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Power in Woman: Sarah Lucas and the Female Gaze
Sarah Lucas shot to art stardom in the late 1980s with her bawdy, sexually charged works depicting body parts crafted from mundane, 'found' objects. A lemon for a breast; an errant mattress for a body;...
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Why Doreen Valiente is the Mother of Modern Witchcraft
There aren’t many words as loaded as ‘witch’ in the English language. Centuries of mythology, persecution, and perhaps the greatest patriarchal massacre of women, elderly people, and disabled people...
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Meet Michael Halpern: Doyen of Undone Disco Couture
In the expansive fashion studio at Central Saint Martins, Michael Halpern is sifting through the references that inspired his inaugural A/W16 womenswear collection, shown at London Fashion Week this...
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The Fashion of Art History Reimagined Through Instagram
Despite making its Instagram debut just three months ago, the innovative new account @ArtGarments is already supplying a sartorially-inclined stream of pre-20th-century art to the handheld feeds of...
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The Artist Using Neon Geometry as a Means of Escapism
The sun is shining on Turkish artist Bahar Yürükoğlu’s long ice-white nails (“they’re real”) and day-glo pink lipstick as she sits in a café terrace on Istiklal Caddesi, the busiest street in Istanbul....
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The Mabuhay Gardens: Where Punks and Strippers United Forces
Punk, sex and fashion have always been inextricably linked. In London, Vivienne Westwood’s King’s Road boutique Sex sold reworked (sometimes just re-contextualised) fetish gear: the iconic ‘bondage...
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Anna Cleveland on Creative Collaboration and Visual Culture
Anna Cleveland has had a busy couple of months. Since moving into modelling full-time last year (her first catwalk appearances were for Moschino and Karl Lagerfeld at ages five and 13 respectively),...
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How to Use Art to Save the Oceans
When Swiss philanthropist and collector Francesca von Habsburg founded Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary in Vienna more than a decade ago, her aim was to commission projects which would push the art...
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A Painterly Exchange with Artist Leanne Shapton
Author, curator and educator Gianluigi Ricuperati is a passionate advocate of multidisciplinary discourse. As the director of Domus Academy, an Italian design institution dedicated to creative...
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Michelle Elie: The Woman Wearing the Avant-Garde
Back in September 2013, Rei Kawakubo reinvented the traditional approach to runway collections. Presenting her S/S14 offering, comprised of only 23 outfits – each a sculptural exploration of form and...
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Lessons We Can Learn From the Rolling Stones
“Anything worth doing is worth overdoing,” the Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger once proclaimed, and this sentiment, dripping with the charisma and enthusiasm that has singled him out as guru to...
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What AnOther Loves This Week: YSL Cheeks & Rolling Phones
April is a time for fun and games, kickstarted by the annual tradition of April Fools' pranking on the first day of the month. This sentiment has been very much mirrored by the array of covetable...
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The Instagram Moodboards You Need to Follow
From corkboards littered with drawing pins and postcards to Tumblr blogs and Google image search results, the moodboard has been an essential tool for the creative mind for as long as makers have been...
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The Beauty and Banality of West Coast Modernism
When Alice Tye wrote her dissertation, she asked the (excellent) question: "Is modernist architecture used as visual shorthand for malevolent characters in popular films?" Then, while painting a series...
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Who's Happening: Machine-A's Stavros Karelis
Describe Machine-A in three words… A controlled chaos. What was the original motivation for starting Machine-A? To create a space that celebrates young talent. It was originally like a collective – I...
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Paradise Found: Deserted Islands Amid the Indian Ocean
Where on Earth?Chagos ArchipelagoGPS Coordinates: 6°0′S 71°30′E For millennia, the coralline rock outcrops now known as the Chagos islands existed in almost total isolation – alone and geologically...
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First Look: Marton Perlaki's Otherworldly New Photo Series
Ethereal in subject matter as in name, Elemer is a new photo series and book from Hungarian photographer Marton Perlaki which takes its cue from a tall, otherworldly man that the photographer came...
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Collectable Sketchbooks That Double As Portfolios
It is not often that the Royal Mail provides an unexpected bout of inspiration on a routine Tuesday. Yet, this is precisely what happened when a pocket-sized series of promotional books by progressive...
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Elmgreen and Dragset on Disrupting Art's Status Quo
Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset have been challenging staid ways of contemplating art and its institutions, society and its systems, for over two decades. Employing sculpture, installation,...
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A Five-Point Guide to the Art and Style of Stuart Sutcliffe
"How do you talk about an artist who died just as he was getting ready? Who was already there. (Not on his way but arrived.) And then just like that, some unforeseen medical condition zapped him and...
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