Felix Treadwell, Ripple on a Playground
Inspired by childhood alienation, Japanese pop culture and the very modern awkwardness of social media, Felix Treadwell’s show at CNB Gallery (located in the basement of Mark Hix’s Tramshed on Rivington Street, Shoreditch) is a playful foray into ambiguity and poignant uncertainty. Closing 3 August, catch our interview with Felix in Journal…
Journal
Pictures of Felix Treadwell receiving his Hix Award last year piqued my interest. Next to a grinning Tracy Emin, the young artist’s hesitant, friendly, low-wattage presence was striking, reminding me of Elliott Smith’s immortal white-tuxed...
The Edit
Faces — we've all got one. Some are nicer than others, mind you, but there they are. Sitting on the front of our heads, communicating our emotions through their extraordinary expressiveness, and stopping our sunglasses from falling to the floor....
The Edit
As Cedar Lewisohn himself admits, it's hard to place a timeframe on his huge woodblock images. One piece in his Plywood Transmission series is composed of a medieval knight, brandishing a sword and shield surrounded by unintelligible runic symbols,...
The Edit
When it comes to artistic ways to die, being buried under the weight of your own canvases is a pretty good one. According to Sue Webster, fellow artist Danny Fox was in danger of meeting that very fate when she visited his Kentish Town studio,...
Stuff Crush
“I am not sure whether my father totally understood my fascination with his photographs of package holidays,” explains artist Jake Clark, whose obsession with seaside resort architecture has been informed by his childhood growing up in the...
Paris
Opening today, 28 February, Hôtel Hana Paris is the latest addition to the Adresses Hotels Collection, a fancy group of decadent boutique hotels that includes Monsieur George and Saint Tropez's La Ponche; the five-star luxury property set to...
New York
Passing away at the age of 60 in May 2021, Michelangelo Lovelace was a Cleveland-based artist renowned for his vibrant paintings depicting quotidian scenes of urban life, policing, poverty, war, and personal investigations of Black Identity....
Lisbon
An urban sanctuary so laid back it's horizontal, Pátio do Tijolo is a truly beautiful 24-room boutique hotel that offers its guests a fusion of authentic Lisbon tradition with soothing contemporary aesthetics. Drawing on the 'slow life' concept,...