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Frank Laws spent a year as a labourer before he went to art school, and it was obviously time well spent. He credits the job with instilling a work ethic, but lugging hods of bricks around all day certainly gave him an eye for painting them, as his...
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Never mind the mezcal, there's more than a bit of mescaline about the psychedelically tinged work of San Francisco painter Sylvia Ji, which in her latest collection Interwoven continues previous meditations on the Mexican culture's compelling...
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Coming from the world of design, Niels ‘Shoe’ Meulmam made a move into painting, but the leap wasn't a vast one from his point of view. The Dutch artist uses all the skills he learned both on the streets as a graffiti tagger and later in the...
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With the leaves falling from the trees of the Arab Spring in Egypt, it is tempting to think of Cleon Peterson's latest collection as topical, but sadly, There is a War would be topical at any given moment in history. Delivered with a quote from...
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The heavy-handed oil paintings of Richard Combes ROI (Royal Institute of Oil Painters, in case you were wondering) are a love letter to the deteriorating and the decrepit, the painting equivalent of a Ken Loach film. Manchester-born, yet now...
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Vonn Sumner aims to convey hidden depths to go with his subjects' hidden identities, somehow disconnected from their actions and surroundings, they are in fact Somewhere Else, as is the name of his latest collection of oil paintings. Aside from...
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Two students of The San Francisco Art Institute have combined their considerable creative forces in the realisation of Going Nowhere, a joint exhibition that explores modern America and the artists' experiences and opinions thereof. Mario Ayala...
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It's perhaps a testament to the skill of artist Dan Witz that the viewer has trouble making out which parts of his compositions are digital and which use traditional oil painting techniques, such is the seamless transition of his hyper-real...
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“Christ on a bike” maybe a touch on the blasphemous side for polite conversation but it applies aptly to more than one of the pieces in a new exhibition of artist Richard Patterson's work – more literally in the case of Your Own Personal...
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If ever there was an obtusely-named art collection, it's Heavenly Creatures by David 'Meggs' Hooke. His study of mythology through street art inspired mixed media mash-ups reeks of death, but there's no Homeric gods at work here, no Elysian Fields...
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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...
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What first sucked us into Welsh artist Osian Efnisien’s world was his ability to create ridiculously cute characters, from just the simplest of swipes of his felt-tip pens. Somewhat new to the character, illustration and art scene, Efnisien was...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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If you’re planning a trip to Berlin and wondering what to wear for the capital’s nightlife, here’s everything you need to know. Berlin’s nightlife is fragmented across neighbourhoods and scenes. What works for a club in Friedrichshain...
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Are you getting ready to move to a small Los Angeles apartment down the street? Maybe you or a loved one is getting ready for dorm living. Whether you’re just moving down the street or only taking the necessities, you don’t need a full-size...