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Journal
The international, multi-award winning artist, Gary Taxali, launched his first UK solo show at Steve Lazarides' The Outsiders gallery in London last week. Running until early June, the exhibition includes over forty works of various media and...
Journal
The world of social media we live in has afforded photography somewhat of a welcome renaissance - the likes of Instagram turning everybody into a photographer, and in-turn heightening the Lomography-craze even further. High quality cameras on...
Journal
Showing recently at Dalston's The Print House Gallery this series - a collaboration between German-born, London-based photographer Katja Mayer and British art director Peter Chadwick - has post-apocalyptic written all over it. Desolate, unsettling...
Journal
For anyone who’s done a bit of long-haul flying, chances are you’ve come across the island, city and nation of Singapore. But if you’ve only ever seen the inside of Changi airport, or a quick stopover tour of the hawkers’ markets and...
Journal
I have a serious crush on the New York of yesteryear. It might be more of an obsession. I'm in love with the underground disco that Nicky Siano and Larry Levan spun at Studio 54 and The Paradise Garage respectively. I adore the early hip-hop of...
Dispatches
Thought-provoking isn't the word. This flashmob style viral campaign for international anti-trafficking organisation Stop The Traffik lures its viewers into a perfectly-executed false sense of frivolity and humour, before BAM - coming in like a...
Journal
Go to New York, search Manhattan's skips, bins and building sites for waste materials, build a boat from said materials, cart it up to the source of the Hudson, and row it 315 miles back to the Big Apple. Simple. In theory. In practice however, it's...
Journal
Although it ended recently, Dualities, Ommissions, Loops & Ruptures - a group show of local artists Chris Engman, Cody Trepte, Samantha Roth, and John Houck at Los Angeles' Luis De Jesus - still serves as a welcome introduction to some exciting...
Publications
Whilst studying photojournalism in LA, a young Ron Galella took photographs of celebrities arriving at film premieres - selling them to the National Enquirer and Fotoplay. Seems it became a bit of an obsession, Galella went on to become the most...
Journal
If you're not familiar with the impossibly pink world of the Harajuku Girl, try the below video of the subculture's poster-girl icon, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu (utterly contagious, if nothing else). It's a particularly alien world of brightly coloured toys,...
Berlin
Everyone knows that to get a true picture of a city, you need to have a good natter with the locals. In ever-changing Berlin, it should be mandatory - with bars, shops, clubs and galleries popping up, moving on and reinventing themselves practically...
Art & Culture
Robot toys are cool. We know this already. Seems the chaps behind super-hip London and Manchester bookstore Magma Books do too. Having teamed up with London-based Laurence King Publishing to devise a new range of gifts, Make Your Own Robot is an...
City Notes
Bringing understated Scandinavian elegance to the edge of Warsaw’s historic Old Town, PURO Warszawa Stare Miasto is the latest addition to the design-led hotel group’s growing Polish portfolio, and possibly their most considered space...
City Notes
In Milan’s ever-evolving Isola district, MOGO has arrived on the scene, offering a destination where music, mixology, and modern Japanese cuisine come together in a high-design setting that will have aesthetics addicts frothing at the mouth. A...
City Notes
Opening its doors in February 2025, Ned’s Club Washington, DC marks the second collaboration between Soho House’s luxury brand and the design and architecture experts at Stonehill Taylor. Set across the 9th to 12th floors of two historic...
City Notes
After a century spent as apartment residences, and following a meticulous two-year transformation, Hotel Granada reopened its Spanish Colonial archways to guests in August 2024. Located at 1302 West Peachtree Street NW, this 120-room property now...
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
Hard water. It's one of those household nuisances everyone talks about, but what exactly is it, and why is it such a big deal? Essentially, hard water is water that contains high levels of dissolved minerals, primarily calcium and magnesium. These...
Dispatches
For those designing the future, few accolades carry the weight of the A’ Design Award & Competition. With the submission period for the 2025—2026 edition well under way, this international juried competition calls on designers, innovators and...
Dispatches
Running a business in Frisco means keeping your property clean and inviting, which includes tackling the risk of pests before they can cause problems. Frisco businesses stay bug‑free by partnering with local experts in Frisco pest control,...