Culture
Kingsley Ifill is only now starting to understand
New exhibition Blue Roan is a trip down the rabbit hole of 15 years of meditative, painstaking work. It was worth it.
“Let’s go gross”: Gary Card and 4FSB go head to head
Overdue collab alert! Stepping outside the fashion arena, the creatives find common ground in madcap aesthetics and their mums just not getting it.
Jack O’Connell on taking a bite out of Sinners
In Ryan Coogler’s box-office juggernaut, the Derbyshire actor goes toe-to-toe and teeth-to-teeth with Michael B. Jordan – both of him.
There’s a spaghetti western about Newcastle’s young horse riders
Stepney Western merges traditional American movie tropes with documentary-style storytelling.
Sinners: the anti-capitalist vampire film everyone is talking about
There are countless horror films to sink your teeth into but new Ryan Coogler joint, Sinners, which just enjoyed a huge opening weekend, is ripe for the picking.
Lives Less Ordinary explores the nuances of working class life
The London exhibition features works by Jasleen Kaur, Corbin Shaw and Roman Manfredi.
Here’s what went down at Guess Jeans and Charli xcx’s Coachella afters
Charli hosted the only afterparty worth its salt after her set last weekend. Timotheé Chalamet, PinkPantheress, The Dare, Clairo and Leonardo DiCaprio were just some of the celebs in attendance.
Corbin Shaw made a really big egg for a really good cause
The artist has hand-painted the giant egg to raise money for the Independent Food Aid Network.
Mark Leckey is making art for a people yet to come
He’s the much-loved, much-bearded figure of Great British art. A new Paris exhibition will show you why.
Having a bad week? Noah Davis will lift you up
As a Barbican retrospective celebrates the artist’s extraordinary career, we caught up with his wife Karon to hear about her fondest memories of her husband, with whom she founded LA's Underground Museum.
Holly Blakey doesn’t care if her work makes you uncomfortable
The renowned North Yorkshire choreographer’s latest double bill opens at the Southbank Centre this week. With themes of nightmarish nursery rhymes, a miscarriage and love, Phantom and A Wound With Teeth are packed with heart-wrenching stuff.
The mundane yet surreal world of Ed Atkins
It’s a big week for the writer, artist and filmmaker: there’s a retrospective of his work on at the Tate Britain, and he’s got a new book out, Flower. In both, he asks himself – and the audience – big questions about modern life.
10 films you should be excited to watch this year
An age gap thriller, zombies, lustful deceit in the south of France, CEO aliens and Chloë Sevigny x 2, all for your viewing pleasure.
Is this R.I.P. Germain’s most chilling show yet?
The exceptionally private artist’s show is an acerbic call to action, highlighting with gruesome detail how the UK drill scene was destroyed as quickly as it was built.
Inside Slam Jam and Vans’ new artist hangout
I went to Ottessa Moshfegh’s auction and all I got was this story
The cult author made the un-auctionable seem indispensable at Substack’s debut auction, where bizarre ephemera turned into high art and surreal moments made for a night as strange as it was sincere.
What went down at Nike’s secret South London takeover
An interview with Nick Logan, founder of THE FACE
You wouldn’t be reading this if it wasn’t for Nick Logan, who launched our attractively collectable first issue back in May 1980. Nearly half a century on, he’s back in this Q&A with current Editor-in-Chief Matthew Whitehouse.
An evening at 10Foot, Tox and Fume’s gallery takeover
The legendary graffiti writers unveil a behemoth exhibition, charting their tunnel-dwelling history in a secret location. We pass by for a Red Stripe on them.
What does “home” mean, anyway?
In her bone-chilling debut I Want To Go Home But I’m Already There, writer Róisín Lanigan brings a gothic edge to the persistent horror of renting in London.
Pouria Khojastehpay’s Zoom calls are different to your Zoom calls
Mexican Cartels, high-end watch thieves, Brazilian drug traffickers. All in a day’s work for the founder of 550BC: the criminal world’s favourite book publisher.
Saddle up! The LA art show re-defining cowboy culture
With a little help from a stranger on Instagram, artist/curator Devon DeJardin ended up right where he's meant to be: putting on an exhibition that challenges stereotypes about the American West.
Old Skool to the world
To celebrate Vans Premium Old Skool campaign, we asked Detroit trio HiTech, artist Nicole McLaughlin and Vans’ head of footwear design Diandre Fuentes to share their favourite stories from wearing their most reliable pair of shoes.