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Lighting designer Andi Watson on creating Mitski’s sculptural stage for 'The Land'
In Mitski’s live show and new concert film, a single beam of light becomes her dance partner. Lighting designer Andi Watson discusses turning shadow, movement and restraint into the architecture of feeling
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Inside the Centre Pompidou's last hoorah
After shutting its doors for five years of renovations, French record label Because Music saw the empty site as the perfect space for its 20th anniversary celebrations
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Artists reflect on Kate Bush lyrics for a War Child auction
Peter Doig and Maggi Hambling are among artists interpreting Kate Bush’s 1985 track ‘Running Up That Hill’ for War Child’s online auction
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In Taylor Swift’s new era, even the typeface has a story
The bold typography behind 'The Life of a Showgirl' started life as a student project in Nicaragua. Its designer didn’t set out to make pop history – but the Swifties found him anyway.
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How an artist’s expansive puppet world helped beat her sense of stage anxiety
Blair Tramel’s paper-mâché puppets have turned Snõõper’s punk shows into an immersive DIY universe, transforming stage anxiety into a joyous, all-welcome spectacle
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Jehnny Beth on the interdisciplinary, Lynchian world of new album ‘You Heartbreaker You’
From post-punk provocateur to solo auteur, Jehnny Beth unveils You Heartbreaker You – an ambitious album that blurs music, art and fashion into one uncompromising creative universe.
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Curtains up, Kid Harpoon rethinks the sound of Broadway production ‘Art’
He’s crafted hits with Harry Styles and Miley Cyrus; now songwriter and producer Kid Harpoon (aka Tom Hull) tells us about composing the music for the new, all-star Broadway revival of Yasmina Reza’s play ‘Art’
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Exclusive: Thom Yorke and artist Stanley Donwood reminisce on 30 years of Radiohead album art
As the pair’s back catalogue of album sleeves, paintings, musings and more goes on show at Oxford’s Ashmolean, Radiohead singer-songwriter Yorke and his longtime collaborator Donwood talk exclusively to Wallpaper’s Craig McLean
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A bespoke 40m mixed-media dragon is the centrepiece of Glastonbury’s new chill-out area
New for 2025 is Dragon's Tail – a space to offer some calm within Glastonbury’s late-night area with artwork by Edgar Phillips at its heart
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At Glastonbury’s reinvented Shangri-La, everything must grow
With a new theme for 2025, Glastonbury’s Shangri-La is embracing nature, community and possibility; Lisa Wright is our field agent
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Mark Ronson and Raye team up on jazzy summer anthem, 'Suzanne'
The collaboration marks 150 years of Audemars Piguet
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A song for the dead – Josh Homme on performing for six million souls in the bowels of the Paris Catacombs
A rock band, a brush with death and an underground tomb coalesce in haunting new Queens of the Stone Age film, ‘Alive in the Catacombs’. Wallpaper* meets frontman Josh Homme and director Thomas Rames
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Inside Medaina, an immersive music festival that rocked Petra
The otherworldly, five-day, two-location music festival offered a backdrop like no other, the historic sites of Petra and Wadi Rum in Jordan. Tianna Williams was there
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Gorillaz mark 25 years with an immersive new exhibition
Step into ‘House of Kong’, the virtual band’s exhibition coming to London’s Copper Box in August 2025 – watch the trailer and buy tickets
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Beck on his orchestral shows: 'It's something that can't be simulated by AI'
Following two nights at London's Royal Albert Hall, Wallpaper* meets Beck and conductor Edwin Outwater to hear how the pair brought to life Beck's back catalogue with an 80-piece orchestra
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Watch dance, music and film collide at a unique event at Abbey Road Studios
In this exclusive film, watch Abbey Road’s first Artist in Residence, Jordan Rakei, collaborate with industry-leading creatives to produce a dance performance in the hallowed Studio One
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Taschen’s sexy record covers are hitting all the right notes
Taschen has been through 50 years of album art for its latest tome, ‘Sexy Record Covers’
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Warp Records announces its first event in over a decade at the Barbican
‘A Warp Happening,' landing 14 June, is guaranteed to be an epic day out
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Lucy Dacus on her Renaissance-inspired new album cover and intimate museum tour
Lucy Dacus' fourth album, 'Forever Is A Feeling', is an intimate exploration of love with visuals inspired by the romanticism of classical art
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Inside the visual universe of Perfume Genius
From soggy paper towels to high fashion shoots – Mike Hadreas takes Wallpaper* on a visual tour of his back catalogue
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The memento mori art inspiring Japanese Breakfast's new album
Singer Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast is inspired by 17th-century Dutch vanitas works for her new album cover
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75 years of Atlantic Records captured in new photo book
From Aretha fixing her hair to Coltrane in his back yard, the label's rich legacy is told through stunning photography
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Stanley Donwood on decades of Glastonbury poster design
While Glastonbury fans huff and puff over this year's line-up announcement, we talk to the man responsible for designing the festival’s poster, for the last two decades
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The charity record sale with a difference, Secret 7”, is back
The initiative sees 700 vinyls in one-of-a-kind record sleeves designed by world-class artists exhibited and auctioned to raise money for charity
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Sean Ono Lennon on conceptualising the Grammy-winning reissue of John Lennon’s ‘Mind Games’
A ‘Mind Games’ super deluxe box set, a no-expense-spared repackage of John Lennon’s classic third solo album, is designed to ‘occupy collectors for years’, says Sean Ono Lennon
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The Barbican as muse: composer Shiva Feshareki on bringing the brutalist icon to life through music
For the last two years, British-Iranian experimental composer and turntablist Shiva Feshareki has been drawing on the Barbican’s hidden history as a gateway for her new piece. She talks to Wallpaper* about her Brutalist muse
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Jack White's Third Man Records opens a Paris pop-up
Jack White's immaculately-branded record store will set up shop in the 9th arrondissement this weekend
