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Dispatches
In an ever-evolving world, a world of change and uncertainty, the masses are caught in a cycle of flitting from one fad to the next. Fashion; music; technology; social media; food or drink. Sure, change can be good, change allows us to experience...
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Ever sat down and thought about the journey your online orders take? The hands; the depots; the planes, trains and automobiles; the shipping containers; the signatures, documentation and international bureaucracy? The voyage from click to...
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The DeLorean Motor Company's DMC-12. A brushed stainless-steel vision of hope and of dreams. Thankfully I'm too young to have remembered its short-lived production (1981-83), but I'm not too young to have missed its most iconic moment; gull-wings...
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Sponsored by The 7th Chamber Hallowe'en is upon us — a time when thoughts turn to the ghoulish, ghastly and downright terrifying things that push our panic buttons. Horror films are designed to frighten the pants off its viewers, but sometimes...
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They say you should never meet your idols. Perhaps you shouldn't email them either. London-based producer Oscar Powell (who releases music under his surname) got in touch with infamously spiky Shellac/Rapeman/Big Black man Steve Albini, seeking...
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You know Liu Bolin. He's the Chinese artist who looks like a graffitied wall. And an aisle of soft drinks down the supermarket. Or a cubicle office. Commencing his chameleon career in 2005, with the genesis of his ongoing Hiding in the City project,...
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What does the 11 year-old son of ice cool Acne Studios creative director/co-founder Jonny Johansson do on his summer holidays? Extra maths homework ... join his friends down the local RPG club playing Dungeons & Dragons ... kick a flat leather casey...
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STRIKE! — a bi-monthly subversive politics newspaper — went viral last year, their Totally Pointless poster designs being put up around London, thanks to a "shadowy art-activism organisation" going under the name of The Special Patrol Group...
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In George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones fantasy books A Song of Ice and Fire, winter is coming and mankind's very existence is threatened by a tribe of horse-riding necromancers and their army of the dead. In the real world, it's the planet's...
The Edit
Having set myself a firm ceiling of $159 million for Picasso's Les Femmes d'Alger (Version O) at the Christie's auction last week, I was a little piqued to be pipped to the post by a measly million bucks when the gavel finally came down. C'est la...
Publications
With largely identical fleets offering same-same in-flight services, international airlines know that they must do their utmost to keep costs down by every means possible. Ticket cost is the number one concern for the majority of would-be customers,...
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One can always rely on the Southbank folks to bring lesser-explored areas of art and design to the public attention, and the cinephiles at BFI Southbank are currently celebrating a particularly niche subject with their exhibition Polish Film Posters...
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
