Why visit a gallery when you could be sleeping in one?
The Fox Hotel in Copenhagen, Denmark, has 61 rooms - each individually designed by one of the 21 international graphics design artists that collaborated on this combination of accommodation and art.
You can’t select a specific room to stay in (the logistical problems would be immense) but [...]
I’ve been reading reviews of a brand new cookbook – ‘Cuisines of the Axis of Evil and Other Irritating States’, by Chris Fair – a work concurrently tackling the apparently fundamentally diverse subjects of international relations and food preparation. Slight grammatical issues aside, (the recipe teaser page on the website contains, for instance, the following [...]
A small exhibition showing drawings and watercolors (peppered with puffy lollypop stickers and a doll’s leg or two) by the young Serbian artist Marina Marković opened the other day in one of the galleries of the Belgrade ‘Student City’ complex. Now due to unforeseen and most tragic circumstances I managed to miss the said opening (though [...]
The Occident just loves the Orient. And of all the Orient, we seem to love Japan with most fervour. Western writers, artists and intellectuals have been drawing inspirations from Japan for centuries – Vincent van Gogh and Mary Cassatt were both fascinated by ukiyoe prints, William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound and Bertold Brecht all showed great [...]
Mark Leckey won this year’s Turner Prize, an award granted every winter to artists deemed most influential or progressive in the preceeding year. It is a well-known and much-discussed fact that the Turner Prize, named after Joseph Mallord William Turner – a delightful British artist who invented impressionism before impressionism had been invented – has [...]
Most compliments I get regarding my choice of clothing are followed by a disclaimer. ‘Ooh, very interesting combination! I’d never wear anything like that though. But it looks great on you! ’ This might be explained away by the fact that I’m a firm believer in wearing patterns with patterns. Or the fact that [...]