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An Ode to Op Art Hero Michael Kidner
Conceived in the 1960s, Op Art (short for Optical Art) was a radical movement which presented abstract art as optical illusions, therefore giving the viewer the impression of movement through geometric...
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George Dureau's Beautiful Boys
The foreword to Aperture’s new book of portraits by George Dureau, written by Philip Gefter and informed by an endless range of material about the late photographer’s fascinating life, begins with a...
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What Fashion's Most Famous Designers Wear
It's all too easy to blame the Internet’s insatiable appetite for access-all-areas content, or the elevation of fashion designers to near rock-star status for making what they wear themselves almost as...
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The Feminist Provocation of Kembra Pfahler
Kembra Pfahler is unafraid of making people uncomfortable with her art. In fact, the impulse to unsettle, provoke, and ultimately, make viewers think has long influenced her cross-platform projects...
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The Artist Using Needle and Thread to Transform Found Photos
"When I was young, my grandmother taught me how to embroider," says British artist Julie Cockburn, who has been applying layers of embroidery to found objects and photographs for several years. "As a...
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How Paul Outerbridge Took Colour Photography to New Heights
Who? American photographer Paul Outerbridge was one of colour photography's most innovative pioneers. Born in New York in 1896, Outerbridge demonstrated creative prowess from a young age, working as an...
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An Intimate Film Encounter With Model Dilone
Models, more often than not, are accustomed to expressing their personality in silence; their individual quirks and characteristics channelled into careful poses for one-dimensional photographs. While...
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Alma Haser's Handcrafted Origami Portraits
Alma Haser’s Cosmic Surgery series – currently on display at London’s Photographers’ Gallery – is a project she describes as a ‘happy accident’, right down to its title. “I’m really dyslexic, so I...
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Fatima Al-Qadiri Talks Politics, Protest and Provocation
Very appropriate!” laughs Fatima Al-Qadiri from Berlin as police sirens punctuate our conversation. The Senegal-born, Kuwait-raised, occasional American resident released her second album, Brute, this...
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Punk Subversion: George Cox Meets Comme des Garçons
There are few brands as embedded in punk history as George Cox, the footwear brand responsible for the iconic brothel creeper. Founded over a century ago, its legacy is embedded within both British...
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Exposing the Agony and Ecstasy of Adolescence
Adolescence is nothing if not an endless series of paradoxes. As a teenager you spend your days with packs of people, and yet often feel utterly isolated; you’re carving your own identity, and yet are...
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Lessons We Can Learn: Romy & Michele's High School Reunion
When you were a teenager, Romy and Michele’s antics in their titular 1997 film were unimaginable. Who would ever attend a school reunion and lie through their teeth about everything they’d achieved...
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Considering Five of Queer Art’s Most Transgressive Icons
Where the AIDS crisis devastated 1980s and 90s New York, decimating a generation of creativity, it also fuelled an intercultural discourse that would go on to widen and complicate society’s...
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What AnOther Loves This Week: Life Improvements
"At all times love and discipline have led to a beautiful environment and a good life." An excellent Charles Eames quote to accompany this delectable, salmon pink Shell Chair by the designer and his...
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Reclaiming Pink: The Roseate Instagrams You Need to Follow
While once upon a time pink was considered a masculine hue, in the 20th century it came to symbolise “sugar and spice and all things nice”; a colour designated to females by a male-dominated society,...
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Lucia Pica: A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
“‘Home is everything. Home is not sex but also about it. Home is not a delicious meal but also about it. Home is not a lighted bedroom but also about it. Home is not a hot bath in the winter but is...
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Chanel's Favourite Shades of Red
"Red is the colour of life, of blood, I love red," proclaimed Coco Chanel, a woman whose proclamations hold more weight than most. Similarly, Lucia Pica – the Global Creative, Make-up and Colour...
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Director Alex Cox Talks Making Sid & Nancy, 30 Years On
This year marks the 40th anniversary of punk: the British subculture that tore through the mainstream like a tornado, turning convention on its head. At its helm were The Sex Pistols, the rude, crude...
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Brilliant Things To Do in August
The Best of FilmDuring a summer where you’re just as likely to be drenched by a sudden thunder storm as you are to find yourself in the midst of a sweltering heatwave, it’s important to have a good...
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Addressing Class, Culture and Identity in Modern Britain
In the wake of Brexit, a lively new exhibition curated by Flora La Thangue at London’s Beetles + Huxley gallery charts the ways in which photographers over the past century have perceived British...
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