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Thursday, August 13, 2026

Unmarked armed personnel, widely known as “little green men,” outside the Perevalne military base in Crimea on 9 March 2014 during Russia’s covert military operation in the peninsula

Pro-Ukraine demonstrators gather in London’s Trafalgar Square, United Kingdom, in a public show of solidarity against Russian aggression and support for Ukraine’s sovereignty

Victory Day celebrations in Simferopol, occupied Crimea, 2019, where pro-Russian displays and military symbolism reinforced Moscow’s control over the annexed peninsula

Unmarked armed personnel at Simferopol Airport on 28 February 2014, illustrating the use of ambiguity and deniability during the annexation of Crimea

Pro-Ukraine protest in Trafalgar Square, London, where demonstrators rallied in support of Ukraine and condemned Russia’s actions in Crimea and beyond

Economy & Politics

Crimea 2014: propaganda, power, and hybrid warfare

Analyzing the fusion of digital influence operations and limited military intervention in Russia’s seizure of Crimea

Coastal part of Amadiba territory @ Ashish Kothari

Economy & Politics

Amadiba's youth defending the future

How a new generation is protecting ancestral lands while building sustainable livelihoods in South Africa

A robotics demonstration at a crowded technology exhibition, where a quadruped robot and surrounding displays highlight the fine line between innovation, presentation, and perception in modern AI showcases

Science & Technology

A robot dog, a foam drone, and a crisis of trust

What began as a showcase at India’s AI summit turned into a broader reckoning over authenticity, perception, and the politics of higher education

A brown cottage beneath a glowing aurora borealis

Chasing the Northern lights

A winter journey to Iceland, seen through a child’s wonder and a family’s shared adventure

On the Street

Gaetano Minnuci, Palazzo degli Uffici

Architecture & Design

Ghosts of the Fascist Era

Karaku-meisho-zue (1864), guidebook

Quiet feast in nature

Silhouettes of Junsei Shoin Garden Restaurant, Kyoto

Am I refusing to grow old, or am Ilooking for my lost youth? Not at all

50 is the new 30

Today is the first day of the rest of my life

Miley Cyrus in the Something Beautiful video, portraying a powerful moment of self-reflection and artistic rebirth

Something beautiful: Miley Cyrus’s boldest statement

As a disruptive, visceral album-film, it marks a new act in the singer’s career

Steve Moseley

Steve Moseley’s Patience Bottles

Arthouse Gallery, Sacramento, California

Students at all levels have been negatively affected in their education

COVID-19 and its effects on children

The future of our youth now depends on a supportive mental health system

Architecture & Design

Cairo's historic mosques rising above the city skyline in Cairo, Egypt, representing architecture as a lasting expression of institutional identity and cultural heritage

Design as governance: the power of visual identity

How thoughtful design strengthens credibility, improves accessibility, and builds lasting public confidence

The Thermal Baths, located in Vals, Switzerland, is a hotel and spa complex developed over the Graubünden canton’s only thermal springs, completed in 1996 and designed by Peter Zumthor

Therme Vals: designing for mental recovery

Spatial strategies against chronic fatigue

Art

Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirror Room, The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away (2013)

Come and have a go if you think you’re art enough

From Beuys to Cattelan, this essay explores why the question “Is it art?” says less about the artwork than about our need for certainty

Michael Joo's Concatenations (1991/2026) is a large-scale mixed-media installation measuring 513.1 × 412.8 × 289.6 cm (202 × 162½ × 114 in). Characteristic of Joo's interdisciplinary practice, the work brings together diverse materials and conceptual references to explore connections between nature, culture, history, and systems of knowledge. Courtesy of the artist and Kukje Gallery. Photograph by Genevieve Hanson

Directionless and the art of uncertainty

At Hauser & Wirth Menorca, Rashid Johnson explores disorientation as a creative force in contemporary life

Culture

Because we are the universe's tool for integration, we have a cosmic duty to move beyond selfish individualism and national borders

Emergent evolutionary spirituality and ethics

A new hope is challenging our antiquated worldviews

A lone figure facing the altar in silent prayer, reflecting the hope of renewal after spiritual decline

Why do Christians backslide?

Examining little compromises that slowly make faith grow cold and ultimately quench the fire

Economy & Politics

A group of women viewed from a low angle, looking confidently at the camera, symbolizing leadership and solidarity

Quiet quitting the patriarchy

How small daily acts of resistance are reshaping gender norms

Ornate ceiling and chandeliers at Mustakillik Maydoni Metro Station, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Urgut and Uzbekistan’s regional economic transformation

Investment, innovation, and industrial policy redefine development in the Samarkand region

Entertainment

Liza Minnelli (Sally Bowles) and Joel Grey (Master of Ceremonies) in the movie Cabaret (1972) © 1971 Allied Artists Picture Corporation

What we can learn from Cabaret

From politics to escapism, the musical's story is so relevant that it's been adapted many times

A BBMT production of The Circus at the York Boulevard location by Caterpillar84, CC BY-SA 4.0

The Bob Baker Theater is everything creative about LA

Why this historic puppet theater remains an essential part of Los Angeles' cultural identity

