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Tarek Atoui wants Turbine Hall visitors to hear his art — and feel the sound

The experimental Lebanese artist on filling the Tate Modern space with a vast array of obscure instruments and inviting dozens of musicians to take part Tate M...

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To the manor reborn

Tamsin Wimhurst and Mike Muller love to fund the ‘unfundable’. This 17th-century Wiltshire pile is their latest project Tamsin Wimhurst has a thing for saving...

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The uneasy spectacle of the catwalk fall

Every season, images of models tripping up go round social media. But is it time to move on and embrace more meaningful model moments? Scrolling through the av...

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A classic English school story and a memoir by BoJack’s cartoonist — the best new graphic novels

Paul B Rainey’s Murder School reads like Lindsay Anderson’s If . . . via Adrian Mole, while Lisa Hanawalt offers charming weirdness in I Can’t Stop Thinking Abo...

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An exclusive look behind ‘that’ blue door in ‘Notting Hill’

The west London house is on the market. What’s inside is not at all what you might expect — though the possibility of love coming knocking remains intact In th...

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What should a car smell like?

Alex Bilmes travelled to BMW’s Odour Laboratory to find out Happiness, according to Mad Men ’s Don Draper, is the smell of a new car. It is the fulfilment of t...

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He’s been named the most powerful artist in the world. What drives Ibrahim Mahama?

With a major solo show at the Fondation Cartier, the Ghanaian artist is bringing his pharaonic-scale installations to Paris It is the artistic equivalent of sq...

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Smelly seaweed and strong peso hurt tourism at Mexico’s beach resorts

Visits fall in hotspots such as Cancún, Tulum and Puerto Vallarta as US travellers go elsewhere Mexico’s beach destinations have suffered an unexpected slump t...

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Whisky highballs, fantastic fairies and a very White House indeed – don’t miss HTSI’s top reads

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The best of TV and streaming this week

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FT Crossword: Number 18,503

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How business schools teach leaders to beat burnout

Resilience, wellbeing and stress management are becoming core to executive MBA programmes in turbulent times One particularly demanding morning, Daniel Ulbrich...

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Sunday Number 166: Numbers Puzzle

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12 easy weeknight dinners that don’t feel like a compromise

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Jess Gillam: ‘I wish we had a Tchaikovsky for saxophone’

The musician on building the classical repertoire for her instrument, pushing into other genres — and what serving in her parents’ tea room taught her Jess Gil...

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You Really Got Me — the single that saved The Kinks from obscurity

The song’s innovative power chords and violent attitude redefined British pop — and later became a sore point for the band’s warring brothers Some content coul...

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Our eternal quest to make sense of the night sky

‘Night Maps’ at London’s Warburg Institute investigates the human impulse to chart constellations and find meaning in the darkness I love this time of year, wh...

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High comfort: this winter’s best new ski hotels

From Courchevel to Jackson Hole, Toby Skinner picks 14 mountain retreats for the coming season Even more so than Zermatt, on the other side of the 4,357-metre...

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Infantino has divided football. But he may be the leader Fifa wants

As challengers emerge, patronage still underpins a tenacious presidency Gianni Infantino looks the perfect villain. There’s the egg-like dome, the unflagging g...

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A tale of two valleys

The vast resorts and luxury hotels of France’s Tarentaise Valley are renowned in the ski world — but just to the south, the less-visited Haute Maurienne offers...

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Pink Snow 2026: a winter sports special

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On the hunt for a silver treasure?

Sake bowls, sconces and cigarette cases to track down “There’s something lizard brain about it; we have always gravitated towards shiny, luminous metal,” says...

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On horseback through the Celestial Mountains with Alexandra Tolstoy

Led by the aristocrat-turned-adventurer, Sophy Roberts saddles up for a week’s riding through Kyrgyzstan In Bishkek’s National Museum of Fine Arts, I’m too tir...

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The secrets of a West End hitmaker

Director Luke Sheppard knows how to make commercial theatre sing and has reaped the box-office rewards with ‘Paddington’ and ‘& Juliet’. Next up: his revival of...

