Palazzo de Rossi ©Peter Aspden Peter Aspden 6:28pm

Wu Ming’s magical history tour

With its mission to tell stories ‘by all means necessary’, the Italian literary collective drives Peter Aspden deep into the countryside

LIFE & ARTS ARCHIVE

Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis, winner of the 2013 Man Booker International prize for fiction, interviewed by Emily Stokes in 2010
AG Lafley
AG Lafley, who has this week been reappointed as chairman and CEO of Procter & Gamble, talks to Elizabeth Rigby in 2008
Illustration of Sir John Richardson by James Ferguson ©James Ferguson Lunch with the FT from ARTS 6:41pm

Sir John Richardson

The 89-year-old art historian, best known for his biography of Pablo Picasso, talks about Larry Gagosian, low self-esteem and the tyranny of academic art criticism

A Jaguar C-Type passes through Rome during last weekend’s Mille Miglia rally ©Mike Dodd TRAVEL 4:58pm

Great Drives: Italy’s Mille Miglia

In the final part of our series, Sam Knight joins the Mille Miglia in Italy, once a death-defying race and now ‘the world’s flashiest classic car meeting’

'Blue is the Warmest Colour' by Abdellatif Kechiche Nigel Andrews from ARTS 6:21pm

Cannes communiqué

The latest from the film festival – and our critic’s Palme D’Or favourite

A rendering for James Turrell’s 2013 installation ‘Aten Reign’ ©James Turrell ARTS 6:23pm

Interview: James Turrell

The American artist who has made light his medium talks to Jonathan Griffin as he prepares for this summer’s triumvirate of retrospectives

Bottega Veneta spring/summer 2013 ©Catwalking STYLE 6:26pm

It’s tea time (again)

The full-skirted, floral, feminine dress from the 1940s is making a comeback

An illustration of a brain ©Wellcome Images BOOKS 6:24pm

Mind field

Known as the ‘psychiatric bible’, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders appears in a fifth edition this month. Talitha Stevenson explores the controversies surrounding its release

Museum of Islamic Art, Doha TRAVEL 6:24pm

Dazzled by Doha

Art and architecture are turning Qatar into much more than a place to change planes, writes Claire Wrathall

Front cover of 'Here and Now' BOOKS 6:23pm

Auster and Coetzee, by letter

An old-fashioned literary exchange enlightens and entertains. Ian Thomson reviews ‘Here and Now’, by Paul Auster and JM Coetzee

Yayoi Kusama’s ‘Sex Obsession, Phallic Bowl’, (1965), at Art Basel Hong Kong ARTS 6:39pm

The Art Market: first they took Miami, now they take Hong Kong

Basel brand hits HK; one fair in, one fair out in California; massive deflation for sculpture