Perhaps I’ve read too many internet articles lately — on how automation is going to leave loads of us jobless and prone to civil unrest right quick; about the mathematical probability that this universe we call home is really just a computer simulation, but it doesn’t even matter anyway; interviews with a company of office workers…
Museums and galleries as we know them today are going extinct. The sparsely hung white walls, the stifling silence interrupted only by hesitant footsteps, the evil glare from the intern behind the reception desk, the dependence on paragraphs of restrained text on wall plaques — all slipping away into the past. I don’t mean to be…
If I were to utter aloud the term “art history” in idle chatter, or you glanced it off an earmarked textbook page, some general stirrings of recognition would be set aglow in your brain regardless of the amount of formal education it’s absorbed. Pablo Picasso! A naked chick on the half shell, lots of gold-haloed…
Mason Storm is one of the most talented and elusive artists on the art scene today. Although rarely seen in public without his balaclava I was fortunate enough to meet the man in person, face to face over a coffee and get to know more about the man behind the mask. “I have been around…
“You can be as talented as anybody out there, but a lot of the art industry hinges on reputation.” There is a new art movement gathering great momentum in London. At its core lies the ethos of unity and accessibility. The archaic rules of the art world are being dismantled and re-structured by the rise…
Let’s face it, we’re profoundly partial to spanking good street art, and when multiple talented, urban renegades get together to collaborate on a a project, well, let’s just say… mind. blown. Two is better than one, they say. Oh, and there’s strength in numbers, too. Platitudes apply even to inventive, spray paint-wielding whiz kids. Here…
Conquer Gear, the #illustratedstorytellers, are launching an exhibition for new ‘Memories’ illustration, postcards, photography and video collection. Exhibition: 26th March – 8th April, The Montage, 33 Dartmouth Rd, London, SE23 3HN Conquer Gear We love to share our travels on social media with the unlucky ones left behind in wet and windy England, but does…
Artist Ayano Tskukimi returned after 11 years to her hometown of Nagoro – in the valleys of Shikoku, Japan – to find that numerous friends and acquaintances had either moved away or passed on. Paying homage to those that left the now less than booming population 35 town, Tskukimi has constructed life-size dolls to populate…
Experimental site-specific performance by BNNT (Konrad Smoleński and Daniel Szwed) Degrees of Freedom by Polish art group, BNNT, The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London, Tuesday 3 December 2013. Curated by Arts Territory. Supported by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland and the Arts Council England, photo Miseongoa…
“Je t’aime,” I whisper to the stranger. A grin explodes across his face on hearing the party password. “Oh, but darling,” he rejoins, flapping me over the threshold, “we’ve only just met!” This is David Carter, and I am going to a party at his house. He owns a boutique hotel in Stepney called ’40…