Culture

‘Dun dun dun duuun!’ Why Beethoven’s Fifth sticks in the head and stirs the heart

5 minutes

Citizens

Devon, 1970s: I’m a rector’s son, hanging out with Boz the biker. My life is about to open up – what does it promise for him?

Tim Pears

The irreverent duo who thumbed their noses at the Soviet Union and the US art world

11 minutes

A French Creole folktale nearly lost to time is given new, gorgeously animated life

6 minutes

Is a ‘gastronomic society’ dinner the height of decadence, or an act of artistry?

11 minutes

The truth of photographs

It’s often said that a successful picture ‘captures the essence’ of a subject. But a great photograph does so much more

Daniel Star

Why a forcefully phallic portrait of Henry VIII is a masterful work of propaganda

6 minutes

The mystic art of gardening

In an era of 20th-century suburban sprawl, the great designer Russell Page infused soulful philosophy into his gardens

Caleb Smith

A unique project frames college football as an intricately choreographed mass ritual

7 minutes

From spark of inspiration to final press – how William Blake built a book of poetry

8 minutes

Flat places

Whenever I stand in a flat landscape, I feel myself becoming weightless, taken out of my childhood full of painful nothing

Noreen Masud

Take a serene hike through an ancient forest, inspired by a Miyazaki masterpiece

6 minutes

To the tune of dystonia

One day, my hand stopped speaking to my brain. As a doctor and flute player, I had to understand this strange affliction

Lynn Hallarman

The mundane becomes mesmerising in this deep dive into segmented displays

14 minutes