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Culture

Play with your food

Architect and caricaturist Gustav Peichl finds many similarities between what he does and what he eats – but the main one is pleasure.

  • Issue #119
  • 4 min read
An elderly man in round glasses and a red puffer vest sits at an outdoor café table with an orange cap beside him.
Culture

Inner vision

The artist’s studio overlooks a busy scrapyard but inside it’s a pared-down sanctuary.

  • Issue #119
  • 3 min read
A bearded man in a suit reclines on a bold floral-patterned sofa reading a magazine, shoes discarded on the floor beside him.
Culture

Off the wall

Would you trust a student with a masterpiece? Oberlin College in the US has been renting out its collection since 1940.

  • Issue #119
  • 3 min read
A group of students cheerfully display framed artworks on the lawn outside a classical stone building.
Culture

Talking point

Provoking the ire of authority, reversing a decade of nationalism, taking the sting out of the news and the evolution of a pop persona.

  • Issue #119
  • 23 min read
A short-haired person in a colourful printed shirt and black turtleneck reclines in a red chair against a warm wood-panelled wall.
Culture

Clean canvas

A Victorian bath house in south London has been reborn as an inviting – and very timely – new gallery space serving Goldsmiths’ art college and the community beyond.

  • Issue #118
  • 8 min read
Clean canvas
Art

On display: New Museum

The New Museum on Manhattan’s Lower East Side has been championing the contemporary since its inception in 1977. We meet the team dedicated to bringing new artists to wider attention.

  • Issue #118
  • 4 min read
On display: New Museum
Art

Talon show

London-based Wild Life Drawing classes swap human models for exotic animals, from wolves to seven-week-old owlets, helping urbanites reconnect with nature through art.

  • Issue #117
  • 3 min read
Young owlet bobbing its head during Wild Life Drawing session
Architecture

Brave new world

For decades the Belice Valley was a byword for bureaucratic bungling in the face of disaster. Now, 50 years after a devastating earthquake struck the region, the bold aesthetic legacy is finally getting attention.

  • Issue #117
  • 8 min read
Symmetrical sand-colored stone colonnade with arched openings flanking a geometric paved courtyard under pale sky

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