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Museums, i believe, are really having a moment, and thats what i want to explore. This is amazing. So this is his studio. I can walk around, can i . He was painting the orient within the orient. When you see my work, you can easily link the concepts, lets say, or the technique, anything from them, as inspiring. I think thats rather wonderful. Im in istanbul, that great, entrancing, ancient megalopolis, once the capital of the byzantine and ottoman empires. Lying on either side of the bosporus st...

get to spend time in museums. during my working life and i have witnessed something astonishing, how radically they have changed. the days of museums as grand, intimidating treasuries for dusty objects, they are long gone. they are becoming much more dynamic and inclusive, less solemn, less elitist, museums, i believe, are having a moment and thats what i want to explore. it is art of thats what i want to explore. it is part of the — thats what i want to explore. it is part of the st...

phones and tvs go to die, well, every year our planet generates over 50 million tonnes of electronic waste. the problem is thingsjust dont last as long these days. take phones, for example. the entire industry seems geared around us replacing our handset every couple of years or so. but only about a quarter of that e—waste is properly recycled. and thats really bad because our devices contain potentially toxic chemicals. well, michael kaloki has been looking at how one company is try...

museums, i believe, are really having a moment, and thats what i want to explore. this is amazing. so this is his studio. i can walk around, can i? he was painting the orient within the orient. when you see my work, you can easily link the concepts, lets say, or the technique, anything from them, as inspiring. i think thats rather wonderful. im in istanbul, that great, entrancing, ancient megalopolis, once the capital of the byzantine and ottoman empires. lying on either side of the bo...

this week, click travels to kenya, where piles of electronic waste are making locals choose between lives and livelihoods. translation: it is dangerous work, but we have to do it. _ if we do not, we will go hungry. were also in the rural communities where ai is improving prenatal care. the information that ill get here will help me . to save the life of a mother. we look at the tech aiming to put museums in the metaverse. and pauls dying to meet the microbes that could clean up the fas...

this week, click travels to kenya, where piles of electronic waste are making locals choose between lives and livelihoods. translation: it is dangerous work, but we have to do it. _ if we do not, we will go hungry. were also in the rural communities where ai is improving prenatal care. the information that ill get here will help me . to save the life of a mother. we look at the tech aiming to put museums in the metaverse. and pauls dying to meet the microbes that could clean up the fas...

about in a boat on this exact spot in the arabian gulf half a century ago, what would you have seen? not the futuristic cityscape before me today, thats for sure — because in recent decades, doha has witnessed unbelievably rapid change. i cant help thinking that the same is true of art history. this excitingly dynamic discipline thats always evolving. thats certainly the case with our ever expanding understanding of islamic art — the speciality of an extraordinary and recently reva...

house. welcome to this cultural life. your life has always run through your art but when did the art start? it took off at school because i missed so much school. i stopped going to school when i was about 13 and i had to go back when i was 15, i went back for three months and i had to do three days a week by law, otherwise my mum would have been in trouble with social services and things, ijust did whatever i wanted to do in art, and i think thats what it was, really, it had become me...

or african backgrounds out on the streets. being a young north african black or arab male in the estates, is intolerable for police. boys suffer abusive controlled racial profiling. now they are killing them. this is far from the first time this happens. ive lived in france and ive covered plenty of riots there. theyre rarely as violent as these latest ones, and ive seen for myself the way the french police deal with them — with a ferocity that often shocks a mere anglo—saxon. afte...

out on the streets. translation: being a young north african black or arab male in the estates. boys suffer abusive controlled racial profiling. now they are killing them. this is far from the first time this happens. ive lived in france and ive covered plenty of riots there. theyre rarely as violent as these latest ones, and ive seen for myself the way the french police deal with them — with a ferocity that often shocks a mere anglo—saxon. after the major riots of 2005, the police...