02 · Night Watch →
Read →The woman who turns the lights on before the city does.
3:40 a.m., Kreuzberg. Four hundred croissants in silence.
DorothyBlue
A quarterly magazine. Art, travel, and blue things worth noticing.
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
Seven ways in.
01Postcards
Dorp Hotel, Cape Town — a village on Signal Hill.
05 · 5 Things to see →
5
One theme, five works
What does refusal look like?
Enter →The blue that wasn't always there.
A short history of Santorini's most photographed colour.
07 · The Slow Edit
Following the Wye — the Swan at Hay.
04 · Art →Ink 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: next 3 months, 6 cities
The season's shortlist
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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 · Painted daily
Today, softly melting.
A dedicated, factual forecast — commissioned each morning from Salvador. Pale cobalt sky, one ant, one rose, a temperature that refuses to sit still.
- High
- 14°
- Low
- 6°
- Mood
- Dreamlike
