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Somewhere between the brutalist concrete of Silosi cultural space in Belgrade and the fired clay of a small town of Kikinda, something unusual is taking shape. Pearl Made of Clay is a retrospective of 45 years of the International Sculpture Symposium Terra, presented by Terra Center for Fine and Applied
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«Obsession», «I Have a Very Bad Feeling About This» and other examples of a new genre
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How the internet sanitised the public image of female lust
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Over the past 18 months, the group has quietly turned into one of Britain’s most unexpected cultural success stories. They gained over 40,000 followers online, performed on BBC Radio 3 (twice), ITV, Channel 5, and more and started appearing everywhere from garden shows to festivals across the UK.
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It’s been a while since I last had a book that made me leave a party early.
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Yerevan is not the city you think it is — if you think of it at all. Armenia's creative industries are booming, nearly doubling in value over the last decade. Independent platforms, cross-disciplinary communities, a vibrant art scene: all of it taking shape in real time, in a
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There is a taxonomy of survival that Milan enacts every April. Most people miss it. They are occupied following the scent of prosecco and flashy installations to notice what persists underneath— the city's older, quieter argument for what design means. This year, amid the derivative choreography of branded
London, February 1976. Former drama teacher Geoff Travis had left his job, weary of a life spent encouraging students to pretend they were trees and speak from the diaphragm. The UK music charts were boring. Country and western yodeller Slim Whitman’s collection, ‘The Very Best of Slim Whitman’, was
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Or how to dress for the Met without looking like museum merch.
Flying Tiger X RuPaul Drag Race It’s going to be really tough to act fast and catch the latest collaboration between Flying Tiger and RuPaul’s Drag Race. This is the project we needed: a brand with colourful products and a show that brings pure joy to its audience.
Auctions come in all flavours, from the classic open English auctions, where everyone eagerly watches as bids fly higher and higher, to the secretive closed, first-and second-price auctions where you might feel like a spy deciphering top-secret bids. Then there are the Dutch auctions, which defy gravity
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Owning luxury items like a Gucci belt or Balenciaga sunglasses is less about the actual items and more about the status they confer. It's a game of "look at me," where your accessories shout about your wealth louder than words ever could. It's not
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The places of Wuthering Heights really inspire us to feel a dark romance
Collaborations between brands and artists have become so popular that if you type “collaboration”, you can see dozens of publications every hour, and it seems that this stream will never stop.
Tracey Emin’s retrospective at Tate Modern (supported by Gucci) was always going to be a blockbuster and a purpose for cultural tourism. A reason to come to London, or to renew your membership, so you don’t queue. I went with particular anticipation. Tracey is for me an artist
The first-ever Schiaparelli exhibition in the UK just opened and the corsets alone are worth the trip.