The Edit
At first glance, the work of Tomoo Gokita has the appearance of collage work, but look a little closer and his deft painterly skill is revealed in this extraordinary series of noirish portraits, on display at Mary Boone Gallery in New York's Chelsea...
Istanbul
When the economic crisis of 2008 hit Turkey, Sema Topaloğlu's tenants could no longer afford the rent in her Istanbul townhouse, and moved out. Instead of looking for new tenants, Sema's brother Murat persuaded her to turn the property into a...
The Edit
Switzerland isn't the first place you think of when it comes to cutting loose with crazy artistic antics, but there's a little corner of Lausanne where the rules and regulations the rest of the country is famous for go out of the window – École...
The Edit
The New Museum, New York is being taken over by a group of European space cadets later this month, as the venue's collaborative area Museum as Hub will be transformed by artistic network tranzit for the Report on the Construction of a Spaceship...
Martha's Vineyard
Martha's Vineyard sounds wonderfully pastoral, and indeed it is; the island off the coast of Massachusetts is a favourite destination for the well-heeled looking to escape the big cities of the East Coast for some fresh air and summer fun. Much of...
The Edit
Derek Jarman was one of King's College London's most controversial alumni of the late 20th Century, studying humanities there in the early 1960s before becoming a cult film-maker. The college's Cultural Institute is honouring the late artist with...
Publications
City High Streets have become a homogeneous smear of corporate branding. The same names on the same lightbox signs, and the same things inside. The same services and products at the same price delivered by people in the same uniforms. The same. Of...
Journal
Devin Swanson loves his job, and who can blame him? At 21 years old, he's already been to the ends of the Earth and back in his time as a First Class flight attendant for premium airline Lufthansa. These days there are so many airlines to choose...
London
My partner and I recently took a trip to the bright lights of London for a weekend away from wrestling with the forthcoming updates to this very website, finding ourselves bedding down at The Nadler Soho. The 73-room boutique hotel opened in June...
Los Angeles
When Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith broke away from Paramount Pictures in 1919 to form United Artists, it was a bold statement of intent. Throwing off the shackles of the studio system, wresting back control of...
The Edit
Have you had your three Shredded Wheat this morning? This lot certainly have. In fact they finished them all, then ate the box, the bowl, the spoon and maybe even the waiter who served them as well by the looks of things. These hefty units are...
The Edit
Hannah Höch was the darling of Dada, hugely influential in the collage movement and an important voice of criticism during a time of national and international upheaval throughout Europe. Whitechapel Gallery in London has curated a major...
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...