Mathematics: The Winton Gallery
The recently opened Winton Gallery at the London Science Museum houses the museum's mathematics gallery.
Highlights from the Fall 2017 Ready-to-Wear Collections
Not many highlights this season, but the fall 2017 RTW collection by Junya Watanabe was great.
Further Reading
How to be a stoic: For such a small price, I buy tranquility. An essay about Heiner Müller. On the romantic fiction of a world without money. Claudio Borio on financial cycles, secular stagnation and monetary policy. Sylvia Serfaty talks about mathematics, truth and beauty. And more.
Masterpieces of the Leiden Collection at the Louvre
A small but exquisite exhibition of 17th-century Dutch paintings.
Icons of Modern Art: The Shchukin Collection
The exhibition Icons of Modern Art: The Shchukin Collection at the Fondation Luis Vuitton was worth a trip to Paris.
The Body in Movement. Dance and the Museum
The Louvre has invited choreographer and former artistic director of the Paris Opera Ballet Benjamin Millepied to curate an exhibition on the representation of the body in movement drawing on the Louvre's extensive collection.
Further Reading
Steven Weinberg on the trouble with quantum mechanics. Two essays about Arrival. Why whales leap into the air. How life turns asymmetric. Neuroscience needs behavior. How life (and death) spring from disorder. Cartoon drawings by Gerhard Richter. Nature makes chance, humans make luck. And more.
Peter Lindbergh. A Different Vision On Fashion Photography
If you have opened a fashion magazine in the past twenty or thirty years you will be familiar with the work of Peter Lindbergh. Some of his photos of 90s supermodels have become icons. Indeed, some of these models have become icons in part because of his work.
The Best Albums of 2016
My favourite albums of the year.
The Best Books of 2016
Some of the best books I read this year including recently published books as well as classics, in a number of categories: best fiction, best science, best book about Claude Lévi-Strauss, best economics and more.
Further Reading
Why Javier Marias hates theatre. Slavoj Zizek doesn't like theatre performances either. How Google used AI to transform Google Translate. An interview with Jürgen Habermas. Freeman Dyson on working with the greatest physicists of the 20th century. Andrew Wiles on doing maths. And more.