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Dispatches
More familiar with putting well-known brands into the streets, Jack Agency's latest public intervention is a purely creative beast — We Heart favourite Joe Cruz seeing his fashion-heavy illustrative style rendered larger than life for the first...
Ostend
Some might say there's not much to look at in Ostend, Belgium. Its long sandy beach has been a draw for hundreds of years, and it has spent time as one of Europe's most stylish seaside retreats; bombed to buggery in WWII, though, and rebuilt with a...
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Remember Michał Bieżyński? He's the ambitious guy behind the brilliant Lodz Murals project; the creative pioneer who wants his street art project to define the Polish city like Gustave Eiffel's landmark defines Paris. The public art...
New York
Another month, another new hotel for the Big Apple. For the city that never sleeps, there sure are plenty of spots for visitors to contradict that old epithet. Adding to New York City's ascending number of bedrooms, 11 Howard is a landmark property...
Lodz
Michał Bieżyński isn't short of ambition. Having brought street art big-hitters like Vhils, Os Gemeos, Aryz, and Roa, to the walls of his city, the man behind the ongoing Lodz Murals project wants to be remembered alongside the likes of Gustave...
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Their genetic closeness to us, their capacity for cute and killer, their intrinsic link to proverbs, significance in protest, embodiment of oppression ... street artists love monkeys, and all they represent. Laugh now, but one day we'll be in charge...
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Beginning in 2014 with an Education Is Not A Crime concert in Los Angeles, #NotACrime has taken the form of an international mural campaign; dropping politically-charged street art treats off in cities like New York, Rio de Janeiro, Cape Town and...
The Edit
Duncan Jago (that's Mr Jago to you), one of the Bristol street art movement's biggest success stories, has returned to mural painting for a special commission at Unit London. The international star, founding member of the Scrawl...
The Edit
Supermundane is a word that describes the opposite of what you may imagine — of or relating to what is elevated above earthly things — and entirely fitting that Rob 'Supermundane' Lowe would happen upon it whilst working in a factory. In the...
Journal
No city has fallen as far and as hard as Detroit. The Motor City's woes — economic collapse due to industrial migration, subsequent bankruptcy and social problems — have been well documented to the point where Michigan's former manufacturing...
The Edit
There is one particular image in Conrad Roset's series Pale which rang a distant bell in my memory. A woman cloaked in black — black that seems to be consuming her as a diadem of flowers and plants wreath her head. After a while (I'm getting old)...
Dispatches
One of the downsides of modern highrises replacing older architecture is the loss of suitable surfaces for urban artists to do their thing on. This issue is being felt particularly keenly in Brooklyn — traditionally a popular playground for New...
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...
