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Journal
With blatant disregard for your retinas, Scot Fraser Gray is an artist with a penchant for visuals that kick your eyes around like a grimy old football. His large-scale mural works combine photo realism with surrealist narrative, and quite literally...
Glasgow
Given its phonetically-incongruous name, Bar Soba is doing quite well for itself, thank you very much. The bar-restaurant-club outfit has just opened its second venue, sprouting from a successful 12-year run of its first site on Glasgow’s Mitchell...
Philadelphia
I spoke in Monday's Philadelphia art piece of how it's a city embracing art at street level; and, although I love visiting museums and galleries as much as the next person, it's an ethos that really sits well with me... I find myself being much more...
Journal
You can spot Marlarky's characteristicly fun and colourful paint work on the shutters of Brixton, vans parked in East London, buildings in Barcelona and Fiat Pandas in Tuscany. Brightening up dank shutters with his cheeky toothy creations, I have to...
Journal
Provocative and confrontational, Barcelona-based German street artist - turned conceptual agitator - Boris Hoppek, refuses to be drawn on his questionable content. From allegations of sexism to a strong outcry of racism over his Obama Beach Ball...
Journal
Debuting his Daydreaming with... concept back in 2010, James Lavelle has been continuing to evolve and progress his art meets music project since, and is surely pleased with himself for having pulled off its first international incarnation in the...
Journal
Dudebox launched last week with a supreme party at Village Underground showcasing some killer vinyl toys. It's the brain-child of Robert Beecham - the man who convinced 20th Century Fox to secure the rights to produce Darth Vadar figurines in the...
London
Anish Kapoor's awkwardly looming Orbit tower has, understandably, met with a lukewarm reception so far - our Twitter feed beholds much indifference, occasional disdain and a whole lot of WTF! for the highly regarded artist's monolithic creation. I'm...
Journal
Having introduced Filthy Luker's street art version of space invaders last week, Jamaican beer brand Red Stripe are continuing to cause an arty commotion on the streets with their Make campaign. This time hitting the streets of London, Bristol and...
Journal
You may have seen a curious pair of eyes ogling you as you walk from the John Peel Stage into the Dance Village at Glastonbury, you may well have seen 'octopied' buildings as far and wide as Taiwan - Filthy Luker's large-scale 'art attacks' have...
Journal
We've featured shanty-towns turned multicoloured visual banquets before - here and here - and you'll no doubt be familiar with German designer Axel Peemoeller's Felice Varini-inspired anamorphic wayfinding system for Eureka Car Park in Melbourne....
Publications
American artist Mark Jenkins' hard-hitting sculptural street art is finally the subject of a monograph, in the form of German publisher Gestalten's 160-page The Urban Theater. Haunting and disquieting, Jenkins' tape sculptures seek to provoke their...
City Notes
Chefs Karina Mejía and Israel Montero combine the tradition of Provençal cuisine with the soul and passion of Mexico in Saint Jacques Bistrot, their new gastronomic spot in the capital city's affluent Polanco neighbourhood. Allowing diners to...
City Notes
Located next door to Hotel Wilmina, which is housed in a former Berlin-Charlottenburg women's prison, Lotta Tagesbar has opened its doors, the café cum deli and bar designed by the same team behind Wilmina and serving an exquisite menu of healthy...
City Notes
With an enviable seafront location close to Barcelona and its airport, and having undergone a recent refurbishment, AC Hotel Gavà Mar is a 69-room hotel that is ideal for the business traveller, but also a surprising destination for the discerning...
City Notes
With interiors inspired by the Art Deco of Palm Beach County in Miami, and serving delicious ice cream on a newly pedestrianised street just off Barcelona's renowned Passeig de Gràcia, Amiko is not simply a 'heladería', rather it's a sensory...
Dispatches
Starting a home-based embroidery business can be an exciting and rewarding venture, offering a range of opportunities to tap into the custom apparel, gifts, and home decor markets. But, one of the most important decisions you’ll make when...
Dispatches
Wellness Trends for 2025: A series of posts designed to uncover the most progressive concepts in wellness for the year ahead. Number Nine: Emotional Fitness Coaching. As the concept of wellness evolves, so too does our understanding of mental...
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