The Bowery: Devil’s Mile Exhibition
Walk the Bowery through its history and the scenery keeps mutating. There are theatres and concert halls, tattoo parlours and dime museums; pleasure gardens and racetracks; cheap rooms, bars, workshops and artists’ studios. At one point, you might encounter a...
Boorman and the Devil: The infamous ‘Exorcist 2: The Heretic’
There are few films with a reputation quite like The Exorcist 2: The Heretic. Released in 1977 as the follow-up to one of the most successful and frightening films ever made, John Boorman's sequel quickly became a byword for cinematic disaster. There was James Earl...
Irving Penn: The Man Who Made Fashion Stand Still
Some photographers chase the moment. Irving Penn made it freeze. Long before fashion became loud, chaotic and endlessly content-driven, Penn stripped photography back to its essentials. Clean backgrounds. Precise composition. Models who looked less like celebrities...
Born Sexy Yesterday – new show from Anna Leong Brophy
Describing herself as a ‘multi-hyphenate’ person, writer-actor-podcaster-comedian Anna Leong Brophy has thus far managed to achieve success across multiple fields, but with her new show Born Sexy Yesterday she’s now turned her attention to tackling the Fringe for the...
Ish – Imran Perretta’s deeply personal film debut
Multidisciplinary artist Imran Perretta's directorial debut feature Ish, is set in Luton's South Asian and Middle Eastern community. The story, co-written by Enda Walsh and based on Perretta's own life, revolves around two 12-year-old best friends, Ish (Farhan Hasnat)...
Shoot the People – The protest must be documented
Nigerian director Andy Mundy-Castle's documentary Shoot the People is an apt title given it's about the Nigerian photographer and activist Misan Harriman, who documents global protests. The film, however, is not only a document of this one individual, but an...
Freddy Forbidden: A manifesto of noise
Some artists arrive with a sound. Freddy Forbidden arrives with a manifesto. Raised in Newham, East London, he's carving out his own lane with AFROCORE—a collision of grime's urgency, punk's refusal, indie's vulnerability, bedroom pop intimacy and West African rhythm....
Morfium – Jelena Malesevic between fashion & myth
Fashion likes to talk about reinvention. Jelena Malesevic has always preferred transformation. Long before Morfium found its audience in Paris, Los Angeles and Belgrade, Malesevic was studying archaeology in Belgrade, tracing the afterlives of ancient cultures through...
Ana Mendieta – source of life, mother nature
More than four decades after her death, Ana Mendieta's work still feels uncannily current. Fire burns through it. Flowers wilt into the earth. Bodies appear, then vanish. In a cultural moment preoccupied with migration, identity and belonging, the Cuban-born American...
Pulp: What do you do for an encore?
There are bands that soundtrack an era, and there are bands that somehow outlive the one they helped invent. Pulp belong firmly in the latter category. More than thirty years after they turned kitchen-sink observation into pop mythology, Jarvis Cocker and company are...
The Healing Power of Horses release “In Yr Right Hand Reveal Heaven”
If you've spent any meaningful amount of time lurking around London's DIY underground over the last year, chances are you've heard somebody mention The Healing Power of Horses in the slightly evangelical tone usually reserved for bands that seem to materialise out of...
Billy Childish’s Summer of Sun, Moon and Vipers
Billy Childish is spending the summer occupying two worlds that don't always sit comfortably together. On one hand, a painting by the artist is currently hanging in The Sun and The Moon at the Saatchi Gallery, surrounded by the sort of institutional framing that once...
GOAT emerge from the shadows onto a stage near you
Fifteen years after emerging from the shadows with World Music, Swedish psych collective GOAT are preparing for another ritual gathering — and their biggest UK headline show to date. In April 2027, the famously enigmatic band return to British stages for a five-date...
Learning to unmask after years spent trying to appear “normal”
Jelly Balls – Joe Wells I wasn’t always masked. When I was a baby, I would cry, laugh, wave my arms about or shit myself whenever I felt like it. Those were the days! It was when I was a child that the masking started to happen. Little things that I did or said which...
Lisa Ivory’s haunted worlds feel closer than ever
Inside The Near Distance, the British painter’s unsettling new London exhibition where ritual, mortality, desire and dark humour collapse into one dreamlike landscape There is always something waiting in a Lisa Ivory painting. A skeletal figure lingering at the edge...