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  • Wow, that’s so postcard!

    Wow, that’s so postcard!

    On Lydia Blakeley's 'The High Life'

  • On Soft Acid

    On Soft Acid

    "seams, zippers, and stitching abound"

  • Nope and the Spectre of the Spectacular

    Nope and the Spectre of the Spectacular

    Has Peele lost his touch? Nope.

  • Dead Cat Bounce

    Dead Cat Bounce

    an oratorio about finance and catastrophe

  • The Art of Not Giving a Fuck

    The Art of Not Giving a Fuck

    From Raphael to TikTok

  • Into the Black Fantastic

    Into the Black Fantastic

    'an arresting sense of agency'

All Articles

  • Wow, that’s so postcard!

    Wow, that’s so postcard!

    On Lydia Blakeley's 'The High Life'

  • On Soft Acid

    On Soft Acid

    "seams, zippers, and stitching abound"

  • Nope and the Spectre of the Spectacular

    Nope and the Spectre of the Spectacular

    Has Peele lost his touch? Nope.

  • Dead Cat Bounce

    Dead Cat Bounce

    an oratorio about finance and catastrophe

  • The Art of Not Giving a Fuck

    The Art of Not Giving a Fuck

    From Raphael to TikTok

  • Into the Black Fantastic

    Into the Black Fantastic

    'an arresting sense of agency'

  • Staged Whispers

    Staged Whispers

    "ASMR is the answer to all the questions we’re facing"

  • The Stuff That Dreams Are Made On

    The Stuff That Dreams Are Made On

    "a form of lucid psychedelia"

  • Can You Judge a Record by its Cover?

    Can You Judge a Record by its Cover?

    "off the domestic shelf onto the walls of the gallery"

  • Everything Everywhere: the Multiverse Epidemic

    Everything Everywhere: the Multiverse Epidemic

    "living in the Darkest Timeline"

  • Is TikTok About to Change the Future of Cinema?

    Is TikTok About to Change the Future of Cinema?

    the social media giant cosies up to Cannes

  • Vivien Zhang and the Paradoxes of the Digital Age

    Vivien Zhang and the Paradoxes of the Digital Age

    "repetition and malfunction"

  • The Many Faces of Pabi Daniel

    The Many Faces of Pabi Daniel

    "vibrant colour on runway-ready figures"

  • Letting Off Steam with Hew Locke's Procession

    Letting Off Steam with Hew Locke's Procession

    "the mindful vandal has struck again"

  • Redefining Messy with The Worst Person in the World

    Redefining Messy with The Worst Person in the World

    "a refreshing change of pace"

  • Staging Identity with Katinka Lampe

    Staging Identity with Katinka Lampe

    "the rejects on my camera roll"

  • If Ye is Jesus, We Are the Romans

    If Ye is Jesus, We Are the Romans

    "everyone’s favourite maniacal narcissist"

  • Whatever Happened to Jules?

    Whatever Happened to Jules?

    "relegated to the sidelines"

  • Relevant and Alive with Sophie Ruigrok

    Relevant and Alive with Sophie Ruigrok

    "a lot of art is tricks"

  • Danielle Dean's Amazon Rebellion

    Danielle Dean's Amazon Rebellion

    "A collective moment occurs with energy and anger"

  • Lonely Planets for a Lonely Planet

    Lonely Planets for a Lonely Planet

    "imaginative escape and the curtailment of physical freedom"

  • How Artists Are Reinventing Anna

    How Artists Are Reinventing Anna

    'Anna was an enigma to me'

  • Filmmaking and Feeling in The Souvenir Part 2

    Filmmaking and Feeling in The Souvenir Part 2

    "What does it make you FEEL?!"

  • Monstering with Suchitra Mattai

    Monstering with Suchitra Mattai

    "I’m rewriting history"

  • The old-fashioned, modern romance of Licorice Pizza

    The old-fashioned, modern romance of Licorice Pizza

    "In a city of stars, Alana is still waiting for her chance to shine"

  • We Need To Keep Derek Jarman’s Protest Alive

    We Need To Keep Derek Jarman’s Protest Alive

    "If anything, Jarman’s protest is only just beginning."

