The Edit
Moody and mesmerizing in equal measure, Gunnar Smoliansky's photography has graduated with honours from the Swedish school of artful melancholy. Born in 1933, Smoliansky was entering his formative years as Ingmar Bergman was launching his film...
The Edit
Painting, drawing, collage, film, sculpture. Nature, fantasy, social history – you name it, and Ellen Gallagher is brilliantly adept at it, as this look back at the American's career to date, called AxME, shows so clearly. Now living and working...
Journal
“Then the nations around you that remain will know that I the LORD have rebuilt what was destroyed and have replanted what was desolate. I the LORD have spoken, and I will do it.” So says Ezekiel 36:36, and Lord knows, airline Lloyd Aérero...
Journal
We spent time behind the doors of Secret Project Robot, a cultural space in Brooklyn where creatives can show their works and the wider community enjoy interactive experiences, performances and live music. Outside, a haven of pebbled grounds and...
Journal
It is just as you might have expected; American streetwalkers look nothing like Julia Roberts did in Pretty Woman, but quite a lot like the assorted collection of wastrels locked up in the holding cage in The Shield. Both of those scenarios are...
The Edit
It's not very often you see street art on the street anymore – most artists seem to be beating a path to the nearest gallery and going all legit on us. Nothing wrong with that, but what we liked so much about the Street Museum of Art (SMoA) when...
Journal
In the height of Finland's winter months, darkness is something all too familiar to its residents; little surprise then that its artists exercise the right to explore the art world's darker side - something that Kim Simonsson does relishes with open...
The Edit
Never mind the mezcal, there's more than a bit of mescaline about the psychedelically tinged work of San Francisco painter Sylvia Ji, which in her latest collection Interwoven continues previous meditations on the Mexican culture's compelling...
Journal
You just knew that summer would have a bit of a twist at the Andy Warhol Museum, but beach ball ball gags? Not exactly family friendly summer fun, but a wonderfully subversive collection of images in which traditional holiday themes have been given...
The Edit
It seems like every week a new civil uprising hits the headlines, another massacre is condemned, another despot is being overthrown. Readers might mutter “it was ever thus” with some justification; The People versus The State is an ongoing...
The Edit
In the digital age, communication and exchange between cultures has never been easier, or perhaps more strained; the technology is there, but is the understanding? At Hauser & Wirth's London gallery, a number of multi-disciplinary artists take...
The Edit
How about this for an artistic skillset: neon sign maker, silversmith, welder? Some people are just born lucky. San Francisco multi-disciplinary creative Meryl Pataky has kept things elemental for her collection Cellar Door, drawing inspiration...
City Notes
Bringing understated Scandinavian elegance to the edge of Warsaw’s historic Old Town, PURO Warszawa Stare Miasto is the latest addition to the design-led hotel group’s growing Polish portfolio, and possibly their most considered space...
City Notes
In Milan’s ever-evolving Isola district, MOGO has arrived on the scene, offering a destination where music, mixology, and modern Japanese cuisine come together in a high-design setting that will have aesthetics addicts frothing at the mouth. A...
City Notes
Opening its doors in February 2025, Ned’s Club Washington, DC marks the second collaboration between Soho House’s luxury brand and the design and architecture experts at Stonehill Taylor. Set across the 9th to 12th floors of two historic...
City Notes
After a century spent as apartment residences, and following a meticulous two-year transformation, Hotel Granada reopened its Spanish Colonial archways to guests in August 2024. Located at 1302 West Peachtree Street NW, this 120-room property now...
Dispatches
In a country where club floors open with Buddhist chants and Ladyboys offer dawn alms in corsets and stilettos, Elizabeth Waterman has found a world of contradictions too vivid to ignore. Over the past three years, and across four extended trips,...
Dispatches
Hard water. It's one of those household nuisances everyone talks about, but what exactly is it, and why is it such a big deal? Essentially, hard water is water that contains high levels of dissolved minerals, primarily calcium and magnesium. These...
Dispatches
For those designing the future, few accolades carry the weight of the A’ Design Award & Competition. With the submission period for the 2025—2026 edition well under way, this international juried competition calls on designers, innovators and...
Dispatches
Running a business in Frisco means keeping your property clean and inviting, which includes tackling the risk of pests before they can cause problems. Frisco businesses stay bug‑free by partnering with local experts in Frisco pest control,...