Art & Culture

Journal

The Big Reveal: Fendi's latest gift to Rome is a contemporary wonder that was unveiled in serious style...

Lisa Davidson 25 May, 2017

Fendi continue to give back to their home city of Rome, gifting a whimsical new contemporary art commission by Giuseppe Penone that was unveiled at a bewitching ceremony on Monday evening; invited to takeover the haute couture giant's Snapchat...

Journal

Impulsiveness, humility, provocation, hard work: lessons learnt from the creatives who commanded OFFF 2017...

James Davidson 11 May, 2017

There’s a palpable sense of anticipation as Lance Wyman readies himself to take the stage in front of a packed audience. Different generations of creatives, unified by a deep-seated respect — like The Rolling Stones headlining Glastonbury in...

Journal

The importance of the past on our present: how the G7 of Culture are working to preserve art's true icons...

Lorna Turnbull 9 May, 2017

Florence is a Renaissance city; there’s no getting around that fact. Narrow cobbled streets wind their way from the banks of the Arno to the Piazzo del Duomo, where one of the most impressive feats of 15th century engineering and design still...

Journal

OFFF founder Héctor Ayuso and Outro Studio talk us through their outré campaign for this year's festival...

James Davidson 16 March, 2017

17 years in, Barcelona-based creative symposium OFFF is still poking its public for new responses. Big-hitting design talent from Neville Brody (he who shaped the ‘80s alt-aesthetic) to naked studio man Stefan Sagmeister and hundreds in between...

Journal

From architectural icons to its big heart for the arts, Sarasota is Florida’s secret cultural enclave...

James Davidson Sponsored Story

The rollercoaster tale of the Ringlings, the art-crazed circus master who became the architect of contemporary Sarasota, goes a long way to defining the importance of culture to this corner of Florida. The opulence of their 36,000 sq ft waterfront...

Journal

Roll up, roll up: how The Greatest Show on Earth founded one of America's finest cultural institutions...

James Davidson Sponsored Story

Before binge-watching, before the blockbuster, before Technicolor, James Cagney and Greta Garbo; the largest showbiz industry that the world had seen would roll into town with a cast of thousands, literal tonnes of freight, and attract audiences of...

Journal

How pioneers of the new photography movement are finding unique ways to make the ephemeral last...

Francesca Soler 9 January, 2017

The new photography movement is a very modern juxtaposition that proves the undeniable longevity of one of our most popular arts. The principles behind primitive versions of the camera — like the camera obscura or pinhole — date back to ancient...

Journal

Leeds's cultural Christmas celebration is just another example of the city's thriving creative scene...

John Wilson 14 December, 2016

When folk think of British creativity outside of London, Manchester is often the first name to roll off anyone’s tongue; Cottonopolis’s status as the global epicentre of the textile trade its foundations, music and art the byproduct of that...

Journal

Photographer Sophie Ebrard talks the softer side of porn, spontaneity and stock photography...

Abraham Davies 7 December, 2016

You might find this surprising, but I devote hardly any time at all to thinking about where porn films are made. You might. Actually, though, my strong suspicion is that we have it in common. It’s about a half-hour into interviewing Sophie...

Journal

Artist Dave Ma shifts perceptions with unconventional Highlands landscapes for Ballantine’s collaboration...

Abraham Davies 11 October, 2016

It’s 10am on a September morning. We — a few journalists, some PR folk from Ballantine’s and photographer/filmmaker Dave Ma, the star of the show — are on a hill to the east of Inverness that looks down over Dufftown in the valley below (in...

Journal

Two cities united by singular spirit and creativity, a whistle-stop tour through Amsterdam and Antwerp...

Francesca Soler 8 September, 2016

Amsterdam and Antwerp. Two A’s just over an hour apart by train. One defining its free-thinking nation, a global big-hitter on the city break charts, one of the world’s most (in)famous capitals; the other a quietly confident mover and shaker...