  • Sophie Larrimore, Why So Many Poodles?

    Sophie Larrimore, Why So Many Poodles?

    "O how far the noble poodle has fallen!"

  • The Horror of the Body in Julia Ducournau’s Titane

    The Horror of the Body in Julia Ducournau’s Titane

    "Why is watching Titane so painfully magnetic?" 

  • Chasing Rainbows with Betsy Bradley

    Chasing Rainbows with Betsy Bradley

    "a dance between myself and the paint"

  • How Richard Wilson Made Slipstream

    How Richard Wilson Made Slipstream

    “Slipstream was that optimistic up and away"

  • All at sea with Lubaina Himid

    All at sea with Lubaina Himid

    "That grey sea glimpsed through the window"

     

  • The Clarity and Mystery of Manshen Lo

    The Clarity and Mystery of Manshen Lo

    “One should feel the brush penetrating the paper without breaking it to make a good line”

  • Flying High with Jacob Hashimoto

    Flying High with Jacob Hashimoto

    "using kites opened the language of my work to huge possibilities."

  • On Mit Jai Inn’s Dreamworld

    On Mit Jai Inn’s Dreamworld

    "By connecting his work with its environment, Mit aims to circulate positive energy between them"

  • Why Are People So Weird About Wes Anderson?

    Why Are People So Weird About Wes Anderson?

    "Anderson's films are akin to Fabergé eggs"

  • Making Fur Fly: WeiXin Quek Chong's deepdreams_sublimed

    Making Fur Fly: WeiXin Quek Chong's deepdreams_sublimed

    "from niche kinks to the all-too-human desire for intimacy"

  • Bad Boy For Life: Duality in the work of Noah Davis

    Bad Boy For Life: Duality in the work of Noah Davis

    "Davis’ paintings toggle between chronicle and fable as compellingly as a daydream"

  • Inside Maggi Hambling's Sketchbook: 6am

    Inside Maggi Hambling's Sketchbook: 6am

    "The ink hits the paper in unrepeatable, inerasable formations."

  • Bambou Gili's Nights in Shining Armour

    Bambou Gili's Nights in Shining Armour

    "The levels of imposter syndrome do not bear thinking about."

  • Uncanny Edens | On Esther Janssen's Silence

    Uncanny Edens | On Esther Janssen's Silence

    "Black as tar, dull and still and reflective as a smart phone"

  • Review | The Unbearable Lightness of Noguchi

    Review | The Unbearable Lightness of Noguchi

    "Why is it a bad thing that this Noguchi retrospective feels like IKEA?"

  • Made on the Wing: Sophie Barber's Love Birds

    Made on the Wing: Sophie Barber's Love Birds

    "shrinking sculpture, people, places, into something you can hold in your hand."

  • Carlos Idun-Tawiah: the People's Choice

    Carlos Idun-Tawiah: the People's Choice

    "highly stylised and yet utterly natural"

  • Portrait of an Artist: Hugo Huerta Marin x FKA Twigs

    Portrait of an Artist: Hugo Huerta Marin x FKA Twigs

    "I wasn’t looking for anything; she just started appearing in my life in different ways."

  • Review | Florian Krewer's ride or fly

    Review | Florian Krewer's ride or fly

    "despite all this aggression and NSFW snapshots, it’s all a bit, well, cute? "

  • Bazaar Blends: An Interview with Hassan Hajjaj

    Bazaar Blends: An Interview with Hassan Hajjaj

    "I like shooting in the street, you get a different vibe.

  • PlinthPlinth | Jinyong Park

    PlinthPlinth | Jinyong Park

    "words slipping away from their referents"

  • Pitching The Mound

    Pitching The Mound

    "Gee, now you mention it – nothing makes me part quicker from cash than hiking up a 25-metre hill!"

  • The Power of Seduction in the Work of Mahtab Hussain

    The Power of Seduction in the Work of Mahtab Hussain

    "I wanted some of that power, because it’s seductive. How do I hold myself like that?"

