Why Ilya Repin’s masterpiece of Ivan the Terrible, first banned in 1885, remains one of Russia’s most controversial paintings ...

Framed by exquisite cinematography, the short documentary Divers captures practice sessions at a camp for elite high-divers in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. In his first short documentary, the US director ...

Pompeii is famous for being destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, which buried the once-thriving ancient Roman city under some 5 m of volcanic debris. With a dark irony, it was this ...

Your inability to focus isn’t a failing. It’s a design problem, and the answer isn’t getting rid of our screen time ...

A prominent architect of decolonial theory, his diagnosis of European colonial ills is both penetrating and flawed ...

The Mexican embrace of uncertainty, forged in the crucible of history, captures the true vulnerability of our existence ...

Defying time and colonial power, a landscape artist layers the deep histories of his ancestors to create hopeful futures ...

Light is one aspect of the Universe that, for most people, holds a deep and noticeable value in everyday life, helping them to navigate, learn from, and connect with the world around them. Yet it’s ...

By taking precautions to keep safe and stay healthy, most people clearly live their lives as though death is undesirable. But does that also suggest that an immortal existence – or something like it – ...

The Indian thinker Rammohun Roy believed that good governance must be close: distance made the British Empire cruel ...