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Tuesday, July 28, 2026
Fraumünster church inside view Zurich Switzerland, stained glass interior, European landmark
Chagall blue stained glass window, Fraumünster church Zurich Switzerland, Christian religious art, Catholic heritage landmark, European church mosaic, blue light interior
Zurich, Switzerland city view featuring Fraumünster Church, Zunfthaus zur Meisen, Münsterbrücke Bridge, and St. Peter Church in the historic Old Town skyline
Fraumünster interior Zurich Switzerland, church nave, stained glass windows, historic religious architecture
Chagall stained glass windows Fraumünster Zurich Switzerland, blue church light, Christian sacred art, European religious landmark
Architecture & Design
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
Soccer player Ghiggia (Uruguay) scores a goal that silences a whole nation. Illustration by Paola Bilancieri
Sport
1950 FIFA World Cup: the silence at the Maracanã
Brazil strikes first but Uruguay’s captain rewrites the script
A person from Abkhazia holding the Apsny (Abkhaz) flag
Economy & Politics
When the lights go out in Sokhumi
Abkhazia’s fragile sovereignty and the power politics of dependence on Russia
Friends walking together along a walkable city street, capturing a realistic moment of everyday pedestrian life
Architecture & Design
Smart cities, human minds
Why the future of urban planning depends on integrating AI with cognitive and emotional design principles

On the Street

In 2018, Hurricane Florence was photographed from the International Space Station, revealing the eye, eyewall, and surrounding rainbands that define tropical cyclones
Science & Technology
When warnings become wounds
Media’s impact on mental health ahead of Cyclone ‘Remal’
Gratitude
Wellness
Gratitude Treasure Hunt
Enjoy your Summer holiday!
Byblos. Lebanon
Travel
Summer in Byblos
An ancient city booming with life
Kepa Garraza (2013), BBC News, July 2013, Gouache on paper, 49 x 72 cm
Art
The end of the world as you know it
A talk with Kepa Garraza
Kristen Ritter in Jessica Jones
Entertainment
Jessica Jones
The newest TV series
Unknown English artist Armada Portrait (1588)
Culture
The allure of strong women: the beauty
The changing shapes of feminine aesthetics

Architecture & Design

Mere aesthetics is the past. Architectural priorities now merge durability, sustainability, and design
How material selection shapes architectural finishes
The next generation's design for durability
Rotterdam Centraal station is the main railway hub of Rotterdam, serving an average of 100,000 passengers each day. The current station building, located at Stationsplein, was officially inaugurated on 13 March 2014 by Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
Rotterdam: Europe’s city of the future
Architecture, industry, and innovation in the Netherlands’ most modern metropolis

Art

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"
Entangled roots and floating forms, solo exhibition, 2026. Courtesy of the artist
Yilin Rebecca Sun on Vessel
The artist and curator reflects on clay, collaboration, and the connections that shape our shared future

Culture

Black and white image of the crucifix in Carmona, AL, Spain
The ache that leads us home
Rediscovering God’s presence in longing, wounds, and the journey of return
Khirokitia, whose name is thought to mean “Pig Cradle,” is a Neolithic archaeological site on the island of Cyprus that has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1998
Khirokitia: the first circle of humanity
Community, memory, creativity, belonging

Economy & Politics

A family bound by history, love, and resilience, representing the spirit that transforms generations into a legacy of greatness
The future is black
How Black history, resilience, and innovation continue to shape a future built on excellence and possibility
Plastic pollution activist holding a protest sign during a climate change demonstration
Cascading failures in a shared system
How climate breakdown, conflict, and weakened cooperation are derailing the Sustainable Development Goals

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

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 
Woman repairing a pair of jeans using traditional visible mending techniques
The repair economy and fashion's next chapter
How care, craftsmanship, and new regulations are reshaping the future of consumption

Feature

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
Horseshoe crabs resting together against the evening tide, representing inseparable bonds shaped by love
Bounding love
A moving story about relationships, choices, and the hope that it is never too late to return home

Food & Wine

A brunette woman stands in the kitchen surrounded by healthy food
The only diet that ever worked for me
Simplifying food, breaking the cycle, and choosing habits over hype
A woman holding a slice of pizza while working at her computer at home
Girl dinner, but make it class-conscious
On survival meals, 9-to-5 fatigue, and why meal-prepping doesn’t have to cost your will to live

Science & Technology

A diverse team of experts collaborates to design a human-centered AI framework, prioritizing transparency, data ethics, and sustainability for a safer digital future
The ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Understanding bias, responsibility, and the human impact of emerging technologies
Two young children sit side by side at home, absorbed in their digital devices, reflecting how screens have become a central part of modern childhood and daily development
Between the real and the reel
Exploring the neurological impact of screen time and the search for balance in modern childhood

Sport

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
Women athletes running in a daytime race as fans cheer from the stadium
The gender pay gap in sports and the direction it can head
Why women’s sports are still undervalued and how equality in pay and coverage is finally within reach

Travel

Crowds of tourists exploring the seafood night market in Keelung, Taiwan
The curious traveler’s survival guide
Street food, local customs, and the scams every traveler should know about
World' largest trident(Tirshul) located at Dharapani, Pandweshor Mahadev Temple, Dang Nepal
Finding stillness in Dharapani
A slow journey through village life in Dang, Nepal

Wellness

A cyclist enjoying a peaceful ride beneath the evening sun, representing how simple outdoor activities contribute to lasting fitness
Small moves, big results: snack-size fitness for summer
How short bursts of movement can keep you active, healthy, and energized all summer long
Caught between silence and selfhood, the hidden weight of identity concealment can transform loneliness into a lifelong psychological burden
The psychological architecture of self-deception
Self-deception, minority stress, and the cognitive burden of concealing sexual identity within heteronormative social structures
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Calosha Gomes
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Setareh Tavakkoli
Patrizia Poggi
Patrizia Poggi
Martha R. Bireda
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M. Timothy Mounce
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Wolf Schäfer
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Francine S. R. Mestrum
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Mike Saijo, Trees of Redondo beach 2 (detail), 2026. Courtesy of bG Gallery
The great escape
28 Jul — 10 Aug 2026 at the bG Gallery in Santa Monica, United States
Jivan Lee, Quartzite. Morning (detail), 2026. Courtesy of LewAllen Galleries
Multitudes
31 Jul — 12 Sep 2026 at the LewAllen Galleries in Santa Fe, United States
Rohit Varekar, Floting house, 2026. Courtesy of Sakshi Gallery
Sites of passage
31 Jul — 22 Aug 2026 at the Sakshi Gallery in Mumbai, India
Farah Billah, The table, with friends (detail), 2026. Courtesy of Ogden Museum of Southern Art
Louisiana contemporary
1 Aug 2026 — 14 Feb 2027 at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, United States
Gwen John, Girl with a blue scarf (detail), c.1923. Courtesy of National Galleries Scotland
Gwen John: strange beauties
1 Aug 2026 — 4 Jan 2027 at the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Lance Myers, Breathless and on again (detail). Courtesy of Wally Workman Gallery
As we unmagic the self
1 Aug — 6 Sep 2026 at the Wally Workman Gallery in Austin, United States
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
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
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