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Tom Hingston on his brand-new exhibition featuring Björk, Stormzy and Nick Cave
If you don’t have a Hingston-designed record in your collection, someone within pinging distance of you will. Now the sleeve-famous creative director has curated 21 unique works from musicians, artists and designers all in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust.
BALLS: when art and footie collide
Today, OOF magazine has opened its first permanent gallery space next to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, featuring work by artists Jazz Grant, Sarah Lucas and JJ Guest. Its purpose? To question our relationship with the beautiful game, one art piece at a time.
You have five new TV shows and films to binge this weekend
Screen Time: Got a case of streaming decision paralysis? Here’s everything worth watching from 23 July onwards.
Watch the latest Dune trailer starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya and Timothée Chalamet’s hair
Trailer of the Week: the first in a sporadically scheduled series dissecting the 150-second mini-blockbusters that we call “trailers”.
The fursuit of happiness: Furries on Netflix’s Sexy Beasts
Is Netflix’s new dating show Sexy Beasts the last frontier of concealed-identity reality TV? Probably not. It’s not even an original concept. THE FACE meets the furries who have dressed up as anthropomorphic characters for years, for friendships, dating and, yes, sex.
Here’s what New Yorkers are wearing in the blazin’ sun
Face It: May contain cowboy hats, Frozen, a toupée and, er, a naked OAP.
Erika de Casier’s summertime guide to Copenhagen
The Danish R&B singer-songwriter and producer gives us a local’s tour of all the most charming spots in her home city.
Emma Corrin hits the West End as super-con Anna Delvey
In 2018, Delvey’s faux-heiress story had the world hooked, scamming her way through New York City’s elite and landing herself in jail. Now, writer Joseph Charlton has turned it into the play of the moment.
Meet Miranda Makaroff: the vibrant artist who’s designed a new Ibiza venue
The island’s buzz-worthy beach club, El Silencio, is finally open – and it offers more than just idyllic views.
“He had a lust for life”: Anthony Bourdain superfans on his legacy
To coincide with the release of new documentary Roadrunner, directed by Morgan Neville, we asked some of the culinary legend’s superfans about the impact he had on them.
Archie Madekwe: “In this day and age, being a person of colour is political”
Taking stock over lockdown, the London actor and advocate has spent the last 12 months helping to provide arts education for young people in the justice system.
Documenting the world’s most endangered McDonald’s
A video-game designer from Pittsburgh has made it his mission to track down the world’s most outlandish McDonald’s restaurants. Now he’s on a race against time to document them before they disappear forever.
The TikTok account putting our favourite dramas to shame
Thea von Engelbrecht started Sylvanian Drama to cure her quarantine boredom. Now, her self-deprecating, darkly hilarious animal-themed videos have over one million fans to their name.
Ade Adepitan: “All this nonsense about wealth is bullshit”
Q&A: Whether he's making babies or accidental caramel, the 48-year-old TV presenter and former Paralympics basketball player has been pretty busy over lockdown.
The currency of the far-right: how crypto empowered neo-Nazis
In an extract from Cryptocurrency: How Digital Money Could Transform Finance, WIRED’s staff writer Gian Volpicelli traces the digital currency’s dark political past.
Love Island’s “be kind” mantra is failing Hugo
Things are finally starting to heat up in the villa, but unfortunately one contestant is getting burned more than others.
Sadie Sink is set for the scream queen crown
The Stranger Things star comes into her own as Ziggy Berman in Netflix’s ambitious new horror trilogy, Fear Street, based on R.L. Stine’s teen novels of the same name.
Richard Ayodeji Ikhide on education, icons and visual identity
The future of nightlife? It’s going to be raw, euphoric and desynchronised
Conor Rogers’ art is a baggy-filled vision of modern Britain
Growing up on Sheffield council estates, the 29-year old artist takes the mundanities of Blighty and turns them into beauties. Proper.
How an animated Filipino series became Netflix’s surprise hit of the year
With its killer politicians and warring elf creatures, Trese took just three days to rocket into Netflix’s top 10 most-watched shows in 19 countries. Here, THE FACE meets its creators to hear the true crime and folklore stories that inspired the Filipino hit.
My Media Diet: Serena Shahidi, TikTok’s aspirational thinker
The influencer and podcaster has made a name for herself by mercilessly taking the piss out of girlboss culture. Here’s what she gets up to within the confines of her screen.
Can Rachel save Love Island?
This series of Love Island seems to be a dud. But this bombshell’s arrival might just shake things up...