The Met’s secret employee art show is no longer secret
The man is Daniel Kershaw, senior exhibition designer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This show is unlike any other under his purview. It’s the employee show, Art Work: Artists Working at the Met, ...
Transcript: Swamp Notes — How can Democrats rebuild?
Sonja Hutson This is Swamp Notes, the weekly podcast from the FT News Briefing where we talk about all of the things happening in US politics. I’m Sonja Hutson. And this week we’re asking: what’s the ...
Trump’s victory will change America. But Europe can have a different future
Democratic norms look unusually fragile in the US. Historian Mark Mazower argues that it is an outlier, not a precursor ...
Investors want more urgency from Europe in tackling its economic problems
One striking feature of that period, though, was that it showed Europe does take decisive action when its markets — particularly its bonds and currency — are in freefall. In that narrow sense, ...
Pop Forever, Tom Wesselmann at Fondation Louis Vuitton — the American nude via Matisse
Halfway through Fondation Louis Vuitton’s enjoyable and unexpected exhibition Pop Forever, Tom Wesselmann & . . . a bright red phone rings. It is mounted bang centre in Wesselmann’s 1963 painting ...
Squid Game is back — and darker than ever
Hwang Dong-hyuk, creator of the most-watched show in Netflix history, on taking his ultra-violent critique of capitalism to the next level ...
‘It’s postcolonial but doesn’t know it’ — a ‘Ballet Shoes’ for our age
As Katy Rudd brings the children’s classic to London’s National Theatre, can it enjoy the success of adaptations like ‘Matilda’ and ‘War Horse’?
Three days with the true believers who won’t let Bigfoot die
The flyer, which Peter spotted at a tourist office in the spring, was just three inches square and advertised an event being held over a long weekend in July in the town of Oakridge, a 45-minute drive ...
Martha Stewart and the making of a modern American icon
Why a new documentary about the world’s most famous homemaker helped crystallise my feelings about Donald Trump ...
A deep dive into the Yucatán
Beyond the Mexican peninsula’s famous coast lies a spectacular, less-visited land of Mayan ruins, secret pools and somnolent villages ...
Triumph to tragedy — a cautionary tale of politics
There is no question that the pandemic was an unparalleled peacetime crisis and one that derailed Johnson’s government. But as Shipman notes, the seeds of his destruction were also ever present and in ...
The lawyer at the heart of the ferocious debate over assisted dying
Charles Foster believes he has a duty to defend against a state-sanctioned and medicalised means to self-obliterate ...