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Making the cut
We join movie directors, curators and yakuza, who all drop in on the young blade keeping alive a centuries-old Japanese craft.
See the light
In 2014, designers Rita Múrias and Paulo Barata began collecting neon signs for their aesthetic qualities.
Reality check
In art, authenticity is everything. But can the technology and knowhow that allows Factum to replicate the great works of the past down to the smallest detail democratise the art world?
Culture
Syrian cassette archives, an art-valuation app and an independent paper making the news in Kyiv.
Anissa Helou
The author initially saw the cookbook as a manual and nothing more. But once she started writing about food – and discovered the importance of preserving her heritage – she couldn’t stop.
Spreading the word
Maori Television is breathing life into a threatened language through its indigenous broadcasts. But will naysayers and a tight budget halt the network’s progress?
Keeping it reel
In a vast archive deep in the Black Forest we meet the men charged with safeguarding German history.
