Dispatches
The jury is in, and the shortlisted finalists in the Blooom Award by Warsteiner art competition have been announced. More than 1200 hopefuls put their work forward for consideration, but the five member panel – Olaf Heine (photographer), Robert...
The Edit
When it comes to artistic ways to die, being buried under the weight of your own canvases is a pretty good one. According to Sue Webster, fellow artist Danny Fox was in danger of meeting that very fate when she visited his Kentish Town studio,...
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BLAM! Greg Gossel's psychedelic superheroes come at you like a sock to the jaw from the Man of Steel himself. The mixed media artist continues his high-impact exploration of the Pop aesthetic with an exhibition of more than 30 new works on canvas,...
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It's not unusual to enjoy a tipple or two when visiting a new exhibition – in fact it's one of the main reasons we go – but in our experience it's not often that the artist in question also brews the opening night drinks themselves. Karl Grandin...
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> “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” J Robert Oppenheimer, quoting a Hindu religious text to summarise his feelings after seeing the first successful test of the Atomic Bomb in New Mexico, 1945. The physicist was in awe of what...
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Here in Britain we're blessed with some amazing native animals, but it's not always easy to spot the elusive little blighters. While some species have crossed over into urban living – the fox for example – the majority of the most interesting...
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The endless hotels, the sleep warping time zones – it's no wonder so many musicians end up getting into mischief while out on the road. While some of Stevie Nicks' Fleetwood Mac bandmates did fall foul of the money + boredom equation, Nicks...
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“What the fuck is Heimat?” is Stefan Strumbel's rhetorical question that serves as the title for the artist's latest exhibition being shown at Circle Culture Gallery, Berlin. The gallery tries to help by explaining that “ can be considered as...
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Remote areas of rural Finland are pretty sparsely populated to begin with, but when a large proportion of the people who do live there move to larger urban centres for work, things get really desolate. Martina Lindqvist has been out into the...
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How many people from your life can you remember? Just to write them all down would be a monumental task, but to paint them all would be something else entirely. Los Angeles artist Rob Sato has taken that challenge on in his Five Movements for Little...
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This one's for all our readers who woke up full of joie de vivre this morning. A spring in the step, a song on the lips, and a disposition so sunny it's melting the polar ice caps. Well cool your jets there Smiley Cyrus, for as Czech artist Hynek...
Art & Culture
Sheila Rock's essential punk-era photography is currently tearing things up in Asia on a touring exhibition championed by fashion designer Agnès B. It's a natural meeting of genres for Agnès, as the 1970s movement was hugely influential in...
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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...