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Friday, October 9, 2026
Modern buildings rising across Nairobi, symbolising the economic opportunities created by Kenya’s digital transformation
A man focused on his phone, reflecting how mobile technology has become an essential financial tool
A view of Nairobi’s bustling urban landscape, representing the economic environment in which mobile finance took root
Nairobi’s towers standing above the city, reflecting the growth of a digital economy built around greater financial access
A man checking his phone while outside, symbolising the convenience of managing money digitally
Economy & Politics
How Kenya put a bank in everyone’s pocket
What started as a local solution became a worldwide blueprint for financial inclusion, transforming how billions send, save, and spend money
Thousands of passengers moving through a crowded transit hub, symbolizing the scale of modern urban life and the importance of accessible public transportation
Economy & Politics
Beyond the market: who is really running the show?
How health, education, information, money, natural resources, and infrastructure raise difficult questions about private power and public responsibility
A trail by Still Creek at Renfrew Ravine Park, representing the resilience of nature within an urban landscape
Feature
Still Creek when it rains
Renfrew Ravine, bastion of urban solace
Ali Haider is an Emirati designer whose Dubai-based streetwear label, TRAPWRLD, explores the relationship between cultural heritage and contemporary identity
Fashion
TRAPWRLD and the shape of Emirati identity
Dubai streetwear brings heritage into a global visual language

On the Street

A couple in their bedroom sharing a moment of intimacy, a reminder that affection, legality and consent must go hand in hand
Culture
Age of consent
A global and historical examination of sexual consent laws
Ned Fulmer and Ariel Fulmer appeared together on the podcast Rock Bottom With Ned Fulmer
Entertainment
The Try Guys affair that broke the internet
Ariel Fulmer cannot Forgive Ned Fulmer’s cheating scandal
Torre Arcobaleno
Architecture & Design
The restoration of Torre Arcobaleno
A gift to Milan and to the visitors of Expo 2015
Turquoise and Gold, Sutomore Bay, Montenegro (2022), oil on board, 27.5 × 36 cm. © Barry John Raybould
Art
The Virtual Art Academy and modern art education
A personal journey that evolved into a comprehensive online approach to teaching painting
I had forgotten the taste and voluminous quantity of the average American cuisine
Food & Beverage
The gavage of the America dream
All self-inflicted by the agri-industrial corporate system
A man holding a credit card in front of his laptop
Sport
The struggle of sports betting addiction
Steven Delaney reveals the darker side of the online gambling surge

Architecture & Design

Night view of a busy street in Shinjuku, Tokyo, illuminated by vibrant neon signs and crowds of pedestrians, Japan
The semiotics of visual culture
Signs, symbols, branding, and digital media in the construction of modern meaning
Normann Copenhagen design furniture displayed in an exhibition
Tom Dixon and the art of creative salvage
Punk attitude, recycled materials, and improvisation shaping British design in the 1980s

Art

Phyllida Barlow, untitled: stackedchairs (detail), 2014, timber, plywood, cement, paint, sand, PVA, varnish, 150 x 640 x 455 cm / 59 x 252 x 179 1/8 inches, © Phyllida Barlow Estate. Courtesy of the Phyllida Barlow Estate and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Alex Delfanne
Phyllida Barlow and Daisy Parris at Wolterton Hall
Two contrasting contemporary exhibitions explore materiality, emotion, and artistic intervention within a historic Palladian setting
Hasegawa Tōhaku’s Pine Trees (Shōrin-zu byōbu), left-hand screen, a celebrated Japanese ink painting from the late 16th century
The human mind and the power of art
What neuroscience and psychology can reveal about aesthetic experience

Culture

Khan Younis Vegetable Garden at Full Moon, watercolour, 16 × 12 centimetres, Mark Weighton, 2026
Art, science, and the creative ape
The human imperative to pattern chaos and communicate meaning
Indian moulders at work under the supervision of a colonial official near Qutb Minar, 1856. Courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
The colonial invention of the Indo-Greek civilisation
James Prinsep, archaeology, and the politics of knowledge in British India

