Art
For her first large-scale public installation in the UK, Renée Levi transforms the Hayward Gallery’s Brutalist façade with September. We discussed her monumental new work and the shifting relationship between painting, architecture, and public space.
Art
Ahead of Morus Art Group’s London launch with Out of the Blue, founder Alya Entts reflects on collecting, patronage and the responsibility of supporting artists, while sharing her vision for a cultural platform built around collaboration across disciplines and borders.
Art
“He wants the work to look different every time you see it”. Hans Ulrich Obrist reflects on Caguiat’s interdisciplinary practice, the relationship between sound and space, and art conceived to resist fixed form.
Personalities
With the 70th BFI London Film Festival just around the corner, we spoke to Grace Barber-Plentie, one of the festival’s programmers, about what makes London audiences so passionate about cinema, how the LFF programme comes together and the new voices she hopes to bring to the screen.
Personalities
For Marie Curie and Superdrug’s *The Last Lipstick* campaign, Anita, Pavla and Sarah share personal stories of beauty, care and memory — and how small rituals, from applying lipstick to skincare, can help preserve identity, dignity and a sense of self through serious illness and at the end of life.
Personalities
Launching in King’s Cross, Vision Festival brings culture, science, technology and performance into conversation. Michael John Harris, director of programming at Town Hall by Bottaccio, discusses the creative energy, Town Hall’s legacy and building a festival shaped by unexpected encounters.
Personalities
A new documentary, and the concerts where thousands of strangers cry together over songs from 1994
Personalities
Rico Gagliano, the host of the new season of the MUBI Podcast explores the art of the perfect needle drop — how filmmakers from Scorsese to Linklater use familiar songs to unlock emotion, transform a scene and make us hear music anew.
Personalities
What makes a city more than a collection of strangers? On 12 September in Gloucester and 14–15 September in London, How to Build the City turns theatre, dance, gaming and live interaction into a three-hour exploration of how cities — and communities — are built. We spoke to the artists behind it.
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
Travel & Food
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.