The Edit
If ever there was an obtusely-named art collection, it's Heavenly Creatures by David 'Meggs' Hooke. His study of mythology through street art inspired mixed media mash-ups reeks of death, but there's no Homeric gods at work here, no Elysian Fields...
The Edit
New Yorker Matt Leines has been exhibiting for more than 10 years, but his latest collection, Hyperbolic, has been hailed as both a defining moment and a sea-change in the artist's career. Perhaps it's that he has moved back to NYC from a stint in...
The Edit
Earning a BFA and studying on two different MFA courses clearly gave Marion Peck a love of the old masters. It's from this bottomless well of creativity that she has drawn inspiration for Animals: Recent Paintings, on display at Los Angeles'...
Art & Culture
Toshio Saeki is billed as 'The Master of Japanese Erotica', and who are we to argue? Well to be honest there's not much in the way of eroticism that I can see, but it might just be me. Horses for courses and all that. Where others see the erotic,...
Journal
Free: the most distrusted word in the dictionary. Similarly, gratis or kostenlos are equally likely to be treated with scepticism by even the most naïve of Spaniards or Germans respectively. It doesn't take a hardened cynic to know that...
Journal
We managed to catch up with London-based, globe-trotting graphic artist Will Sweeney during a rather hectic weekend at Pictoplasma, Berlin. Acclaimed for his flamboyant comic book Tales from Greenfuzz and his Birdy Nam Nam music videos, we had to...
The Edit
Occupying an art gallery with photographs, scrapbooks, letters and memorabilia is a feat capable by only those of a certain gravity, to be sure. And they don't come with much more weight than Kenneth Wilbur Anglemeyer, aka Kenneth Anger, aka...
The Edit
Intrinsically linked to New York, Martin Scorsese's movies are as ingrained on the Big Apple and the wider world's contemporary culture as Italian American life and crime is on his works, a number of which are quite rightly regarded as some of the...
Journal
What first sucked us into Welsh artist Osian Efnisien’s world was his ability to create ridiculously cute characters, from just the simplest of swipes of his felt-tip pens. Somewhat new to the character, illustration and art scene, Efnisien was...
Journal
There's a real dichotomy in the work of Renaud Marion. Wearing one hat, the Paris-based photographer deals in the beauty of mundanity, "I love the simple aesthetic of banality, and landscapes bring me peace and tranquility" Marion tells us. Whilst...
Journal
Be it his trademark clown-esque smiles, a pooping dog (or fella), or simply the fun poses his erratic brush strokes dictate, Ted Parker’s work is guaranteed to make you smile. Capturing the seemingly mundane, the Netherlands-based artist's...
The Edit
Traditional print's resurgence seems to just keep on going. We were rather besotted with Out of Print at last year's London Design Festival, and equally taken by the brilliant fuoriMICRO at Via Tortona's OCA Officine Creative Ansaldo last week, an...
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
No matter what type of business you run, a clear and comprehensive digital marketing strategy should be at the heart of it. Companies are continuing to invest more and more into getting themselves noticed online, and if you aren’t up to date with...
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...