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Features30 emerging American artists to keep an eye on this year
Summer is the season for emerging art. From group shows packed with up-and-coming names you’ve probably never heard of (but will know very soon) to trial balloon solos by artists freshly added to bigger galleries’ rosters, it’s high time for the art world to take in a fresh crop of ...
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Features8 Contemporary Native American Artists Challenging the Way We Look at American History
Pop culture and design love to appropriate grossly stereotypical elements of perceived Native American cultures learned from normalized racially insensitive media portrayals such as the “Piccaninny Tribe” in Disney’s Peter Pan.
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FeaturesTen most famous American artists and their masterpieces and achievements
The early style of America artists was based primarily on English painting. Though several American artists became well known in the 19th century, it was only in the 20th century that the United States began to have a major influence on the international art world.
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FeaturesCalifornia wildfires set records and it’s most damaging we’ve ever seen
California is bracing for another dangerously warm weekend, with dry winds, parched vegetation, and triple-digit temperatures threatening to ignite new fires and complicating containment efforts in an embattled state.
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FeaturesPolar bears on the frontline of climate change
Temperatures in the Arctic are rising at least twice as fast as the global average and sea ice cover is diminishing by nearly four per cent per decade. The loss of sea ice affects polar bears’ ability to find food, studies show.
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FeaturesThe beach nobody can touch
This is the story of one perfect beach. There are hundreds of pristine white-sand beaches along the coast of Thailand, but one tiny bay, almost hidden by limestone cliffs, has obsessed the world. For years, people would come in staggering numbers hoping to step into “paradise”. One day last year, ...
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FeaturesMasterclass: Nils Mönkemeyer
The German violist looks at how to tackle the challenges in the first movement of this important audition piece with style, panache and calm
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FeaturesMy Space: Lionnel Genovart, Buenos Aires, Argentina
This workshop has been where I’ve been based since 2005. Before that I was working at the I Violini shop in Buenos Aires as a luthier and restorer, having begun my training aged 14 with Franco Ponzo, one of the best-known teachers of lutherie in Argentina.
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FeaturesElgar's Cello Concerto: The enduringly popular 1965 interpretation
Jacqueline du Pré’s 1965 recording of Elgar’s Cello Concerto set the benchmark for every cellist who followed her. Tully Potter explores the enduring popularity of her powerful and iconic performance
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FeaturesA curved invisibility screen could hide soldiers or buildings
An invisibility screen has been developed that bends light to make objects disappear. It could be used to hide tanks and troops or to remove intrusive buildings from the landscape.
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FeaturesFive french cheeses for your next cheeseboard
France’s premier fromagier names five lesser-known varieties that every cheese aficionado should add to their rotation.
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FeaturesWhat to drink with Cassoulet
Cassoulet’s origins are famously contentious – the French towns of Toulouse, Castelnaudary and Carcassonne all claim priority when it comes to whose clever peasants first thought to stew dried beans, preserved duck and pork together.
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FeaturesCooking in Julia Child’s kitchen
When we first heard about Julia Child’s Provence cottage going up for rent on Airbnb, the news certainly spawned a few days of vacation daydreaming. Rosanna Pansino, however, made that dream a reality.
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FeaturesThe Essence of Provence
Whether your tastes run to cosy cottages or grand châteaus, beaches or hill towns, long lunches or languid dinners, the south of France delivers.
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FeaturesWildlife summit to consider global ban on saiga antelope trade
The US and Mongolia are backing a ban on the trade of a critically endangered species of antelope that has seen its numbers in the central Asian steppes devastated by hunting and disease.
