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Dispatches
There is something about watching pigment bleed into wet paper that slows everything down. The color moves on its own terms, pooling where it wants, feathering at the edges in ways you could never fully predict. For a few minutes, nothing else...
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We Heart first met Emma Howell back in 2018, having lost her father a couple of years earlier and confiding how that painting had been her saviour. "I lived in a world that I can only describe as a Salvador Dali painting," she told us. "Fortunately,...
New York
Passing away at the age of 60 in May 2021, Michelangelo Lovelace was a Cleveland-based artist renowned for his vibrant paintings depicting quotidian scenes of urban life, policing, poverty, war, and personal investigations of Black Identity....
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A Paris-based contemporary artist of Dutch descent, Robin Kid (a.k.a. The Kid) has taken over Templon's Grenier-Saint-Lazare space in its entirety for Kingdom of Ends; his second solo show to date for the Parisian gallery. Through the evocative...
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Immersive storytelling company, Catching Flights, presents Wonderland Dreams by Alexa Meade, the new interactive art experience and bar open until April 2023 at 529 5th Avenue, New York. Bringing to life the story of Alice’s Adventures in...
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With large-scale painting, 3D-printed sculpture, and mixed media pieces, Brooklyn-based artist Jeremy Olson's solo show, this time of monsters, places his familiar cast of otherworldly, sci-fi-influenced creatures into futuristic scenes; an...
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Realistic drawing and painting can be confusing when you’re a beginner. The entire journey to realism is at times difficult and disappointing for many – but it doesn’t have to be. Realistic art looks the most true-to-life. It looks...
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Brazilian-American visual artist, Oscar Oiwa, uses time travel, role-playing, and sheer artistic license in If I were living in, his latest exhibition currently on show at multipurpose hub for New York City-based Japanese creators, NowHere. A...
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After an American scientist developed a shade of pink as a means to temper aggressive behaviour, claiming the specific tone to be a pacifier, establishments including Santa Clara County Jail and a San Bernardino youth clinic painted their walls in...
Journal
Widely exhibited artist Kristen Martincic, recognised for her infatuation with H2O, spent her childhood at local swimming pools and on the banks of Lake Erie in Cleveland, Ohio. Surrounded by vast bodies of water, being in or near it has had a...
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A new exhibition by Laura Berger explores ideas of inclusion, interconnectedness, and self-understanding, the Chicago-based artist telling us: “I’m interested in our search for a...
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"This show," begins American artist Dan Colen on the occasion of his first major London solo show at Damien Hirst's Newport Street Gallery, "is the first time I’ve been able to present the full range of my work and the wide-ranging ideas, crafts,...
City Notes
Salon Volta is a new barbershop in Laval, Quebec, that rethinks the familiar codes of grooming through a concept centred on craft and community. Moving away from the traditional model, the project positions itself as a space where barbering unfolds...
City Notes
Interior design studio and creative consultancy Ste Marie has completed Olia Ristorante and Mimi Bar, a pair of hospitality venues conceived as a day-to-night sequence at the base of new residential tower Citizen on Jasper. Commissioned by Corso 32...
City Notes
On a private estate in central Ukraine, YOD Group has reimagined the traditional mazanka — the archetypal rural home — for the contemporary era. These 50 square metre guesthouses reinterpret the vernacular, translating thick whitewashed walls...
City Notes
Situated at the edge of Montmartre, where Pigalle’s energy meets Parisian rooftops, Hôtel Rochechouart is a 1929 Art Deco landmark given a contemporary pulse. Design duo Festen has restored the building’s historic details while threading a...
Dispatches
Some people discover mixology behind a bar on a busy Friday night. Others come to it through years of hosting dinner parties, obsessing over flavor combinations, or spending too much money on bitters collections they absolutely did not need. However...
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There was a time when wedding bar service meant a single bartender, a few bottles of wine, and maybe a keg if the couple was feeling casual. Those days are long gone. Today's couples are rethinking the bar as one of the most meaningful parts of the...
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Do you want to give your bathroom a fresh, trendy look with new tile? Tiles in the bathroom do more than just keep water from getting on your walls and floors. They can also give your area a joyful, colourful, tranquil, or futuristic vibe. There are...
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Traditional birdwatching frequently seems like a commitment. It may involve long-haul flights to remote locations, getting up early in the morning, and spending hours in uncertain weather. Even then, sightings can never be guaranteed. For many, the...