The Edit
Neon is back with a bang of late (not literally of course, as it's an inert gas - damn I miss Bob Monkhouse), but back from the wilderness of squalid kebab shops and seedy nightclub signs, no longer flickering uncertainly but grabbing you by the...
The Edit
Debbie Harry, the face that launched a thousand furtive boyhood fantasies, and spawned a sea of new wave copycat peroxide hairdos in the 1970s and '80s. Singer, style icon, sex symbol, frontwoman and trailblazer for hook-laden pop-punk outfit...
The Edit
Timothy Taylor Gallery's current exhibition, Fiona Rae: New Paintings, doesn't need much explaining, but the works comprising Rae's third solo show at the gallery do bear closer inspection – especially the Where's Wally-style game she seems to...
Art & Culture
Towards the end of last year we interviewed Manchester-based duo Ryan Doyle and Mark Edwards (aka DR.ME) as they unveiled a new website and updated portfolio; "an unnatural force, an uninhibited torrent of imagination, innovation, artistry and...
Journal
Art, music, literature... there are very few, if any, creative disciplines where a healthy obsession doesn't bear significant fruits. Call it a preoccupation, a fixation, an infatuation or an addiction; the overwhelming urge of compulsion is...
The Edit
A versatile thing, the leftover cardboard tube from an empty bog roll. A parent's go-to object. Use them as legs for a home-made robot, as a makeshift megaphone, or a pretend telescope – hours of fun. What, you may ask, has this got to do with a...
Journal
With one eye on the mundanity of day-to-day life, and another on surreal whimsy, Brooklyn-based artist Ryan Oskin suspends reality to explore concepts, humour and opinion. Fabricating scenes and moments in time with often subtle interventions, Oskin...
The Edit
It seems like anyone who is anyone in the street art world is making the transition to gallery exhibitions – maybe it's the free sandwiches – and the latest star to step out of the urban jungle is Remio, although his camouflage is still firmly...
Journal
You can always rely on the internet to be a complicit and worthy aide in your daily mission to procrastinate; whether it's Lance Armstrong singing Creep or sartorial hounds, there's enough fresh madness to make every day as thoroughly unproductive...
The Edit
Cinefiles will immediately recognise the title of this collective art exhibition; Kiss Me Deadly is a 1955 movie that stands square-jawed and toe-to-toe with the best of the late Los Angeles film noir detective novel adaptations. There are plenty of...
The Edit
Australian art duo Dabs Myla are a bit of an enigma - they're used to working in the shadowy world of street art and perhaps that's why it's hard to get a good handle on exactly who they are. This air of mystery makes it all the more sweet that we...
Art & Culture
The surviving subjects of photographer Jeanette Montgomery Barron's nostalgia trip/retrospective Scene, published by powerHouse Books, have probably all given up the cigarettes they once so cooly dangled from their mouth corners and are in bed by...
City Notes
Reopened in the centre of Megève, Hotel Saint-Georges returns as a thoughtfully reimagined alpine retreat with a new visual language and razor-sharp focus. Set within a traditional chalet, the five-star hotel has been reimagined by Paris-based...
City Notes
The Zetter Group is set to deepen its connection to the UK capital with the opening of The Zetter Bloomsbury in March 2026, a 68 bedroom hotel housed across six interconnecting Georgian townhouses moments from Russell Square. Sitting directly...
City Notes
TOKKIA is a new addition to Covent Garden, and Europe’s first luxury Korean matcha house. Founded by Sooji Im — who previously introduced London to Korean tea culture with be-oom in Exmouth Market — the project brings a focused look at Korean...
City Notes
Bunkhouse Hotels expands its Houston presence with the opening of Hotel Daphne, a 49 room refuge in the historic Houston Heights. Following the success of the exquisite Hotel Saint Augustine in Montrose, the Austin-based brand continues its mission...
Dispatches
Creative work and predictable income feel like they're supposed to be opposites. Artists, photographers, designers, writers, musicians built their practices around the work itself, not around revenue systems and operational infrastructure. Then...
Dispatches
This is it. The final call. The door is almost shut on the 2025—2026 edition of the A’ Design Awards & Competition, and if your work is sitting on a hard drive waiting for the right moment, this is that moment. With submissions closing on 28...
Dispatches
Inspiration seldom arrives empty-handed. As ideas clarify, books, samples, tools, notes, and references accumulate, and the pile may begin competing for space and attention. What started as inspirational fuel becomes visual noise—debris in the...
Dispatches
Freelancers and creatives rarely follow a traditional pay cycle. One month might bring multiple client payments, while the next feels quieter and less predictable. That irregular rhythm makes financial planning more nuanced than it is for salaried...