Keeping art honest: JJ Charlesworth on criticism, commerce, and the culture of conformity
Art critic and published author JJ Charlesworth has been a sharp observer and tastemaker of the London art scene for over twenty-five years. In this…
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Olafur Eliasson: Accountable to the future
“Art is not the object, but what the object does to the world,” Olafur Eliasson reflects. Using elemental forms—light and water, colour and movement—the Danish-Icelandic…
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Beatrice Galilee and the architecture of the world around
Beatrice Galilee, internationally recognised curator, writer, and founder of the global non-profit The World Around, has pioneered the dialogue around architecture and culture in a…
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Jon Batiste: sound continuum
“The most universal sound is silence,” Jon Batiste explains. “Room tone, nature, or the night sky. As sounds emerge from that silence, they create alignment—like…
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Jewellery designer Rosalie Carlier on chains, change, and creative freedom
Rosalie Carlier is a jewellery designer whose career spans both fine art and high fashion. After studying at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in…
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Michael Harding on the vision behind Altered States
For Michael Harding, it all started with hair—the kind of haircuts that looked like they’d been ripped from a punk zine, carved with clippers in…
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Zoé Blue M.’s Folk Figures: Between Mahjong Tiles and Myth
For many painters, the magic happens in the distortion, the taking of daily life and bending it into something stranger, more magnetic. Zoé Blue M.…
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Wayne McGregor: infinite bodies
Wayne McGregor is one of the most renowned names in contemporary dance—and one of its most radical thinkers. Over the past three decades, the London-based…
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Inge Grognard: the storyteller of makeup
Few artists have collaborated with as many of the 20th century’s great designers as Inge Grognard. Rising to prominence alongside the Antwerp Six, Grognard’s work…
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Mikhail Baryshnikov: no dead ends
The late Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky described Mikhail Baryshnikov’s movement as “pure body metaphysics,” saying it “burst from the framework of ballet.” In his longtime…
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