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Cool kit: what to buy skiers this winter

Poles made of bamboo, asymmetric skis and a mitten with a sense of humour Kang Bamboo Freeride poles, £120; kangpoles.com H&M Move faux-fur balaclava, £38; hm...

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‘The 90s: Art and Fashion’ is a riotous, revisionist version of Britain

Bawdy humour, rave culture and the mythical Cool Britannia: former British Vogue editor Edward Enninful captures a creative era at Tate Britain Bucking the glo...

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The Uprising film review — the Peasants’ Revolt as angry and kinetic action epic

Andrew Garfield leads the rebellion against onerous taxes in Paul Greengrass’s rousing reimagining of 14th-century English history Even when it’s set in the 14...

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The crafted home: a master of marble imitation

From her Tuscan farmhouse, Jilly Bernard, one of the few practitioners of the Renaissance art of scagliola, creates intricate tabletops, backgammon boards and s...

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Frieze Week in London 2026

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‘Protect the cash, don’t overspend’ — co-founder of Damson Madder

Emma Hill talks about striving through adversity and being disciplined in business Emma Hill’s early life was shaped by bankruptcy. When she was eight, her fat...

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Cash rules everything in story of $4mn Wu-Tang album The Disciple — film review

Only one copy of 2015’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Shaolin’ was made, sparking a turbulent saga of obsession and greed When legendary rappers Wu-Tang Clan broke thro...

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In One Brief Moment All Eternity — Elif Shafak gives voice to Flaubert’s women

The oft-overlooked women from the French author’s life and novels converge to weave an inventive narrative of multiple viewpoints What is the function of liter...

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Six films to watch this week

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The world’s best indie glasses makers

From Maison Bonnet to EB Meyrowitz and Ransome Optical, eyewear specialists are creating one-off frames to suit the quirks, asymmetries and idiosyncrasies of ea...

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Animals film review — Ben Affleck anchors tightly wound kidnap thriller

The actor stars as a Los Angeles mayoral candidate caught up in a tangle of secrets — and also directs Ben Affleck might wonder where he fits in the modern fil...

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Anne Carson awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in literature

The Canadian author, poet and translator was lauded for a ‘bold and inventive oeuvre’ that ‘has created new forms for contemporary literature’ The Canadian aut...

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Who will crack the Gen Z art market?

Galleries and fairs are increasingly courting younger audiences who have caught the art-buying bug The kids don’t care about art. Or so the prevailing narrativ...

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Troye Sivan’s new album She’s the Best is a starry but scattershot affair

Cameos from Nicole Kidman and Ian McKellen add intrigue to a project that is more distracted than the Australian singer’s previous work In a recent issue of Ti...

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Dan Pearson talks taste

The landscape designer loves David Bowie, hand trowels and transcendental meditation My personal style signifier is workwear – postman’s jackets and things wit...

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Chase & Status’s new album Generic Everything is a genre-spanning full-tilt attack

The DJ duo’s latest release ranges liberally with cameos from Little Simz and Skrillex A decade after The Chemical Brothers, Chase & Status formed as a DJ duo...

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Götterdämmerung at Paris Opera pales in comparison to the protests happening outside

Students packed the Place de la Bastille in the hours before curtain up — nothing that followed in the dying spasms of Calixto Bieito’s new Ring was as dramatic...

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FT Weekend Quiz: Jack and the Beanstalk, Walter Hartright and a Bolshevik slogan

Our ‘Round on the Links’ quiz tests your ability to draw connections. Thinking caps on! All the answers here are linked in some way. Once you’ve spotted the co...

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Binary Puzzle Number 130

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The Royal Ballet School celebrates its centenary with a 12-course banquet

World premieres and rarities made for a sparky tribute to Ninette de Valois’s star-making institution Strikingly beautiful and still in her twenties, ex-Ballet...

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The unlikely gourmet hub on Ireland’s wild west coast

Amid rugged landscapes in West Cork, a cluster of villages nurtures a thriving gastronomic scene. A new hotel and food trail are helping hungry travellers explo...

