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Wednesday, July 29, 2026

A welcoming handshake exchanged across the room, reflecting how diplomacy often begins with simple gestures of goodwill

Two people expressing opposing viewpoints face-to-face, reflecting the challenges of managing differences through conversation

A friend group listening and responding with genuine interest, reflecting how dialogue encourages trust and cooperation

A professional handshake marking the start of a constructive conversation, representing the value of dialogue in building trust and cooperation

Two women engaged in an animated discussion, representing the importance of dialogue in resolving everyday disagreements

Economy & Politics

The quiet logic of negotiation in everyday life

Why dialogue, compromise, and listening are the foundations of both personal relationships and global negotiations

Fondation Louis Vuitton, a contemporary art museum and cultural centre sponsored by LVMH, Paris, France

Architecture & Design

A trio of contemporary art temples defining modern Paris

Luxury fashion patronage, visionary architecture and private collections reshape Paris's cultural landscape

Teenager viewed from behind gazing at planet Earth from outer space

Economy & Politics

Where is everyone?

Fermi's paradox, existential risks, and the struggle to defend life in an age of recolonization

A woman incorporating skincare into her morning routine, representing the first line of defense against premature skin aging

The skin habits that matter more than expensive creams

Youthful skin is usually built through daily protection, barrier care, and patience, not through miracle products

On the Street

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

Drawing on old Hollywood glamour and the showgirl as a modern goddess, the collection reframes a familiar cultural cliché. It merges Mugler’s heritage with a personal quest to reconcile contrasting forces and reignite the house’s iconoclastic power

Excavating Mugler: Miguel Castro Freitas ushers in a new era

A debut collection that reinterprets power, glamour, and the house’s iconic dna for a modern luxury audience

Plaça dels Sedassos, Tarragona, Spain

Tarragona: solitary exploration of ancient ruins

A city from which history overflows

Atlantis by Patrik Hjelm © 2009-2014 UnidColor

Questions which should not be asked and answers which should not be told

פסטיבל ישראל - תיאטרון - הר אולימפוס- צילום Ph Wonge Bergmann

The Israel Festival in Jerusalem

An Interview with Eyal Sher, the Festival Director

A monochrome set of white chess pieces arranged on a chessboard

The Chess mirror trap: when symmetry deceives the mind

How symmetry creates illusion and strategy reveals victory in the game of minds

Architecture & Design

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

Friends walking together along a walkable city street, capturing a realistic moment of everyday pedestrian life

Smart cities, human minds

Why the future of urban planning depends on integrating AI with cognitive and emotional design principles

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 person from Abkhazia holding the Apsny (Abkhaz) flag

When the lights go out in Sokhumi

Abkhazia’s fragile sovereignty and the power politics of dependence on Russia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Explore the Calendar

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Jivan Lee, Quartzite. Morning (detail), 2026. Courtesy of LewAllen Galleries

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

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

20 Aug — 12 Sep 2026 at Sullivan+Strumpf in Sydney, Australia

Gregory Hodge, Overgrowth (detail), 2026. Courtesy of the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf

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

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

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

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