There’s a whiff of Michael J Fox’s-finest to this photography project – forgive me the low-brow link. Japanese, London-based photographer Chino Otsuka has imposed her grown up self into a series of old photographs from her childhood resulting in her two selves meeting in a somehow quite sweet way – posing together on the beach, […]
When I was first in London – some 15 years ago – I saw a picture in a magazine of an Ant-style chair with a simple but dynamic pattern printed directly onto the wood. The print was Flash by design duo Eley Kishimoto, a total classic which – as they’ve proved in the years since […]
Keeping your doors and windows locked this Halloween? Hiding behind the sofa when the local rough kids ring your doorbell? Don’t think you’re going to be safe just because you’re at home. Sometimes there is nothing more chilling than a bit of contemporary interior design. Do you dare take our haunted house tour? Exhibit A: […]
I’m finishing Patti Smith’s Just Kids just now. It’s brilliant. Her writing style and anecdotes of Manhattan’s art and music scene in the late 60’s and 70’s make it very whip-throughable. She begins with a brief insight into her childhood in South Jersey (pretty poor, pretty literary), before moving onto her meeting Robert Mapplethorpe in Brooklyn, then […]
A couple of weeks ago the exhibition English Magic by Jeremy Dellar opened at Turner Contemporary in Margate. My friend Savinder had some of her own work on show that day, as part of the opening day of the exhibition. The gallery also hosted a steel band, choir, and a display of owls. I haven’t […]