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Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Illustrations by Fritz Eichenberg for Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, 1938

Raskolnikov depicted in an illustration from Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment

The interior of Dostoyevskaya Metro Station in Moscow, Russia

Fritz Eichenberg’s 1938 illustrations for Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment

An illustration of Raskolnikov from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment

"Crime and punishment" and the question of guilt

Raskolnikov’s struggle with morality, responsibility and the belief that some stand above the law

Industrial engineers overseeing automated robotic arms welding steel components in a modern manufacturing facility

Economy & Politics

The transformation of the global labour market

How technology, demographic change, and economic uncertainty are reshaping work worldwide

A large red tanker or chemical carrier passing beneath a modern cable-stayed bridge, Turkey

Economy & Politics

The Middle East and the rise of multipolarity

Regional conflict, shifting alliances, and the growing challenge against American dominance

In a dim bunker, a daughter confronts the father she was told was gone

Some stories don’t move forward: they tear open

On the Street

The Tempio Maggiore, one of the largest synagogues in Europe, was built on one of the four plots of land coming from the demolition of the most decayed areas of the Jewish Ghetto of Rome, Italy

Architecture & Design

A tour of the Great Synagogue of Rome with Dino Di Veroli

Unveiling the symbolism and significance of Italy’s monumental synagogue

Exterior View of The Harvard Art Museums, Photo courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums, Photographer: Peter Vanderwarker

Exploring Boston’s art, history, and flavors

Highlights from the Harvard Art Museums, culinary inspirations and historic walks

A still from the animated film "Ayny" by Palestinian director Ahmad Saleh

Oscar-winning film "Ayny"

A film portraying Palestinian children

Stories of Almost Everyone (installation view). Hammer Museum Los Angeles, 2018. Photo Joshua White

They Called It Trinity

Letter from a confused curator

Ecocide

Science & Technology

Imminent extinctions

Most of the world's ecosystems are under threat

Close-up of ice cream cones with natural ingredients

Food & Beverage

Ice cream, the way we remember it

Less sugar, riper fruit, and the return of a thoughtful treat

Architecture & Design

A living room combining wood, organic textures, soft furnishings and expansive glazing, showing the human-centred character of warm modern architecture

How warm modern architecture is redefining home design

Natural materials, softer textures and a stronger connection to place are making contemporary homes feel more human

Museum of Ethnography is one of Hungary’s most significant cultural institutions, located in Budapest and dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of ethnographic collections from Hungary and around the world

The Museum of Ethnography: building beneath the park

A new vision of museum architecture where landscape and structure become inseparable

Art

Anselm Kiefer is a German painter and sculptor whose work is known for its monumental scale and rich materiality. After studying under Peter Dreher and Horst Antes in the late 1960s, he developed a distinctive artistic language incorporating materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac, The Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, US

Anselm Kiefer and the art of decay

At SFMOMA, materials weather, corrode and transform, challenging conventional ideas of permanence and preservation

The Death of Leonardo da Vinci, by Ingres, 1818

A visual artist’s counterpoint to a clinical reading

Childhood memory, creativity, and the intersection of art and the unconscious

Culture

Black Shabbat" (also known as "Black Saturday") refers to the brutal Nazi Gestapo raid carried out on the ancient Jewish Ghetto of Rome on October 16, 1943

World War II history at the Jewish Museum of Rome

Exhibitions and testimonies reveal the persecution and deportation of Rome’s Jewish community

The Kurukshetra War, also known as the Mahabharata War, was a legendary conflict between the Kauravas and the Pandavas, two rival branches of the Kuru dynasty, fought for the throne of Hastinapura

The Mahabharata and the human condition

A civilizational narrative of ethics, power, and human complexity

Economy & Politics

People from diverse backgrounds gather in a circle in Masimba, Tanzania, expressing solidarity and community through a shared gesture of unity

Why culture matters in policymaking

Understanding the role of cultural values in shaping institutions and public decisions

Relying on heavily biased research and high-salary administrative growth, the World Bank enforces controversial austerity and structural adjustment programs that consistently fail to reduce global poverty

Is the World Bank good for the world?

