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Nathaniel Mary Quinn's creations are in the midst of an identity crisis, and not just because of their abstract quality. Composed of harvested parts of family portraits, popular articles, and advertisements, Quinn's characters veer between the...
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Multi-disciplinary creative agency HORT is 20 years old this year, and the Berlin-based group is having a party at KK Outlet to celebrate. Instead of trawling their archives for a retrospective, HORT has put together a new collection that was...
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We don't normally like to bring people's mothers into things, but in the case of James Reka and his latest art collection, we don't think he'll mind. Mrs Reka is a former dancer and once performed with the Russian ballet, and son James obviously...
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Working as one creative entity for the past couple of years, DevNGosha (aka Devin Liston and Gosha Levochkin) have recently taken time apart to get stuck into some solo material, although now both artists' side projects are complete they are back...
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For a small city in Switzerland, La Chaux-de-Fonds is unusually notable. Located in the Jura mountains, it's the capital of what is known as Watch Valley – a corridor of historically prolific watch-making centres. It's also the birthplace of...
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Lock up your mannequins, shopkeepers of Edinburgh. The 2014 Edinburgh Arts Festival brings a rare chance to see the work of renowned German artist Isa Genzken – it's the first Genzken exhibition in the UK outside London, and is taking place in the...
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David Miles' poster 18th appeals for information about an incident many years ago on a West Sussex beach. Who is the young man drinking Guinness on his 18th birthday? Perhaps the artist himself, trying to recapture a hazy memory lost in the fog of...
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There was a time when manned exploration of space was the pinnacle of human endeavour, but after the Americans won the Space Race and put men on the moon, and the Cold War ended, things slowed down a bit. Budgets were slashed, projects...
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Those ancient Greeks certainly knew how to spin a perverted yarn. One of the most famous characters from the classical tales is the Minotaur, the fierce creature with the head of a bull and the body of a man who roamed a maze on the island of Crete....
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Do you work well with others? Is your creative process helped or hindered by having someone else in on the job? Collaboration can be a great thing – just think of Lennon and McCartney – but it can also lead to frustration and fall-outs. Just...
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Sometimes you can't appreciate an object or situation without taking a step back, getting a fresh perspective and taking it all in as a whole. In other cases the opposite is true, and a close-up view examining things in detail is the way to go....
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Genetically modified foods – or “Frankenfoods” as the tabloids rather catchily refer to them – have been a topic of heated debate since their introduction in the 1990s, but producers have been fiddling with our food for far longer than that....
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...