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Saturday, June 6, 2026

A group of men in an office, physically together yet conspicuously disconnected

A girl sleeping with her head on open books, an image of fading energy and drift

A person holding a hand mirror toward the autumn forest, reflecting shifting perspectives

A group of men in an office, silent and independent, their purpose no longer shared

A girl with her head in her hands, bored yet still trying to read as meaning slips away

Purpose drift: when meaning fades slowly

On the psychology, engineering, and renewal of life’s fading purposes

A child holding a skeleton model at stomach level

Resetting your gut for 2026

How to rebuild your microbiome without diets, detoxes, or punishment

A silver medallist watching the gold winner with envy, representing the feeling of falling short despite success

The psychology of comparison

A closer look at why humans naturally compare themselves and how it shapes self-worth, anxiety, and identity

Students navigate a new educational landscape where artificial intelligence is becoming as central to learning as textbooks once were

Economy & Politics

It’s time to abandon traditional exams

The rise of AI is rendering memorisation-based testing obsolete

On the Street

Two young marauding males flehmen responding (the action of testing females’ estrus cycles using the Jacobson’s Organ). Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

The Centre Cannot Hold

In the right spot at the right time

Nicole Kidman, Reese Whiterspoon and Shailene Woodley in Big Little Lies - Season 1

2017 Best TV Shows

Peak TV is still going strong

Before an international competition, Francesco is preparing to perform chest bench-presses with 62kg weights

An interview with Francesco Frasca

The art of natural bodybuilding

Attendees network during Web Summit in Lisbon, where talks, meetups, and the Night Summit bring together global leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs

Science & Technology

Inside Web Summit 2025: the future of tech in Lisbon

Lisbon’s global tech gathering brings together 70,000 people to explore innovation, ethics, and the connections shaping tomorrow

A little girl holding the American flag, celebrating Independence Day on July 4th

Independence Day

Let freedom ring

A vibrant street scene in Brazil sets the stage for a new era of fashion, where sustainability and local creativity come together in colourful harmony

What to expect from Brazilian fashion in 2025

Embracing sustainability, digital innovation, and inclusivity in a new era of Brazilian style

Architecture & Design

Smiling African American woman holding a model of a portable house

The forgotten architecture of mobility

Reconsidering portable and prefabricated design in contemporary architectural practice

The Eden Project, a visitor attraction located in a reclaimed china clay pit, designed by Nicholas Grimshaw. Its geodesic biomes are inspired by soap bubbles and natural cellular structures, making it a notable example of biomimicry in architecture, Cornwall, England

The alchemy of innovation in design

From biomimicry to artificial intelligence, unconventional methods are redefining creativity and innovation

Art

Rebecca Horn, a German artist (1944–2024), created Unicorn, a seminal body-based work in 1970

Embodied practices in contemporary art

How living between London and Paris reshaped my understanding of art, fashion, and embodied expression

Rafael Luis Armengol Machí "Pebrot partit" (Catalan for "Split Pepper") (1985) by the Oil on canvas, presented as a diptych (two panels). 162 x 260 cm (approximately 63.8 x 102.4 inches). Contemporary art collection at the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Alicante (MACA) in Alicante, Spain

Travels in Hyperreality at MACA

Spanish modern art, intensified perception, and the museum as a site where representation exceeds the real

Culture

Early agriculture and irrigation in Southwest Asia, where climate conditions and human innovation together shaped the foundations of civilization

Climate change and the rise of early civilizations

Environmental opportunity, human agency, and the origins of agriculture in Southwest Asia

Delegations of women's club members attend the US National Suffrage Parade in 1913

The hidden conditions of women’s oppression

Femininity, compliance, and the social order

Economy & Politics

Madrid, Spain Venezuelan flag waving during a protest at Puerta del Sol

Venezuela: the language of power

Coloniality, intervention, and the struggle for political voice

An aid worker surveys the devastation in Gaza, where humanitarian assistance remains a vital lifeline for communities struggling amid widespread destruction and displacement

The legal and humanitarian debate over Gaza

How war crime allegations, civilian suffering, and detention practices shape international discussion

Entertainment

The Drama is a dark romantic comedy-thriller directed by Kristoffer Borgli that follows a young couple, Emma (Zendaya) and Charlie (Robert Pattinson), whose seemingly stable relationship descends into emotional turmoil one week before their wedding after a shocking confession about their pasts

The illusion of stability in 'The Drama'

Nietzsche, emotional pain, and the fragility of modern relationship

Ari Aster at the premiere of his film "Beau Is Afraid" in 2023. Photo by © Frazer Harrison

Ari Aster's career retrospective

Looking for meaning behind the madness

Fashion

Traditional loom weaving by a skilled artisan

India’s timeless sarees

A personal journey through India’s most timeless heritage weaves

A realistic Y2K-inspired fashion portrait, blending metallic textures, urban attitude, and early-2000s nostalgia into a bold contemporary look

The Y2K aesthetic and the return of the minimal body

How the aesthetics of the 2000s rehabilitate a dangerous body ideal

Feature

A woman gazing into a room lined with iconic bags, symbolising her first glimpse into the life she secretly desired

The room of bags

How a room filled with iconic handbags becomes the backdrop for one woman’s realisation about who she wants to become

A young girl grips a chain-link fence in Idlib, Idlib Governorate, Syria

The things the war could not bury

A fictional portrait of loss, survival, and the fragile remains of hope

Food & Wine

Astronaut food has come a long way from the old “toothpaste tubes”

Fueling Artemis II: maple syrup in the void

What Jeremy Hansen ate on humanity's farthest journey

Clouds over the vineyard-covered hills of Oltrepò Pavese, Italy

Barbacarlo: a cru, a conflict, a victory

How one vineyard reshaped the meaning of origin in Italian wine

Science & Technology

A human and a robotic hand barely touching, alluding to the Renaissance painting "The Creation of Adam", by Michelangelo Buonarroti

The Renaissance human ideal in an age of AI

Freed from survival imperatives, could we finally pursue work in the deeper sense of human excellence?

