The Themersons: Partners & Pillars of the Polish Avant-Garde
Who? Partners and life-long collaborators, Franciszka and Stefan Themerson were pioneers of Poland’s pre-war cinematic avant-garde. Never ones to stick to well-established parameters, their practice...
View ArticleExtraordinary Glass Models of Marine Invertebrates
A circular disc, resembling a blue-ringed iris, emits delicate transparent tentacles; an explosion of golden rays burst from a glimmering nucleus like a firework. An initial glance at Italian...
View ArticleNavigating the New Dover Street Market
Dover Street Market finally opened the doors to its brand new London residence last weekend, having re-located from its prized position on 17-18 Dover Street in Mayfair to the buzzy confines of...
View ArticleTen Things You Might Not Know About Merce Cunningham
“Dancing is a spiritual exercise in a physical form,” Merce Cunningham once stated, and indeed, in his hands, it was often elevated to a higher plane. Cunningham spent more than 60 years working at the...
View ArticleAnother Man S/S16: Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones
This season, Another Man’s covers celebrate rock’n’roll’s royal families, and introduce the rightful heirs to the rock throne. Oli Burslem – frontman of the UK's most exciting new band Yak – Georgia...
View ArticleAlister Mackie's Highlights from Another Man S/S16
The Spring/Summer 2016 issue of Another Man is an electrifying celebration of rock'n'roll through the ages – from an unprecedented exploration of the Rolling Stones archive to a vibrant profile on Oli...
View ArticleWatch Oli Burslem in Action in Another Man's Exclusive Video
Oli Burslem has the rare ability to make you look twice. A louche, magnetic presence amplified by fiendishly good looks – and that’s before he’s opened his Jagger-esque jaw and launched into a crazed,...
View ArticleAlison Watt's Beautiful Meditations on Fabric
For as long as she can remember, Scottish artist Alison Watt has had two enduring obsessions: paint and drapery. She was introduced to the former as a young girl by her father, also a painter, and...
View ArticleLessons We Can Learn From Working Girl
The 1980s saw a gender role revolution in the workplace. With historical strides towards male and female equality came a surge of women working in office jobs, and a new, sharply tailored uniform...
View ArticleThree of the Best Instagrams Merging Food and Fashion
Easter is a time for eating and for scrolling – the former because of tradition, the latter because long instances of enforced family time can be difficult – and Instagram, our preferred social media...
View ArticleStellar Photographs by the First Artist-Turned-Astronaut
While most artists and photographers undertake a stint at art school in training for their craft, Michael Najjar’s demanding choice of subject matter necessitates a more extreme approach – an intensive...
View ArticleA Sea of Clouds in Tenerife
Where on Earth?Mount Teide GPS Coordinates: 28°16′N 16°38′WRising from the ocean some 160 nautical miles west of Africa, the island of Tenerife is dominated by its towering central volcano, Teide....
View ArticleA Photographic Love Letter to New York
There is no other city quite like New York, where life moves at lightning speed, altitudinous buildings spear low-lying clouds like arrows through apples, and everything remains in a constant state of...
View ArticleEnter the 'Razzle Dazzle' World of MCM Hong Kong
If you aren’t an art buyer, there is a slightly bizarre feeling that accompanies a trip to Art Basel. While the experience offers the opportunity to explore the works of some of the world’s greatest...
View ArticleIn Praise of Amelia Earhart’s Adventurous Spirit
In the early 20th century, when the idea of a female pilot was widely considered an unladylike flight of fancy, Amelia Earhart refused to be held back on the basis of her gender. When Earhart was...
View ArticleRobert Mapplethorpe's Sensual Flowers
As both the unlikely darling of New York’s avant-garde art galleries and a pivotal figure in the city’s burgeoning gay scene, artist and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe’s career was nothing if not...
View ArticleTen Things You Might Not Know About the Velvet Underground
Very few musical ensembles altered the pop-culture landscape in the slow-burning but ultimately all-consuming way that the Velvet Underground did: Brian Eno once famously claimed that although the band...
View ArticleThe Agony Plant on How to Repot a Houseplant
Every month, AnOther's dedicated Agony Plant – AKA Nik Southern from the iconic London floristry Grace & Thorn – draws upon her extensive expertise to answer your questions and queries about best...
View ArticleArt Pioneer: The Importance of Portraitist Vigée Le Brun
Who? Elisabeth Louise Vigée le Brun, or Madame Le Brun as she would later come to be known, produced some of the most famous paintings of the French aristocracy ever hung – but her drive to paint, even...
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