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Lessons We Can Learn From Cindy Sherman
At 62, Cindy Sherman is a cultural touchstone and a beloved presence in art. For 40 years, the New York-based artist has played a variety of feminine guises in her inimitable photographic series, from...
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The Image Archive Commemorating Other People's Deaths
During these troubling times, in which every week seems to prise another visionary from our earthly grasp, it’s reassuring to know that there are resources out there dedicated to remembering those who...
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Inside the Mind of Linda Rosenkrantz: Part II
In part one of our interview, Linda Rosenkrantz, author of Talk, discussed past friendships and the maddening din of psychoanalysis jargon that defined the 1960s. In part two, she opens up about the...
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Pinch Corners, Fold Sharply: A Guide to Gift Wrapping
“You could be gifting the smallest symbolic object, but the intention in the giving – card and wrapping – makes all the difference,” says Julia, proprietor of Choosing Keeping, an excellent stationery...
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Who's Happening: Designer Tim Rockins
Describe your artwork in three words… Scruffy, energetic, delicate. When do you get your best ideas?Being a father of two, generally at night because they’ve gone to bed! What do you love about...
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The Spectacular Romance of John Galliano S/S94
Once upon time, there was a princess called Lucretia. The daughter of elegantly debauched parents, her glamorous, sometimes-cruel upbringing was worthy of Tolstoy’s imagination. Much like the most...
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When Archaeology and Hyper-Modernity Collide
Who? You can always rely on London’s ICA to provide a blueprint of contemporary artists to keep an eye on. True to form, in association with the equally forward-thinking, Hong Kong-based art foundation...
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Somewhere I Would Like to Live
Concrete House, by Wespi de MeuronSituated on a steep slope in St'Abbondio in Switzerland, Wespi de Meuron's Concrete House is somewhat chameleonic in nature – a strong and heavy structure which...
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Carsten Höller's Ode to Papa Wemba and Congolese Rumba
Carsten Höller has been travelling to the Democratic Republic of Congo, undeterred by its long history of conflict, for many years. It remains one of his favourite places on earth. The artist’s love of...
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The Men Who Brought Modernism to the USA
When New York’s Museum of Modern Art was founded in 1929 – having been instigated by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Lillie P. Bliss and Mary Quinn Sullivan, otherwise known as “The Ladies” – it was the only...
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Five Fashion Brands Taking Instagram by Storm
When Kevin Systrom founded Instagram in 2010, he could scarcely have imagined the impact it would have on the fashion industry – in fact, none of us could. Over the past few years, the app has proven...
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Five Fashion Brands Taking Instagram by Storm
When Kevin Systrom founded Instagram in 2010, he could scarcely have imagined the impact it would have on the fashion industry – in fact, none of us could. Over the past few years, the app has proven...
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Zoe Bedeaux: Subcultural Chameleon
When I first met Zoe Bedeaux, I was struck by many things. Firstly, her appearance: besides being outstandingly beautiful, her dress sense is impossible to replicate because it is so inherently...
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The Subversive Sculptural Collages of Isa Genzken
Who? Isa Genzken is one of Germany’s most defiant, elusive and inscrutable artists, whose predominantly sculptural work straddles social commentary, abstract personal diary, and neon-tinted dream. She...
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Robert Adams: The New West
Robert Adams is one of the most important trailblazers of modern American photography; a key figure in the New Topographics movement (a term coined by William Jenkins to describe the visual...
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The Independent Publishing House Revolutionising Erotica
There is no denying that we live in a world that is over-saturated with eroticism designed to cater to a heterosexual male gaze. As the use of online pornography becomes more widespread, and our modern...
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What Artists Eat: A Visual Guide
Art as food: food as art. There’s a strong analogy in there somewhere, laden down though it is by burdensome intellectual squabbling. The image of the artist in their studio sitting down to a meal, to...
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A Pure Blue River on Top of the World
Where on Earth?Petermann Glacier, GreenlandGPS Coordinates: 80°45′N 60°45′W High atop the world, out on the vast, white ice sheets of northern Greenland, the change in seasons is currently creating one...
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Miles Aldridge Shares a Lifetime's Worth of Polaroids
British photographer Miles Aldridge has long been renowned for his uncanny ability to bridge the gap between fashion and fine art photography. His cinematic work for publications such as Vogue Italia –...
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A Photographic Exploration of Botswana
To label the images that artist Chloe Sells creates as mere photographs almost seems to do them a disservice. They are bright, disorientating and fantastical, awash with impossible textures in...
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