The war on Japanese knotweed
“I caught the odd feeling that I had come to the future world from which human beings had departed. Vegetation would be renewed year after year. Hybridised itadori would be the main creature in this area.”
Hiking the Trans-Bhutan Trail
When I visited, the king had thrown open a restored version of an ancient route: once populated only by farmers ambling to their fields, royal messengers hurrying from court to court, and divine madmen scattering grain.
Dismantling Sellafield
At Sellafield, a nuclear power plant, nothing is produced anymore. But making safe what is left behind is an almost unimaginably complex task that requires us to think not on a human timescale, but a planetary one.
Bollywood under Modi
Mumbai’s film industry was a much-vaunted bastion of India’s secular ideals. Since the rise of the BJP, it’s been flooded with stock Hindu heroes and Muslim villains, and shows and movies are being killed off.
Where’s the art?
Ruangrupa, an Indonesian group of collaborators, turns social experiences into art. How will they leave their mark on Documenta, which unfolds over 100 days?
