Obongjayar: My God, it’s full of stars
Listening to Obongjayar feels like a bolt from the blue. His voice: elastic in its register. His sound, a cosmic mix where afrobeat meets baile…
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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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Jamie Oborne: redefining what an independent label can be
Jamie Oborne founded Dirty Hit in 2010—a label that’s grown alongside the artists it believed in from the start. With Beabadoobee, Been Stellar, The 1975,…
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