Arts & Culture
Smoke Without Fire
Last week I got dumped. By text. Three times. By the same person. Which is curious when you consider that a) I haven’t seen her for at least a year, and b) we never even went out because c) she’s my cousin. Turns out the texts weren’t meant for me. Being at the top of most folks’ phonebooks leaves one with, let us say, a ‘lively’ inbox.
First Days of Decadence
Since the days of the headline-grabbing YBAs – I’m thinking most especially of a certain someone’s fondness for cow-cleaving – it’s all been rather quiet and unspectacular on the Western front.
Fit For A King
Perhaps it’s a quirk of the British temperament, but it’s hard to deny our love for a good, solid institution.
Fresh Art
What is it that’s so attractive about a tortured soul? Sure, ambition, success, and charm are all winners. But in the presence of an intense artist-type, you still all go weak at the knees.
Filed away
We welcome with open arms Dossier: a biannual not-too-glossy, glossy that correlates fashion, photography, art, music, writing and culinary pursuits into one beautifully high-brow file - hence the name, meaning file in French.
Architecture To Go
Sure, she can get you down sometimes but then, when you take a quiet moment and a long look out across the river from Waterloo Bridge, even with all the hideous cranes and insidious grey, London sure is perty.