ArtsLead Story
The biennale opens with a quieter argument
After two editions of spectacle, this year's curators have made restraint the position. It is more radical than it looks.
Camille Roux · Paris · 23 Aug · 10 min read
Topic
Ideas
3 stories in the sample edition.
DiplomacyOpinion
The quiet cost of strategic ambiguity
Deliberate vagueness once bought time. It now transfers risk to the states least able to price it.
Sofia Bergmann · Zurich · 22 Aug · 9 min read
Books
A history of the blackout, written from the grid up
A new study treats power failure as a social event rather than an engineering one, and is better for it.
Camille Roux · Paris · 18 Aug · 8 min read