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Monday, August 3, 2026
Jeff Koons during a major retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France
Damien Hirst’s The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991) presents a tiger shark suspended in formaldehyde, turning mortality into a stark and unsettling spectacle
Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirror Room, The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away (2013)
Jeff Koons, Balloon Dog (Orange) (1994–2000)
Damien Hirst’s Mother and Child Divided (1993), shown here in detail, combines glass, painted steel, silicone, acrylic, monofilament, stainless steel, and formaldehyde solution to present a cow and calf divided into sections, unsettling the viewer with its stark meditation on life, death, and fragmentation
Art
Come and have a go if you think you’re art enough
From Beuys to Cattelan, this essay explores why the question “Is it art?” says less about the artwork than about our need for certainty
The Morning Show examines the complex world of morning broadcasting and the people who bring it to life each day. Starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon
Entertainment
Behind the bright lights of "The Morning Show"
A look at the unseen routines and pressures that keep America’s morning broadcasts alive
A little girl lies on the street beside a statue in Bratislava, Slovakia
Travel
The quiet beauty of Slovakia
Where nature, history, and human connection shape everyday life
Travellers gathered around a glowing campfire, representing the human desire to find connection through shared experiences
Travel
The rise of the community-seeking solo traveller
How co-living spaces, retreats, and travel apps are helping strangers become companions

On the Street

A heartbroken man, looking through the window on a rainy day, waiting for his lover to come back home
Feature
Running to you
We don't always get what we want
In the quiet moments of despair, it's hard to distinguish between a passing thought and a deeper, more persistent feeling
Wellness
Understanding suicidal ideation: insights and risk factors
Exploring the complex nature of suicidal thoughts and their impact on mental health
All is connected: also fashion and society
Fashion
Fashion Designer's impact on Modern Society
How far is too far away?
AI art generated by the author using DALL.E3
Science & Technology
Navigating aging: from animal models to AI breakthroughs
Unveiling the frontiers: longevity research and breakthroughs in anti-aging interventions for a healthier future
Fez, the Old City
Culture
Fez, the cultural and spiritual capital
A magnet for travelers, students and traders
Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord is a sprawling state park located in Duisburg, Germany, offering a unique blend of industrial heritage and natural beauty
Economy & Politics
Ecological renewal in the Ruhr
Lessons from ecosystem management in a post-industrial landscape

Architecture & Design

Fondation Louis Vuitton, a contemporary art museum and cultural centre sponsored by LVMH, Paris, France
A trio of contemporary art temples defining modern Paris
Luxury fashion patronage, visionary architecture and private collections reshape Paris's cultural landscape
Zurich, Switzerland city view featuring Fraumünster Church, Zunfthaus zur Meisen, Münsterbrücke Bridge, and St. Peter Church in the historic Old Town skyline
Chagall’s Fraumünster: where light becomes memory
In Zurich’s quiet church, stained glass transforms biblical stories into an intimate experience of light, loss, and spiritual presence

Art

Michael Joo's Concatenations (1991/2026) is a large-scale mixed-media installation measuring 513.1 × 412.8 × 289.6 cm (202 × 162½ × 114 in). Characteristic of Joo's interdisciplinary practice, the work brings together diverse materials and conceptual references to explore connections between nature, culture, history, and systems of knowledge. Courtesy of the artist and Kukje Gallery. Photograph by Genevieve Hanson
Directionless and the art of uncertainty
At Hauser & Wirth Menorca, Rashid Johnson explores disorientation as a creative force in contemporary life
Installation view from the “Art of Manga” exhibition at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, featuring works from Hirohiko Araki’s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure series. The exhibition showcases hundreds of original drawings and large-scale installations by major Japanese manga artists from the 1970s to the present, including Eiichiro Oda (One Piece), Junji Ito, and Tite Kubo (Bleach). Araki’s featured artwork includes life-sized characters and their Stands, designed to align with viewers’ eye levels for an immersive experience, highlighting manga as a recognized art form in a museum setting. Photo: © İdil Burkutoğlu
Hirohiko Araki and color without rules
Rethinking identity, composition, and expression in "JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure"

