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Just as the Impressionists overturned painting and paved the way for the Cubists, trailblazers like Alain Senderens reinvented the kitchen. We trace how Nouvelle Cuisine's daring pioneers transformed fine dining into a creative movement.
Peace negotiator, biomass mapper, transformational economist and TED superstar, Juan Enriquez has worn many disparate hats. Asked how the strands connect, he answers with a riddle about American presidents and the flags that outlived them.
Art, one might argue, is ultimately the capturing of light on paper or canvas. In a much overlooked field, artists such as JanLeonardo Wollert go further, painting with light itself, an art born of happy accident.
The heads of the Trickponi showroom discuss their catchy, song-inspired name and their unconventional approach to retail. From road sales to hauling their wares across the globe, they reveal how they defy convention.
It is smiles all round at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, nestled in the beige foothills of San Gabriel. Our writer passes the gate into the high-security campus where NASA pursues both research and government work.
Compiling this forward-looking edition carried us beyond seventy thousand kilometres, beginning in Pasadena with Dr Charles Elachi of NASA's JPL. He left us pondering the life-changing discoveries his Martian rover, Curiosity, might yet reveal.
To some, Beirut is rooftop bars and arak by the bucket; to others, a city rebuilding after decades of destruction. Now, thanks to Al-Hayat's chief diplomatic correspondent Raghida Dergham, it is about to assume a fresh role.
When Mahmoud Said's 1929 painting The Whirling Dervishes fetched a record 2.5 million dollars at Christie's Dubai, eight times its estimate, it signalled an extraordinary new era for collecting Middle Eastern art.
The past decade has seen a perfect storm of art collectors in the Middle East, says Antonia Carver, director of Art Dubai. As London's salesrooms break records, boundaries are being redrawn in galleries and studios too.
There is, the argument runs, only one Louvre, and with the greatest respect it is not in Abu Dhabi. A provocative take on a global hub's costly bid to borrow cultural prestige.
Libyan-born and Dubai-based, former Syrian banker Khaled Samawi shows what happens when graft, luck and a nose for opportunity meet a neglected nation's cultural assets. His operation now spans the Middle East, Europe and America.
Forever jetting between Hamburg and Dubai, Iranian-born collector Ramin Salsali ranks among the Middle Eastern art world's most influential figures. Dapper and exuberant, he mirrors Dubai's own drive, championing the region's most exciting artists for twenty-five years.