More and more people are raising the alarm about the problem of plastic pollution in our oceans, but incredibly not everyone seems to be listening. That’s why sculptor Helidon Xhixha and photographer Giacomo “Jack” Braglia decided to send their own eco-message in one of the most traditional and romantic of ways… …in extra-large format. The […]
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Boy George needs no introduction. A bold, colourful, provocative character, he has led a life driven by a desire to be different and to stand out. After decades spent in the music industry – like the creative (and karma) chameleon that he is – the brushes in his make-up bag have now been joined with
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An effervescent and well-known personality of the Riviera Set for over two decades, Tina Green’s successes as a designer have redesigned the concept of interior luxury. It should come as no surprise then that her experience of being surrounded by – and seeking out – beautiful objects has led to her opening up Monaco’s latest
In the words of John Edward Masefield: All I need is a tall ship and a star to guide her by… And as early cartographers were so used to printing on faraway, uncharted corners of their maps: here be dragons…. So all I need is a tall ship and maybe a reliable chart! Things that we now,
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Photographer, filmmaker, film and music video producer, publicist, painter and sculptor. Erick Ifergan has come a long way in his creative career, and in many directions, before landing Château Saint-Martin & Spa in Vence, and getting us into a surrealist dream. Erick Ifergan’s work is the perfect transposition of his personality into painting and sculpture, as
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Can an artist encapsulate the spirit of all artists, of all epochs, in his own work? In theory, yes: there’s a common thread that links all human beings who dedicate their lives to art, and every artist studies, is inspired by, influenced somehow by those who went before them through the centuries, as well as by
MANOLO VALDÉS @ CHÂTEAU SAINT-MARTIN & SPA Read More »
Ralph Rugoff’s curation of the 58th Biennale involved the entire art world in what today is certainly a globalising issue: May you live in interesting times. A title drawn from an English expression wrongly attributed by certain British politicians to an ancient Chinese curse, alluding to periods of crisis, uncertainty and disorder; “interesting times” as,
The 58th Venice Biennale loses some of the poetry Read More »
David Bailey. The name instantly conjures up a whole series of monochrome images of the legends of my early teens, growing up in the Liverpool of the late ‘sixties with a burning desire to get to London before the swinging sixties came to an end but born just a couple of years too late. From
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DAVID BAILEY? EAST END BOY MAKES GOOD Read More »
“Nothing is as it seems, because it is exactly what you see.” The sentence is not of Joseph Klibansky, the rising star of contemporary art, but – more modestly – of the writer, seduced at first sight by an artist who, unlike many of his colleagues, does not choose the path of provocation and shock at
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STAN LEE, whose passing on November 12th 2018 will be mourned by millions, was the embodiment of an old-fashioned American archetype: the likeable, industrious hustler, whose enthusiasm for self-advancement was uncorrupted by callousness or cynicism. He was an entrepreneur and an opportunist, a showman, a creative dynamo, and a visionary. More than any other individual,
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