Hounded by the Nazis, the great philosopher took his life in 1940, leaving several mysteries unanswered
The couple’s commission for Art on the Underground is an ambitious mosaic in St James’s Park station
Chinese city decides to force behavioural changes, rather than just nudge
The UK capital has had a good run but now it needs to reimagine itself
The digital revolution raises profound questions about authenticity
The British artist’s retrospective is a cabinet of curiosities for millennials
Known as a philosopher and critic, Walter Benjamin also created a body of fiction that offers a glimpse of his fevered imagination
Celebrity outlaws and flashlit murder scenes are drawing the crowds
Nono’s beguiling 150-minute opera was staged here with almost no distractions from the music
The German critic was not only a theorist of the media – he was a gifted broadcaster as well
As an exhibition of work by the winner of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women opens in London, Rachel Spence profiles its reclusive patron
Ovid meets the Teletubbies in Nicholson Baker’s latest raunchy novel
