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Interviews

Here, we go head to head with the leading names in design, architecture, art, fashion and technology, bringing you exclusive comment, debate and anecdote. This cross-discipline collection of stories are in-depth long reads, so clear your mind, mute your notifications, and prepare to be inspired...

Art / 21 hours ago

Oliver Beer talks animism, archives and material culture ahead of his Met Breuer show

‘This is a Ptolemaic pot, and it’s got a little face on the front. It’s the household god Bes – a jolly corpulent figure who you’d have in a shrine at home,’ explains artist Oliver Beer. The 2,000-year-old...

Fashion / 6 days ago

Out of office: coffee and creative small talk with Simone Rocha

Bodil Blain: How do you take your coffee?Simone Rocha: Black with ice. On a doily. Anyone who spends a bit of time with me leaves knowing how to crochet. BB: When did you first realise that you were creative...

Farshid Moussavi, Magdalene Odundo and Andrew Bonacina Art / 8 days ago

A new exhibition celebrates the global sweep of Kenya-born British artist Magdalene Odundo

Artist Magdalene Odundo is standing in her studio in Surrey, alongside architect Farshid Moussavi and Hepworth Wakefield chief curator Andrew Bonacina. In front of them lie images of Henry Moore sculptures, alabaster jars from Ancient Egypt, a 19th-century Ghanaian ritual...

Art / 11 days ago

Michael Craig-Martin on Albers, America, and architecture as entertainment

Somewhere in a maze of picket fences, golf greens and lakes, Vero Beach’s The Gallery at Windsor is a remote haven for British art world patricians. Its currently two years into a partnership with London’s Royal Academy of Arts, which...

Oskar Proctor photography Art / 12 days ago

Through the lens of... Oskar Proctor

Photographer Oskar Proctor, was born and raised in London. He trained as an assistant for 10 years and is now working internationally in the real of interiors and still life photography. Photography: Oskar Proctor Wallpaper*: Describe your style of work...

Art / 13 days ago

Tracey Emin lays bare her own traumas in piercing new show

‘Our lives are in a trilogy. I’m in my last bit, so I’ve got to try and get it right,’ Tracey Emin reflects on the eve of her new solo exhibition, which has just opened at London’s White Cube...

Fashion / 6 Feb 2019

Good jeans: how Levi’s mastered the art of reinvention

Levi’s has a knack for changing with the times. Founded in 1873 when San Francisco-based wholesale merchant Levi Strauss patented a way to strengthen denim trousers using copper rivets, the company boomed into a global marketing powerhouse, spurred by popularity...

Architecture / 6 Feb 2019

Out of office: coffee and creative small talk with John Pawson

Bodil Blain: How do you take your coffee?John Pawson: Strong Italian espresso shots in my studio. I don’t go to coffee shops. BB: Who was you inspiration to become a creative and how did it evolve?JP: My father. He was...

Art / 6 Feb 2019

Philippe Parreno combines 20 years of footage to create ‘film of films, a seance of cinema’

When Philippe Parreno was a teenager, he and his friends would sneak their way through the back door of an adult movie theatre in one of the seedier parts of Échirolles, a rough suburb of Grenoble, southern France. The backstreet...

Art / 5 Feb 2019

The darkness of photojournalist Don McCullin explored in Tate Britain retrospective

‘I grew up angry,’ says Sir Don McCullin, as a new retrospective of his work – including some of his earliest photographs – goes on show at Tate Britain. He was born in Finsbury Park, north London, in 1935...

Fashion / 29 Jan 2019

Out of office: coffee and creative small talk with Duro Olowu

Bodil Blain: How do you take your coffee? Is this a special moment in your day?Duro Olowu: I love coffee, I have it every day, sometimes at 10am but also at 10pm; I drink coffee for pleasure. I like...

Fashion / 24 Jan 2019

Out of office: coffee and creative small talk with Grace Wales Bonner

Bodil Blain: So...you don’t drink coffee?Grace Wales Bonner: Unfortunately not! I’m just very into tea – tea does it for me. BB: You must have know quite early that you had that creative spark – do you know...

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