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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.
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Trauma Hurts: a film of family, love, loss and hope
Artist Tan Gillies’ new film explores the intense highs and lows of growing up, presented through the mysticism of Iceland, and the chaos of London.
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There’s more to the opioid epidemic than Mare of Easttown shows
The HBO limited series’ depiction of the opioid crisis is thin, but it’s not wrong. Its major blindspot? The fact that addicts are worthy of redemption.
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Happy and hardcore: clubbing at the turn of the Millennium
The highs, highs and, er, highs of British nightlife have been immortalised with a new book of rave veteran Matthew Smith’s ’00s photography. Step inside, and leave your coats at the door.
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Behind the rise in fungi fashion lies a psychedelic revolution
Gucci, Fiorucci, Stüssy and Marc Jacobs’ Heaven all helped dub 2020 the year of the mushroom. But here’s why the roots of mycelium mania run a little deeper, well into the new year and, no doubt, the rest of the decade.