Modern Matter, edited and published biannually by London-based creative director Olu Odukoya, seamlessly blends long-form culture writing with a fine art sensibility and playful fashion aesthetic. Named in honour of its focus on the now, as well as on the facets of art, style, design and culture that most matter to the team behind the…
The Czech Centre is set to welcome audiences back for its 25th edition of the Made in Prague Festival, which this year takes place from 7 November to 10 December 2021. Celebrating Czech culture, this year’s festival returns to London, and continues in nationwide venues with a film programme, as well as a season of…
FRAMES of REPRESENTATION (FoR) was conceived in 2015 as a laboratory to engage with new visions of the cinema of the real, supporting the exhibition, production and distribution of innovative and politically aware cinematic languages. Led by Nico Marzano, the festival amplifies ICA Cinema’s commitment to nurturing and connecting avant-garde filmmakers and artists with cinema-goers…
Hailing from Tehran, Iran and based in Brooklyn, New York, Morehshin Allahyari is a multidisciplinary artist, activist, writer, and educator. Her work investigates the political, social, and cultural contradictions we currently face, using technology as both a philosophical toolset to reflect on objects and as a poetic means of documentation. Allahyari has been part of…
Legendary Belgian fashion designer Martin Margiela has kept a decidedly low profile since retiring from the industry in 2008, staying elusive aside from the chance appearance at an event or in print. His eponymous label, established with Jenny Meirens and presently overseen by John Galliano, still exists without its namesake founder at the helm. Now,…
Taking place from 13-17 October, Frieze London and Frieze Masters are back for their 2021 editions. Both art fairs are returning to Regent’s Park following last year’s pandemic induced hiatus. Together, the two events bring together some 290 galleries from 40 countries, presenting art across the ages, from old masters to modern classics and the…
Making It, a group exhibition dedicated to a generation of pioneering women sculptors who came to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s, opens at Cork Street’s Waddington Custot on 1 October and will run until 13 November 2021. Taking an unexpected approach to their chosen media: fusing gold leaf with linen for instance,…
Opened to the public over the weekend, the Arc de Triomphe, standing at an imposing 164 feet at Place Charles de Gaulle in Paris, has been entirely enveloped in glistening, aluminium-coated blue polypropylene fabric—some 270,000 square feet of the stuff—secured by close to two miles of red rope, fixing the draped textile in place while…