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Polly Brown Presents a Photo Study on Sex
Sex is everywhere if you want it to be. Beyond the idealised, conventional tropes of stimulation, titillation can be found in the most banal of subjects and scenes – the curvature of a snaking...
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Area NYC: The Brand Turning Trash into Treasure
Over the past year, there has been a development within New York's fashion scene: once exclusively the domain of big business brands, it is now home to some of the most exciting young labels in...
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Carving Out Art History Through Viennese Woodcuts
The woodcut is one of the oldest known printing techniques, achieved by carving an image into a block of wood with a gouge so that the printing parts are level with the block's surface while the...
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Exploring The Arc, One of Fashion's Greatest Archives
Walking into The Arc is like stumbling upon Aladdin’s Cave – albeit one that is tucked away behind a takeaway on Hackney’s Mare Street. This is the rare collection of sartorial wonders personally...
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The Enchanting Philosophy of May Lindstrom, Skincare Doyenne
Who? Model-turned-skincare doyenne May Lindstrom is the sort of woman that it's hard to imagine lives in the real world: she is so devoted to self-care and love-thyself philosophy that she seems like...
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Hannah Höch's Reimagining of Indigenous African Artefacts
From its very inception in 1915, the Dada movement has always been heavily influenced by non-European cultures. It was founded in the Cabaret Voltaire, Hugo Ball’s infamous Zurich nightclub; an...
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Benjamin Senior's Geometric Portrayal of Olympic Swimmers
“I first got interested in painting people doing exercise because it allowed me to indulge in my favourite things: drawing bodies in the midst of exercise, because that makes them abstract, and drawing...
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An Intimate Film Encounter with Model Estella
Estella Boersma may be the face of multiple Prada campaigns and landmark Vogue Italia stories, but her first love is, and always will be, drawing. The fluid, Manga-inspired illustrations that galvanize...
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Gus Van Sant's Candid Polaroids of Hollywood's Rising Stars
Who? American director Gus Van Sant is one of the most ambidextrous filmmakers in cinematic history; fearlessly independent and uncompromising in his vision, he can switch from creating deeply...
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The Parties of the Century, As Remembered by Marisa Berenson
“Marie-Hélène de Rothschild threw some extraordinary parties in Paris, like the Proust Ball in 1971, which I was lucky enough to attend. I went as the Marchesa Luisa Casati and no one recognised me,...
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Art Meets Artefacts: Talking Shop with Julia Muggenburg
When Julia Muggenburg rustles out of the rain and into her Mayfair gallery Belmacz to find me sitting in the window, she has the unmistakeable air of an explorer returning home laden with treasures....
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Art and Optimism: The Musical Evolution of Flo Morrissey
Flo Morrissey has just finished reading Learning by Heart (1992) by Sister Corita Kent – the late American Catholic nun and art activist, whose socio-political screen prints played a pivotal role in...
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Lessons We Can Learn From PJ Harvey
For 25 years, Polly Jean Harvey has carved a unique, sinuous path in pop culture. As an artist, she keeps surprising her fans, less reinventing herself with every record than constantly pushing at her...
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What AnOther Loves This Week: Summer Solace
For autumn/winter 2016, the Prada woman turned intrepid explorer, her clothes referencing her peripatetic, global lifestyle. Christophe Chemin was the artist behing the collection's myriad prints,...
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Five Ways the Beat Generation Transformed Pop Culture
The Beats’ reputation is one rooted in inauspicious circumstances: from William S. Burroughs accidentally shooting his wife in a game of William Tell in Mexico, to jail time for Gregory Corso, Jack...
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Morocco's Unmissable Multicoloured Walls
One of the greatest draws of travelling the world lies in seeing elements of other countries that tour-guides and onlookers are blind to – and if the traveller is a photographer, capturing these...
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What to Watch: Radical New Films About Eras Past
Where there’s cinema, there’s often also nostalgia. It’s an artform frequently haunted by the past – but this can manifest itself in startling new ways. The T-Mobile New Horizons International Film...
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The Life-Changing Abstinence of The Mayr Clinic
Over the past few months, my conversation – both dinner table and otherwise – has been completely monolithic. The first couple of months were dedicated to discussing my hideous state of ill health, and...
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Robert Rauschenberg's Million Dollar Window Displays
In 1959, on the cusp of global notoriety, Robert Rauschenberg declared that his creative ambition was to act within “the gap between art and life”. His unassuming and free-spirited practice, which...
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The Staged Splendour of Opera Star Maria Callas
Over the course of her relatively short-lived career, legendary opera singer Maria Callas – known for her commanding stage presence and tireless work ethic – left a lasting mark both on the art form...
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