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Craft

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.

  • Issue #164
  • 4 min read
Sotaro Matsumura working with precision at his whetstone, wearing traditional indigo samue robes in his cedar workshop
Art

See the light

In 2014, designers Rita Múrias and Paulo Barata began collecting neon signs for their aesthetic qualities.

  • Issue #162
  • 11 min read
See the light
Art

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?

  • Issue #159
  • 10 min read
Workers applying finishing touches to large white statue parts in industrial workshop with scaffolding
Culture

Culture

Syrian cassette archives, an art-valuation app and an independent paper making the news in Kyiv.

  • Issue #152
  • 5 min read
Team members of the Kyiv Independent working at a long table in their office with a monitor displaying the publication's logo.
Food & Drink

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.

  • Issue #116
  • 5 min read
Anissa Helou holds a fresh red lobster while smiling at a seaside restaurant in Sicily.
Culture

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?

  • Issue #112
  • 7 min read
Spreading the word
Culture

Keeping it reel

In a vast archive deep in the Black Forest we meet the men charged with safeguarding German history.

  • Issue #107
  • 4 min read
Keeping it reel

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