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Culture

Where Does Knowledge Reside?

10 October 2026 0

A lily, a broken leg and a museum walking out into a garden: what Manchester's Museum Beyond the Walls says about how knowledge moves from…

Art

Where to See the Russian Avant-Garde in Britain

14 October 2026 0

By Alexander Stone Britain never set out to become a home for the Russian avant-garde. It has no equivalent of the Stedelijk Museum’s Malevich holdings…

Theatre

Chekhov’s early comedy comes to Cambridge in “Life in…

14 October 2026 0

Before The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov was a medical student in Moscow paying his way with jokes. In the early 1880s he…

Fashion

Hair, Six Toes and the Price of Rebellion on…

27 September 2026 0

From Julia Roberts in 1999 to an unshaven model at MM6 x Havaianas in Milan: how body hair went from accident to campaign to runway,…

Design

William Morris’s Red House – Where Arts and Crafts…

9 September 2026 0

In 1859, William Morris married Jane Burden and needed a home. He was twenty-five, a poet and painter, restless and already dissatisfied with the direction…

Architecture

Unbuilt: Why the World’s Most Ambitious Architecture Never Makes…

15 June 2026 0

By Alexander Stone The most dangerous building in the world is the one that exists only on paper. It has no budget overruns, no planning…