The World Bank is an 82-year-old institution that was founded, along with the International Monetary Fund, in July 1944

Entertainment

The welcoming entrance of Cineteca Nacional Chapultepec, Mexico City, Mexico, representing a modern landmark dedicated to celebrating the art of film

Exploring Chapultepec National Film Archive, Mexico City

A unique cinematic experience surrounded by the beauty of nature

A woman capturing an ordinary city scene on camera, reflecting Tiranos Temblad’s fascination with the unexpected moments hiding in plain sight

What Tiranos Temblad can teach us about the internet

From a pig drinking soda to a giant mate hiding in plain sight, Tiranos Temblad has spent fourteen years proving that if you pay attention, everyday life is already fantastic

Fashion

A woman wearing a white dress stands on the bed

The life of an outfit

How clothes carry us through the emotional arc of a day

Ali Haider is an Emirati designer whose Dubai-based streetwear label, TRAPWRLD, explores the relationship between cultural heritage and contemporary identity

TRAPWRLD and the shape of Emirati identity

Dubai streetwear brings heritage into a global visual language

Feature

A bird and a cat stare intently at each other

A dangerous game in parallel worlds

Blue jays and pygmy bats tempt fate in encounters with watchful cats

$A peculiar mushroom cures a shadowed beast, stealing a woman’s memories but mysteriously salvaging her fractured, forgotten marriage$

Behind the bricks

Your thoughts can be your own worst enemy

Food & Beverage

Close-up of an elderly Italian woman’s hands making fresh pasta by hand

Migration and the making of modern cuisine

Centuries of human movement have transformed ingredients, recipes, and food traditions across cultures

A humanoid futuristic robot cooking in the kitchen, performing everyday human tasks

When AI enters the kitchen

How Europe’s food industry is blending data, flavor, and sustainability to create the recipes of the future

Science & Technology

A humanoid robot, symbolizing collaboration between people and artificial intelligence

When Artificial Intelligence learns to dream

New AI architectures are embracing reflection and self-correction, raising questions about the future of human thought and machine intelligence

Woman interacting with a service robot in a modern office environment

The human question behind AI

A philosophical reflection on artificial intelligence, ideology, and the future of human subjectivity

Sport

Uzbekistan’s national football team poses with the country’s president after the match against Qatar on June 10, 2025

Uzbekistan’s long road to the World Cup

Decades of loss and near misses give way to a nation’s first World Cup qualification

The FIFA World Cup is an international football tournament contested by the senior men’s national teams of the member associations of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport’s global governing body

Sport is war minus the killing

Sportswashing: the ongoing relationship between sport and power

Travel

Lamgara is a serene, picturesque hill block located in the Almora district of Uttarakhand. Situated 17 km east of Almora at an elevation of roughly 1,800 to 1,900 meters, it offers a peaceful retreat into authentic Kumaoni village life, surrounded by pine forests, terraced fields, and stunning Himalayan views

Finding home in the Himalayas

A personal journey from urban life to a secluded mountain village in search of peace, purpose, and spiritual growth

The Peace Palace (Dutch: Vredespaleis) in The Hague, Netherlands, is one of the world's most important centres for international law. It houses the International Court of Justice, the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, as well as the Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague Academy of International Law, and the renowned Peace Palace Library

The Hague between power and the sea

Politics, art, international justice, and coastal life in the Netherlands’ most elegant city

Wellness

Ho-jin kneeling beside Mu-hee during one of her lowest moments, representing the true meaning of showing up when love is tested

10 relationship lessons from 'Can this love be translated?'