Economy & Politics

A wildfire consuming a once-living tree, symbolizing the escalating environmental toll of climate change
Making polluters pay
Will the oil industry be forced to pay for climate damages?  The jury is still out
A mother entrusting her child to a household caregiver, representing the changing structure of childcare in modern African homes
Finding balance in the modern African home
How paid household help is changing family dynamics, gender roles, and cultural inheritance

Entertainment

A performer posing with rap-culture attitude, illustrating how cultural borders fade in the current world
What Rema, Nasty C, and amapiano show about cultural mixing
Why global culture makes it harder to tell who’s copying whom
A bustling Tokyo district surrounded by towering anime billboards and media advertisements, symbolising the cultural prominence anime and manga have achieved in Japan and beyond
The cultural export of anime and manga
How anime and manga emerged from a web of cultural influences and became global forms of storytelling

Fashion

Ami Paris Spring/Summer 2026 collection presented by Alexandre Mattiussi at Paris Fashion Week
AMI Paris and the power of quiet luxury
How Alexandre Mattiussi built a global fashion brand through authenticity, wearability, and human connection
Empress Eugénie Surrounded by her Ladies in Waiting is an oil on canvas painting by the German artist Franz Xaver Winterhalter completed in 1855
The past and present of fashion
Understanding how trends evolve while expression remains constant

Feature

A herd of horses moving together across an open landscape, representing the long journeys through which cultures, people, and traditions take root
What an argument about horses taught me
A piece about perspective, cultural memory, and why we often argue from different truths
This mosaic depicting astronaut Yuri Gagarin (St. Petersburg, Russia) captures a grand scene in the Cold War drama, linking global history to our personal journeys
When the Cold War cooled down
A love that got frozen in time amidst one of the greatest tensions of the 20th century

Food & Beverage

Street vendor preparing and serving masala chai in Jaipur, India
India and the art of the tea break
Why chai matters far beyond the cup itself
A Pakistani family gathers around the table to enjoy dinner together
The distance between two kitchens
Food, memory, and belonging between Pakistan and Türkiye

Science & Technology

A solitary moment of reflection above the city, where stillness and self awareness rise above the noise of a fast moving world
Emotional clarity in the age of automation
Why understanding ourselves may become the most valuable human skill in a machine driven world
The James Webb Space Telescope, designed to explore the universe through infrared astronomy
Can we ever find life elsewhere?
Exploring the scientific search for life beyond Earth and habitable worlds

Sport

The FIFA World Cup is an international football tournament contested by the senior men’s national teams of the member associations of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport’s global governing body
Sport is war minus the killing
Sportswashing: the ongoing relationship between sport and power
Driven by this unique talent, he maintained decades of world-class performance while remaining an extraordinarily humble legend. Illustration by Paola Bilancieri
Lionel Messi and the dog who played football
Overcoming a childhood growth deficiency and isolation in Barcelona, Messi rose through sheer resilience and an innate, childlike focus on the ball

Travel

Traditional Chinese fishing nets against the evening sky in Kochi, Kerala, representing the city’s centuries-old connection to maritime trade and fishing
How Kerala changed my understanding of India
A personal journey through Kerala's traditions, spirituality, hospitality, nature, and remarkable cultural diversity
A bird's eye view of the Milos Island in the Aegean sea, symbolizing the transformation of Milos into an increasingly sophisticated island escape
Why Milos may be Greece’s next luxury island
The volcanic island is drawing a new generation of travelers while preserving the character that made it special

