Hollywood Son, 2011
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Javier Peres

The art world’s arch-maverick tastemaker Javier Peres discovered, exhibited and represented some of the most influential and notorious artists of the last decade, and he garnered a reputation as the hardest partying curator ever to have assailed the
The Illusionist, 2011
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Vladimir Ovchinnikov

Vladimir Ovchinnikov is a veteran of the Soviet era and a key figure in the nonconformist movement, which rebelled against the state aesthetic of Socialist Realism, most notably with the ill fated but hugely significant Exhibition of the Workmen
Still from Surviving Life by Jan Švankmajer
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Jan Švankmajer on Surviving Life

The legendary surrealist filmmaker Jan Švankmajer is peerless – revered by animation legends such as Terry Gilliam and The Quay Brothers, his oeuvre over the last thirty years is without precedent or equal...
Excerpt from Chapter VI, A Living Man Declared Dead and Othe
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Taryn Simon

The New York photographer Taryn Simon has been shooting work for over a decade that explores the blurred edges of existence. Taking in shadowy worlds behind closed doors, the arbitrary flux of identity and, most recently, the mysteries of
From the American Power series
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Mitch Epstein, American Power

It’s safe to say that the legendary American photographer Mitch Epstein has devoted much of his life to visually documenting the moral and social complexities of his native country, and none of his celebrated series of works have greater
Dalston Heights by Chris Moon
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Chris Moon

Chris Moon is an outsider artist making serious waves as a painter with abstract work that recalls the intensity of Francis Bacon in its stretching of anonymous human forms into the endless void of the canvas...
Zoé Héran as Laure in Tomboy
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Céline Sciamma on Tomboy

The French director Céline Sciamma made waves four years ago with Water Lilies, a teenage drama that explored the burgeoning sexual desire between two teenage girls with a shared love for synchronised swimming...
Unused Vogue cover, 1976
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Willie Christie on His Remarkable Career

To mark a new exhibition of his work, we speak to legendary photographer Willie Christie about Grace Coddington, Pink Floyd and more
Jake Chapman
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Jake Chapman

Ahead of the upcoming Dazed 20th anniversary book, Making It Up As We Go Along, editor John-Paul Pryor talks to one-half of the Chapman brothers, Jake about the early Dazed days and his artwork being removed from WHSmith...
Carey Fukunaga's Jane Eyre
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Cary Fukunaga on Jane Eyre

Cary Fukunaga is renowned for the gritty debut Sin Nombre, which followed teenage gang members on a dangerous and illegal train-surfing trip to the US border from the slums of Mexico. His film adaptation of Jane Eyre is out this week...
Angus Fairhurst, October 1996
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Mark Sanders

Next month, Rizzoli publish Making It Up As We Go Along – a must-have visual archive celebrating the 20-year visual history of Dazed & Confused magazine, edited by Jefferson Hack and Jo-Ann Furniss. Here, Mark Sanders, original art editor of Dazed
Untitled (I shop therefore I am ), 1987
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Barbara Kruger

Next month, Rizzoli publish Making It Up As We Go Along – a must-have visual archive celebrating the 20-year visual history of Dazed & Confused magazine, edited by Jefferson Hack and Jo-Ann Furniss.
Chris Parks
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Chris Parks

Chris Parks is the mastermind behind what has been much touted as the 2001-esque sequence in Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life – a hallucinatory miasma of imagery that takes into its sway the history of time, the vast mysteries of the universe and
Hans-Peter Feldmann, Flower pots
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Rebus

Rebus at Simon Lee exhibits readymades from a trans-generational cabal of artists in order to communicate the timelessness and singular power of what arguably remains the most radical concept in the canon of art history.
Sylvie Guillem
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Sylvie Guillem

The legendary one-time étoile ballerina of the Paris Opera Ballet turned avant-garde dance master Sylvie Guillem has worked with some of the greatest choreographers of the modern age, and this week she appears in a unique collaboration with three of
On the Hard Shoulder, Alys Williams
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Alys Williams's Wildebeest

This week is your last chance to see Wildebeest by the multi-media artist Alys Williams – a deeply affecting collection of sculptural assemblages that explore the phenomenology of stepping outside of one's immediate domestic environment to consider
Collateral - Deborah Van der Beek
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Women Make Sculpture

Women Make Sculpture at Pangolin closes its doors this week, so the coming days are your last chance to see a group show by some of the most exciting female sculptors working today, both established and emerging.
John Squire
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John Squire on Celebrity

In his latest exhibition John Squire has moved away from the Pollock-esque abstraction he is famed for and has turned his brush to the geometric forms ubiquitous in religious Islamic painting.
By Lawrence Owen
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Laurence Owen

Laurence Owen is a painter whose work marries an almost faux-naïve aesthetic with a strong ethereal or profoundly transcendental sensibility. While recent works have explored the language of repetition, his current exhibition Wish You Were Here
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Out of this World

There is arguably no greater genre in which human fancy takes flight than that of science fiction, and it’s home to some of the most groundbreaking wordsmiths in the canon of literature
Stephen Pierce
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Stephen Peirce

Stephen Peirce paints futuristic organic anomalies and enormous psychedelic terrains full of familiar objects that have been transformed into something viscous and alien, providing visions of an out-of-control nature caught in perpetual flux and