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Considering Charles M. Schulz would proclaim his iconic comic strip was "about nothing", the influence of Peanuts on popular culture has been—and continues to be—nothing short of monumental; Snoopy and his human friends inspiring artists to...
Publications
When a chance meeting led Fleet Street photographer Derek Cattani to cross paths with Australian-born John Rendall and Anthony (Ace) Bourke, little did he know that he'd become a trusted member of a lion cub's human pride. It's a story...
Barcelona
Built between 1883 and 1885 by a then 31 year-old Antoni Gaudí for Manuel Vicens i Montaner, Casa Vicens (a summer home for the Barcelona-based brick and tile factory owner) was the first of the iconic architect's commissions to truly show off the...
Dispatches
Considered one of the first buildings of the Art Nouveau movement, Casa Vicens was also the first house designed by a certain Antoni Gaudí. Located in the Barcelona neighbourhood of Gràcia, the house commissioned by brick and tile factory owner,...
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Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, it was in 1938 that Todd Webb bought his first camera aged 33, joining the Chrysler Camera Club and striking up a friendship with fellow budding photographer Harry Callahan; the pair developing a life-long...
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The host of WTF Podcast, stand up comedian Marc Maron, says all you need to know: 'without Paul Major I would know nothing about all the great records people know nothing about.' That, my friends, is Mr Major in a nutshell. Savant of the oddest...
Journal
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...
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There are no jokes left for what Dalston has become in the 2010s. Vice made them all. Literally. The Tumblr kids have GIFfed the East London suburb into oblivion, its retro '80s (then '90s) clubs with moustached DJs playing sets entirely comprised...
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Plenty of readers will struggle with the concept, but in the 1980s cultural content was difficult to come by. Decades before YouTube, documentaries on graffiti or international film from your Herzogs or Fassbinders were as rare as hen's teeth....
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The Occupy movement through Black Lives Matter and onwards to the current Trump fiasco, protest has been a dominant force throughout the 21st century so far; let us not forget that political activism is not a contemporary fad, though. A city rarely...
Journal
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...
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Imagine being somewhat of an outcast for daring to dabble in colour photography? Canadian photographer Fred Herzog can — working with Kodachrome slide film in the 1950s and '60s limited his exhibiting capabilities, marginalising the medical...
City Notes
Acclaimed chef Lee Westcott has worked in some of the world's best kitchens—spending four years with Tom Aikens before overseeing two of Jason Atherton's Hong Kong establishments; staging at Noma and Per Se; and founding the lauded Typing Room at...
City Notes
With 60 design-packed, fully furnished apartments housed set within a 25-storey building in Midtown Village, Philadelphia, ROOST East Market—the third and largest property to date for owners Method Co., the team behind Fishtown's ravishingly...
Journal
The paragraph is an endangered species. Truth is, some Gen Z kids might never have got to meet these passages of text in their original form. Whilst the odd outlet is putting up a bold fight, certain publications cramming as many as three whole...
Journal
Artist Charlotte Edey has been demanding our attention with her ethereal and dreamy works for some time. Capturing our collective imaginations with work that depicts the natural world through water, deserts, and mountains alongside human-made...
Dispatches
“Variety’s the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavour,” so wrote William Cowper in his 1785 poem, The Task, thus giving way to a phrase that would affix itself firmly to the modern lexicon. Of course he was wrong, for spontaneity is...
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It may have only been operational for 14 years—transitioning between Weimar, Dessau, and Berlin—but 100 years since it opened, the impact of The Bauhaus resonates as strongly as ever. The enduring influence of the teachings that shaped modernism...
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“Children have the knowledge but not the power to use the computer,” says Abdulazeez Henry Musa, author of Cybersex: A Nightmare of the 21st Century - The Rebirth of Armageddon. “As parents, you have to monitor what they do on the computer,...
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Devon is many things, but one quality that is inescapable is its raw beauty. From the drama of towering cliffs crashing into the Atlantic to vast and rousing moorland, down to staggering beaches and Riviera glamour, the expansive county sees...