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Magazine

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

    “The Suburbanisation of Life is Not the Only Solution”

  • Kicking and Screaming into the Digital Age

    Kicking and Screaming into the Digital Age

  • Travis Alabanza's Overflow

    Travis Alabanza's Overflow

  • Why Gen Z Are Right to Get Medieval on Us

    Why Gen Z Are Right to Get Medieval on Us

  • ‘Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud’: On Optimism and What Culture Will Be Like in 2021

    ‘Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud’: On Optimism and What Culture Will Be Like in 2021

  • Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

    Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

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

    Lynette Yiadom-Boakye | Fly in League with the Night

  • 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 Limbo in a Limbo: We Are Who We Are

    A Limbo in a Limbo: We Are Who We Are

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

    “The Suburbanisation of Life is Not the Only Solution”

  • Kicking and Screaming into the Digital Age

    Kicking and Screaming into the Digital Age

  • Travis Alabanza's Overflow

    Travis Alabanza's Overflow

  • Why Gen Z Are Right to Get Medieval on Us

    Why Gen Z Are Right to Get Medieval on Us

  • ‘Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud’: On Optimism and What Culture Will Be Like in 2021

    ‘Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud’: On Optimism and What Culture Will Be Like in 2021

  • Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

    Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

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

    Lynette Yiadom-Boakye | Fly in League with the Night

  • 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 Limbo in a Limbo: We Are Who We Are

    A Limbo in a Limbo: We Are Who We Are

  • Plinth's Top Tracks from Steve McQueen's Small Axe

    Plinth's Top Tracks from Steve McQueen's Small Axe

  • Small Axe: Tender Portraits, Forgotten Histories

    Small Axe: Tender Portraits, Forgotten Histories

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

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

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

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

  • Thread by Thread: An Interview with Anya Paintsil

    Thread by Thread: An Interview with Anya Paintsil

    Now showing at 1-54, London 2020

  • 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

  • Pretty Please with a Cherry on Top

    Pretty Please with a Cherry on Top

    On Heather Phillipson's THE END

  • Family Romance, LLC

    Family Romance, LLC

    In his new film, Werner Herzog explores Japan's rent-a-family industry

  • On Monuments and 'Mindful Vandalism'

    On Monuments and 'Mindful Vandalism'

    As tensions rise over race and heritage, what should we do with those troublesome monuments?

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  • No Justice = No Peace

    No Justice = No Peace

    Black Lives Matter

  • Humour and Horse Tranquilliser

    Humour and Horse Tranquilliser

    On David Shrigley's Lockdown Drawings

  • I May Destroy You

    I May Destroy You

    Where are the boundaries, who is crossing them?

  • What Do We Need to Talk About? 

    What Do We Need to Talk About? 

    World Premiere off-Broadway Play on Zoom

  • Melodrama, Muteness, and Not-so-distant Memory

    Melodrama, Muteness, and Not-so-distant Memory

    Everyone wants to be normal.

  • 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.

  • ELEMENTAL - ESSENTIAL

    ELEMENTAL - ESSENTIAL

    Plinth x Velorose Virtual Exhibition

  • Brief Encounter

    Brief Encounter

    'Perfect viewing for a time of isolation.'

  • Is that your final answer?

    Is that your final answer?

    ‘I like the idea that in a world of uncertainties, something can be known.’

  • Looking to Culture in Crisis

    Looking to Culture in Crisis

    In short, I want to understand an unbelievable situation. I want someone to tell me the story that I’m in.

  • In the Lap of the Gods

    In the Lap of the Gods

    'Along with insidious gods, and as its title suggests, Titian: Love, Desire, Death explores the depths of the human experience, brings together seven ‘poesies’ interpreted from Ovid’s Metamorphoses.'

  • Degrees of Truth

    Degrees of Truth

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

  • What Makes a Man?

    What Makes a Man?

    Liberation through Photography

  • Disarming the General

    Disarming the General

    An-my Lê at Marian Goodman Gallery

  • Old is the New New

    Old is the New New

  • Wave After Wave

    Wave After Wave

    'Only teenagers can feel this indestructible.'

  • Meditations on Nam June Paik

    Meditations on Nam June Paik

    'A busy disco, irreverently juxtaposing low and high culture.'

  • Installation view of Awake (2019). Tekja. Image copyright Stephen Chung for Somerset House.

    Capitalism Wants Your Sleep

    'Are we ever off the clock, or merely on perpetual standby?'

  • ShopArt

    ShopArt

    "If shopping is the answer, what was the question?"

  • 50 Years of Fabulous

    50 Years of Fabulous

    "Zandra happens to work in fashion and textiles but is actually a pop artist."

  • Super Rich Interior Decoration

    Super Rich Interior Decoration

    “private school for my kids, house prices up – hurrah!”

  • Suffragette City

    Suffragette City

    Plinth x Bridgeman Editions, September 18-22

  • Wong Ping - Heart Digger at Camden Arts Centre

    Wong Ping - Heart Digger at Camden Arts Centre

    'All of us are powerful and impotent.'

  • King of Curtains

    King of Curtains

    The Reverse Panopticon, Arcade Campfa, Cardiff

  • Yang Fudong: Beyond GOD and Evil at Marian Goodman

    Yang Fudong: Beyond GOD and Evil at Marian Goodman

    'I am the protagonist of my life’s epic; I am the extra in the background of someone else’s.'

  • Toy Story 4 and the Terror of Obsolescence

    Toy Story 4 and the Terror of Obsolescence

    'Hollywood is saturated with nostalgia as kung pao chicken is laced with MSG.'

  • Boris Charmatz: 10000 Gestures at Tate Modern

    Boris Charmatz: 10000 Gestures at Tate Modern

    'How many gestures do you make, in a day? Where does one gesture stop and another begin?'

