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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.When Etta James arrived at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, in…

“Everyone who’s come to visit the painting has had the same reaction.” Ulrich Birkmaier, senior conservator at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, is standing before a monumental,…

Wangechi Mutu has been pushing the conservators to their limit. The Kenyan-American artist, 52, developed a novel concept for her solo exhibition at the Galleria Borghese in Rome,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! It is in Genesis 27 that Isaac is preparing to pass the torch of Jewish leadership to his son, Esau — who, as the Torah makes clear,…

For British people of a certain age, the nation’s most famous hotel will always be Fawlty Towers. Though John Cleese and Connie Booth’s 1970s BBC sitcom was ridiculous and…

Wine styles have evolved enormously this century, from concentrated and beefy to fresher and lighter. But no varietal wine has changed as much as Chardonnay. The Chardonnay that…

Cape Town sits between ocean and mountain, so its natural allure is assured — but can the city cope with its continued popularity? This city report kicks off this special issue,…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.What do a tomato, a frog, and a pigeon have in common?…

The title of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s delectable exhibition The New Art: American Photography, 1839-1910 asserts an iffy point as if it were settled truth. It implies that…