Oscar Murillo on reconciling beauty with reality and making socially engaged art
Colombian artist Oscar Murillo has exhibited his work around the world, including at prestigious institutions such as the Tate Modern in London and as part…
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Rejina Pyo: the spatial language of fashion design
Rejina Pyo is a South Korean fashion designer whose work sits at the intersection of art, architecture, and contemporary womenswear. Born in Seoul and based…
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Sonny Hall & Jan Melka: The beginning
When we last spoke to Sonny Hall, he told us he was trying to draw more because “to draw takes patience and humility and an…
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Start With Yourself: Emma Grede on ambition, audacity and the discipline of no
Without hesitation, one could say that Emma Grede has more hours in her day than the rest of us. She is a serial founder and…
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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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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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