02 · Night Watch →Night shifts, night swims, night bloomers
Read →The woman who turns the lights on before the city does.
3:40 a.m., Kreuzberg. Four hundred croissants in silence.
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An independent magazine on art, travel and all things blue.
Arthouse movies we're watching
Amarga Navidad
dir. Pedro Almodóvar · Spain · 2026
A Christmas reunion in Madrid turns into an emotional reckoning. Almodóvar's latest circles desire, grief, and the families we choose — and the ones we survive — with his signature saturated colour and close-up compassion.
Starring Bárbara Lennie, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón and Victoria Luengo. In cinemas this winter.
Watch the trailerThe Issue
Six ways in.
0101 · PostcardsMom & teen travel
Dorp Hotel, Cape Town — a village on Signal Hill.
05 · 5 Things to see →Worth seeing now
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Five picks · art, film, placesEnter →
The blue that wasn't always there.
A short history of Santorini's most photographed colour.
06 · Big Blonde →Books & authors
06Book recommendations, and the towns where iconic writers lived, worked and slept.
04 · Art →Exhibitions & artistsInk on your
Ink on your
hands.
Five ways of making, keeping, and refusing to shut up about art.
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Bronwyn Katz: objects that remember being touched
Cape Town · Materials
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Art Diary: Tim Walker’s Fairyland
London · Until 7 February 2027
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Prompted: Midjourney, deliberately
AI · The slow way
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Rosa Bonheur had a permit for her own trousers
History · Paris, 1852
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Working galleries: ink on your hands
London · South-east
Weather · Four cities
Today, softly melting.
