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    • Monday, 8 August, 2022
      Monkeypox
      European men struggle to access monkeypox jabs

      Some people are travelling abroad to get vaccinated in wake of severe shortages and increasing case numbers

    • Friday, 15 July, 2022
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      The much-married socialite was known for using her powerful status to further her charitable endeavours

    • Saturday, 25 June, 2022
      InterviewArts
      Artist Markus Selg: ‘We’re further in the metaverse than most of us think’

      He has spent his career testing the boundaries between life and virtual reality, in his studio and now on the opera stage

    • Thursday, 14 April, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Japan: Courts and Culture — politics and bling at Buckingham Palace

      Exhibition of items from the Royal Collection highlights the gifts two empires exchanged, from awards to armour

    • Wednesday, 6 April, 2022
      InterviewVisual Arts
      Kutluğ Ataman — ‘The moment you step out of the system, you are no longer an artist’

      The Turkish film-maker explains why he’s returning to the art world after a 10-year self-imposed exile

    • Wednesday, 23 February, 2022
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      The mezzo-soprano on her climate-themed album Eden, singing in prison and why music is like nature

    • Tuesday, 18 January, 2022
      Music
      Voices Unwrapped festival offers odes to the joy of singing

      The yearlong series at Kings Place embraces early music and contemporary classical, folk singers and gospel choirs

    • Friday, 7 January, 2022
      FT Magazine
      Six FT writers on the best party they ever attended

      Nights to remember from a 16th-birthday bash hosted by a hip-hop star to a fancy-dress rave in Mumbai

    • Monday, 3 January, 2022
      Fashion
      Why I wear black

      Monochrome is all about mood, mystery and perfectly cut clothes

    • Friday, 22 October, 2021
      InterviewSebastião Salgado
      Photographer Sebastião Salgado on why the Amazon is under threat

      His new show at London’s Science Museum reflects the rainforest’s glories — human, animal and landscape — but recognises the dangers they face

    • Friday, 8 October, 2021
      Frieze Week 2021
      Gilbert & George: ‘All the museums now are woke’

      The artist-duo, feeling excluded by major institutions, are opening an east London gallery devoted to their own work

    • Friday, 17 September, 2021
      Art Basel 2021
      Is the art world ready for radical action to fight climate change?

      With a business model which includes jetting off to global art fairs, the industry is facing a reckoning over its environmental harm

    • Monday, 13 September, 2021
      City of London
      Row over historic synagogue challenges City of London’s post-Covid priorities

      Plans for new skyscrapers raise questions over the future of the Square Mile — and the need to protect its past

    • Thursday, 2 September, 2021
      Arts
      Hokusai at the British Museum — an enthralling trove of original drawings

      This captivating exhibition of 103 recently rediscovered pictures includes some of the Japanese artist’s most mysterious work

    • Friday, 20 August, 2021
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      Maki Kaji, ‘godfather’ of sudoku, 1951-2021

      The blockbusting number-grid game was just one of many brainteasers produced by his Nikoli group

    • Saturday, 26 June, 2021
      FT Magazine
      Chrystel Lebas’s beautiful photography captures forests without end

      Ahead of a new exhibition, an interview with the artist on how she captures tranquility and darkness

    • Friday, 30 April, 2021
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      Mary Beard: ‘The ancient world is a metaphor for us’

      The classicist on why the study of Greece and Rome matters in the Netflix age — and how to beat Boris Johnson in a debate

    • Monday, 15 March, 2021
      Art for the soul: where culture, nature and wellbeing meet
      Art for all: five of London’s most powerful — and playful — public pieces

      A mammoth dollop of whipped cream, a giant ship in a bottle, a towering 115-metre slide: the metropolis is dotted with stunning, often subversive public art — if you know where to look . . . 

    • Saturday, 27 February, 2021
      FT Magazine
      ‘A photograph is not this fixed thing’

      In his reworking of gay magazines from the 1970s and 80s, Pacifico Silano explores ideas of masculinity and queer identity

    • Saturday, 30 January, 2021
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      The disassembly line: how Michael Landy tore his life apart

      He and Wolfgang Tillmans, who photographed ‘Break Down’, talk about consumerism, YBAs and what they’d tear up now

    • Saturday, 9 January, 2021
      FT Magazine
      Drag queens and artists star in Peter Hujar’s New York portraits

      The bygone bohemia of the Seventies and Eighties is chronicled in the work of the late photographer

    • Tuesday, 22 December, 2020
      Music
      How London became a musical magnet

      Migrants have long helped the city’s music scene to flourish — now a concert series is set to celebrate their role

    • Thursday, 26 November, 2020
      Shopping in Tokyo
      Tokyo’s top destinations for vintage clothing and antiques

      The Japanese capital is a treasure trove where you can find everything from classics by high-end designers to exquisite 1920s furniture (via kimono belts)

    • Thursday, 5 November, 2020
      FT Magazine
      TikTok, drag queens and Sarah Cooper: the rise and rise of lip-syncing

      A mainstay of queer satire, the art form has always used the latest technology to subvert the powerful

    • Saturday, 31 October, 2020
      FT Magazine
      Taking root: the enduring relationship between flowers and photography

      Blooms, plants and vegetables have helped develop the technology of taking pictures

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