifting through Ely Lake, Minnesota beneath the fading Minnesota sky, reflecting the deep connection between nature, solitude, and healing

Across the north star: a Minnesota journey

Lessons of humanity, aging, and hope from the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes

Coastal views in the Algarve, Portugal, where cliffs meet the Atlantic Ocean

Europe’s small countries with big adventures

Cyprus, Albania, Portugal, and Ireland prove you don’t need to choose between coastlines and peaks

Wellness

A sweet couple standing by the water at sunset, sharing a peaceful moment together

Strong at sixty: choosing vitality over decline

How health, purpose, connection, and resilience shape independence, happiness, and long-term well-being in later life

A chessboard with a pawn wearing a king’s crown, symbolizing growth, perseverance, and the journey to success

The warrior’s mindset for lasting success

Discipline, enthusiasm, and patience on the path of self-mastery

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Sokari Douglas Camp, Free west indian dominicans (detail), 2025. Courtesy of October Gallery

Fashion and fortune

21 May — 27 Jun 2026 at the October Gallery in London, United Kingdom

Koyama Atsuko 小山厚子, Platter with oribe glaze over bizen clay, 2024. Courtesy of Dai Ichi Arts

21 May — 4 Jun 2026 at Dai Ichi Arts in New York, United States

Joan Miró, Femme, oiseaux (detail), 1977. Courtesy of Opera Gallery

Regards sur l’art espagnol, 1945–2025

22 May — 17 Jun 2026 at the Opera Gallery in Paris, France

The vinyl factory: reverb, exhibition view. Courtesy of ACMI

The vinyl factory: reverb

22 May — 31 Aug 2026 at the ACMI in Melbourne, Australia

Frank DePietro, Water lilies number sixty-two (detail), 2022. Courtesy of Carrie Haddad Gallery

Between here and home

22 May — 12 Jul 2026 at Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, United States

Spatial poems. Courtesy of MASS MoCA

23 May 2026 — 27 Apr 2027 at the MASS MoCA in North Adams, United States

Joana Vasconcelos, Gestalt, 2017. Courtesy of Museo Picasso Málaga

Joana Vasconcelos. Transfiguration

28 May — 26 Sep 2026 at the Museo Picasso Málaga in Málaga, Spain

Alfredo Jaar, The end (GSL_a) (detail), 2025. Courtesy of MoCP

Prix pictet storm

29 May — 22 Aug 2026 at the MoCP in Chicago, United States

Isabel Parra, Fish #10 (detail), 2025 - 2026. Courtesy of Sin Sin Fine Art

Between symbiosis and extinction

29 May — 30 Jun 2026 at the Sin Sin Fine Art in Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Wendy McMurdo, Young Girl (iv) (detail), 2016. Courtesy of National Galleries of Scotland

The digital mirror

30 May — 25 Oct 2026 at the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Feng Xiao-Min, Composition n° 5, 4 (detail), 2026. Courtesy of Opera Gallery

Pieter Obels and Feng Xiao-Min's exhibition

4 Jun — 5 Jul 2026 at the Opera Gallery in London, United Kingdom

Sean Cham, 301 Chinese boy on duty (detail). Courtesy of Foam

Foam Talent 2026

5 Jun — 28 Aug 2026 at the Foam in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Brigitte Lustenberger, Prologue of an elegy, 2019. Courtesy of Museum Franz Gertsch

A gaze of one’s own

13 Jun — 30 Aug 2026 at the Museum Franz Gertsch in Burgdorf, Switzerland

©Hannah Reyes Morales. Courtesy of Photo Elysée

Inferno & paradiso

26 Jun — 1 Nov 2026 at the Photo Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland

Hannah Darabi, How to marry a millionaire, "Mahvashs book of pleasure" (detail), 2024. Courtesy of Photo Elysée

Why don’t you dance?

26 Jun — 1 Nov 2026 at the Photo Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland

Keerthana Kunnath, Not what you saw. Courtesy of Foam

Not what you saw

18 Sep — 27 Nov 2026 at the Foam in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Franz Gertsch, Patti Smith I (detail), 1978. Courtesy of Museum Franz Gertsch

Franz Gertsch. Blow-up (Part II)

19 Sep 2026 — 28 Feb 2027 at the Museum Franz Gertsch in Burgdorf, Switzerland

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