The Edit
“I love to eat - Kit Kats or cookies-and-cream ice cream. I need sugar like five times a day.” This is a quote from Kim Kardashian, owner of the biggest arse in all of Celebrityville, and the same Kim Kardashian who recently bemoaned her...
The Edit
The interior of Louisiana Museum of Modern Art looks as though it is still recovering from the terrible after-effects of Hurricane Katrina, with tonnes of rocks, silt and shale having washed through the building, carrying away all before it. But...
The Edit
If ever there was a business made to be a pop-up, it's the sex shop. Historically a discreet, even clandestine, sort of place, this particular sex shop is coming with as much noise as possible; it's opening up during the Folkestone Fringe festival,...
Dispatches
Talking to a child of the smartphone generation about Teletext is a bit embarrassing. It's like telling them that people used to listen to music by slotting temperamental spools of tape into mechanical bricks - bricks powered by AA batteries that...
Journal
RCA graduate Johanna Schmeer proposes a series of seven enzyme-enhanced bio-plastic products that could replace our entire food system. For her final project at London’s Royal College of Art (RCA), Johanna Schmeer built upon recent scientific...
The Edit
There's no denying that The Beatles' “White Album” is a true classic, but I'm not sure I'd want quite as many copies as Rutherford Chang. Two or three, sure, but after the first five or so I'd run out of things to do with them. Not so New York...
The Edit
“Let me out! Let me out!” That's the imagined (and I'll admit, slightly ridiculous) cry of contemporary art as it languishes in packing crates. As New York gallery The Hole points out, contemporary art spends much of its existence stuck in...
The Edit
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is one of the canon of literary classics that I haven't yet had the dubious pleasure of wading through yet. I've never seen the Boris Karloff film either, and I only made it half way through the modern version with Robert...
The Edit
It's a long way from a blue collar job in Canberra to the refugee camps of Lebanon, but that's the abridged version of stencil artist Luke Cornish's incredible journey. Louder Than Words is a new collection of artworks arising from a trip to the...
Journal
In a studio near London’s Brunswick Centre, Richard Rhys, founder of Pattern Foundry, is re-imagining not just the way we use tiles, but how we can incorporate patterns into our lives. Since 2005 Pattern Foundry has been steadily, and...
Journal
It’s at the tail-end of WWII when celebrated artist Tove Marika Jansson decides to move into her own live/work studio space in an affluent area of Helsinki - an anti-war advocate, Jansson has been troubled by its destruction and channels her...
The Edit
Well blow me down. Here's something you don't come across everyday: an art exhibition inspired by a Bananarama video. Seriously. There's you lot thinking that New York was always so much cooler than everywhere else, yet in 1984 the Big Apple was...
City Notes
Opened in September 2025, HYLL brings a new interpretation of country hospitality to the Cotswolds, a hotel rooted in its landscape, designed to slow the pace and dim the noise. Set within a restored 16th century manor house, the 26 room property...
City Notes
Sircle Collection, the international hospitality group behind a growing portfolio of hotels and restaurants, introduces The Cover Vienna this November, a private members’ club in the city’s 7th District. Set within the Max Brown Hotel, the club...
City Notes
In the centre of Bergen, a new chapter has opened for a concrete landmark designed by Egill Reimers in 1920. Once home to bakeries, offices, shops and social services, the building has been reimagined by architecture studio LOCAL as Bergen Camping,...
City Notes
On Barcelona’s recently beautified Avinguda Diagonal, a new kind of café experience has arrived, one that has already piqued the curiosity of both locals and visitors. Jaç Hi-Fi Café, designed by Isern Serra Studio for owners Ligia and Arnau,...
Dispatches
Planning a wedding involves more than choosing colors and menus. It also means deciding how to spend your money. With so many expenses competing for attention, it’s easy to get pulled in multiple directions. But if you approach the process with...
Dispatches
Florida welcomed a record 143 million visitors in 2024, and many of them booked stays in the state’s 65,000-plus short-term rentals that stretch from Pensacola to Key West. If you own one of those homes, you’ve probably juggled midnight leak...
Dispatches
Joint pain from arthritis can make even simple movements feel like a challenge. Many people face a tough choice between using a cream that targets pain at the surface or taking a pill that works throughout the body. Each method provides benefits,...
Dispatches
Ever notice how some people seem to effortlessly achieve gorgeous hairstyles while others struggle for hours to recreate the same look? The secret often comes down to understanding hair texture, a fundamental aspect of hair care that many overlook....