On the outskirts of Òṣogbo in Nigeria, large, otherworldly artworks peek through thick greenery. This sacred site, Ọṣun-Òṣogbo, features sculptures and shrines dedicated to the deities of Yorùbá ...

The Oscar-nominated short Butterfly (Papillon) finds beauty, pain and poetry in the extraordinary life of the Algerian-born Jewish French swimmer Alfred Nakache (1915-83), who competed at the 1936 ...

Warning: this film features rapidly flashing images that can be distressing to photosensitive viewers. Impromptu is at once a transfixing audiovisual experience and a whirlwind visual history. In the ...

Warning: this film features rapidly flashing images that can be distressing to photosensitive viewers. Since 2012, the video billboards in Times Square have synchronised each night – with the ...

To the German philosopher Martin Heidegger, technology was far more than just tools that people develop, but systems through which the world both reveals itself to us and shapes the way we see it. For ...

Since the large-scale expansion of the Russo-Ukrainian war in February 2022, Russian citizens have become increasingly isolated from the Western world. Within their own country, conditions have grown ...

In his short film Angles of Love, the UK-based artist and demographic scientist Vincent Straub asks friends, family and strangers the question: ‘What is love to you?’ Receiving an eclectic mix of ...

More than a century before Carl Linnaeus set out to categorise the natural world, the 16th-century Flemish painter and polymath Joris Hoefnagel began to render the creatures around him in ...

is professor of early modern British history at Sorbonne University in Paris, France. She is the author of The Paradoxes of Ignorance in Early Modern England and France (2023). Yet Descartes was not ...

In René Descartes’s landmark work Meditations on First Philosophy (1641), a narrator sets out to dispense with beliefs that can’t be accepted as true for certain. This disqualifies sensory experience, ...

The movie’s drama – based on a story by Ted Chiang – rests on the sheer strangeness of the Heptapod language, but it’s actually not as alien as it could be. Apart from the sci-fi twist that learning ...

In the events series Letters Live, performers read notable letters – old and new, original and written by others – in front of a live audience. In this video from the Letters Live event at the Town ...