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London
Occupying a space in the hip E20 postcode — the former Olympic Village — REDYELLOWBLUE is another welcome addition to the already culturally-buzzing neighbourhood; an exhibition space, bar, and restaurant that's dedicated primarily to presenting...
Journal
There's a lot more than meets the eye to PARIS TEXAS antwerp. The project known as the event space, located in the once unsavoury old Sailor’s Quarter of Antwerp and close to the impressive Museum Aan de Stroom, has seen much regeneration of late....
Barcelona
Art Strikes Back! It is not solely the name of Fundació Gaspar's debut exhibition, but a battle cry; a defiant call to arms, a declaration of the new Barcelona gallery's intent. Open for 90 years from 1906, Joan Gaspar i Xalabarder's Sala...
London
Gasworks has been a pivotal part of the arts in Britain for over 20 years, providing artist residencies, studio spaces, exhibition platforms, and outreach projects. It's reassuring to know that the London institution is now on an even more secure...
Detroit
Newly-opened Detroit arts venue Wasserman Projects is certainly kicking things off in grand style as it welcomes two exhibitions that stretch the 5,000 sqft space to its limits, inside and out. The inaugural event, timed to coincide with the Detroit...
Amsterdam
An amazing exhibition space, a delicious little small plates kitchen helmed by top guest chefs and a cool bar all under one roof — what more could you ask for? What's that? You'd like a beautifully curated design shop too? Then it shall be so....
London
This operation began in 1993 in New York, and hasn't stopped gaining momentum. Several Big Apple locations were followed in 2012 with the first London outpost, and what a place. Anyone who's played Monopoly will recognise Mayfair as the most...
London
Zürich, New York, London, and soon Los Angeles, there's no stopping this international gallery which opened in 1992. Since then the institution has built a strong reputation and represents artists including Phyllida Barlow, Martin Creed and Subodh...
Manchester
Manchester's First Street development is turning around 20 acres of city centre land into a pioneering mixed-use centre for synergistic art and business, and at the heart of the project sits the hugely impressive HOME — a £25 million cultural hub...
London
You'll never guess what. Radiohead's Ed O'Brien is co-founder of The Laundry, a newly-opened creative space in London Fields. Normally, that would be all the excuse we needed to go trawling through the band's discography looking for...
Belgrade
Gritty riverside neighbourhood Savamala is one of Belgrade’s emerging creative hotspots, thanks to the influx of galleries, bars and cafés that have flooded the previously neglected area. Mixed bag Mikser House, a centre for Balkans design, has...
Publications
Last year's closure of The Wapping Project in London was a tragedy for the arts that didn't generate nearly as much attention as it warranted, but these, alas, are the times we live in. Three residents successfully complained to the council that...
City Notes
'The concept is simple,' say the team behind Japanese multi-venue arts-hospitality venture BnA Project, 'we create art hotel rooms with artists, the artists receive a percentage of the booking fee every time their room is booked. Room design, from...
The Edit
Emily Forgot is the appropriately mysterious alias of Emily Alston, a London-based artist who has worked in the creative industry over the last decade; amassing a diverse range of international clients, and gaining plaudits from big-hitters like...
City Notes
Taking its name from Nelson Algren’s 1956 novel A Walk on the Wild Side, and inspiration from iconic mid-century diners and bars, Dove’s Luncheonette provides diners with a dollop of nostalgia in Chicago’s enduringly cool Wicker Park 'hood;...
City Notes
An 1880s-era hotel has been transformed into a contemporary boutique destination in the remote but mythical West Texas town of Marfa, which is riding high on its curious but significant art scene; from Donald Judd moving here from New York in 1973...
Dispatches
What with Weedles and Squirtles and Pinsirs and co., strange creatures have become a regular part of many people's day to day lives in recent months — for one Instagrammer, though, imaginary beasts have been coming into view a little longer; Ben...
Dispatches
The London EDITION is well known for lasting comfort and extraordinary style — two elements that, thanks to a collaboration with nearby independent bicycle company tokyobike, will be taken outside the walls of Ian Schrager's decadent bolthole and...
Dispatches
The outstanding architectural legacy left by Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, better known as Le Corbusier, is undoubtedly one of the 20th century's most significant. Pioneering Urbanism, inadvertently triggering the Brutalist movement, conceiving...
Dispatches
This is an advertorial for Safestore Clean and crisp, clutter kept to the bare minimum, Scandi-cool. You know the script: minimalism rules. Right? Wrong. Maximalism has been making a quiet comeback of late — extravagant Parisian hotels that...
