Contemporary art

Culture

Beans, butts and cheesy smiles: is this the future of good taste?

Introducing ... FIMS! The Salford University course teaching tomorrow’s budding super-creatives – and they’re releasing an off-the-wall zine.

Ben Pundole’s Miami survival guide

Before the madness of Basel takes over Miami, the entrepreneur and travel connoisseur gives us the low-down on the city’s late-night establishments and early morning juice spots.

Culture

Visions of intimacy

Three rising black American artists – Jarvis Boyland, Jonathan Lyndon Chase, and Clotilde Jiménez – who feature in new LA exhibition, Disembodiment, discuss growing up in the ’90s and intimacy in a digital age.

Culture

Art and HIV: it’s time to open up the conversation

Número de Serie uses art and design to spark the ever-crucial conversations surrounding HIV and sexual health. Now they’ve released a non-profit T-shirt – and it’s gorgeous.

Culture

So macho

Joe Sweeney’s latest exhibition tackles the weird, wide world of modern masculinity. With knobs on/in.

Culture

Industrial light and magic

The work of Los Angeles’ artist Sterling Ruby is informed by the city’s manufacturing past and the potential of “the best waste and scrap” he finds on his workshop doorstep.