Memory of Color
Why is it that humans can perceive a million colors but only remember a fraction of them?
21/02/2017
All Stories
The Sweet Sorrow of Rereading
Rereading books is like meeting old friends: The characters we thought we knew challenge us to incorporate fresh understanding.
21/02/2017
Imitation as Art
Touching countless readers with theories on love, language and literature, Roland Barthes turned his attention to an unlikely material: plastic.
21/02/2017
Rossana Orlandi
Rossana Orlandi has seven decades of Saturdays under her belt. In Milan, we spend one more in her company.
21/02/2017
The Hourglass
When we trace back the origins of the hourglass, we can’t find conclusive evidence of its existence before the 14th century.
21/02/2017
Jonathan Anderson
Used to considering the human body in all of its forms, fashion designer Jonathan Anderson highlights disobedient ones as curator of a new exhibition.
21/02/2017
Day In The Life: Adia Trischler
Adia Trischler speaks about life on set and the difference between having it all and doing it all.
21/02/2017
Careless Whisper
Turn on, tune in, zone out: The pleasures and phenomena of half listening.
21/02/2017
Spring Cleaning
Clean sheets, fluffy towels and long-lost socks: an ode to the small triumphs of laundry day.
21/02/2017
Moka Express
In a world filled to the brim with complex coffee-making machinery, the classic Moka Express remains a much-loved staple.
21/02/2017
Weekend Agendas: Six Cities
Creatives from six different cities tell the tales of their weekend adventures.
21/02/2017
On Schadenfreude
Do other people make us laugh, or are we laughing at other people? A comedian offers advice on where to draw the line.
21/02/2017
The Power of Influence
How is it that throughout history, similar ideas have often cropped up in different locations and, at times, seemingly simultaneously?
21/02/2017
Dance Theatre of Harlem
In 1968, at the height of the civil rights movement, Arthur Mitchell founded Dance Theatre of Harlem.
21/02/2017
Meaningful Coincidence
Is there a difference between chance and coincidence? Alex Anderson explores whether happenstance can ever really “just happen.”
21/02/2017
On The Waterfront
Composer Leonard Bernstein spent the summer of 1967 in Ansedonia, a sun-washed Roman town on the Italian coast.
21/02/2017
Kiyomi Iwata
Kiyomi Iwata shares her advice on how to create art while on the seesaw of children and career.
21/02/2017
Margot Henderson
Kinfolk’s contributing editor Margot Henderson cooks for between 30 and 200 people every day at her London restaurant, Rochelle Canteen.
21/02/2017
How to Sleep: A Short Guide
Here, Harriet Fitch Little goes deep into sleep to find that, much like the human body itself, there’s no perfect formula.
21/02/2017
Pernilla Ohrstedt
Wrestling with ideas about a rapidly urbanizing future, an emerging architect makes an optimistic case for doing more with less.
21/02/2017
Marisol Escobar
Silent through the height of her stardom in the 1960s and absent at the peak of her career, an enigmatic sculptor receives a renaissance in death.
21/02/2017
Julie Hetta
For one photographer, an unusual concern: how to create images that are not too beautiful.
21/02/2017
Becoming Wise
“Cynicism is actually the laziest stance you could take.” What intelligent people still need to learn about the pursuit of wisdom.
21/02/2017
Alasdair McLellan for Margaret Howell
A new London exhibition showcases the long-term collaboration of Alasdair McLellan and Margaret Howell.
20/02/2017
Getting Lost
Neuroscientist Paul Dudchenko speaks on why we get lost, the distress and thrill of disorientation and how getting lost can improve your skills.
17/02/2017