Art
The internet is drowning in AI slop, but at the Southbank Centre’s new Creative Intelligence festival, artists are using technology to examine memory, labour, ecology and identity rather than simply generating another woman with seven fingers.
Hot takes
Gen Z's newest go-to insult, explained so you get it
Films
The Venice Film Festival is just around the corner, so now is the perfect time to put together a shortlist of favourites to avoid getting lost in the sea of spoilers and posts.
Fashion & Beauty
First autumn partnerships: from cathedrals to couture, fancy matcha bars and a very robotic Barbie
Travel & Food
A supper club is an intimate dining experience, typically hosted in someone's home or a private setting. There's no booking your own table — everyone gathers around one shared table, enjoying the same carefully curated menu.
Personalities
At Roca London Gallery, Resonant Lightscapes brings together light, sound, reflection and architecture in a responsive environment. We spoke with artists Gadi Sassoon, Yael Erel and Avner Ben Natan, and curator Alisa Lisovskaia about collaboration, feedback and letting go of control.
Culture
Microtonal explores the endangered tradition of the borindo, bringing together 200 handcrafted instruments, technology and the knowledge of the musicians and craftspeople keeping its legacy alive. We talked about this work with Invisible Flock in this interview
The collabs you need to know about this week — from ballet pink to fried chicken wine
This year, a major Yayoi Kusama retrospective is travelling through Europe. Here’s whether it is worth a visit and why you might not get in.
ChatGPT said: Creative Director of sova Restaurant — an Eastern European wine and vinyl bar in Notting Hill — creates a list of perfect drink-and-music combinations that you’ll love trying for yourself.
From cultural milestones to pieces we'd genuinely queue for — this week has it all.
Best Pizza was created around the idea of reviving the neighbourhood pizzeria. What do you think makes a pizzeria feel like a genuine part of its neighbourhood rather than simply another restaurant? I think a pizzeria feels like part of the neighbourhood, especially when someone who lives in the neighbourhood
Meryl Streep’s wardrobe at auction, feasteables sparkling water and new Disney T-shirt – another week in collabs
It’s not spooky season yet, but the ghosts are already back. They’re not here to scare us; instead, they make us reflect on death, grief, and the small, unseen stories of big cities — stories we may not see, but can somehow feel. An interview with Simon Wroe, author of Ghost Month.
Walks we love. The city we adore.
In Nussaibah Younis’s debut novel, political extremism becomes the setting for a much more intimate story about queer identity, family and the dangerous vanity of believing we understand other people. Some novels announce their importance before the first chapter has properly begun. They arrive carrying urgent politics, the correct
Hiroshi Nagai x Hello Kitty City Pop Meets Kawaii — japanese illustrator Hiroshi Nagai, the visual mastermind behind the iconic City Pop aesthetic, has teamed up with Hello Kitty for a collection that's pure summer nostalgia. This collaboration translates his signature "West Coast meets retro Japan" vibe
It is festival season in the UK. At Boiler Room, I watched The Dare and Yung Lean and, like a person with a university education, critical faculties and chronically insufficient phone storage, filmed practically every song I recognised. Around me, precisely what people go to Boiler Room for was taking
Fashion has always flirted with art, but some designers didn't stop at a painting above the sofa. They collected, lived with, and built entire institutions around the work that inspired them. These 12 fashion visionaries understood that taste isn't just personal, it's a form of power.