Culture
A visual history of the moment skateboarding and hip-hop started to collide
Set in late ’80s and early ’90s Manhattan, Jeremy Elkin’s upcoming documentary All the Streets Are Silent: The Convergence of Hip Hop and Skateboarding documents a time in which New York's sidewalks were thriving thanks to two landmark subcultures.
Michaela Coel is turning personal trauma into powerful drama
Sexual assault, sexual pleasure, consent, defiance, survival: the Londoner packs a powerful punch with her provocative new TV series I May Destroy You.
Boy.Brother.Friend: examining male identities and the diaspora through art
KK Obi and Emmanuel Balogun have launched the second coming of their original 2017 zine. It’s now a fully-fledged publication and the contents, as well as its contributors, are wicked.
Talking Sopranos with its stars Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa
The actors who played Christopher and Bobby have teamed up for a new podcast dissecting every episode of this peerless HBO drama of ours. Salute!
National Treasures: the NHS in their own words
Between Borders’ latest project is a moving collection of journal entries detailing life on the frontline.
Du’an Brotherhood: a celebration of Southeast Asian masculinity
Chinese-British photographer Alexandra Leese’s new photo series spotlights the diverse range of Asian beauty and captures coming-of-age moments and brotherly love in Du’an, a rural town in Southern China.
The charming stories behind some of Tina Barney’s most iconic portraits
The acclaimed American photographer walks us through eight of her strikingly intimate images of American and European life.
The zine documenting London’s lockdown week by week
When the UK was thrust into lockdown, and many set about stress-making banana bread, a trio of creatives started an Instagram zine that encapsulates the quirks of life under lockdown in the capital.
Maya Hawke isn’t feeling so alone anymore
With her debut album Blush, the actress and singer-songwriter uses her wistful, Laurel Canyonesque music as social lubricant.
Watch a life drawing class with TikTok heartthrob Noen Eubanks
The Face cover star serves four sultry poses over Zoom for an assortment of Sketch Sesh regulars (and his long distance girlfriend Abby Roberts). It’s state of the art technology. Isn’t he dreamy?
We are family!
The University of Salford’s Fashion Image Making and Styling students were set a brief earlier this year: document what “family” means to you, based on MoMA’s seminal Family of Man exhibition in 1955. Here are (six of) their interpretations.
Artist Carlos Valencia stars in Celine’s Portrait of a Performer series
Influenced by pop art, politics and pin badges, the artist’s sociopolitical work is delivered with a wink. His graphite works – inspired by artists from Ed Ruscha to Jenny Holzer – have found a fan in Hedi Slimane.
Hotel breakfast buffet, we hardly knew ye
With the news that hotels will be doing away with their breakfast buffets post-coronavirus, Joe Bish pays tribute to the joys of their mis-matched, reheated tidbits.
Lap(top) dancers: how a strip club is adapting to the coronavirus
Atlanta’s Magic City is one of the world’s most famous strip clubs. Now, prompted by the coronavirus lockdown, it’s launched a live streaming platform. But how do you replicate the IRL magic online?
People watching people watching people
Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra is something of a master in capturing an intimate portrait. With her eponymous exhibition at Marian Goodman Gallery ending before it even began back in March, we catch up on the online version, instead.
White Lines: clubbed to death
From the man who brought us Money Heist and the people who made The Crown comes an Ibiza-set thriller – a Netflix series involving a party snake, a white peacock, a dead DJ, big tunes and, of course, drugs. Hoover up White Lines for the Med-for-it holiday you won’t be getting this year.
Waves actress Taylor Russell’s quarantine recommendations
Handstands, Criterion films and meme-swapping with Euphoria’s Alexa Demie – this is how the Canadian thesp is keeping busy during lockdown.
Show of Support brings the international art community together to fight the coronavirus
Ben Broome's new virtual exhibition, featuring over 100 multidisciplinary artists, will raise funds for for organisations and individuals that have felt the harsh effects of Covid-19.
The Face’s lockdown tasting menu – with drinks pairing!
Ever wondered which Grenache Blanc goes best with a 10 pack of fish fingers? No, us neither. But we asked fancy sommelier Johnny Ragget anyway!
“This is the Dean Martin of drinking establishments”: the campaign to save Soho bar Trisha’s
For those who make it past the bouncer, Trisha’s is a part of the fabric of Soho: a bar as much beloved by friends of Lucien Clarke as it is friends of Lucien Freud. Now, due to the closure from the coronavirus, it risks being lost. Journalist and Trisha’s barmaid, Tracy Kawalik, explains why it must be saved.
The NHS captured over four years
Theatre is a photobook dedicated to one of London’s leading NHS hospitals by photographer Lewis Khan, who made it his home in 2015.