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Journal
Bursting through the floor like something from a disaster movie, The Lift, by Oded Hirsch, is a literal breakthrough for the Israeli artist. Normally operating in the realm of video and photography, this is Hirsch's first installation outside a...
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Covent Garden’s celebrated village of Seven Dials has seen a mini-transformation this September, however blink and you may miss the seven installations suspended high above ground. Gracing each road off the Seven Dials pillar, the installations...
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Part of the beauty of the internet is that if you couldn't be in Germany for last week's Berlin Art Week, you can come to We Heart and see what you missed, and miss it you did, especially the abc Art Berlin Contemporary fair. Nearly 130...
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We love good bit of meanderingly rhapsodic prose as much as the next person, especially if we're getting paid by the word (fat chance), but since they say clarity is brevity, and in the transient spirit of the subject matter, here's the short...
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Yuki Onodera is clearly not a fan of a good cliché, as the old favourite “it's a small world” gets a thorough deconstruction in the photographer's latest collection of work on display at Shanghai's Vanguard Gallery. A well-travelled artist,...
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Who is Barry McGee? Graffiti artist? Canvas artist? Signwriter? Sculptor? All of the above, in fact, and more. McGee, who also masquerades under the monikers Ray and Lydia Fong and the tag Twist, is a difficult man to pigeon-hole, and equally...
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I just happened to be hanging about in King’s Cross... well it is the place to be at the moment right? Let's pop down to the Filling Station (KXFS, as it's now known) I said, they do prosecco on tap! It's early dusk and the landscape a mixed bag...
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Are you sitting comfortably? Good, because this is going to take some explaining. An Australian antiques trader, William Robert Johnston left his extensive collection to a trust on his death. The items, gathered from worldwide travels and known...
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When was the last time you held a photograph in your hand, or wrote a letter to someone, with a pen and paper? The answer is probably that you can't remember, such has been the sea-change in our habits since the advent of the digital age. Photos,...
Fashion
Knowing your mind (let alone having one) at 15 is impressive enough, but fearlessly pursuing your youthful dreams and making them not only happen, but happen with a bang, is a rare thing. However, once Finn Minna Parikka had moved to our shores at...
Journal
Georgia artist Michael Murphy's new work is all about how we look at things, in a literal as well as figurative sense. In God We Trust examines the troubling role of the church in American politics, a topic very much in focus as the US electoral...
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“Oh, Mr Soft, won't you tell me why the world in which you're living is so strange?” Soft City is Hariton Pushwagner's first solo exhibition outside his native Norway, and that he's chosen Milton Keynes' MK Gallery to host it points to the...
City Notes
Salon Volta is a new barbershop in Laval, Quebec, that rethinks the familiar codes of grooming through a concept centred on craft and community. Moving away from the traditional model, the project positions itself as a space where barbering unfolds...
City Notes
Interior design studio and creative consultancy Ste Marie has completed Olia Ristorante and Mimi Bar, a pair of hospitality venues conceived as a day-to-night sequence at the base of new residential tower Citizen on Jasper. Commissioned by Corso 32...
City Notes
On a private estate in central Ukraine, YOD Group has reimagined the traditional mazanka — the archetypal rural home — for the contemporary era. These 50 square metre guesthouses reinterpret the vernacular, translating thick whitewashed walls...
City Notes
Situated at the edge of Montmartre, where Pigalle’s energy meets Parisian rooftops, Hôtel Rochechouart is a 1929 Art Deco landmark given a contemporary pulse. Design duo Festen has restored the building’s historic details while threading a...
Dispatches
Some people discover mixology behind a bar on a busy Friday night. Others come to it through years of hosting dinner parties, obsessing over flavor combinations, or spending too much money on bitters collections they absolutely did not need. However...
Dispatches
There was a time when wedding bar service meant a single bartender, a few bottles of wine, and maybe a keg if the couple was feeling casual. Those days are long gone. Today's couples are rethinking the bar as one of the most meaningful parts of the...
Dispatches
Do you want to give your bathroom a fresh, trendy look with new tile? Tiles in the bathroom do more than just keep water from getting on your walls and floors. They can also give your area a joyful, colourful, tranquil, or futuristic vibe. There are...
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Traditional birdwatching frequently seems like a commitment. It may involve long-haul flights to remote locations, getting up early in the morning, and spending hours in uncertain weather. Even then, sightings can never be guaranteed. For many, the...