Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson On Their New Film Anomalisa
It's the week after the Oscars and Charlie Kaufman — the brilliant, award-winning force behind such unforgettable films as Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind — is in London...
View ArticleA Cinematic Odyssey With Nicolas Winding Refn
Upcoming horror The Neon Demon follows an aspiring model through Los Angeles who's dead set on devouring her youth. It promises moody ruthlessness in the extravagant vein its director Nicolas Winding...
View ArticlePhotographic Portraits Made by Russian Surveillance Cameras
A strangely hollow greyscale face gazes out eerily from the cover of Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin’s most recent book, Spirit Is a Bone, occupying the liminal space somewhere between an X-ray and...
View ArticleWhat AnOther Loves: Shell Chairs and a Choupette Tie Pin
Spring has officially sprung and the @anotherloves stream is flourishing accordingly, this week's highlights ranging from pink velvet chairs to the Blue Velvet soundtrack, scored by Angelo Badalamenti...
View ArticleYour First Look at the New Dover Street Market London
“For Dover Street Market I think about making a new food, as a shop. I cook together various kinds of materials – such as clothes. Comme des Garçons would become the main ingredient. Then I mix in a...
View ArticleFinding Beauty in Modernist Estates
If you’ve ever walked through London, or indeed most British cities, you’ll be no stranger to the post-war Modernist architecture that populates so much of it, bringing geometric shapes, acute angles...
View ArticleOn Fashioning Architectural Beauty for Junya Watanabe
"Watanabe’s fascination with advanced math and geometry is no new thing," wrote Sarah Mower following Junya Watanabe's A/W16 collection this season. "A glance at his history proves just how frequently...
View ArticleViewing Pop Culture Through Tal R’s 200 Collages
As an artist, you’d think few things would be more exposing than laying out 20 years worth of source material for your viewers to see. For Copenhagen-based Tal R, however, whose new exhibition Garbage...
View ArticleColour in Context: Swimming Pool Blue
It’s a strange irony that while water lacks a colour of its own, in the mind’s eye it takes on such resonance that its hues become powerful symbols. From the expansive and deep blue-green of the open...
View ArticleClint Mansell on Scoring High-Rise
It may come as a surprise to learn that Clint Mansell, the British composer behind such iconic scores as Requiem For a Dream, Black Swan and most recently Ben Wheatley's High-Rise, has had no formal...
View ArticleVivienne Westwood's Radically Chic Nostalgia of Mud
I was barely 15 years old when Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood opened their first shop, Let it Rock. I still remember buying a pair of cross-stitched, doeskin pointed brothel creepers. It was...
View ArticleA Peripheral Portrait of London Fashion Week
Since relocating from the Neoclassical confines of Somerset House to Soho's Brewer Street Car Park, London Fashion Week has become an even bigger lure for crowds of fashion zealots hoping to catch a...
View ArticleThe Big Bloom: When Immersive Art and Floristry Intertwine
Who? Floral artist Rebecca Louise Law is perhaps best known for her collaborations with fashion houses Hermès and Mulberry, but the large-scale floral installations she has made her name with all stem...
View ArticleHow Paul Strand Paved the Way For Photographic Modernism
Paul Strand (1890–1976) is widely revered as one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. He carved out the path for American modernism and with it, the way that documentary photography is...
View ArticleGrace Wales Bonner: Fashion's Modern Afrofuturist
Over the past season, it has been impossible to have a conversation about fashion without a broader topic cropping up: the fate of the ever-accelerating industry itself. Prada’s story of womanhood?...
View ArticleArtist Faiza Butt on Exploring Sexuality and Islam
Faiza Butt is a Pakistan-born artist who currently lives and works in London. Her rich and sumptuous works are known for being highly erotic and lavish, mixing digital technologies with traditional...
View ArticleDecoding the Spiritual Symbolism of Artist Hilma af Klint
Who? A female painter, a pioneer of abstract art, a spiritualist and a dedicated believer in the occult: Swedish artist Hilma af Klint was nothing if not before her time. To the outside world, she...
View ArticleThe AnOther Guide to Elevated Basics
The late English economist Ernst Freidrich Schumacher was 62-years-old when he zealously declared in The Radical Humanist, Vol. 37, No. 5 (1973) that "any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more...
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