From canned cocktails to colourful sandals, HTSI’s commissioning editor shares her plan for tackling a music festival
Richard Fairman selects his best mid-year reads
A five-year overhaul of the cultural complex will open up new subterranean spaces but is arousing heated debate
Asif Kapadia and Joe Sabia’s documentary has pathos and PR but little on the great man’s tennis
A Native American teenage girl and her missing mother are the focus of Erica Tremblay’s no-frills movie
Agnieszka Holland’s movie follows a family marooned in harrowing conditions between Poland and Belarus
Austin Butler, Tom Hardy and Jodie Comer fight, love and gaze soulfully in a film dripping with old Hollywood glamour
Since the decorative Edo period artwork that was shown in Europe more than 150 years ago, Japan has influenced jewellers in the west
James Lovegrove selects his best mid-year reads
What do filmmakers wear on set, and what does it mean? A new book explores their style
These colourful cult ceramics are now in high demand
The fivesome’s debut album has the roaring momentum of a young band ready to go
The group’s debut album makes careful and artful use of controversial ingredients
A surreal staging at Shakespeare’s Globe in London leans hard into the drama’s comedy — and its cruelty
BBC documentary tells the forgotten story of the ‘Lost Lionesses’ and a record-breaking football tournament in Mexico
The galleries and museums where the Milanese local finds inspiration for her own work — and the restaurants that fuel her on her quest
Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum designed the dwelling to provide housing in areas prone to flooding
The conductor and the Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala capture the Italianate splendour of ‘Inno delle nazioni’ and ‘Quattro pezzi sacri’
The drummer shows off his post-production skills on a record where influences range from Miles Davis to early dub
Turn your house into a temple of reflection
The Taiwanese tech entrepreneur on buying art, wine and nine storeys of his building, letting his four-year-old choose a Picasso for her bedroom and holding firm in the face of threats from China
You play a worker on an oil platform where a biological terror starts to possess colleagues
Maria Crawford selects her best mid-year reads
The American artist’s oblique sayings were a hit at the museum in 1989 but her more recent work falls short
Co-president siblings Caroline and Karl-Friedrich Scheufele on how being family-run allows the brand to stand among its conglomerate-owned rivals
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