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  • From Totem by Lucy Liu

    Culture Talks | Lucy Liu: Totem

    For many people, Lucy Liu is an actor, an icon, and perhaps most unforgettably, one of Charlie’s Angels. However, surprisingly for some, she is also a visual artist. At her exhibition at The Popular Institute in Manchester...

  • Alex Israel in Peres Projects, Berlin

    Culture Talks | Alex Israel

    For LA-born artist Alex Israel, Hollywood is a verb and Los Angeles is his landscape. Taking reference from the 'dream factory' – an industry that still dominates his hometown, Israel has created a new series of works...

  • Mama x Raf Simons for Dior, Ernest Artillo, 2013

    Culture Talks | Ernesto Artillo

    We explore the stunning work of Spanish artist Ernesto Artillo, whose intricate collages are a mesmerising blend of art and fashion...

  • Menno Aden, Untitled (Corner Shop II)

    Culture Talks | Menno Aden: Room Portraits

    The latest issue of AnOther Magazine takes as its theme the notion of home, burrowing into the minds of Michelle Williams, Ai Weiwei and Raf Simons to explore the essentials that forge the intellectual space of “home” for them...

  • Michael Bühler-Rose: Camphor Flame on Pedestal (0433), 2010

    Culture Talks | AA Bronson & Michael Bühler-Rose

    Within just a few minutes of entering the Nature Morte gallery space in Berlin, one is met with strange burning smell. “We had a fire ritual in the gallery this morning,” explains artist AA Bronson...

  • Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood inside Let It Rock, 1971

    Culture Talks | A Malcolm McLaren Moment

    While the world discusses Madonna's fishnets and Anne Hathaway's quiff, we mark the Met's new PUNK exhibition by revisiting Jefferson Hack's 1999 interview with the man who created the whole concept – Malcolm McLaren...

  • Blue Horizon

    Culture Talks | Disquiet

    In 2010, photographer Amani Willetts became a father, and with this seminal life change, his work changed. Looking to focus his photographs, steady the foundations that had been rocked by this new role...

  • Sam McKnight in a variety of wigs

    Culture Talks | The Wig Man – Sam McKnight

    “These pictures just came about while waiting for make-up to be done, models to arrive or set rearranging. A few spare minutes and a selection of wigs is an explosive combination,” explains Sam McKnight...

  • Elizabeth Peyton, October, 2012-2013

    Culture Talks | Elizabeth Peyton

    Twenty years ago, inside the infamous Chelsea Hotel in New York, Elizabeth Peyton held her seminal exhibition. Located within Room 828, visitors were invited to retrieve the room key from the front desk and let themselves in...

  • Yankton, South Dakota, April 9, 2012

    Culture Talks | Maddie on Things

    An avid fan of John Steinbeck and his famed Travels with Charley, photojournalist Theron Humphrey's decision to embark on a yearlong roadtrip, across 50 states of America, triggered a Romantic yearning for canine companionship...

  • JNBY by Amira Fritz

    Culture Talks | Amira Fritz's Roadtrip

    Tasked with shooting a lookbook for Chinese fashion house JNBY, photographer Amira Fritz decided to take the clothes off on a roadtrip from Shanghai to Paris. Her idea was to use the journey as a route...

  • State Orchestra poster

    Culture Talks | Craig & Karl on the Bavarian State Opera

    A bold and brightly coloured Pop aesthetic underscores the distinctive style of fine artist duo Craig Redman and Karl Maier, AKA Craig & Karl, who have recently expanded their practice in a new, and rather unexpected, direction...