Why patience, honesty, and emotional understanding matter more than words alone

A woman arranging images and ideas on a vision board, representing the process of designing a self-care routine around personal needs and desires

Design a self-care routine that works for you

Why small, consistent changes can make self-care easier to maintain alongside everyday responsibilities

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Salvador Dalí, Illumined pleasures (detail), 1929. Courtesy of Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza

The freudian universe of Dalí

20 Oct 2026 — 24 Jan 2027 at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, Spain

Curran Hatleberg, Untitled (Riverfront) (detail), 2012. Courtesy of Higher Pictures

River’s dream

21 Oct — 12 Dec 2026 at Higher Pictures in Brooklyn, United States

Ibrahim Mahama, Parliament of ghosts (detail), 2025. Courtesy of Fondation Cartier

The harvest season

22 Oct 2026 — 28 Feb 2027 at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, France

Sam Taylor-Johnson, And she was I (triptych) (detail), 1987. Courtesy of Jackson Fine Art

22 Oct 2026 — 23 Jan 2027 at the Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta, United States

Leonor Fini, Stryges Amaouri (detail), 1947. Courtesy of SCHIRN

Magically surreal

23 Oct 2026 — 21 Feb 2027 at the SCHIRN in Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Jeon Gi-ok, Landscape in formation, 2026. Courtesy of Atelier 9

To hold, to be held

24 Oct — 20 Dec 2026 at Atelier 9 in Bangkok, Thailand

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Anatomy (detail), 1982. Courtesy of Krakow Witkin Gallery

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger

24 Oct — 12 Dec 2026 at the Krakow Witkin Gallery in Boston, United States

Eadweard Muybridge, Human and animal locomotion, Plate 710. Dog; galloping; white racing hound Maggie (detail), 1887. Courtesy of Krakow Witkin Gallery

Eadweard Muybridge and Hiroshi Sugimoto's exhibition

24 Oct — 12 Dec 2026 at the Krakow Witkin Gallery in Boston, United States

Bronlyn Jones, Ellsworth Kelly: lined notebook pages – study for a painting in five panels circa 1955 (detail), 2013. Courtesy of Krakow Witkin Gallery

Drafts of an empty page

24 Oct — 12 Dec 2026 at the Krakow Witkin Gallery in Boston, United States

Alex Levac, Gan HaShlosha, Beth Shean valley (detail), 2000. Courtesy of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Alex Levac: black box

27 Oct 2026 — 1 May 2027 at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in Tel Aviv, Israel

Sonia Navarro, Talabartera, 2025. Courtesy of Galeria Nave © Jesús Madriñan

Pão e fio (Bread and thread)

29 Oct — 28 Nov 2026 at the Galeria Nave in Lisbon, Portugal

Stephen Hannock, Northern city renaissance. The river Tyne with the launch of the Eppleton hall (detail), 2026. Courtesy of Berggruen Gallery

Recent nocturnes in the gloaming

29 Oct 2026 — 7 Jan 2027 at the Berggruen Gallery in San Francisco, United States

Lari Pittman, The remedy of analog space and time #1 (detail), 2026. Courtesy of Lehmann Maupin

The remedy of analog space and time

29 Oct — 19 Dec 2026 at the Lehmann Maupin in New York, United States

Michaela Yearwood-Dan, I rise with the sun (detail), 2026. Courtesy of Marianne Boesky Gallery

A woman of will

29 Oct — 12 Dec 2026 at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York, United States

Kalman Dery, The painter’s studio (detail), 1883. Courtesy of Leighton House

Magic and mess: the artist's studio revealed

31 Oct 2026 — 21 Mar 2027 at the Leighton House Museum in London, United Kingdom

Restoration of the Colosseum in Rome, Italy. © Photo: New Order: Rinofelino/Dreamstime.com

Temporary. Structures of necessity

5 Nov 2026 — 5 Apr 2027 at the Architekturzentrum Wien in Vienna, Austria

The meeting point where ideas, startups and opportunities converge

The world comes to Web Summit

9 — 12 Nov 2026 at the Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal

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