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Photographer Hannah Starkey's work often reflects on the everyday experiences of women, just as she is often reflecting more literally in her compositions. The Belfast-born artist likes to obfuscate or filter her subjects through glass – to...
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To be honest, the photographic career of Dennis Hopper had hitherto completely passed us by. We knew him as the poppers-huffing* lunatic of Blue Velvet, the bomb-planting lunatic of Speed, and, yes, the camera-wielding lunatic of Apocalypse Now,...
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New Yorker Matt Leines has been exhibiting for more than 10 years, but his latest collection, Hyperbolic, has been hailed as both a defining moment and a sea-change in the artist's career. Perhaps it's that he has moved back to NYC from a stint in...
Interiors
Two years. One hundred and twenty artists, designers and illustrators. One enormous art project, a paper mill and a dog called Gerald. What do you mean you don't get it? Do I have to explain everything? OK, in this case I probably do, so let's...
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Intrinsically linked to New York, Martin Scorsese's movies are as ingrained on the Big Apple and the wider world's contemporary culture as Italian American life and crime is on his works, a number of which are quite rightly regarded as some of the...
New York
We've featured a few cinemas lately that have toyed with convention, Weltspiegel in Germany kept much of its historic grandeur, whilst descending into playful futurism in many of its interior spaces - Polish picture house New Horizons Cinema rewrote...
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Apart from the severed head of Waylaid, which is about as simple a statement as you'll see, the work of Jim Houser requires some closer inspection. Being largely composed of cohesive but self-contained sub-units which taken in isolation themselves...
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Chicken or beef? One of life's eternal questions, at least if you flew transatlantic in the 1970s. These days airlines try to make sure there is something on the menu for everyone, and that's what curator Jesper Elg has done in gathering together...
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If the nukes start flying and our civilization is lost, what might the archaeologists of the future make of their discovery if they dug up one of Erik Parker's Upswing Dub Project pieces, we wonder? Why do we wonder? Because his latest project was...
Journal
In between teaching at Parsons The New School for Design, New York, and going about a seemingly idyllic lifestyle in Brooklyn, photographer/artist Sarah Palmer crafts some of the most beautifully poetic photography that we've seen here at We Heart...
Journal
Fresh from trying to reintroduce good old manners to his fellow New Yorkers as part of his Subway Etiquette and Metropolitan Etiquette Authority series, artist Jay Shells returns to his familiar street sign reinterpretations (that echo the brilliant...
New York
The growth of Han Kjøbenhavn seems to be following an exponential curve: starting out with a range of eyewear in 2008, the firm has since added a range of clothing, opened up a flagship store in Copenhagen and now has its hooks into US territory...
City Notes
In the heart of downtown Zapopan, a neighbouring city of Guadalajara Mexico, Zorra Zapopan is the second outpost of Cervecería Zorra, a stunning project brought to fruition by esteemed studios Taller Dinamita and Taller Binario that combines a...
City Notes
Soft-launched 15 March, following an intensive restoration, Barcelona’s Grand Hotel Central has emerged as a triumph of contemporary luxury; a homage to its own weighty history and grandeur, yet breathing the fresh air of modern Catalunya....
City Notes
Opening just last month on Barcelona's Via Laietana, the road that separates the city's El Born and El Gòtic neighbourhoods, restaurant Can Bo completes the reimagined Grand Hotel Central; the street-level gastronomic concept focussing on tapas and...
City Notes
From first stepping into the kitchen aged 10, to creating supper club 'Eureka' in the family home, Flynn McGarry went on to open his first permanent fine dining restaurant, Gem, in New York City's Lower East Side at 19 years old, before going on to...
Dispatches
You may feel a sense of safety and security whenever you get into your car. You get this feeling because you have airbags and other safety features. Airbags have been mandatory in vehicles since 1998, and this regulation has saved countless lives...
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Wet roads can be dangerous, especially in the spring, when rain, melting snow, and lingering debris from winter create slick and unpredictable driving conditions. Wet surfaces can result in bad falls for pedestrians, and they pose serious risks...
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Any type of car accident is at least an annoyance. Suddenly, you’re dealing with unexpected expenses that can include everything from vehicle repair costs to medical bills. In a best case scenario, you can work out a settlement with the at-fault...
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Economic damages represent the tangible, calculable financial losses that result from an injury or wrongful act. While they may seem straightforward at first glance, the full scope of economic damages extends far beyond medical bills and missed...