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Sorø Kunstmuseum: Sophie Dupont and the Art of Attention
At Sorø Kunstmuseum, an empty room painted by Anna Ancher, a Russian icon of mother and child, and an installation shaped by visitors’ breathing offer three very different encounters with human presence. Their proximity is part of the museum’s interest: a visit can move between domestic observation, religious devotion and the experiments of contemporary art…
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Affordable Style: Inns and Guesthouses of the Northern California Coast
The stretch of coastline from Mendocino to Big Sur is one of America’s most dramatic landscapes: redwood forests plunging into the Pacific, wildflower meadows giving way to rocky cliffs, and small towns shaped by artists and bohemians. While boutique resorts command oceanfront views, there are still plenty of inns and guesthouses where character and charm…
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Frieze London 2026: What Deserves Our Attention
Frieze returns to Regent’s Park from 14–18 October. This year’s programme offers a rewarding route through contemporary painting, the politics of materials, domestic architecture and the changing interpretation of modern art. Every October, Frieze concentrates a substantial part of the international art world into a few days in London. Galleries arrive with new work and…
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Copenhagen Now – October to December 2026
Art, design, fashion, literature, film, music, food and hospitality as the city moves from autumn into winter. Copenhagen changes character when the evenings draw in. The harbour ceases to be the centre of everybody’s social life, dinner moves indoors, and the city’s museums, cinemas and theatres begin to feel less like occasional destinations than places…
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Chiang Mai: A Sky Full of Wishes
Chiang Mai in November, the ancient city of the Lanna kingdom, and the night the sky catches fire Last week this column made the case for Bangkok — overwhelming, oceanic, inexhaustible. This week it makes the case for its opposite. Chiang Mai is everything Bangkok is not: human-scaled, mountain-ringed, quieter by several orders of magnitude,…
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Late Fame Review
Late Fame (2026): The Poet and His Public Director: Kent Jones Screenplay: Samy Burch, based on Arthur Schnitzler’s novella Cast: Willem Dafoe, Greta Lee, Edmund Donovan Running time: 97 minutes Country: United States Rating: ★★★★½ — 4.5/5 Willem Dafoe makes the experience of being flattered look wonderfully complicated. As Ed Saxberger, a New York postal…
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The Reel Argument: Chris Marker
By Bergotte Chris Marker made films about memory the way a philosopher makes arguments — with total rigour and total freedom simultaneously, following thought wherever it led without the obligation to arrive anywhere comfortable. He is the most intellectually radical filmmaker in the history of the medium and also, paradoxically, one of the most personal,…
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A Name on Paper: The World’s Best Personalised Stationery
Correspondence cards, visiting cards and writing paper: what to buy, how to personalise it, and why handwritten letters deserve a return. Thanking someone for dinner, returning a kindness or introducing a business should not require a fresh act of graphic design. A small collection of personalised stationery makes these gestures easier, giving everyday correspondence a…
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Eva Marie Saint, 1924–2026: The Intelligence of Grace
Eva Marie Saint belonged to that rare category of actor whose place in cinema history could have been secured by two performances alone. As Edie Doyle in Elia Kazan’s On the Waterfront in 1954, she brought moral clarity and emotional delicacy to one of the defining films of post-war American cinema. Five years later, as…