Culture

Cozy vintage bookshop overflowing with books, antiques, and nostalgic décor
Iucu in Pavia: the bookshop built from memory
Inside an analogue refuge filled with reclaimed objects, rare books, and slow human connection
A solitary figure stands at a crossroads between industry, nature, and an open horizon, symbolizing the human search for direction between pleasure, power, and meaning
The three architectures of human motivation
How pleasure stabilizes survival, power expands capability, and meaning sustains subject autonomy

Economy & Politics

Overcrowded conditions inside a public hospital in Cairo, reflecting the strain on Egypt’s healthcare system
Riham Assem: a life lost, a system questioned
What her death reveals about administrative failure, healthcare reform, and the limits of digitization in Egypt
A friend group listening and responding with genuine interest, reflecting how dialogue encourages trust and cooperation
The quiet logic of negotiation in everyday life
Why dialogue, compromise, and listening are the foundations of both personal relationships and global negotiations

Entertainment

A corkboard displaying a chaotic arrangement of potential evidence – photographs, text fragments, and connections made with red string – visually encapsulates the intricate and often perplexing nature of true crime stories that captivate consumers
Does true crime empower awareness or glorify suffering?
Unraveling the impact of true crime consumption
Geralt of Rivia, a mutated monster hunter, struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts
The return of the monster boyfriend
Why romance returns to vampires, assassins, and stitched men—and what our desire for danger reveals

Fashion

The Ladies Waldegrave is a group portrait painted by Joshua Reynolds between 1780 and 1781, now housed in the Scottish National Gallery, which acquired the painting in 1952. The work depicts the three daughters of James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, and Maria Walpole. From left to right, they are Charlotte, holding a skein of silk; Elizabeth, winding Charlotte’s silk onto a card; and Anna, producing tambour lace
The art of being ornamental
Rococo fashion, hyper-femininity, and the politics of spectacle in 18th-century aristocratic culture
Donatella Versace in an intricately embellished ensemble, symbolizing the luxury and theatrical elegance of the Versace house
Donatella Versace: the woman who turned glamour into power
How a fearless creative mind reshaped luxury fashion for a new era 

Feature

The roar of the tides: a powerful ocean wave curls and crashes, its deep blue waters shimmering under the light, reflecting both motion and depth, mirroring the ever-changing currents of thought and emotion
Racing the tide
A collection of poems and verses dedicated to all things blue and jade
An elderly woman sits alone in a hospital room, holding her head in her hand
Inheritance of hate between a mother and son
A final confrontation between a mother and son reveals how love, hatred, and memory can exist side by side

Food & Wine

Lobster tail prepared as a premium culinary experience, symbolising the social prestige attached to certain foods
Food trends and the rising cost of common produce
How social media, celebrity culture, and consumer demand reshape the economics of everyday ingredients
Woman holding a tablet and making a surprised face while looking at a table full of vegetables
Eating in the age of social media
From viral diet trends to online wellness communities, how digital platforms are reshaping our relationship with food and health

Science & Technology

A person holding a COVID-19 vaccine syringe, representing the global struggle between prevention and panic
A shot to survive or a shot to live?
Understanding vaccine phobia in a post-COVID world
AI agents gather in a self-created digital ritual, reflecting humanity’s beliefs, fears, and search for meaning in the age of intelligent machines
The church of Molt and AI belief
Exploring AI religion, consciousness, and human reflection

Sport

Soccer player Ghiggia (Uruguay) scores a goal that silences a whole nation. Illustration by Paola Bilancieri
1950 FIFA World Cup: the silence at the Maracanã
Brazil strikes first but Uruguay’s captain rewrites the script
The simple yet vital role of food in athletic preparation highlights how nutrition, even in seemingly small details, can be "game-changing" in high-performance sports
How elite athletes' diets transformed performance
From Olympic records to NBA championships, the revolutionary diet changes that made athletic history

Travel

Passports of Wikimania delegates from 11 different countries, reflecting global diversity in mobility and access
Your passport decides your freedom
How global visa systems trap millions and turn birthplace into a lifelong barrier
Roatán sits along the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef, the second-largest reef system in the world
The jewel of Honduras: Roatán
The largest of the Bay Islands, famous for its turquoise waters, coral reefs, and relaxed tropical atmosphere