Wellness

A husband and wife lie back-to-back in bed, each absorbed in scrolling through their phone
The invisible exhaustion of modern life
Why are people always tired and unable to truly rest?
A man and woman facing away, the broken heart highlighting how fear of judgment complicates modern relationships
Have we become averse to romance?
How love seems fake in a world of detachment
Discover our authors
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William Becker
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Ezza Rathore
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I Wu
I Wu
Martha R. Bireda
Martha R. Bireda
Nour Fersi
Nour Fersi
Wolf Schäfer
Wolf Schäfer
César Chelala
César Chelala
Emanuela Borgatta Dunnett
Emanuela Borgatta Dunnett
Ladislau Dowbor
Ladislau Dowbor
Greg Styan
Greg Styan

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Mark Bowles, As the sun rises (detail), 2026. Courtesy of Canyon Road Contemporary Art
Mesa skies
9 — 18 Oct 2026 at Canyon Road Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, United States
Hendrick Avercamp, Ice scene (detail), ca. 1610. Courtesy of Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
Thyssen-Bornemisza. Mauritshuis
9 Oct 2026 — 10 Jan 2027 at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, Spain
David Novros, exhibition view. Courtesy of Hamburger Kunsthalle
David Novros' exhibition
9 Oct 2026 — 21 Feb 2027 at the Hamburger Kunsthalle in Hamburg, Germany
Barbara Takenaga, Round trip time (detail), 2024. Courtesy of Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Barbara Takenaga: awestruck
9 Oct 2026 — 11 Apr 2027 at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, United States
Joseph Cohen, Proposition 533 (detail). Courtesy of Friedrichs Pontone
To be here
9 Oct — 14 Nov 2026 at Friedrichs Pontone in New York, United States
Solange Pessoa, Metaflor-Metaflora (detail), 2005-2012. Courtesy of Centro Botín
Solange Pessoa: of day or night
10 Oct 2026 — 28 Mar 2027 at the Centro Botín in Santander, Spain
Marcel Duchamp, The chess game (detail), 1910. Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Marcel Duchamp's exhibition
10 Oct 2026 — 31 Jan 2027 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, United States
Harley-Davidson, The spirit of freedom. Courtesy of Erarta Museum
Harley-Davidson. The spirit of freedom
10 Oct 2026 — 24 Jan 2027 at the Erarta Museum in St Petersburg, Russia
Sarah Ferguson, Emerald fog (detail), 2026. Courtesy of Wally Workman Gallery
Carte blanche
10 Oct — 1 Nov 2026 at the Wally Workman Gallery in Austin, United States
Rammy Narula, For my grandmother. Courtesy of Kathmandu Photo Gallery
For my grandmother
10 Oct — 28 Nov 2026 at the Kathmandu Photo Gallery in Bangkok, Thailand
Joseph Inguimberty, The hammock, c. 1938. Courtesy of de Sarthe Gallery
Echoes of Tonkin: Vietnamese modern art
10 Oct — 21 Nov 2026 at de Sarthe Gallery in Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Mitchell F. Chan, Daddy's home. Courtesy of de Sarthe Gallery
Worker’s playtime
10 Oct — 21 Nov 2026 at de Sarthe Gallery in Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Cara Barer, Chromatic notes (detail), 2026. Courtesy of Catherine Couturier Gallery
Cara Barer: camera work
10 Oct — 28 Nov 2026 at the Catherine Couturier Gallery in Houston, United States
Ben Ashton, Portrait of a lady (detail), 2025. Courtesy of Dorothy Circus Gallery
May we live in impossible times
10 Oct — 21 Nov 2026 at the Dorothy Circus Gallery in London, United Kingdom
Christian Boltanski, Menschlich (detail), 1994. Courtesy of Bundeskunsthalle
Never again!
11 Oct 2026 — 2 May 2027 at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn, Germany
Rosalind Nashashibi, Not yet titled (detail), 2026. Courtesy of GRIMM
Gaza Apollo
13 Oct — 21 Nov 2026 at GRIMM in London, United Kingdom
Onihira Keiji, Box with design in Maki-e “Travel to the moon", 2023. Courtesy of Onishi Gallery
Across the sea
15 Oct — 22 Dec 2026 at the Onishi Gallery in New York, United States
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