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The Swiss artist is celebrating a 30-year career at Sprüth Magers in London

I WATCHED as a battered gray car sailed off the Umberto I Bridge and into the hot spring air before landing with a terrific crash in the Po river below. Last Saturday in Turin, a large American and Italian crew had closed off part of the city to film Fast X, the tenth and finale installment in the Fast and Furious series, featuring a suite of muscular A-listers including Vin Diesel, Ludacris, Charlize Theron, Cardi B, Brie Larson, and Jason Momoa, among others. These are, for readers unfamiliar,...

Bice Curiger is one of the most prolific curators in the Swiss art scene.

AN interesting headline in the Craven Herald of 75 years ago, in January, 1946, caught my eye: ‘Skipton Castle ends wartime task’. The castle it seems, had been used by the British Museum during the Second World War for the safe storage of 1,600 sealed boxes of manuscripts and books. During the war years, the people of Skipton decided because of the level of security - a guard slept every night in the room where they were stored - it was in fact the Crown Jewels that were in the castle,...