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The German philanthropist spent big on daring art and a stunning gallery – then waited for the world to catch up

The Louvre’s 69-foot ‘diamond of Paris’ contains 118 glass triangles and 675 ‘lozenges’. One man (and his robot) is in charge of washing them all…

A selection of New World writers and editors choose the books they can’t stop recommending

How a Tanzanian secondary school student's ice cream making prompted a probe into why hot water can sometimes freeze faster than cold water

In back rooms, tiny pubs and even horse boxes, lesser-known standup comedians keep the eccentric spirit of the Edinburgh Fringe alive

What happens when you put AI and the internet together? We’re about to find out

Victoria Mapplebeck’s remarkable Motherboard takes us on a journey from womb to adulthood

The days of La Dolce Vita are long gone – people no longer aspire to classic elegance

An abandoned kiosk near St Peter’s Square has become one of the city’s most creative addresses

Jonathan Glazer’s British gangster film hit screens 25 years ago. What is the secret to its success?

Tension is simmering as the two countries celebrate their independence days this week. Four books explore how their relationship curdled into conflict

What do Patrick Süskind’s classic and Asako Yuzuki's contemporary novel tell us about the philosophy of smell and taste?

From Perfection and Careless People to Stephen King and Katie Price, your summer reading is sorted

Right wingers claiming that ‘woke’ has killed the galleries are indulging in wishful thinking

Once upon a time the internet was going to give a voice to the marginalised. Now it seems right wingers are manipulating the attention economy for their own ends

The city is quite obscenely beautiful, and the people are as warm as the weather

We usually transliterate the composer's name so as to have it beginning with the letter T. But why?

When Nazism came to her adopted home of France, the New Zealand journalist became a leading member of the resistance

We can’t be sure that, even if life were staring us in the face on Europa, we’d recognise it as such

HUNTR/X – stars of Netflix’s animated film KPop Demon Hunters – are female, fictional and seemingly unstoppable

A mad, mournful documentary about brothers on the edge stunned the Czech Republic’s biggest film festival. Then real life caught up

London’s Laptop Orchestra is reinventing classical music by teaching computers to play

The artist who recreates photographs as monumental charcoal pictures is at his best among the world’s trouble spots

Oprah Winfrey made me love Wally Lamb. But with The River is Waiting for Me, the spark has gone

The painter didn’t have much time for art, or sex or his home town. But don’t let that fool you

The debate around migration has never been more febrile. Time then for Fenix, which celebrates art by and about refugees

Petra Volpe’s extraordinary movie powerfully dramatises the human consequences of the crises facing nursing today

The meanings of fancy and fantasy have diverged rather considerably over the centuries, just as the spellings have also changed

An unashamed member of the educated liberal elite, he parlayed his wit and access into a career of TV interviews and debates

It appears that our vocabulary is entrained with the Zeitgeist, whether we like it or not