The Moon is deeply tied to how life on Earth developed and how human civilization functions

Take me to the moon: the frontier of technological regime

The true meaning of the new lunar race with the construction of a new historical capability with a human purpose

Sport

A child processing a painful loss in the back seat, representing the moments when parental support matters most

The car ride home after the game

Why the next ten minutes can shape your child's relationship with sport and with you for years to come

“A faceless teenage football player standing on the field

The forgotten wonderkids of Football

The bittersweet stories of football’s lost prodigies

Travel

While the TV show was also filmed in Ontario to replicate the 19th-century setting, showing the visual of the Island was the main objective

The land of Anne of Green Gables

Visiting Prince Edward Island on the east coast of Canada

A woman wearing a hat walks toward a rustic wooden cottage surrounded by breathtaking mountain scenery and peaceful nature

The art of going missing

The growing desire to unplug, slow down, and reconnect with real life

Wellness

A man lies down in a relaxed posture, symbolizing emotional healing and quiet self-reflection

Healing without romanticizing pain

The quiet work of becoming whole without drama

Nostalgium, watercolour 16 x 12 cm, Mark Weighton, 2026

The intelligence of the living world

Sagittarius Full Moon

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Simon Mark, Paris couple (detail). Courtesy of Kathmandu Photo Gallery

Human materials

6 Jun — 25 Jul 2026 at the Kathmandu Photo Gallery in Bangkok, Thailand

Emmanuel Awuni, 2 pm before the clouds (detail), 2026. Courtesy of Magnin-A Gallery

Les traces du vivant

11 Jun — 1 Aug 2026 at the Magnin-A Gallery in Paris, France

Brigitte Lustenberger, Prologue of an elegy, 2019. Courtesy of Museum Franz Gertsch

A gaze of one’s own

13 Jun — 30 Aug 2026 at the Museum Franz Gertsch in Burgdorf, Switzerland

Lisa Golightly, Pastime (detail), 2023. Courtesy of Billis/Williams Gallery

Becoming the sea

13 Jun — 11 Jul 2026 at the Billis Williams Gallery in Los Angeles, United States

Raymond Logan, Golden Gopher at night (detail), 2024. Courtesy of Billis/Williams Gallery

13 Jun — 11 Jul 2026 at the Billis Williams Gallery in Los Angeles, United States

Richard Parker, Pastel sticks #178, 2018. Courtesy of Billis/Williams Gallery

Featuring: Richard Parker

13 Jun — 11 Jul 2026 at the Billis Williams Gallery in Los Angeles, United States

Alan Govenar, Kamala Lakshmi Narayanan (detail). Courtesy of Cris Worley Fine Arts

The eyes and ears of the people

13 Jun — 25 Jul 2026 at the Cris Worley Fine Arts in Dallas, United States

Swan Scalabre, Ambition n°24 (detail). Courtesy of JoAnne Artman Gallery

Here comes the sun

15 Jun — 31 Aug 2026 at the JoAnne Artman Gallery in Laguna Beach, United States

Keith Macgregor, Nathan rd at night (detail), Hong Kong 1999. Courtesy of Blue Lotus Gallery

18 Jun — 30 Sep 2026 at the Blue Lotus Gallery in Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Viraj Khanna and Brian Robertson, Made to appear, exhibition view. Courtesy of GR gallery

18 Jun — 1 Aug 2026 at the GR Gallery in New York, United States

Jacob Gils, Paris #5 (detail). Courtesy of In The Gallery

Jacob Gils' exhibition

18 Jun — 8 Aug 2026 at the In The Gallery in Copenhagen, Denmark

From the exhibition Inferno & paradiso. Courtesy of Photo Elysée ©Hannah Reyes Morales

Inferno & paradiso

26 Jun — 1 Nov 2026 at the Photo Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland

Hannah Darabi, How to marry a millionaire, "Mahvashs book of pleasure" (detail), 2024. Courtesy of Photo Elysée © Hannah Darabi

Why don’t you dance?

26 Jun — 1 Nov 2026 at the Photo Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland

John Little, Untitled (detail), 1959. Courtesy of LewAllen Galleries

Color says it all

26 Jun — 25 Jul 2026 at the LewAllen Galleries in Santa Fe, United States

Rekha Rodwittiya, Home is wherever you are (detail), 2026. Courtesy of Sakshi Gallery

Unfolding narratives (...)

30 Jun — 8 Jul 2026 at the Mall Galleries in London, United Kingdom

Joan Miró, Gaudí XIII, (detail) 1979. Courtesy of Casa Batlló
Contemporary. Fundació Joan
Miró, Barcelona © Successió Miró, 2026

Gaudí-Miró-Gomis: deconstructed

8 Jul 2026 — 10 Jan 2027 at the Casa Batlló Contemporary in Barcelona, Spain

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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