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The Edit
There's nothing like a near death experience to make one throw off the shackles of convention and embrace one's true self, and the Second World War was that catalyst for a generation of artists. Elmer Batters and Eric Stanton were two such figures...
Journal
Give any hedonist worth their hydrochloride salts the chance to revisit the great nightclubs of history, and I'd wager the majority would make their first stop on the timewarp in late 1970s New York, and the cultural phenomenon that was Studio...
The Edit
You are all a bunch of inveterate narcissists. Well maybe not all of you, but statistically speaking, a great many people are. According to YouTube, 300 hours of video is being uploaded to its site every minute, and much of it makes the satirised...
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Who doesn't, in their quiet moments, like to take off their pants and let a porcelain Lassie sniff their butt? There's no need to be shy, it's not just you. It's the kind of thing that goes on all the time in Kostis Fokas's house. In fact debauchery...
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Sex sells, as the saying goes, and in a new exhibition of “para-photographer” Robert Heinecken we are treated to a satirical breakdown of the mechanics of the process. Lessons in Posing Subjects takes a wry look at how models are manipulated...
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The study of the nude form in the age of digital technology is the focus of Unlocked, a new program of events at Athens gallery Atopos Contemporary Visual Culture. Looking at how the Tumblr generation depicts the human body, Atopos Unlocked is a...
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No, it's not just you. Those are penises. Penises and tits and arse and teeth and the deconstructed, reconstructed everything that makes up the creative representation of a transvestite - looked upon as the “ultimate goddesses” by art collective...
Interiors
British artist Sarah Lucas is perhaps not the first name you’d think of when commissioning someone to design a new furniture collection. Known for her cheeky sense of humour, visual puns and fondness for orifices (see 1997’s Chicken Knickers),...
The Edit
Barbara Nitke showed some admirable staying power in compiling American Ecstasy, which saw the American photographer spend 12 years on porn sets between 1982 and 1991 – a period considered the adult film industry's Golden Age. In the pre-internet...
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Dorothy Iannone is an artist with balls, and This Sweetness Outside of Time, a retrospective of her long and illustrious career, displays her unflinching autobiographical style in all its glory. Beginning her career in the late 1950s, the...
Journal
There is, of course, a long association between prostitutes and art - the working girls often being employed as models when business was slow, or had fallen asleep. Rubens' models didn't have quite so many tattoos, it's true, but the link is still...
Publications
When hearing the words Japan and binding, we tend to think of either books or feet, the latter deformed by painful techniques that were officially banned a century ago. An act of self-mutilation or enforced cruelty to the eyes of many westerners,...
Stuff Crush
Handcrafting precise physical representations of famed architectural landmarks and cityscapes since 2011, brothers Robert and Gavin Paisley of Chisel & Mouse have meticulously cast over 90 celebrated buildings—including architect Gottlieb Eliel...
City Notes
International research and design lab SPACE10 has opened a outpost in India, the centre—based in Copenhagen, and having popped-up in cities such as New York, London, Shanghai and Nairobi—having chosen Delhi to create a collaborative platform...
City Notes
Located south of Sunset Junction in the heart of the Silver Lake neighbourhood of Los Angeles, Silver Lake Pool & Inn sees an evocative 1980s motel reimagined into an alluring design hotel with 54 rooms, an elevated pool deck, and an Italian...
Stuff Crush
As those of us in the Northern Hemisphere enter the third and final month of meteorological winter, there are tiny differences in temperature and light. Although they may not be much, they're enough to have us looking forward to springtime; the...
Dispatches
Known for her bright and bold designs, Morag Myerscough has created a message of thanks for the frontline workers in Leeds, the colourful collaboration—led by curated street art project In Good Company, with support from Leeds-based advertising...
Dispatches
Modern life is busy. Or at least it has been until the last few weeks. Does your diary typically brim with appointments? Does your smartphone ping every few minutes with app notifications? Are your cupboards overflowing with stuff? As the world...
Dispatches
If you are planning to move, you will have plenty planning and organising ahead of you. Even though it is the beginning of an exciting new chapter in your life, it can be a stressful time. While the physicality of moving can be tiresome and...
Dispatches
Over the decades and centuries, our world has seen many horrific situations and tragedies occur, natural disasters to serious terrorist attacks; devastating wars to the climate crisis. However, over recent weeks, we have all had to come together as...