The Edit
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...
The Edit
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...
The Edit
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...
The Edit
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...
The Edit
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,...
The Edit
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...
The Edit
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...
Art & Culture
As if you weren't pining to be there already, along comes Olaf Heine with a special sort of torture in the form of his spellbinding photographic study Brazil. Oh, you terrible man. With the World Cup dominating the country at the moment, it's...
The Edit
Italian street artist RUN has got quite a British sense of humour – you find that out when he says he moved to London for the weather. He's also extremely well-travelled, and you can see both his humour and his travel experiences in his latest...
The Edit
Without wishing to get too party political, it's a bad time to be an Australian liberal. Prime Minister Tony Abbott isn't winning himself many friends with his style of leadership, and Anthony Lister, an artist based in Brisbane, would seem unlikely...
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...