Leonardo Drew: The Alchemy of Ruin
Before ruin became a corrosive condition of the present, it was already being rehearsed in the fragmented languages of modern art. Visible in the densely…
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Against the silo: Whitney Mallett on critical intimacy and indie publishing’s renaissance
Whitney Mallett is a vital voice in literary criticism at a moment of profound media upheaval. Founder and editor-in-chief of The Whitney Review, she is…
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George Rouy: More hunger
George Rouy is interested in the body as landscape. In his paintings, lines smudge and forms distend; figures—alone and in groups, seen and unseen—take on…
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The right wrong turn: Volker Bertelmann on detours that lead to discovery
Volker Bertelmann, known as Hauschka, is not easy to categorise. The German composer and pianist has spent decades navigating the different worlds: prepared piano and…
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Dries Van Noten: Beauty as protest
In conversation with hube and Theaster Gates In 1967, as the Vietnam War raged, singer-songwriter Phil Ochs penned the line, “In such ugly times, the…
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Maurizio Cattelan: Some love ahead
Iconoclast, provocateur, court jester of the contemporary art world—these are just a few of the ways people have described Maurizio Cattelan, the Italian artist whose…
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Between East and West: the philosophy behind avant-garde elegance through the lens of Jay Songzio
Between Seoul and Paris, between discipline and instinct, fashion becomes a language that does not translate—it connects. In the hands of Jay Songzio, Creative Director…
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Vulnerability hangover: rebuilding the self through sculpture
In the deliberate paintings of Francis Bacon and his predecessor Vincent van Gogh, it can feel as if the act of creativity was as much…
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Clym Evernden: a life in lines
Clym Evernden is a London-based artist and illustrator and commercial artist renowned for his distinctive linear renderings of urban life—ink-based impressions depicting whimsical vignettes of…
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Ravi Rajan on artistic agency and the futures we create
In a time of rapid change and constant instability, questions around the role of artists feel more urgent than ever. What do artists uniquely contribute…
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