Culture,Exhibitions

Modern Toss wish you a !%*&@$ Xmas

Modern Toss wish you a !%*&@$ Xmas

Never ones to get too carried away with seasonal good cheer, blackly humoured cartoonists Mick Bunnage and and Jon Link are holding an exhibition to celebrate a year of their work. Glad tidings not included. [Read more...]

Art,Culture,Exhibitions

All hail McBess! For he has a new show

All hail McBess! For he has a new show

The illustrator sometimes knows as McBess, other times known as Frenchman Matthieu Bessudo, has a new exhibition of his wares opening in London’s east end this week. [Read more...]

Art,Exhibitions

Nowness “pops-up” on St Martins Lane

Nowness “pops-up” on St Martins Lane

“Brand extension, brand extension, brand extension”, it’s a mantra chanted in the halls of every company worth it’s salt – and the world of luxury publishing is no exception to the rule. [Read more...]

Art,Exhibitions,Style

Tomoaki Suzuki’s graven images to street style

Tomoaki Suzuki’s graven images to street style

Thought getting stopped by The Sartorialist was the height of street style approbation? Bad news hipsters — your target has changed. Now, like Sam (above), Joseph, and Cedric (after the jump), you’ll need to be immortalised in wood by Tomoaki Suzuki: but will you make the grain? [Read more...]

Art,Exhibitions

Who says you can’t take it with you?

Who says you can’t take it with you?

Eco-coffins made of newspaper or wicker may be all very trendy, but that’s not going to make you the envy of the cemetery. Ghanaian coffin-maker Paa Joe has a much better idea — a carved wooden coffin that represents your profession, or takes the shape of your most treasured or desired possession — and an exhibition of four of his more outlandish works opens today at Jack Bell Gallery in central London. [Read more...]

Exhibitions

Takashi Murakami takes on Versaille

Takashi Murakami takes on Versaille

What happens when Japan’s answer to Damien Hirst, on speed, splatters his super-modern plastic fantastic vision all over the Palace of Versailles? Something utterly compelling and strangely beautiful, that’s what. [Read more...]

Behind the scenes,Culture,Exhibitions,Film

And the geek shall inherit the Earth

And the geek shall inherit the Earth

Every year Comic-Con attracts more fans and followers of everything associated with science fiction, superheroes, cult movies and comic books. Scott Snowden went to see what all the fuss was about… [Read more...]

Art,Exhibitions,Style

Nick Knight’s Fashion Body

Nick Knight’s Fashion Body

Still from The Right Hand by Nick Knight, part of The Fashion Body,
SHOWStudio.com 2010

Known as much for his angular gait and the fact that he always wears the same outfit when he works as he is for his iconoclastic photography, Nick Knight has been pushing creative boundaries for as long as anyone can remember.

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