Conductors can gesticulate wildly when they conduct an orchestra. But have you ever wondered what exactly they are doing with their hands? And why do they use a baton?

As good as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo or Botticelli, but for five hundred years the women artists of the Italian renaissance have lacked recognition. Linda Falcone, head of the Advancing Women Artists Foundation, is working to change that.

Highly respected theatres are programming gory productions that have more in common with slash horror films than traditional theatre.

Life is unfair. Some have perfect pitch while others can’t sing Happy Birthday in tune. Is musicality innate or cultural?

Patrick Bailly-Maître-Grand takes photos without a camera. By using techniques from the early days of photography the artist’s works are entirely analogue and highly poetic.

Before the computer age, Letraset typefaces allowed anyone to make professional-looking graphics on the cheap. It soon became central to punk and the DIY fanzine scene.

Designer, singer, poet, stylist, Vava Dudu does pretty much everything. But having worked with Jean-Paul Gaultier and designed garments for Lady Gaga, why isn’t she more famous?

Ex-member of the Camorra, Davide Cerullo lives in La Scampia, a notoriously tough suburb of Naples. He fights the local culture of violence with the beauty of photography and poetry.

With one of his paintings, Gerhard Richter made an intervention into a long-running an passionate debate: Which way round should you put the toilet roll?

Playing a platform game like Super Mario means that you have to be OK with the fact that you'll watch your avatar die on a regular basis