Between Order and Chaos: André Kertész & M. C. Escher
I’ve always been into art that messes with your sense of what’s real. The kind that slips reality sideways, makes it feel elastic, slightly off, like it could rearrange itself at any moment. That’s probably why M. C. Escher hit so hard early on. Escher’s images don’t...
Pictish Trail Reveals New Album ‘Life Slime’ & single ‘Sorry Eyes’
Johnny Lynch has never been afraid of a strange idea, but Life Slime might be his most open and unguarded record yet. Released under his Pictish Trail alias, the album arrives with Sorry Eyes, a glam-flecked electro-pop track that moves confidently through the awkward...
Jill Scott delivers some home truths with ‘Pressha’
There’s a specific kind of anxiety that hits when an iconic artist drops new music after being quiet for a while. Not the “will this be bad?” kind exactly, but the more uncomfortable question: Will this matter? Time has a way of sanding down even the most essential...
‘Dry Cleaning’ release ‘Joy’ from 3rd album ‘Secret Love’
Dry Cleaning are releasing their third album Secret Love this Friday, but today they’ve dropped what feels like its emotional thesis statement: ‘Joy’, the fourth and final single, following ‘Hit My Head All Day’, ‘Cruise Ship Designer’ and ‘Let Me Grow and You’ll See...
The Tradwife Conundrum: Why some women want to comply
From writer and comedian Leigh Douglas As a pre-teen, I moved from an Irish Catholic Convent school to American middle school. Since then, I have watched Ireland become an ever more liberal nation while the United States has swung dramatically to the right....
Sverre Malling: At the Mistress’ Request
Sverre Malling’s drawings are built on the idea that history is never settled. In At the Mistress’ Request, his new exhibition at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, the Norwegian artist presents a series of large charcoal works that treat the past as something flexible...
Gloria Steinem became a Playboy Bunny so you don’t have to
The Playboy Bunny has stood the test of time as one of the most iconic and instantly recognisable costumes ever; it is cute, sexy and very easy to re-create. But what does it really represent? Playboy began life in 1953 as a men’s pornography and lifestyle magazine;...
Monster Chetwynd launches ‘A Friends Making Machine’
Antwerp’s Middelheim Museum — that 33-hectare art-forest where sculptures lurk like they’re hatching plans — goes full creature-mode this year. Monster Chetwynd lands with A FRIENDS MAKING MACHINE (16 May–11 October 2026), an outdoor exhibition that behaves more like...
Hemi Hemingway ‘Oh, My Albertine’ and album ‘Wings of Desire’
Hemi Hemingway opens his new album Wings of Desire with the line “I wanna live on the wings of desire,” a nod to Wim Wenders’ 1987 film and its monochrome angels, doomed romance, and eventual bloom into colour — basically the entire Hemi Hemingway aesthetic moodboard...
Black Fondu – Explosive forthcoming EP ‘Blackfonduism’
BLACK FONDU doesn’t want to be your next genre-blender. He’s not “the future of British rap” or “London’s latest export.” He’s just BLACK FONDU — 21, Accra-born, Peckham-based, and operating somewhere between chaos and control. His new video, “holla back girl”, is all...
‘A land as big as her skin’ by Mounira Al Solh
In Mounira Al Solh’s world, myth is not fixed in marble — it’s soft, unstable, and alive inside bodies, bedrooms and boats. Opening the 2026 programme at Arnolfini A Land as Big as Her Skin (28 February – 24 May 2026) brings together her acclaimed Venice Biennale...
Derek Jarman: The impure & the grace – A film retrospective
Derek Jarman never stayed in his lane. Painter, filmmaker, writer, queer agitator, garden mystic: his work erupts across mediums with rare intelligence and a vitality that still hums like a live wire. Born into Thatcher’s Britain and fiercely opposed to it, Jarman’s...
‘The People’s Pyramid’ by Jimmy Cauty & Bill Drummond
Next month, in Birkenhead Park — a Victorian green space best known for its ducks, dog walkers, and architectural influence on Central Park — a small crowd will assemble to build a pyramid out of human ashes. The occasion, called The Birkenhead Day of the Dead:...
Jean-Charles de Castelbajac: imagination at full volume
This winter, Les Abattoirs in Toulouse turns technicolor. Beneath its industrial arches, banners sway like pop flags — printed, cut, stretched, loud. It’s Imagination at Work, a full-blown celebration of Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, the fashion rebel who’s been...
‘GAME’: rave-soaked thriller starring Sleaford Mods’ Jason Williamson
Invada Records, the Bristol label founded by Portishead’s Geoff Barrow and known for its darkly cinematic soundtracks to cult favourites like Ex Machina, Drive and Stranger Things, is stepping into a new world. This November, Invada Films makes its feature debut with...