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A press photograph is defined by its function, which is to add a visual illustration to the contents of the story copy. But if the link is severed between text and image, what happens to that image? What does it become? Murray Moss has been...
Art & Culture
It all started with a Louisiana man called Earnest Beaumont-Gannt. Earnest was an intrepid young fellow and sailed the south Pacific in the early 20th Century, absorbing the culture of the Polynesian islands he visited on the way. What he saw fired...
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You may remember Canadian artist Stan Douglas from his film Luanda Kinshasa that we featured earlier in the year. In it, Douglas faithfully recreated a 1970s recording studio from the former Columbia Records building, aka The Church, in a look at...
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When trekking through the Amazonian rainforest, you might expect to come across an Aztec ruin, or a tribal settlement, but not a piece of cosmic Indian architecture. Likewise at sea, the horizon may be broken by the rising mast of a sailboat, or a...
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Jeff Koons is having another big year: not only is the Pennsylvanian artist the subject of a monster retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, but his huge Split-Rocker sculpture has been installed at the Rockefeller...
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It's no wonder the residents of Toxteth, Liverpool, are looking so nonplussed by the arrival of this art project in one of the neighbourhood's derelict houses. Walter Hugo and Zoniel, the duo responsible for the installation, purposely avoided any...
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This is one of those occasions when I think I'm looking at a giant vagina being poked at by bananas, but I'm a bit reluctant to say so in case I just seem like a horrible male Freudian cliché who should go and sit in the corner and read feminist...
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You know how it is, when you stumble across the 29th series of Big Brother or I'm an Arsehole, Get Me Out of Here and your mind wanders to thoughts of finding the person responsible for inventing reality TV and doing things to them with a car...
Journal
Tasked by the good folk at Vodafone with posing some questions to an art and design influencer, as part of their Vodafone Firsts campaign, we thought it fitting to sit down with a duo whose influence has reverberated around the very walls of We...
Journal
“Small boys in the park, jumpers for goalposts. Rush goalie. Two at the back, three in the middle, four up front, one's gone home for his tea. Beans on toast? Possibly, don't quote me on that. Marvellous.” The Fast Show's Ron Manager there,...
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The things you see when you're out walking the streets of San Francisco. What stands out in the Californian city as much as the famous trams, the steep hills and the expectation of an imminent car chase are the people, and they are an integral...
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It's hard to believe that the ZX Spectrum was once the height of home computing sophistication; there are probably fridges now that pack more processing power than the Speccy, but in their day, wowzer! Tech nostalgia levels are off the charts at...
City Notes
Reopened in the centre of Megève, Hotel Saint-Georges returns as a thoughtfully reimagined alpine retreat with a new visual language and razor-sharp focus. Set within a traditional chalet, the five-star hotel has been reimagined by Paris-based...
City Notes
The Zetter Group is set to deepen its connection to the UK capital with the opening of The Zetter Bloomsbury in March 2026, a 68 bedroom hotel housed across six interconnecting Georgian townhouses moments from Russell Square. Sitting directly...
City Notes
TOKKIA is a new addition to Covent Garden, and Europe’s first luxury Korean matcha house. Founded by Sooji Im — who previously introduced London to Korean tea culture with be-oom in Exmouth Market — the project brings a focused look at Korean...
City Notes
Bunkhouse Hotels expands its Houston presence with the opening of Hotel Daphne, a 49 room refuge in the historic Houston Heights. Following the success of the exquisite Hotel Saint Augustine in Montrose, the Austin-based brand continues its mission...
Dispatches
You're looking at kratom gummies online or in a store, and they all claim to be high quality. Premium ingredients, potent extract, laboratory tested, maximum strength. Everyone says their gummies are the best. How do you actually separate quality...
Dispatches
Human hair extensions have quietly become one of the defining materials of contemporary self-presentation. Once confined to salon makeovers and celebrity transformations, they now sit at the intersection of personal branding, performance, and...
Dispatches
In most modern history, all these years, “doing more” usually meant “hiring more”. Growth was believed to be directly proportional to headcount because the work was manual. More customers created more tickets (issues), more orders created...
Dispatches
The story of how a billion-dollar casino hotel that reinvents itself while guests sleep, and why precision documentation is the invisible foundation of every great renovation. At 3am on a Tuesday, while high rollers chase fortunes on the casino...