LVMH’s purchase of L’Épée 1839 has wound up the market for luxury automata
Private equity group scooped up chain for $5mn following dispute with US real estate billionaire Charles Cohen
Designers are going bloom or bust this season
As one of the city’s most beloved art collections gets ready to move back into its Upper East Side home in 2025, the FT’s US art critic selects her highlights
From the Swiss Alps to Norway via Paris and London — bad dads loom large in this current crop of fiction
Step inside the homes of some of the world’s most illustrious writers, artists and other historical personalities — and see how interiors can reveal interior lives
In ‘16 Sunsets’, Kevin Fong explores the space shuttle with archive footage and insights from Nasa veterans
Five stars for ‘Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light’ starring Mark Rylance; ‘Say Nothing’ is hard-hitting drama about IRA murderers and their victims; ‘Silo’ returns with another season of gritty subterranean sci-fi dystopia; Eddie Redmayne plays the titular assassin in ‘The Day of the Jackal’; a pair of BBC documentaries follow opposite sides of the Trump divide; Channel 4’s Undercover’ infiltrates a far-right group promoting race-based eugenics — reviews by Dan Einav
The singer put her stamp on a bleak song that came to echo her personal life
Our Christmas gift guide is back – and it’s more colourful than ever
Why Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo chose John Janick
Blending photojournalism and portraiture, the trailblazing artist used her work to advocate for Black Americans and labourers
Her BBC series ‘The Listeners’ turns an eye for the uncanny on the story of a woman plagued by a mysterious hum
How a superfan’s desire to tell the story of the Fab Four in Canada unearthed the recording of a 1965 gig
Fruit and veg, seafood, jellyfish, even toast that glows when it pops out of a toaster . . . the era of ‘dopamine decor’ is riding high
Tour de force production has paranormal realms, a huge cast and possibly the highest notes ever heard in the Royal Opera House
An exhibition of the great botanical artist’s work is currently touring, giving us an opportunity to look as deeply at nature as he did
The principal dancer of The Royal Ballet twirls for Tim Tams, Tchaikovsky and taxis
In a Twin Peaks-esque town near Krakow, the Polish artist has found a dark and delicious inspiration
The Kudos Project’s author Charlene Prempeh would like pyjamas, pencil sets and Jordan Casteel portraits
Photographer James Harvey-Kelly seeks a Stetson, a point-and-shoot and Hi-Chew sweeties
The shows are on and you’ve read the reviews; now revisit our interviews with the people transforming stage and screen this season
The star of ‘Tenet’ and ‘BlacKkKlansman’ discusses taking on ‘The Piano Lesson’ and why his father Denzel is a tough act to follow
Based on Patrick Radden Keefe’s non-fiction bestseller, the series is a sweeping and affecting history of the Troubles
FT music critics Ludovic Hunter-Tilney and Arwa Haider discuss how to break out of the algorithm and define your own taste
