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To describe Pete Fowler's artistic style, one might turn to words like cartoonish, colourful and surreal... but in truth, the Welshman is difficult to pigeonhole. Launching his career in the 1990s with illustrations for Super Furry Animals' album...
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When an artist is discovered and employed by Andy Warhol, their path to pop culture greatness is laid out before them, but first there has to be the talent and drive to succeed present in spades, and on those fronts there are few in the world of...
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William Seward Burroughs II had more than a bit of strange about him; as an artist he often scoured his own work with a magnifying glass, looking for signs of “intelligent allies”. Years of heroin addiction is liable to do that to a person,...
Seoul
If you thought a handbag was just a leather version of a plastic bag to carry stuff about in, shame on you! You've obviously not been watching enough Sex and the City. Super-luxury examples go for thousands upon thousands of pounds, queues form for...
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How stupid we used to be, how sheep-like, how easily manipulated, that one word whispered in our ear, one image flashed at the corner of our eye, and out came the wallet and we'd be buying whatever product we were being asked to. But look at us now....
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Tokyo: fast-paced, technologically advanced, industrious, commercial, five-story electronic billboards screaming at you to buy stuff. Artistic? You'd be surprised. Not so very long ago it was a capital city pulling itself from the rubble of defeat...
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As is the case with many of those making the transition from street to gallery, there's a powerful dose of politics to be had in the work of Vinz - a street art maestro who made his name wheat-pasting the walls of his native Valencia, along with...
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That the female of the species is more deadly than the male is definitely a philosophy that Dutch designer/sculptor Ted Noten subscribes to; in his collection 7 Necessities - which debuts this week, as part of DesignMiami/ at Ornamentum Gallery -...
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With an atmosphere halfway between an art exhibition and a war zone, British artist Jonathan Darby's CONGO is a visually powerful and disturbing look at one of the world's worst, yet mostly overlooked, tragedies. Generations have lived in an...
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Had one too many corporate messages rammed down your gullet? Driven to distraction by unimaginative mashups of stock images, marketing-man-propaganda and clichéd calls to action? Waging a kind of Fight Club-lite war against corporate marketeers,...
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Lugging around a piece of equipment on his shoulder that looks like it could bring down a Soviet fighter plane, Larbi Laaraichi is a Moroccan wedding videographer who isn't shy of getting in the frame himself – at every assignment he always makes...
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Those who revel in the visually chaotic aftermath of months, sometimes years, of successive flyposting - and the subsequent successive peeling away of said flyposting - are in for a treat at New York-based German artist Nikolas Gambaroff's latest...
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,...
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There's a paradox about self-care, which is that those who need it most are probably the least likely to practice it. If you're one of those people, you might even be put off by the term self-care. Maybe it sounds too self-indulgent to you. If...
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Looking for a Japanese tutor in Chicago without breaking the bank? You’re not alone. Whether you’re aiming to order ramen with confidence, ace a language exam, or shape your skills for business or travel, one thing’s clear: good private...
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If you’ve ever looked at your balcony and thought, “What a wasted space,” you’re not alone. Many of us live in homes where every square foot counts, yet balconies often remain underutilized. Whether it’s too small, too plain, or simply...
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Recognising the world’s most inspiring work across design, innovation and creativity, the A’ Design Award & Competition stands as one of the most respected and far-reaching international design accolades. Each year, a diverse panel of academics,...