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From the seventeenth-century Clock Tower guarding the main gate to the bustling Trg Od Oružja square and the seafaring treasures of the Maritime Museum, we chart the essential sights of this storied Adriatic city.
With a guest list of four hundred guarded like a secret, the party summoned Russian oligarchs, mining magnates, European aristocrats and countless models. Beneath Montenegro's mountains, we witness a glittering who's who of global wealth.
Having written The Fifth Quarter, a book devoted to the animal's less noble innards and extremities, Anissa Helou had never encountered this particular delicacy, so she travelled to Beijing to sample it for herself, purely for research.
As the 2008 meltdown rocked economies worldwide, Gulf states drew on deep reserves, stimulus packages and stubborn diversification to ride out the storm. Rob Morris asks how the region proved so resilient.
Danielle Arbid has a way of keeping you on your toes. Her 2008 video essay 'This Smell of Sex' deploys such forthright language that the room blushes, yet offers barely an image beyond archival photographs and blazing intertitles.
Bespoke weighs the relative wealth of nations by their total reserves, the monetary gold and foreign exchange that underpin creditworthiness, and asks how long even the largest war chests can really last.
As spring nears, our writer dreams of the Maldives, of azure ocean and white sand, of being nowhere at all. Yet such a paradise lies far closer, on a natural island just 500 metres off the coast.
Tall, urbane and crowned with a tarboush, the man Michael Karam calls 'The Lawyer' was irresistible. The encounter unfolds in a poorly lit Cairo antique shop, stuffed with deco furniture rescued from grand period houses.
Having her work disqualified from a prestigious prize run by Lausanne's Musee de l'Elysee might have dampened Larissa Sansour's spirits. Instead, the rejected series became the inspiration for the latest stage of her work, Nation Estate.
When a friend rang proposing the trip of a lifetime to Siberia, Anissa Helou could scarcely place Kamchatka on the map. Once a place of exile, its temperatures plunge below minus thirty degrees Celsius.
Furniture is meant to be used; now it can be read too. Kashida Design's recliners, mirrors, stools and even tissue boxes each form a single Arabic letter or word, from a heh-shaped mirror to a meem lounge chair.
We seek out the world's most surprising hideaways, from the steamy butterfly house of Stockholm's Fjarilshuset to the hidden Campbell Apartment tucked inside New York's Grand Central Station. Leave your sweater at the door.