Five years in the making. Five cities. Thirteen record stores. One profound question: what does it mean to keep a scene alive? Damien and Gautier Barras went to Japan to find out — and came back with something none of them expected.

Rebecca Manners has been to the volcanic mountain ranges of Java hunting for agatized fossils. She has lived with tribes in the Kayah state of Myanmar. She has drunk gallons of sugary coffee waiting for Master Goldsmiths to trust her enough to begin. She no longer creates large collections. She creates bespoke pieces — each one a living record of the hands and the culture and the place that made it. She calls it the Art of Slow, mindful luxury. It is exactly that: slow, but made to the highest quality. Patience and time is needed.

The darkroom as a creative womb. Photograms made with condoms. A soundscape by Toni Castells. Margherita Chiarva's The Space In Between — presented at ARCO 2020 Madrid — is an invitation to see something you weren't supposed to see, and to understand that what you see says everything about you. An interview from the fair.