Listening first: Mónica Barreneche on curation and creative tension
Mónica Barreneche works across photography, journalism, curation, and creative direction, but design is the thread running through all of it. Based in Bogotá, she has…
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‘The art of hands making things’: footwear designer Tamara Toby on craft and community
Barcelona is not only the cultural backdrop of TAMA TOBY; it is its energy source. As one of the independent footwear brands shaped by the…
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Nicolas Party: the imagined and the real
The painter of hats, pipes and apples, Belgian surrealist Réne Magritte from the silence of his studio was convinced “everything we see hides another thing;…
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Sarah Harrelson opens the doors to 30 art collections
Sarah Harrelson has spent more than three decades shaping the way we read, look at, and think about culture. Her career began in the early…
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Trevor Houston on American luxury and reopening Herbert Levine
Trevor Houston owns around four hundred pairs of vintage shoes, and roughly two-thirds of them are Herbert Levine. He bought them one at a time,…
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Flux and flow states: Max Cookward on contemporary choreography and image-making
“Something dies and something is born when a work enters the stage.” Having trained in classical ballet and contemporary dance at London’s prestigious Rambert School,…
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Building for presence: Felipe Escudero’s poetic modernism
Felipe Escudero’s houses look as if they landed rather than rose from the ground. Outside Quito, a long concrete roof folds once, then again, and…
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Becoming Charlie Le Mindu: permission to transform
In a world governed by the aesthetics of perfection, Charlie Le Mindu awakens our mammalian essence. Le Mindu’s works are made from the very fibres…
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Jiahe Zhang on painting as troubleshooting
Jiahe Zhang trained as an illustrator and never studied painting formally; she taught herself. Born in Dalian and now living and working in London, she…
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A world written in light: in conversation with Ugo Rondinone
Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone, whose practice continues to oscillate between the monumental, intended for antlike audiences, and art that enlightens the existence of the individual,…
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