  • Tasha Sweeney | WooSun Choi

    Tasha Sweeney | WooSun Choi

    "engorged by their surroundings, tractor-beamed into their backgrounds"

  • The Reset: Megan Piper

    The Reset: Megan Piper

    "It’s not something you can X-ray"

  • In Broad Daylight: Margaret Courtney-Clarke

    In Broad Daylight: Margaret Courtney-Clarke

    "using photography to find a listener for the people."

  • Michael Rakowitz and Daniel Taylor on 'April is the Cruellest Month'

    Michael Rakowitz and Daniel Taylor on 'April is the Cruellest Month'

    "an inconvenient reminder in some ways of what really happens"

  • Ashley Sheekey | Alex Foley | Jade Blackstock

    Ashley Sheekey | Alex Foley | Jade Blackstock

    "an abiding sense of something lost"

  • The Reset: Habda Rashid

    The Reset: Habda Rashid

    "it comes down to really knowing the community you're working with"

  • Shadow of an Axe: the War on Wokeism

    Shadow of an Axe: the War on Wokeism

    "death-by-a-thousand-cuts"

  • Introducing Sketched

    Introducing Sketched

    "a fresh glimpse of the creative process"

  • The Reset: Ekow Eshun

    The Reset: Ekow Eshun

    "That notion of Black Interior I find very heartening and inspiring. And, in a way, that's the place I've been trying to dwell"

  • Disrupting the Male Gaze: An Interview with Carlota Guerrero

    Disrupting the Male Gaze: An Interview with Carlota Guerrero

    "it is crucial having women portraying women in order to change the game"

  • The Reset: Window Swap

    The Reset: Window Swap

    "wanderlust, slow-looking, and trading places"

  • When Kim Met Ernest

    When Kim Met Ernest

    "the equivalent of erecting a Health Food shop in the global village"

  • The Reality on the Ground

    The Reality on the Ground

    "These oil wells should have been a blessing, but they have become a curse"

  • 20 Years of Eden

    20 Years of Eden

    "from an incredible destination into a movement"

  • My NFT is Bigger than Yours

    My NFT is Bigger than Yours

    "Beeple’s historic sale at Christie’s is the art world equivalent of the horn-hatted dude storming the Capitol"

  • The Same Story Through a Different Set of Eyes: Kyle Weeks’ OvaHimba Youth Self-Portraits

    The Same Story Through a Different Set of Eyes: Kyle Weeks’ OvaHimba Youth Self-Portraits

    "I wanted to put the power back in their hands"

  • Even Grayson Perry Can't Save Us

    Even Grayson Perry Can't Save Us

    "The fact that Grayson’s Art Club seem so vital is a damning reflection of our cultural sector"

  • Potato Heads of the Pandemic

    Potato Heads of the Pandemic

    "the bizarre failures of others have been important landmarks"

  • “The Suburbanisation of Life is Not the Only Solution”

    “The Suburbanisation of Life is Not the Only Solution”

    "fervent exploration of unchecked suburban expansion"

  • Kicking and Screaming into the Digital Age

    Kicking and Screaming into the Digital Age

    "I’m very allergic to the idea of elitism within art"

  • Travis Alabanza's Overflow

    Travis Alabanza's Overflow

    "The bathroom is under siege"

  • Why Gen Z Are Right to Get Medieval on Us

    Why Gen Z Are Right to Get Medieval on Us

    "Wave to the nice oligarchs, children."

  • On Optimism and What Culture Will Be Like in 2021

    On Optimism and What Culture Will Be Like in 2021

    "Every silver lining has a cloud"

  • Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

    Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

    "Boseman is incendiary in his final role"

  • Lynette Yiadom-Boakye | Fly in League with the Night

    Lynette Yiadom-Boakye | Fly in League with the Night

    "they happen in a world just beyond ours, one that is marked by stillness and repose"

  • Making Meaning in We Are Who We Are: From Frank Ocean to Ocean Vuong

    Making Meaning in We Are Who We Are: From Frank Ocean to Ocean Vuong

    "a list of our favourite tracks so far"

  • A Limbo in a Limbo: We Are Who We Are

    A Limbo in a Limbo: We Are Who We Are

    "hormone-addled awkwardness, ten-huts, and creepy copy-paste suburban housing"

