Journal
If you've caught Grayson Perry's All in the Best Possible Taste on Channel 4 over the last two weeks (the third and final instalment will air next Tuesday), you'll have witnessed a fascinating insight into the complexities and contradictions of...
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Wonderful World is the epic third instalment of Gérard Rancinan and Caroline Gaudriault's The Trilogy of the Moderns. The large scale (worth over £1,000,000 we're told) exhibition is now gracing the walls of Londonewcastle's Project Space and is...
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Contemplative, beautiful, utterly absorbing... New York-based artist Frederick McSwain's Cells - shown as part of New York Design Week, at Gallery R’ Pure - is a fascinating marriage of art and design. Recalling a childhood experience - in which...
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A decade spat on by leftists, filled with rancid politics, Thatcher nicking milk from schoolkids. The 1980s. Came in with blistering punk, snorted coke, got rich, drove Porsches, crashed into a wall, throttled the country with poll tax and...
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Don't know about you, but we're starting to get rather excited about a certain little European competition that's kicking off tomorrow. England's expectations may be at an all time low, the Olympics may be causing an unwelcome distraction - but...
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A few weeks back, we interviewed James Lavelle, discussing the recently opened Hong Kong incarnation of his ongoing Daydreaming with... project. The show - that featured the likes of Robert Del Naja, Futura and Kai and Sunny, alongside some of...
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Ex-model turned still life, art and fashion photographer - for the likes of Ralph Lauren, New York Magazine and Stefan Sagmeister - Henry Hargreaves is also behind some personal projects that put the fun back into photography; not least his 3D boobs...
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Powerful, inhumanely detailed and, well, really quite disturbing; Ron Mueck's sculptures are frighteningly real, and utterly fascinating. You literally can't take your eyes off them. Showing recently at Hauser & Wirth's Savile Row gallery, this...
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When is scratchy, jumpy VHS gonna be treated to the same kind of revivalist worship that analogue camera film is? Surely we can't be too far from a video Instagram, where sun-kissed filters are replaced by TV static and shifting interference. For...
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For such a wee place, just eight million inhabitants in a landlocked country that's dwarfed by many other European nations, Switzerland has a hard-hitting global reputation for its graphic design. Like the Scandinavian's reputation for product...
Journal
Provocative and confrontational, Barcelona-based German street artist - turned conceptual agitator - Boris Hoppek, refuses to be drawn on his questionable content. From allegations of sexism to a strong outcry of racism over his Obama Beach Ball...
Journal
When I saw a whopping great melting Superman stood outside the Singapore Art Museum a few weeks back, I had to find out more. Although I unfortunately didn't have time to get to the museum itself, a little bashing of the internet's cogs and wheels...
Stuff Crush
Weirdness is a notion long entwined with the concept of creativity. Mocked by the strait-laced confined to their boxes of conformism, celebrated by the bold and the brave who pursue the outré as a means of pushing beyond the banal. In Weird...
City Notes
In Montreal’s Little Italy, a new arrival is making waves with a fresh take on Italian dining. Pasta Pooks, which opened in March 2025, is a compact five-seat takeout counter serving pasta and natural wine in a space that marries Old World charm...
City Notes
A once-forgotten 19th-century residence in Savannah’s historic district has been brought spectacularly back to life, reincarnated as The Douglas; a refined 16-room boutique hotel at 14 East Oglethorpe Avenue, where design meets old-world...
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
There's a paradox about self-care, which is that those who need it most are probably the least likely to practice it. If you're one of those people, you might even be put off by the term self-care. Maybe it sounds too self-indulgent to you. If...
Dispatches
Looking for a Japanese tutor in Chicago without breaking the bank? You’re not alone. Whether you’re aiming to order ramen with confidence, ace a language exam, or shape your skills for business or travel, one thing’s clear: good private...
Dispatches
If you’ve ever looked at your balcony and thought, “What a wasted space,” you’re not alone. Many of us live in homes where every square foot counts, yet balconies often remain underutilized. Whether it’s too small, too plain, or simply...
Dispatches
Recognising the world’s most inspiring work across design, innovation and creativity, the A’ Design Award & Competition stands as one of the most respected and far-reaching international design accolades. Each year, a diverse panel of academics,...