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              Arts

              • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
                The Art MarketMelanie Gerlis
                Why Milan looks like an art capital of the future

                Gallerists and collectors are drawn by an impressive cultural heritage — and attractive tax arrangements

              • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
                ReviewAlbums
                Francesco Scarlatti: Il Daniele nel lago de’leoni album review — quick in imagination and elegant

                Christopher Monks directs a deft performance from the Armonico Consort in this recording of the late-Baroque composer’s only surviving oratorio

                A conductor, choir and chamber musicians perform in a church setting in front of an audience
              • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
                Six films to watch this week
                Babygirl — Nicole Kidman ignites flammable cocktail of sex, power and submission

                Corporate hierarchies are upended and climaxes withheld in an erotic thriller of ideas as well as flesh

              • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
                ReviewAlbums
                Bridget Hayden and the Apparitions: Cold Blows the Rain — ghostly, nocturnal folk songs

                Eight tracks recorded late at night explore themes of loss, time and abandonment

                A woman in a woolen hat, scarf and jacket standing on a snow-covered country road
              • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
                How To Spend It In...
                Choreographer Sean Bankhead’s A-Z of Atlanta

                The dancer behind Beyoncé and Lil Nas X’s viral music videos nominates the clubs, cooks and communities of ‘Black Hollywood’

                Sean Bankhead at Piedmont Park in Atlanta
              • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
                ReviewAlbums
                Lambrini Girls: Who Let the Dogs Out — striking debut from furious punk rock duo

                The Brighton twosome pack a lot of action into songs that take aim at the ills of the world

                Two blond women sitting on a brown leather sofa in a messy setting with glittery party decorations, red cups and a cake
              • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
                Gaming
                Is gaming’s graphical arms race over?

                The industry seems to have reached a visual plateau, leaving the way open for games that thrive on fun and creativity

                An image from a video game shows a young blonde woman with an alert expression; she wears furry clothing and has what look like swords stowed behind her back
              • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
                InterviewVisual Arts
                American artist Glenn Ligon on his revelatory remix of a British museum

                The New Yorker was given licence to disrupt the contents of Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam — and add in his own works

                A middle-aged man wearing spectacles and a blue shirt smiles gently
              • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
                ReviewTelevision
                Severance season 2 — dystopian office thriller amps up the surreal

                Lumon employees grapple with newfound information about their alter egos in Apple TV+’s striking, superlative series

              • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
                The best books of the week
                The Sound of Utopia — how Stalin waged war on musicians

                Michel Krielaars’ illuminating account of the composers and performers who navigated the repressive Soviet system

                A black and white image of a group of men and boys seated on the football stands. In the centre of the image is the composer, wearing a checked coat, a flat cap and round glasses. On his lap is a briefcase. He is smiling broadly.
              • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
                Architecture
                The glass block’s super sexy comeback

                Once so ubiquitous as to have become deeply uncool, the translucent square has shimmied back into favour, with its futuristic chic being reinterpreted by a new cohort of designers

                A room furnished with curved yellow leather seating, including a long sofa and two armchairs, arranged around a central glass coffee table and two potted trees. The backdrop is composed of a wall of glass blocks
              • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
                ReviewVisual Arts
                Versailles viewed through a different lens at London’s Science Museum

                The palace’s key role in nurturing French scientific progress is celebrated in a London exhibition

                An ornate and intricate timepiece has its inner workings revealed; it has a gold chain attached to a clasp at the top
              • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
                ReviewAlbums
                Ethel Cain: Perverts — unnerving Lynchian soundscapes

                The indie singer’s horror-inspired follow-up to ‘Preacher’s Daughter’ is eerily gripping

                A woman with long brown hair and wearing a black T-shirt over a red long-sleeved top holds a microphone and stares into the distance
              • Monday, 6 January, 2025
                Review
                Podcast review — Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring investigates a ‘hostile influence campaign’

                Investigative journalists Carole Cadwalladr and Peter Jukes delve into a murky story of alleged Russian interference in UK politics

                A man stands with his hands in the pockets of his overcoat; behind him is the river Thames and the Houses of Parliament
              • Monday, 6 January, 2025
                ReviewTelevision
                The best of TV and streaming this week

                ‘Lockerbie: A Search for Truth’ stars Colin Firth as a father bereaved by the 1988 airliner bomb; season 2 of ‘Squid Game’ dials up the psychological warfare; Simon Schama surveys postwar British culture in ‘Story of Us’; ‘Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action’ chronicles the show’s huge audiences and ruined lives; Diane Morgan deadpans her way through existential questions in ‘Cunk on Life’; ‘Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’ is a feature-length treat — reviews by Dan Einav

              • Monday, 6 January, 2025
                FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
                House museums #98: Apsley House, London

                The former home of the 1st Duke of Wellington and vanquisher of Napoleon still houses a preponderance of objects relating to the French emperor

              • Monday, 6 January, 2025
                ReviewPhotography
                Nan Goldin as she was meant to be seen

                The artist’s unflinching, achingly beautiful slideshows are the focus of Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie show

              • Monday, 6 January, 2025
                ReviewAlbums
                Franz Ferdinand: The Human Fear — vintage glam pop and flashes of audacity

                The rock band’s sixth studio album has suitable swagger with lead singer Alex Kapranos singing with a showman’s relish

                Four members of Franz Ferdinand dressed in black suits standing in a line against an orange background. A fifth member lunges dramatically in front of them
              • Sunday, 5 January, 2025
                Chinese business & finance
                China’s box office takings drop by a quarter as viewers turn to streaming

                Lack of blockbusters, pandemic aftereffects and hard economic times blamed for 2024 slump

                A still from ‘Yolo’, showing Ling Jia and another actor practising in a boxing ring
              • Sunday, 5 January, 2025
                The Life of a Song
                I Will Survive — Gloria Gaynor gave voice to an anthem of resilience

                The 1979 disco hit went on to be covered by artists such as Diana Ross and Miss Piggy

                A female singer in a shimmering dress sings while holding out her microphone towards the audience
              • Saturday, 4 January, 2025
                FT Magazine
                Inner worlds: a photography special

                Thirteen photographers traverse the realms of mind, body and soul. Plus: Marina Benjamin extols the virtues of the restless mind, Nic Fildes recounts his experience of brain surgery and Michelle Taylor argues for smell as a link between between past and present

              • Saturday, 4 January, 2025
                Visual Arts
                Turner at 250 — why is he so beloved?

                The painter’s impact is instant and sensuous, his themes vast and inclusive: man and nature, present vs past, the rise and fall of empires. No wonder he continues to delight

                A painting of a boat in a violent sea, and a stormy sky
              • Saturday, 4 January, 2025
                InterviewArchitecture
                Shigeru Ban: ‘Technology does not make architecture better’

                The award-winning creator of cardboard buildings on the joy of working with his hands and why his profession must serve the public good

                A middle-aged Japanese man in a black jacket and shirt, sitting with his hands crossed in front of shelving made from cardboard tubes, on which sit various architectural models
              • Saturday, 4 January, 2025
                Television
                Making the Western great again

                The genre is thriving and, with bumper ratings for shows such as ‘Yellowstone’, is proving well attuned to Trumpian times

                A cowboy on horseback holding a whip
              • Saturday, 4 January, 2025
                Enuma Okoro
                Our own work in progress

                Rather than a fresh start, the new year is a time to recognise our lives as an ongoing journey

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