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From forth the fertile imaginations of APAK comes Stardust Dreams, a journey into the far reaches of the cosmos to places where cutesy beings float through star-speckled landscapes, bumping into weird and wonderful creatures along the way. Their...
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Chelsea Thursdays welcomed an influx of New York's street art populous on 12 September at the doors of Cheim and Read. The space housed the anticipated reappearance of the elusive Barry McGee, breaking his eight year hiatus from Manhattan's gallery...
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Before hitting the top of the bestseller list with his novel Cloud Atlas, author David Mitchell lived and worked in Japan, and it is his translation of Naoki Higashida's novel The Reason I Jump, about an autistic teen who finds comfort in nature,...
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Citizens of Amsterdam, stop what you are doing and proceed directly to Batallion at the Westergasfabriek, as you only have two more days to catch the current exhibition from Israeli art collective Broken Fingaz. The group from Haifa created this...
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The influences of contemporary creativity can usually be traced back a few steps – artists and designers often cite their inspiration or sometimes even make direct reference to it in their work. The Institute of Contemporary Art's A Journey...
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Those of you with bad eyesight, or more likely those who simply like their art on a larger scale, will enjoy the new collection from George Herms; the long-practising and influential Californian collage artist has supersized his work on the...
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German artist Albert Oehlen doesn't have a very high opinion of the materials he uses to produce his collage works – supermarket and billboard advertising with an aesthetic he describes as “ghastly”. These ads do, however, have an extremely...
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Coming in with a late but very strong entry for the WTF? Moment of the Week is Eric Yahnker and his Ebony and Benghazi series of paintings, drawings and sculptures. It will be a while before I can watch the Christopher Reeve Superman films again...
Journal
Artists Christine Istad and Elizabeth Pacini will bring the SUN to this year’s 100% Norway at Tent London. The public piece of art that represents their country at this year’s 10th anniversary exhibition will be a first for London. An imposing...
Journal
If you go down to the woods today, you're in for a big surprise. Or at least you are in this particular West Sussex wood, where gramophone-headed elephants on bicycles roam side-by-side with eerie mirrors and reclaimed copper and corten steel human...
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Jean Jullien seems to be a man obsessed. Obsessed with what? Bums. If he was British, we'd be mildly concerned by his voyeuristic La Plage collection, but it's OK, he's French, and everyone knows the Europeans are a bit mucky. You'd be put on the...
Art & Culture
Let's face it, if you've seen one picture of the Eiffel Tower, you've seen them all – clichéd holiday snaps are the worst. What really would be interesting is seeing Paris through the eyes of a local, who knows where all the city's treasures are...
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
Moving, renovating, or downsizing in a fast-growing city like Dallas can quickly become overwhelming. Between tight housing transitions, unpredictable weather, and the sheer logistics of packing up a home or office, it’s easy to feel buried under...
Dispatches
Drivers race the yellow light constantly. It's become normal behavior. Someone sees the light turn yellow and accelerates to beat it rather than slowing down. Another driver is already committed to going through. They collide in the middle of the...
Dispatches
Once upon a time, hotels were where we went to escape real life, and homes were where we returned to it. Today, that separation is disappearing. The warmth, comfort, and design sophistication that once defined boutique hotels are now finding their...
Dispatches
Moving is one of those life events that sits somewhere between chaos and reinvention. It’s stressful, yes — but it’s also a rare opportunity to start over. To touch every object you own, question its purpose, and decide what kind of person...