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FT Weekend Magazine Crossword Number 814

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Baselitz’s anti-heroic ‘Heroes’ burst into life at Thaddaeus Ropac

The late artist’s final planned exhibition reunites the exhilarating, devastating paintings of one of his greatest series Georg Baselitz, who died in April age...

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FT Weekend Quiz solutions

Round on the Links· The link was things that can be flat Tyre The Woman in White Fiddler on the Roof Feet of clay Iron Age Bread Top Gear Fish Fee (-f...

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Word Circle Number 130

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Mini Crossword Number 130

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Reconfigured Rent gives it even more soaring emotion — review

Jonathan Larson’s beloved play gets a superbly delivered revival at London’s Tom Stoppard Theatre The theatre has acquired a new name just in time for Luke She...

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The best books of the week

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Fumagalli & Dossi’s empire of plaster casts

Meet the Milanese duo keeping the gipsoteca alive It’s an unassuming entrance for such a rarefied enterprise. The portone on Viale Montello looks like the door...

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The best drinking glass? The one you make yourself

HTSI’s drinks columnist turns to glassblowing Glassblowing is hot right now. TikTok is awash with #oddlysatisfying clips of people wrangling molten sand. The c...

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Eva Langret’s guide to London’s best museums — and the perfect gift shop

The Paris-born director of Frieze EMEA on peerless postmodern architecture, the city’s most underrated museum and the artist who helped her understand the UK M...

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Fortune favours the brave at Paris Fashion Week — some of them anyway

Matthieu Blazy continues to fly high at Chanel while Michael Rider’s Celine offered enchanting everyday clothes. But amid a jittery industry, not every show was...

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As You Like It theatre review — Jonathan Groff leads a joyous all-male RSC production

The RSC staging in Stratford-upon-Avon is packed with wonderful performances and brings a different slant to the question of identity It took a little longer t...

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The best theatre shows to see in London and beyond

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The Comets — condensed, bitingly efficient short fiction by Eoin McNamee

In a collection of two novellas and 15 tightly pared-down tales, the Northern Irish writer plunges the reader into a world of danger, seediness and alienation...

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FT Crossword: Number 18,500

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Cole & Son wallpapers are bringing back main-character energy

Under new leadership, the heritage wallpaper company is embracing geometric sass, bold colour and storytelling “Flocking Fridays” were a feature of life at the...

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Which design classic trumps them all?

From Alessi to Isamu Noguchi, it’s time to play your strongest card Does Victorinox’s indispensable pocket knife trump Alessi’s bird-whistle kettle when it com...

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I’ll be your mirror: fashion does a double take

Menswear and womenswear is separated by the slimmest thread Waldemar and Murray both wear Loewe stretch wool-mix jackets, POA, viscose-mix bibs, POA, and silk...

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Terreno Barrio, Mallorca: a hip hotel in Palma’s coolest quarter

Key notes | Spread between two distinctive buildings, the Terreno Barrio hopes to be a vibrant hub for a neighbourhood on the up What’s the buzz? El Terreno ha...

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Arthur Jafa’s New York retrospective treads disturbing ground lightly

‘I Am Tony’ at the New Museum is a frequently virtuosic examination of race Arthur Jafa is drawn to the difficult and disquieting. “If something disturbs me, f...

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‘She lets her energy go full throttle’: Hilton Als on Alice Neel’s queer portraits

Works by the painter will be included in ‘Queering Modernism’, a new curated section at Frieze Masters As happy as I am that Frieze Masters has put together it...

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Below review — Josh Hartnett stars in Netflix’s answer to Widow’s Bay

An isolated coastal town is terrorised by a mysterious monster in an entertaining show that suffers from bad timing The residents of a small and isolated islan...

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Bridge: Focus on key play to secure your contract; ignore anything that might derail you

The ruff is crucial; scoring K♦ is not! Sometimes, I slip this hand into a much tougher set, putting my students to the test. It’s a very simple deal yet, when...

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What is Black design now?

Ahead of a new Design Museum show, seven creatives debate it Charlene Prempeh, curator of The Nue Black Aesthetic : What does the exhibition title mean to you?...

