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Ten years as a forensic artist for New York City Police Department’s Forensic Investigation Division have served Fine Art graduate Jason Harvey well. Aside from the obvious benefits of catching bad guys, and acting as a step in the recovery...
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Papua New Guinea; Indonesia; Australia; New York. Art couple Yok & Sheryo have more fun than you. With influences rooted in '80s and '90s surfing and skating culture, Singaporean Sheryo and Australian Yok are back in their adopted home of Brooklyn...
New York
"Customers can help themselves to whatever they want" reads the press release. Which, for a cocktail bar, sounds like a recipe for disaster. Under a program entitled Rough Justice, visitors to GENUINE Liquorette — an addition to newly-opened diner...
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Showing since October at New York art space Maccarone, Phanos Kyriacou's Daily Life sits art and craft side by side, in a minimal installation that calls on the human stories that exist in the hinterland between workshops and the everyday use of the...
New York
“Dear New York, this is a love letter to you and how you brought us together. Only in a city as electric as this could we bring you a place as eclectic as this.” Anybody who paraphrases the Beastie Boys as part of their statement of intent gets...
New York
INDAY is like one of them celeb supercouple things, like Brangelina or Kimye; 'Indian Everyday' being the two words brought together at this NoMad (American's love this stuff, don't they?) casual eatery. Indian everyday? Yes please. The...
New York City
Maria Candanoza's LES design store says it all in a name: OBJECT_IFY 139, which boils down to Objectify. A verb that is much less cool that its broken down counterpart — which essentially spells out what is happening here ... objects. The 139...
New York
I think of a lot of things when I hear the word pizza. Most of them involve gooey cheese and luscious tomato sauce all over my face. Rarely do they involve wearing white. I think of Napoli, and of gangsters, and people that talk like Marlon Brando...
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Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe have been at it again. I'll opt not to speculate what IT may be. I don't want to get the immersive art specialists into trouble — but, if they haven't taken IT, they've certainly been thinking about it. Roping in one...
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Ernest Hemingway sits among the pantheon of American literary giants, with an oeuvre containing a number of the 20th Century's most acclaimed works including The Old Man and the Sea and For Whom the Bell Tolls. Hemingway was also possessed of a huge...
Dispatches
New York art and design boutique Chamber has announced the opening of its annual collection curated by filmmaker and photographer Andrew Zuckerman. The artist's selection is now on display at Juan Garcia Mosqueda's gorgeous modern take on a cabinet...
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Drug-crazed, crime-ridden and totally out of control. For a radical photographer there was no better place to be than 1980s New York, and that's where Miron Zownir landed after making the decision to emigrate from Germany. Zownir would spend the...
Stuff Crush
Weirdness is a notion long entwined with the concept of creativity. Mocked by the strait-laced confined to their boxes of conformism, celebrated by the bold and the brave who pursue the outré as a means of pushing beyond the banal. In Weird...
City Notes
In Montreal’s Little Italy, a new arrival is making waves with a fresh take on Italian dining. Pasta Pooks, which opened in March 2025, is a compact five-seat takeout counter serving pasta and natural wine in a space that marries Old World charm...
City Notes
A once-forgotten 19th-century residence in Savannah’s historic district has been brought spectacularly back to life, reincarnated as The Douglas; a refined 16-room boutique hotel at 14 East Oglethorpe Avenue, where design meets old-world...
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In a country where club floors open with Buddhist chants and Ladyboys offer dawn alms in corsets and stilettos, Elizabeth Waterman has found a world of contradictions too vivid to ignore. Over the past three years, and across four extended trips,...
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There's a paradox about self-care, which is that those who need it most are probably the least likely to practice it. If you're one of those people, you might even be put off by the term self-care. Maybe it sounds too self-indulgent to you. If...
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Looking for a Japanese tutor in Chicago without breaking the bank? You’re not alone. Whether you’re aiming to order ramen with confidence, ace a language exam, or shape your skills for business or travel, one thing’s clear: good private...
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If you’ve ever looked at your balcony and thought, “What a wasted space,” you’re not alone. Many of us live in homes where every square foot counts, yet balconies often remain underutilized. Whether it’s too small, too plain, or simply...
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Recognising the world’s most inspiring work across design, innovation and creativity, the A’ Design Award & Competition stands as one of the most respected and far-reaching international design accolades. Each year, a diverse panel of academics,...