Culture

Scenes from Aboriginal Australian pottery chart the turn of the seasons

7 minutes

Witty wotty dashes

Doodles are the emanations of our pixillated minds, freewheeling into dissociation, graphology, and radical openness

James Reath

Steep climbs lead to sacred spaces carved high into the cliffs of Ethiopia

9 minutes

The secret

At the heart of surfing, whether you’re a kook or a famous charger, is the pursuit of moments so pure they clean you out

M M Owen

A life in Zen

Growing up in countercultural California, ‘enlightenment’ had real glamour. But decades of practice have changed my mind

Anshi Zachary Smith

The story of Malcolm X

Alex Haley co-wrote The Autobiography of Malcolm X but Haley left out some profound elements of Malcolm’s political thought

Alex White

A riveting audiovisual dive into what makes sounds harmonious, or not

28 minutes

After independence, Mexico was in search of identity. These paintings offered a blueprint

15 minutes

A young Rockefeller collects art on a fateful journey to New Guinea

7 minutes

The replica and the original

Architectural copies of lost structures require reckoning with history and heritage. At what cost is the past rebuilt?

Elizabeth Kostina

Walk in these

Shoes are deeply personal, literally moulded to our lives. But they create our social lives as much as express them

Matthew McCormack

The beat of goombay

Diasporas are made of vast constellations of countless people, fused together through memory, meaning – and music

Salwa Halloway

A lush tour of Fallingwater – the Frank Lloyd Wright design that changed architecture

14 minutes

Merveilleux-scientifique

With brain swaps and death rays, a little-known French sci-fi genre explored science’s dark possibilities a century ago

Fleur Hopkins-Loféron