Fashion

Olivier Rousteing is a French fashion designer who served as the creative director of Balmain from 2011 to 2025

Olivier Rousteing and the reinvention of Balmain

How identity, digital vision, and cultural fluency transformed a heritage house into a global fashion force

The Ladies Waldegrave is a group portrait painted by Joshua Reynolds between 1780 and 1781, now housed in the Scottish National Gallery, which acquired the painting in 1952. The work depicts the three daughters of James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, and Maria Walpole. From left to right, they are Charlotte, holding a skein of silk; Elizabeth, winding Charlotte’s silk onto a card; and Anna, producing tambour lace

The art of being ornamental

Rococo fashion, hyper-femininity, and the politics of spectacle in 18th-century aristocratic culture

Feature

Full moon shining through bare tree branches at twilight in Chitrod, Gujarat, India

The shape of what remains

From spider eggs and tombstones to forests and flies, these poems explore loss in all its forms

A son voicing his frustrations while his father responds with composure, showing the power of reflection over reaction

The house on Independence Street

On inheritance, illusion, and the uncomfortable truth about change

Food & Wine

A small Thai restaurant and snackbar located in Amsterdam, North Holland, offering an authentic local Thai dining experience

The Dutch appetite for Thai food

Thai cuisine’s rise in the Netherlands through travel, bold flavors, and evolving dining culture

A woman buying seeds and nuts at the market for a healthy lifestyle

Dietetics for weight management

Low-calorie and nutrient-packed food pairings

Science & Technology

A human hand passing a gear to a robotic hand, representing the seamless collaboration between human expertise and AI

How lean methodology boosts innovation in AI startups

How rapid experimentation and validated learning give agentic AI startups a competitive edge

A desktop monitor displaying an email ready to be sent, representing the importance of securing outbound business communications

Strengthening outbound email security

How to protect sensitive data, prevent cyber threats, and maintain trust through stronger outbound email security

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

A bicycle traveler enjoying a peaceful sunset, representing low-carbon travel that connects people more closely with nature

The latest sustainable travel trends

How emerging travel habits are helping people reduce their environmental impact while creating more meaningful experiences

The Royal Palace of Caserta seen from the fountain of Venus and Adonis inside the Royal Park, Italy

Living Campania, then living it again

How a second stay transformed my relationship with caserta, naples, and small-town life

Wellness

A man stands facing an empty leather armchair, appearing reflective and contemplative

The reality of living with obsessive compulsive disorder

Why OCD is more than just a love for organising and why it can feel like a prison of reality

$A fractured reflection of self—where identity splits, masks multiply, and the pressure to become someone new never fully lets the old disappear$

Palingenesis or disappearance

Why staying has become harder than starting over

Explore the Calendar

Marta Leyva, Cultivation of memories (detail), 2026. Courtesy of Hans Alf Gallery

To the beauty of a sensory feast

14 Aug — 12 Sep 2026 at the Hans Alf Gallery in Copenhagen, Denmark

Paul Uhlmann, Tenderness and eternity I (detail), 2026. Courtesy of Art Collective WA

Paintings of tenderness and eternity

15 Aug — 19 Sep 2026 at the Art Collective WA in Perth, Australia

Angela Stewart, Palette I (detail), 2026. Courtesy of Art Collective WA

Angela Stewart. Lambere

15 Aug — 19 Sep 2026 at the Art Collective WA in Perth, Australia

Leon Vermeulen, Towards Brenton (detail). Courtesy of Knysna Fine Art

Vanishing point

15 Aug — 14 Sep 2026 at Knysna Fine Art in South Africa, South Africa

Lara Merrett, Ripple (detail), 2025. Courtesy of the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf

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

Michael Mazur, Wakeby evening memory (detail), 1985. Courtesy of the Schoolhouse Gallery

24 — 11 Aug 2026 at The Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, United States

Emma Itzstein, Voices of children in the summer sky (detail), 2026. Courtesy of Olsen Gallery

Excursions outside the orangery

26 Aug — 19 Sep 2026 at the Olsen Gallery 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

Melike Kara, New mornings (detail), 2026. Courtesy of Carl Kostyál

28 Aug — 13 Sep 2026 at the Carl Kostyál Gallery in London, United Kingdom

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

Benji Reid, Light bike (detail), 2021. Courtesy of October Gallery

Zana Masombuka. Spotlight: Benji Reid

3 Sep — 3 Oct 2026 at the October Gallery in London, United Kingdom

Quentin James McCaffrey, Triptych with flowers and view (detail), 2026. Courtesy of Alison Jacques Gallery

Quentin James McCaffrey's exhibition

3 Sep — 3 Oct 2026 at the Alison Jacques Gallery in London, United Kingdom

Richie Wilde López, Cuando el mar se acercó (detail). Courtesy of Paradigm Gallery + Studio

Tending to clouds

4 — 27 Sep 2026 at the Paradigm Gallery + Studio in Philadelphia, 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

Karolina Maszkiewicz, The weight of light (detail), 2026. Courtesy of Jane Lombard Gallery

Tending the wild

9 Sep — 24 Oct 2026 at the Jane Lombard 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

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