  • Small Axe: Tender Portraits, Forgotten Histories

    Small Axe: Tender Portraits, Forgotten Histories

    "sandwiched between placards and riot shields"

  • About Endlessness: We are Living in Roy Andersson's Living Paintings

    About Endlessness: We are Living in Roy Andersson's Living Paintings

    "a tickle in the nose with no sneeze"

  • ‘The observer’ in us: Medina Dugger on art, activism, and optimism

    ‘The observer’ in us: Medina Dugger on art, activism, and optimism

    "bold bursts of colour dot the cityscape"

  • Thread by Thread: An Interview with Anya Paintsil

    Thread by Thread: An Interview with Anya Paintsil

    "textile art is not a frivolous hobby"

  • Letting the Mask Slip

    Letting the Mask Slip

    Gillian Wearing’s Lockdown at Maureen Paley

  • ‘History Is Your Future’

    ‘History Is Your Future’

    On Beyoncé’s Black Is King

  • Electronic: From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers

    Electronic: From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers

    The Design Museum is the closest we're getting to a nightclub right now

  • No Justice = No Peace

    No Justice = No Peace

    Black Lives Matter

  • Gardener's World: A Botanical Obsession

    Gardener's World: A Botanical Obsession

    How ceramicist Reiko Kaneko's green-fingered obsession found its way onto her new collection.

  • Degrees of Truth

    Degrees of Truth

    Langlands & Bell at Sir John's Soane's Museum

  • Portraits of the Planet

    Portraits of the Planet

    "We’ve been adorning our bodies for millennia." Abe Odedina

  • Celebrating the Collective

    Celebrating the Collective

    "Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere." Millicent Fawcett

  • Elmgreen, Dragset and The Whitechapel Pool

    Elmgreen, Dragset and The Whitechapel Pool

    "Humour lets us set new terms."

  • Osman Yousefzada, Being Somewhere Else at Ikon Gallery

    Osman Yousefzada, Being Somewhere Else at Ikon Gallery

    "As the first generation you are always the sacrificial one and you have to bear fruit."

  • Braun+ Vitsœ: Total Design with Peter Kapos

    Braun+ Vitsœ: Total Design with Peter Kapos

    'Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing?'

  • Interview with Caroline Criado Perez

    Interview with Caroline Criado Perez

    'It’s not really a question of “do I want to?" or, "could I?”. I do it because I just can’t help myself.'

  • "What does 'home' mean to you?"

    "What does 'home' mean to you?"

    Interview with David Alan Harvey about his Fujifilm commission, on display at the Magnum Home Exhibition May 18-27th.

  • Claudia Roden Recipe and Interview

    Claudia Roden Recipe and Interview

    Roast shoulder of lamb with couscous and date stuffing: "I knew from research I'd done in a 13th century culinary manual found in Baghdad that there were recipes with date syrup."

  • 'Courage Calls To Courage Everywhere'

    'Courage Calls To Courage Everywhere'

    Interview with Gillian Wearing ahead of the unveiling of her 'Millicent Fawcett' statue in Parliament Square, April 2018

  • 'It’s about literally wearing your heart on your sleeve.'

    'It’s about literally wearing your heart on your sleeve.'

    Interview with Bella Freud on her new range, celebrating 100 years of votes for women.

  • 'Dig a hole in Iraq, and either oil or history comes out.'

    'Dig a hole in Iraq, and either oil or history comes out.'

    Interview with Michael Rakowitz ahead of his Fourth Plinth Commission, March 28th

  • "Instagram is a dirty word."

    "Instagram is a dirty word."

    Photographer Ian Howorth on film vs digital, beautiful cars and how it all began.

  • Olivia Arthur on Hull, UK City of Culture 2017

    Olivia Arthur on Hull, UK City of Culture 2017

    The Magnum photographer on her new series, part of "Hull: Portrait of a City", until December 31st at Humber Street Gallery

  • Reiko Kaneko on British Ceramics Biennial, 2017

    Reiko Kaneko on British Ceramics Biennial, 2017

    An Insider’s Take on Stoke-on-Trent

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