Art
Flights of fancy, bolts of beauty, and true imagination
Production Productivity Hack: The Insane Witchcraft of imgn AI
imgn AI can take a script and perform an almost complete breakdown and scheduling in minutes, including storyboards to visualise the script scenes…
The Spirit of Hollywood Star, Mary Pickford, is Driving the New Frontier in Film
Even the shiniest stars can dim with the passage of time, but someone of Mary Pickford’s significance should never have faded into the annals of history…
Summer Rain & Uncertainty: What Light can Louis MacNeice’s Poetry Shed on our Cultural Moment?
What light can Louis MacNeice’s poetry shed on our cultural moment?
Punk Spirits at Pullens Yards: Meet the Artists of Elephant & Castle
Walworth is made up of towering estates and roads of chocolate-box Victorian houses. It is also home to Pullens Yards...
Pay to Play: Rising Bills and Radio Silence
A staggering sum of local stations have seen their airwaves fall flat. Gilles Peterson, somehow, is still feeling optimistic...
A Colour of Many Connotations: Red
Like immorality, blazing red on a woman’s chest, red is little more than what we make of it in our own prudishness or paranoia…
Kutnia: In Touch with Tradition
In London, where the brand colour has got to be a kind of pigeon grey, owning something as vibrant as Kuntia’s designs says that you will not be subdued...
It Lurks Around You: Gothic London
The Gothic. What does that really mean? Most people would conjure up images of black leather boots, black clothes, a bit more black, a few bottles of vodka...
The Age of Understatement
In our age of Transformative Twenties, delicate fixtures are the winners. The trick is knowing how to play it...
Diggin' It: Shed Loads of Style
Many of us are squirrelling out little oases in which to commune with nature… and we want to look good while we do so...
Consider the Word: Elegant
Consider the word ‘elegant’ and try to conjure up a figure more refined than the 19th century English dandy...
Jessica Worrall: Decoding Fashion through Collage
How you present yourself always matters, and no one understands this better than Jessica Worrall, a decoder of fashion language...
The Unlikely Offspring of Uncertain Times: Doyle Wham
The ego of the dealer could become a thing of the past if Imme and Sofia are the prototype for new entrants in the industry. Without all the surrounding pageantry, we might actually get a chance to appreciate the art.
Modern Masterpieces: Exploring Emotion & Nature in Jewellery
Jewellery, in its most transcendent form, can be sculpture, art object, pure fashion accessory or good luck charm...
Chasing a Rainbow: Bridging Illusion and Reality
We all know what lies at the end of a rainbow — that proverbial pot of gold, that something much sought after but impossible to attain. But how do rainbows come about, and what lies at their origins?
Beautiful Objects: The Queen’s Gloves
Cornelia James, a young Austrian Jewish girl newly graduated from the Vienna Arts Academy, flees the country. She comes to England as a refugee with no clothes and no money. What she does have, is a little case of coloured calfskins…
The Connection Between the Visible and the Invisible
Dr Hugh Welch Diamond was a Victorian psychiatrist and a passionate amateur photographer, who believed that photography could offer new ways to examine the mind of the mentally ill…
Wearing a Book: Texts vs. Textiles
In his In Search of Lost Time, the French writer Marcel Proust makes a comparison between writing a book and making a dress. His narrator, who is just...
Can Squatting Be Art?
Ponder carefully on the reasons behind the decision to confer Europe’s most prestigious visual-art prize to a collective of non-artists for a project...
Beautiful Objects: Portrait Miniatures
The way in which we remember those we’re close to seems to evolve with every generation, but the need for it remains the same. Portrait miniatures were once...