Journal

Berlin-based art studio ZEITGUISED talk us through the fluid materiality of their 0% organic algorithms...

Alicja Jakeway 5 July, 2016

ZEITGUISED is a collective of international artists and designers working in the fields of sculpture, architecture, fashion and film. Almost impossible to categorise, the Berlin-based studio was founded by German architect Henrik Mauler and American...

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City Notes

Copenhagen's three pigs have built a solid house with exemplarily French cuisine and authentic design details...

Lisa Davidson 28 June, 2017

Les Trois Cochons initially opened its doors 12 years back, occupying the site of a former butcher's shop. Back then it was the second restaurant of the Cofoco brand—today counting 14 restaurants to their name—and it was an early constituent of...

City Notes

Making a scene: cultivating a creative community, Brody House breathes art and soul into Budapest...

Juliet Kinsman 26 June, 2017

Experience the bold new spirit of this ex-communist capital city care of Brody House, an inspiring bohemian hangout beloved by local creatives. There’ve been Playboy shoots in the boutique-hotel bedrooms and Budapest’s culture high and low is...

The Edit

Forthcoming independent magazine, Caña, celebrates Beer Culture with the launch of Barcelona exhibition...

James Davidson 22 June, 2017

Last night marked the opening of an exhibition that honours beer, brewing, and the culture that surrounds it. Gracing the walls of Barcelona's Garage Beer Co. — one of Europe's most forward-thinking breweries — Beer Culture is a three-month...

City Notes

Even Bergen's infamous rain can't dampen the spirits at its handsome new design hotel, Zander K...

Amelie Jones 16 June, 2017

A 1930s parking garage now houses Bergen’s latest design hotel, and what a beauty it is. Zander K (part of the De Bergenske family of five Bergen hotels, which includes Villa Terminus) connects to the the Norwegian landscape via a canvas of blues,...

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#TBT to stumbling on a cloudy #Manhattanhenge a few years back by accident 🌥

Incredible piece thrown up in #Poblenou by @gleo_co as part of @us_barcelona 👌🏼

Pizza at the excellently named @frankie_gallo_chachacha was ALL kinds of incredible. 🍕🍕🍕🍕😋😋😋😋

Just Married! 🎊 Brilliantly subversive street art from @ooss.corner at the latest edition of @us_barcelona this weekend ...

Dispatches

Ben Eine and Ben Okri, Grenfell Tower Mural

Dispatches

Ben Okri's moving Grenfell Tower poem the source for new Ben Eine mural to honour victims and survivors...

James Davidson 20 July, 2017

'I love London and I’m fucking angry,' blurts Maziar Bahari, an Iranian-Canadian journalist and filmmaker who's spent more than ten years living in the capital. Bahari, who is also the founder of Paint the Change, a new initiative to push social...

Dispatches

Cool as Hull: an octet of diverse creatives transformed Hull’s fruit market into a paper trail for G . F Smith...

Laura Snoad 14 July, 2017

In an old smokehouse just off Hull’s emerging cultural epicentre Humber Street, a writhing network of paper seaweed hangs from its wooden rafters. Created by Bethan Laura Wood, a London-based designer known for her flamboyant collisions of colour,...

Willoke Urban Art Festival, Fourth Edition

Dispatches

Brilliant street art festival, Willoke, brings visual joy to the southern Italian regions of Campania and Puglia...

Lisa Davidson 13 July, 2017

Now in its fourth edition, Willoke is an urban contemporary art festival that invites guest artists to beautify walls throughout three municipalities between the Irpinia and Daunia areas of south Italy’s Campania and Puglia...

Dispatches

Flower Power: How our obsession with flora is transforming the aesthetics of design, art and fashion...

Amelie Jones 15 June, 2017

'I don't know. They grow, they bloom, they fade.' Says Antwerp-based florist Mark Colle of his floral friends. 'You can't hold on to them forever . Fashion is like that too in a way—it comes and it goes. They are symbolic for richness, romance....