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What makes a powerful art dealer tick? Read this cookbook

A glitzy publication dedicated to Iwan Wirth has a stellar line-up of contributors, but the recipes could not be homelier There’s a funny dichotomy at the hear...

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Is your nanny annexe luxe enough?

Expectations for elite live-in nannies are increasingly rarefied. But they have their own demands too The job description for today’s elite nanny is enough to...

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Carrie TV review — Stephen King’s horror classic is rebooted for the smartphone age

Summer H Howell is outstanding as the telekinetic teenager in an Amazon Prime adaptation that lacks the viciousness of its source material Stephen King’s first...

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How Norman Foster made the classic architect studio go global

Celebrated founder has structured his practice in unusual ways to promote creativity Lord Norman Foster sits in the open-plan main studio of Foster + Partners...

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San Francisco’s newest exhibition curator? K-pop superstar RM

The BTS leader brings gems from his vast visual art collection to SFMOMA for ‘Between You and Me’ “This exhibition is called RM x SFMOMA but, you know, it’s ab...

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Cindy Sherman: ‘My photographs make me come to terms with my body changing’

The artist on her first dressing-up box, the most personal set of self-portraits yet — and the secret to Bananagrams Stepping into the penthouse that is Cindy...

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Gaudy, kitsch – and utterly glorious. Save our postmodern interiors

The colourful style is at risk of extinction, says Edwin Heathcote “Postmodernism is simultaneously the ironic, the iconic and the critical,” wrote architectur...

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How scripted skits took over fashion feeds

Influencers with scripted comedic skits are winning over audiences and brands with humour. But what happens when the joke runs its course? Angeliqué’s videos o...

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Could postwar Span housing offer a template for tomorrow?

Humane design, open space and community were the hallmarks of pioneering architect Eric Lyons’ 73 modernist estates. As two of them turn 70, the principles seem...

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Sotheby’s dinosaur auction shows fossils boom is not dying out

Planned sale of rare skeleton follows record price of $50.1mn for a Tyrannosaurus called ‘Gus’ this year Sotheby’s is set to auction a rare dinosaur skeleton t...

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Functional fungi, electrified rides and the blue magic behind Fitzcarraldo Editions – don’t miss HTSI’s top reads

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Jewellery’s new rock stars? Ornamental stones

Stack up on onyx, sodalite and turquoise From rich lapis and milky moonstone to subtly striated chalcedony, ornamental stones and hard stones have been a sourc...

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Beverly Buchanan: the rediscovered talent with a taste for the ramshackle

The late artist never played by the rules — now the art world is catching up with her thrilling works It was the early 1970s, and Beverly Buchanan — a young Bl...

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Break Clause review — endearing romcom about young love in a precarious economy

This bittersweet Channel 4 comedy follows a couple in their twenties who break up the day they move in together — and can’t afford to break their lease What ha...

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Master chess in a gentlemen’s club at the Pall Mall Masters

Puzzle: what did Nigel Short’s opponent miss? Master tournaments in central London occur rarely, but their occurrences are often notable in the game’s history....

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A History of the Novel in Britain — an epic journey through the good, the bad and the unreadable

Philip Hensher’s vast survey of fiction from Dickens to Ishiguro is invigorating, obsessively well researched and amusingly nitpicky How do you tackle a subjec...

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Sensual, dangerous, joyous — painter Salman Toor brings New York queer life to the Courtauld

At his first European solo show, the Pakistani-American’s art history-inspired works find a fitting home in the London gallery In Salman Toor’s captivating oil...

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Wes Anderson comes to Camden in the Cloud House

Architect Peter Morris and TV producer Emily Kennedy took a tired Victorian two-storey house, added Miami colours, ice cream stripes — and joy A visit to the C...

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Lace is all over the place. Why?

The contemporary designers making a fiendishly difficult craft cool On a sunny afternoon in a shady corner of a Hackney community garden, a small group has gat...

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Do you remember your first Magritte? Artists on the surrealist’s impossible world

Dana Schutz, Ed Ruscha, Anna Weyant and more on how they fell for the Belgian painter — and why his visions feel even more intense in the age of AI The bowler...