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  • Installation by Sheena Macrae

    Culture Talks | Surface Warp Factor

    Surface Warp Factor is one of the most spaced-out shows you are likely to see this year. Despite a title that makes one instantly think of a battle scene in Star Trek, it’s a stunningly executed exploration of the relationship between...

  • William Faulkner, 1954

    Epitaph | Selective Works

    In the late 1960s my dad drove across America with some of his friends, and on the way through Mississippi they wanted to visit William Faulkner's old house, but they didn't know which town it was in, and no one would tell them...

  • Aulosphaera elegantissima, radiolarian

    Exhibit A | The Blaschka’s Sea Creatures

    Apparently, we know more about the surface of the moon than we do the bottom of the ocean. The pickled menagerie currently on show at London’s Natural History Museum, certainly confirms that there’s far more going on beneath the waves than...

  • Girl with hoola hoop at Piazza Vittoria, 2009

    In Pictures | Eastern Promise

    This week Liberatum invites you to travel to Istanbul for a jam-packed three days at the Istancool cultural festival, Hannah Barry Gallery takes up its summer residence in a sculpture-filled car park in Peckham, Bethnal Green town hall is...

  • Margherita Maccapani Missoni

    Guest Lovers | Margherita Maccapani Missoni

    Taste and memory are inextricably bound, and for our former cover star Margherita Maccapani Missoni the fondest and most poignant memories are conjured by a beetroot and goat’s cheese sandwich...

  • Raul Castro, left, with Ernesto “Che” Guevara, 1958

    The Spin | Raul Castro

    It’s not unusual for politicians to keep it in the family: currently there are two Milibands running for Labour leader; the past two decades of American politics has been dominated by two families: Bush and Clinton; and in Argentina,...

  • Korean Eye at the Saatchi Gallery

    In Pictures | Dog Days

    This week we pick five of our favourite international events. Korean Eye returns to London’s Saatchi Gallery following the success of their 2009 show, Nature Morte in New Delhi celebrates three of India’s finest painters, Net-a-Porter.com...

  • Terence Koh

    In Pictures | AnOther Magazine Dinner at Istancool Festival, Istanbul

    On Saturday night AnOther Magazine hosted a dinner in the grounds of the magnificent Ottoman Topkapi Palace in Istanbul at Turkish Airlines Istancool Festival by Liberatum. Guests included Daphne Guinness – who had earlier joined Philip...

  • Michael Jackson's shoes

    AnOther's Lovers | Michael Jackson's Dance Shoes

    Derek Peck Loved Michael Jackson’s dancing shoes, photographed by Henry Leutwyler for his book Neverland Lost: A Portrait of Michael Jackson, which documents objects from the late superstar’s home...

  • Alison Mosshart

    The AnOther Proust Questionnaire | Alison Mosshart

    Following The Dead Weather's stylish performance this weekend at Glastonbury, and just in time for the second half of their tour around Europe this month, the band's raven-haired, brooding songstress and guitarist Alison Mosshart tells us...

  • Jon Bock

    Culture Talks | John Bock

    John Bock is a globally-renowned German artist whose bizarre performance-based interventions engage the audience in his uniquely surreal universe. For his current show at The Barbican he has created a strange mobile utopian living unit...

  • Helping the Plastiki keep afloat

    AnOther Thing I Wanted to Tell You | The Plastiki

    Three months ago, the adventurer and environmentalist David de Rothschild and his crew set off across the Pacific in a boat, the Plastiki, made out of 12,000 empty plastic bottles. His aim was to draw attention to the vast amounts of waste...