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Ugliness Looks Back
From a 1960s Iranian leper colony to Kim Kardashian's surgeon, tracing how "ugly" became a diagnosis to be cured rather than a way of being seen
Following Traces: Anthony Bourdain, Food, and the Politics of Travelling with Care
Anthony Bourdain arrived in Beirut in 2006 to film a food show. Two days later, Israel bombed the city. The footage, and the Emmy nomination that followed, say something uncomfortable about the Western appetite for Arab tragedy on television. On food, travel, and the difference between loving a place and consuming it
Salasil: Practitioners of Care and Experimentation
The UAE-based curatorial duo favours slowness, depth and imagination, resisting extractive cultural models and spectacle-driven sameness of today’s institutions. Studio salasil responds to the shifting contours of the world, forging encounters where care grounds the work and experimentation keeps it breathing
Watches & Wonders 2026: The Highlights
From Cartier's automotive revival to JLC's stratospheric tourbillon to Roger Dubuis's celestial calendar, the year's biggest watch fair reminded us that restraint and ambition are not mutually exclusive
The Met Gala Doesn’t Begin at the Met
The world watches the museum steps. Fashion's insiders watch The Mark