  • Black Mirror's move from le futur to l'avenir

    Black Mirror's move from le futur to l'avenir

    What has fallen away, such that commentary is no longer praise-in-unison?

  • Michael Rakowitz at Whitechapel Gallery

    Michael Rakowitz at Whitechapel Gallery

    Craft and tradition as resistance to cultural erasure.

  • Jeremy Kyle: The Monster We Made

    Jeremy Kyle: The Monster We Made

    'We all know Kyle; he is our bully.'

  • The Virtues

    The Virtues

    ‘Peace, it’s all you want, a bit of peace,’ but there are demons to square up to.

  • A House With A Date Palm Will Never Starve: Cooking With Date Syrup

    A House With A Date Palm Will Never Starve: Cooking With Date Syrup

    Announcing our latest publication with Art / Books, Michael Rakowitz and 41 chefs from across the world

  • Eighth Grade: Timeless Problems In A Digital Age

    Eighth Grade: Timeless Problems In A Digital Age

    "Like Harmony Korine’s ‘Spring Breakers’ — the PG 13 cut."

  • Edvard Munch: Love and Angst at the British Museum

    Edvard Munch: Love and Angst at the British Museum

    "Can’t a shadow be a shadow, and the light fall where it may?"

  • Hito Steyerl's Actual Reality OS

    Hito Steyerl's Actual Reality OS

    "Think Socially Conscious Pokemon Go."

  • Beyonce: High Priestess of Homecoming

    Beyonce: High Priestess of Homecoming

     “I have a chance to show how kind we can be, how intelligent and generous we can be.”

  • 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

  • Interview with Haroon Mirza

    Interview with Haroon Mirza

    For a Partnership Society at Zabludowicz Collection

  • Nicholas Grimshaw on Norfolk

    Nicholas Grimshaw on Norfolk

    "My Citroën DS just turned fifty, and to celebrate we went to Titchwell Manor for whiskey sours."

  • An Insider's Take on Frieze '17

    An Insider's Take on Frieze '17

    Jonathan Watkins, director of Ikon Gallery, on his tips and tricks for navigating London's biggest art fair.

  • Interview with Chris Steele-Perkins

    Interview with Chris Steele-Perkins

    "A lot of it is just common sense."

  • Interview with Martin Parr

    Interview with Martin Parr

    "I can't complain really."

  • Ekow Eshun on The Magnum Home

    Ekow Eshun on The Magnum Home

    The Magnum Home's photographic curator on the primacy, intensity and wonder of being young.

  • Yinka Ilori on youth, trainers and tribes

    Yinka Ilori on youth, trainers and tribes

    Interview with interiors curator of The Magnum Home

  • Edmund Clark at HMP Grendon

    Edmund Clark at HMP Grendon

    Art behind bars

  • Langlands & Bell

    Langlands & Bell

    From Creative Living Country, published March 30th by Thames and Hudson

  • Art and Sacred Space

    Art and Sacred Space

    We spoke to Canon Mark Oakley about Bill Viola's video works in St. Paul's Cathedral

  • An Afternoon at Art School

    An Afternoon at Art School

    We headed to Tate Modern's Switch House to look at art from the other side.

  • Interview with Richard Wentworth

    Interview with Richard Wentworth

    "‘Making Do and Getting By’ is just a product of what I can’t help doing…"

  • Gaetan James and Jacques Nimki

    Gaetan James and Jacques Nimki

    Although James and Nimki have never been seen in the same room, they have a lot in common.

  • Harry Gruyaert

    Harry Gruyaert

    'I prefer a good illustrator to a bad artist.'

  • Dr. Gilda Williams

    Dr. Gilda Williams

    Art critic, writer and teacher.

  • Olivia Arthur and Philipp Ebeling

    Olivia Arthur and Philipp Ebeling

    'Fishbar is a bit of an anomaly'

  • Raw Edges

    Raw Edges

    'I'm always proudest of the next project'

  • Helidon Xhixha at Somerset House

    Helidon Xhixha at Somerset House

    Plinth spoke to Xhixha about his work at London Design Biennale 2016.

  • Reiko Kaneko

    Reiko Kaneko

    Plinth spoke to ceramicist Reiko Kaneko about her inspirations and her craft.

  • Lyn Harris

    Lyn Harris

    Plinth caught up with Perfumer H in her Marylebone concept space

  • Tess Jaray

    Tess Jaray

    Plinth has corresponded with Jaray at length about her practice, her history and influences.

  • Interview with Stella Ioannou

    Interview with Stella Ioannou

    Plinth sat down with the co-director of Sculpture in the City after its 2016 launch

  • Ab Rogers

    Ab Rogers

    Plinth visited the designer in his apartment.

  • Interview with Megan Piper

    Interview with Megan Piper

    Piper's gallery opened on May 11th, at 67 Jermyn St.

  • Interview with Andy Wicks

    Interview with Andy Wicks

    Plinth spoke to the director of Castor Projects about the London art scene.

  • Kyla McCallum of Foldability

    Kyla McCallum of Foldability

    Our first in a new series of interviews with London creatives.

  • Beatriz Milhazes

    Beatriz Milhazes

    Plinth speaks to Milhazes about her new edition and current projects.

  • Arturo Herrera

    Arturo Herrera

    Plinth's writer, Emily Watkins, catches up with Ikon artist Arturo Herrera.

  • Cornelia Parker

    Cornelia Parker

    British artist Cornelia Parker is often captivated by seemingly banal, everyday objects, which she then transforms into something extraordinary.

  • Richard Deacon

    Richard Deacon

    Plinth writer and curator Chloe Grimshaw caught up with British sculptor Richard Deacon in his south London studio

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