Parc des Ateliers, Arles, FranceGehry’s crumpled metal tower is the glittering icon of a new cultural campus in the south of France where high ideals and extravagance feel at oddsI am looking at a wall surfaced in salt. It is the wall of a lift lobby i…
Porcelain seized by Nazis goes up for auction in New York
Prized collection smuggled out of Vienna by Jewish couple in 1930s expected to fetch more than $2mA collection of prized Meissen porcelain smuggled out of Vienna after its Jewish owners were forced to flee the Nazis and later procured for Hitler before…
‘Parts of my brain light up when he’s talking’: Nigella Lawson and Mark Cousins in conversation
The cook and the film-maker, who struck up a friendship on Twitter, discuss aesthetics, watching and being watched, and the benefits of ageingMark Cousins and Nigella Lawson seem, at first, an unlikely pairing. He is an author and film-maker from North…
‘I was on a list to be terminated’ – Sue Dobson, the spy who helped to end apartheid
She risked arrest, torture and jail to fight racism in 1980s South Africa, and her story is being made into a filmAs a white South African, Sue Dobson risked arrest, torture and imprisonment spying for the black nationalist cause during the latter days…
The devil’s in the detail: hair horns become summer’s hot new trend
Anime inspires bold, edgy look with a nod back to punk and emo styles worn by the Bromley Contingent and the Prodigy’s Keith Flint This year has brought many unexpected hair trends. First came the shullet (a cross between the 90s shag and the harder 80…
Why OnlyFans had second thoughts on banning sexually explicit content
Site announced last week it was suspending adult content, only to quickly change its mindFor five days, it looked as if one of Britain’s most successful tech startups was on the verge of a make-or-break gamble, one that would either see it burst on to …
Paloma Faith: ‘If anyone can do it, it’s me’
Despite the balancing act – home schooling, a second baby, a fifth album and a nationwide tour – Paloma Faith always comes out fighting… and full of storiesHere’s a nice little exclusive for you,” Paloma Faith leans into my voice recorder generously, g…
All God cons: camping in churches has a record year as UK staycations boom
As conventional campsites fill up, more holidaymakers are discovering the joys of ‘champing’ – and silent nightsPenny Thomas has always favoured adventure holidays over lying on a beach. But this year, with UK destinations in such demand during the pa…
Photographer Enda Burke and the theatre of family lockdown
In lockdown in Galway City, Burke focused on the bright side – creating gaudily retro, deadpan tableaux with his parents in all the starring rolesEnda Burke spent lockdown with his parents in Galway City on the west coast of Ireland. As a street photog…
The big picture: the black body redefined
Pioneering young black photographer Dana Scruggs’s celebration of movement and formThe headline act at this summer’s photography festival in Arles is an exhibition devoted to the young black photographers who are – literally – changing the face (and bo…