Journal

Saving The Japanese Craft of Umbrella Making

The artisans of the Japanese city of Gifu were close to extinction as their generational approach to umbrella crafting fell from fashion. Today they represent a token of aspiration challenging the ...

Economies of Art and Life

Using concrete as a modern material influenced Robert Mallet-Stevens and Jan and Joël Martel to collaborate on Hotel Martel. Shortly after meeting, they opted to a two-family townhouse with a colla...

Francesca Gavin on the History of Collage Vol2

For the second part of the history of collage, curator and writer Francesca Gavin delves into over seven decades of the art form's evolution from the postwar era until this present decade. From pop...

Jessie Makinson's Mythical Femininity in an Aberrant World

Gaze into the fictitious, mythological spectacles created by the exuberant Jessie Makinson and you'll be ensnared by a disruptive narrative of femininity. Seeming disarrayed at a glance, when studi...

The Zestful Art of Japanese Craft

From woven barkcloth craftsmen in the northern island of Hokkaido to longbows specialists on Kyushu-the southern reach of this slender collection of masses on the Pacific-Japan has a rich heritage ...

The Great Bustling Bookshops of Britain

Between 1995 and 2016, almost 1000 independent bookshops across the UK closed, meaning less than 870 currently exist. Often an industry living on the line, shops had to get creative for customers a...

The Most Instagramable Bookstore In The World

A former bank left derelict for decades after the communist revolution, Cărturești Carusel is the bookstore every eight-year-old dreams of growing up, and now a reality for the city of Bucharest....

A Day Below Stockholm

For nearly six decades, Stockholm’s metro art installations have worked as a social experiment to its commuters and tourists. David Altrath guides us into the majestic tunnels and cave-like flux th...

Architecture is for Listeners

Bauhaus minimalism meets tasteful elegance. The Brazilian architect Isay Weinfeld designs houses and hotels in style. On Weinfeld's 67th birthday we look at Brazilian writer and journalist Raul Jus...

What Frieze London Taught Us About 2019

As one of the art world’s premier diary dates, the start of October saw artists, gallerists, collectors, and curators descend upon London for Frieze Art Fair. One significant takeaway from this yea...