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Wow, that’s so postcard!
On Lydia Blakeley's 'The High Life'
On Soft Acid
"seams, zippers, and stitching abound"
Nope and the Spectre of the Spectacular
Has Peele lost his touch? Nope.
Dead Cat Bounce
an oratorio about finance and catastrophe
The Art of Not Giving a Fuck
From Raphael to TikTok
Into the Black Fantastic
'
an arresting sense of agency'
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Wow, that’s so postcard!
On Lydia Blakeley's 'The High Life'
On Soft Acid
"seams, zippers, and stitching abound"
Nope and the Spectre of the Spectacular
Has Peele lost his touch? Nope.
Dead Cat Bounce
an oratorio about finance and catastrophe
The Art of Not Giving a Fuck
From Raphael to TikTok
Into the Black Fantastic
'
an arresting sense of agency'
Staged Whispers
"ASMR is the answer to all the questions we’re facing"
The Stuff That Dreams Are Made On
"a form of lucid psychedelia"
Can You Judge a Record by its Cover?
"off the domestic shelf onto the walls of the gallery"
Everything Everywhere: the Multiverse Epidemic
"living in the Darkest Timeline"
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
"repetition and malfunction"
The Many Faces of Pabi Daniel
"vibrant colour on runway-ready figures"
Letting Off Steam with Hew Locke's Procession
"the mindful vandal has struck again"
Redefining Messy with The Worst Person in the World
"a refreshing change of pace"
Staging Identity with Katinka Lampe
"the rejects on my camera roll"
If Ye is Jesus, We Are the Romans
"
everyone’s favourite maniacal narcissist"
Whatever Happened to Jules?
"
relegated to the sidelines"
Relevant and Alive with Sophie Ruigrok
"
a lot of art is tricks"
Danielle Dean's Amazon Rebellion
"
A collective moment occurs with energy and anger"
Lonely Planets for a Lonely Planet
"
imaginative escape and the curtailment of physical freedom"
How Artists Are Reinventing Anna
'Anna was an enigma to me
'
Filmmaking and Feeling in The Souvenir Part 2
"What does it make you FEEL?!"
Monstering with Suchitra Mattai
"I’m rewriting history"
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
"
If anything, Jarman’s protest is only just beginning.
"
Sophie Larrimore, Why So Many Poodles?
"O how far the noble poodle has fallen!"
The Horror of the Body in Julia Ducournau’s Titane
"W
hy is watching
Titane
so painfully magnetic?"
Chasing Rainbows with Betsy Bradley
"a dance between myself and the paint"
How Richard Wilson Made Slipstream
“
Slipstream
was that optimistic up and away"
All at sea with Lubaina Himid
"That grey sea glimpsed through the window"
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
"using kites opened the language of my work to huge possibilities."
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?
"Anderson's films are akin to Fabergé eggs"
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
"Davis’ paintings toggle between chronicle and fable as compellingly as a daydream"
Inside Maggi Hambling's Sketchbook: 6am
"
The ink hits the paper in unrepeatable, inerasable formations."
Bambou Gili's Nights in Shining Armour
"
The levels of imposter syndrome do not bear thinking about.
"
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
"Why is it a bad thing that this Noguchi retrospective feels like IKEA?"
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
"highly stylised and yet utterly natural"
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
"despite all this aggression and NSFW snapshots, it’s all a bit, well, cute? "
Bazaar Blends: An Interview with Hassan Hajjaj
"I like shooting in the street, you get a different vibe.
PlinthPlinth | Jinyong Park
"words slipping away from their referents"
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
"I wanted some of that power, because it’s seductive. How do I hold myself like that?"
Tasha Sweeney | WooSun Choi
"
engorged by their surroundings, tractor-beamed into their backgrounds"
The Reset: Megan Piper
"
It’s not something you can X-ray"
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'
"
an inconvenient reminder in some ways of what really happens"
Ashley Sheekey | Alex Foley | Jade Blackstock
"
an abiding sense of something lost"
The Reset: Habda Rashid
"it comes down to really knowing the community you're working with"
Shadow of an Axe: the War on Wokeism
"
death-by-a-thousand-cuts"
Introducing Sketched
"
a fresh glimpse of the creative process"
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
"
it is crucial having women portraying women in order to change the game"
The Reset: Window Swap
"
wanderlust, slow-looking, and trading places"
When Kim Met Ernest
"
the equivalent of erecting a Health Food shop in the global village
"
The Reality on the Ground
"
These oil wells should have been a blessing, but they have become a curse"
20 Years of Eden
"
from an incredible destination into a movement"
My NFT is Bigger than Yours
"B
eeple’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
"
I wanted to put the power back in their hands"
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
"
the bizarre failures of others have been important landmarks"
“The Suburbanisation of Life is Not the Only Solution”
"
fervent exploration of unchecked suburban expansion"
Kicking and Screaming into the Digital Age
"
I’m very allergic to the idea of elitism within art"
Travis Alabanza's Overflow
"The bathroom is under siege"
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
"Every silver lining has a cloud"
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
"
Boseman is incendiary in his final role"
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
"
a list of our favourite tracks so far"
A Limbo in a Limbo: We Are Who We Are
"
hormone-addled awkwardness,
ten-hut
s, and creepy copy-paste suburban housing"
Small Axe: Tender Portraits, Forgotten Histories
"
sandwiched between placards and riot shields"
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
"
bold bursts of colour dot the cityscape"
Thread by Thread: An Interview with Anya Paintsil
"textile art is not a frivolous hobby"
Letting the Mask Slip
Gillian Wearing’s Lockdown at Maureen Paley
‘History Is Your Future’
On Beyoncé’s Black Is King
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
Black Lives Matter
Gardener's World: A Botanical Obsession
How ceramicist Reiko Kaneko's green-fingered obsession found its way onto her new collection.
Degrees of Truth
Langlands & Bell at Sir John's Soane's Museum
Portraits of the Planet
"We’ve been adorning our bodies for millennia." Abe Odedina
Celebrating the Collective
"Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere."
Millicent Fawcett
Elmgreen, Dragset and The Whitechapel Pool
"Humour lets us set new terms."
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
'Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing?'
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?"
Interview with David Alan Harvey about his Fujifilm commission, on display at the Magnum Home Exhibition May 18-27th.
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'
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.'
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.'
Interview with Michael Rakowitz ahead of his Fourth Plinth Commission, March 28th
"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
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
An Insider’s Take on Stoke-on-Trent
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