Wellness

When we are humble, our words will be silent, even if we speak, and they will make sense and have to do with love, the Ancient song of all time
The finding: Moving beyond to find true human connection
Suddenly, we know each other, and our lives intersect
A quiet moment of reflection — when the mind drifts back to the one thing that lingered longer than the rest of the day
Why one bad moment steals the whole day
Understanding the brain’s bias toward negativity, and how perspective can quietly restore balance
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Michelle Frank
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Thiago Freire
Thiago Freire
Scott Segura
Scott Segura
Sidrah Hakim
Sidrah Hakim
Arslan Mirza
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Vadiraj Bengeri
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Maria Leonard Olsen
Maria Leonard Olsen
Chivumnovu Ogbonda
Chivumnovu Ogbonda
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Wolf Schäfer

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Ines Katamso, Hyphaeahpyh 5 (detail), 2026. Courtesy of the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf
The places we carry
6 — 30 Aug 2026 at Sullivan+Strumpf in Sydney, Australia
W. Max Thomason, Do you ever feel everything you have could disappear in an instant (detail), 2026. Courtesy of Pulse Visual Arts
Falling away from prime
7 Aug — 27 Sep 2026 at Pulse Visual Art in Denver, United States
Sharon Booma, The oil of gladness (detail), 2026. Courtesy of LewAllen Galleries
The unsaid thought
7 Aug — 5 Sep 2026 at the LewAllen Galleries in Santa Fe, United States
Catherine Opie, Flipper, Tanya, Chloe & Harriet, San Francisco, 1995 © Catherine Opie. Courtesy of the artist, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, London, and Seoul, and Thomas Dane Ga
To be seen
8 Aug — 1 Nov 2026 at the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Lara Merrett, Ripple (detail), 2025. Courtesy of the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf
Stilling
20 Aug — 12 Sep 2026 at Sullivan+Strumpf in Sydney, Australia
Michael Mazur, Wakeby evening memory (detail), 1985. Courtesy of the Schoolhouse Gallery
Wakeby island
24 — 11 Aug 2026 at The Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, United States
Gregory Hodge, Overgrowth (detail), 2026. Courtesy of the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf
Shimmer
27 Aug — 26 Sep 2026 at Sullivan+Strumpf in Sydney, Australia
Billy Schenck, Gratuitous violence (detail). Courtesy of JoAnne Artman Gallery
Technicolor west
1 Sep — 31 Oct 2026 at the JoAnne Artman Gallery in Laguna Beach, United States
Ali Cherri, still from The sentinel (detail), 2026. Courtesy the artist and Almine Rech Gallery
Soul witness
5 Sep 2026 — 4 Jan 2027 at WIELS in Brussels, Belgium
Ellen Bradshaw, Spring fever, 10th Ave and 25th Sta (detail). Courtesy of Pleiades Gallery
Every street has a story
8 Sep — 3 Oct 2026 at the Pleiades Gallery in New York, United States
Irfan Hendrian, C===Ɔ, 2026. Courtesy of the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf
Residuum
10 Sep — 31 Oct 2026 at Sullivan+Strumpf in Singapore, Singapore
Various artists, Celebrating the icons of art, exhibition view. Courtesy of Voorlinden Museum
Celebrating the icons of art
12 Sep 2026 — 7 Mar 2027 at the Voorlinden Museum in Wassenaar, Netherlands
Life in color and form. Courtesy of Millesgården Museum
Life in color and form
12 Sep 2026 — 29 Mar 2027 at the Millesgården Museum in Lidingö, Sweden
Garry Winogrand, World’s fair (detail), New York City, 1964 (printed 1981). Gelatin silver print, 11× 14 in. (27.9×35.6 cm). Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Gift of James, Class of 1980 and Georganne Garfinkel. © The Estate of Garry Winogrand, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Storytelling: photographers making meaning (...)
12 Sep 2026 — 12 Jun 2027 at the Wellin Museum of Art in Clinton, United States
Trompe-l’oeil knowledge, Korea (18th-20th century), exhibition view. Courtesy of Musée Guimet
Trompe-l’oeil knowledge, Korea (18th-20th century)
16 Sep 2026 — 4 Jan 2027 at the Musée Guimet in Paris, France
Elliott Hundley, Umbrella (detail), 2026. Courtesy of Regen Projects
Book of sand
16 Sep — 24 Oct 2026 at the Regen Projects in Los Angeles, United States
Keerthana Kunnath, Not what you saw. Courtesy of Foam
Not what you saw
18 Sep — 27 Nov 2026 at the Foam in Amsterdam, Netherlands
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