The second issue of Closing Ceremony Magazine is about Americano. In this issue, Instead of taking the American Photography History as the editing orientation, we attempt to continue our Not-Too-Serious narrative, and present the observation of contemp …

Issue N°21 of The Gentlewoman steps boldly into the world with the exceptional South African runner Caster Semenya leading the pack as cover star for Spring and Summer 2020, photographed by Alasdair McLellan and profiled inside by Susie Rushton. Joining the champion runner are the audacious women of the now: the celebrated novelist, Hilary Mantel – giving her first interview after completing the final book of the Wolf Hall trilogy; the crusading economist, Esther Duflo – speaking to us in the glorious aftermath of her Nobel Prize award; the glittering Hollywood polymath, Tessa Thompson; the ingenious fashion designer, Bethany Williams; the Booker Prize-winning novelist, Bernardine Evaristo and the beloved British actor, Kathy Burke among them. We tag along with Suzanne Ciani in Bolinas, Gabriel Quigley in Edinburgh and Róisín Murphy in Dollis Hill, while the extraordinary dancer and choreographer, Julie Cunningham shows us her revolutionary style. A marvellous array of fashionable ideas are also proposed, with Lara Stone, Steinberg and Lola Nicon showcasing the best from the first season of the new decade. Gentlewomen, go forth!

TIDBITS (PART I) Cui Jie by Owen Hatherley Monica Bonvicini by Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli Hanne Lippard by Balthazar Lovay Josh Kline by Michelle Kuo Dash Snow by Allan Gardner Becca Albee by Viola Angiolini Driant Zeneli by Marina Fokidis Ezra Orion by Francesco Spampinato Birgit Jürgenssen by Kasia Redzisz NAIRY BAGHRAMIAN Lean on Me Andrew Berardini AVERY SINGER Drunk Artists and Steamy Shower Rooms Kathy Noble DAVID OSTROWSKI Hairs and Teeth Tenzing Barshee JOHN GERRARD In the Training of Neural Networks Defne Ayas TIDBITS (PART II) Tony Feher by Claudia Schmuckli Zoya Cherkassky by Joshua Simon At Eternity’s Gate by Mitch Speed Louis Fratino by David Everitt Howe Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys by Philipp Hindahl Henrik Olesen by Pujan Karambeigi Karen Kilimnik by Sabrina Tarasoff Mire Lee by Alvin Li Beatriz Olabarrieta by Gabriela Acha VITAL RECORDS Ren Ebel JILL JOHNSTON The Village Voice Moritz Scheper, Fiona McGovern, Megan Francis Sullivan and Axel Wieder ALL THAT SCRAWL: TOWARD A WILD WRITING Travis Jeppesen ERIC WESLEY Build It Up So It Collapses and Falls Back on Itself Jordan Wolfson TYLER COBURN Matter Matters Elvia Wilk THE NEW MYSTICS: HIGH-TECH MAGIC FOR THE PRESENT Alice Bucknell NOBUO SEKINE A Telepathic Understanding of Form Hans Ulrich Obrist

How do we design our cities when our most intimate experiences are incessantly tracked and our feelings become the base of new modes of production that prioritize the immaterial over the material? Since the 2008 financial crisis, lists of well-being in …

To celebrate 10 years of Big Ears, the art and music festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, AC Entertainment, Rock Fish Stew Institute of Literature and Materials, Southern Documentary Fund, and Hat & Beard Press worked closely with artist Kate Joyce—who ph …

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Plants feel the pressures, constraints, and violence of the world around them. Our irresponsible behaviour towards plants only increases the trauma they suffer. Being rooted and deeply sedentary beings, plants have no choice but to endure and adapt. Th …

‘Natural Enemies of Books’ is a response to the groundbreaking 1937 publication ‘Bookmaking on the Distaff Side’, which brought together contributions by women printers, illustrators, authors, typographers, and typesetters, highlighting the print indus …

In the age of experiential retail, more and more brands are branching out beyond their core offer. Many are integrating hospitality concepts such as cafés, restaurants, bars and even hotels, a sure-fire way to increase footfall and dwell time. Or is it …

Karl Gerstner’s work is a milestone in the history of design. Designing Programmes is one of his most important works: in four essays, the author provides a basic introduction to his design methodology and suggests a model for design in the early days …

Four years after ‘Statement and Counter-Statement’ (2015), Experimental Jetset returns with their second paperback for Roma Publications. Whereas the previous publication had a more overall monographic scope, ‘Full Scale False Scale’ focuses on a singl …

Postmodern architecture was characterized by four dominant beliefs: that architecture was distinct from the materiality of things; that history had an operative role to play in the present; that the emergence of a culture dominated by images enabled ar …

The catalogue is published in conjunction with the first comprehensive retrospective on the work of photographer Christian Borchert (1942–2000). Borchert was born in Dresden and did most of his work there and in Berlin. His most important groups of pho …

RENEGADE ACTIVIST-ARTS BROADSHEET GOOD TROUBLE RETURNS WITH ITS THIRD ISSUE, KICKING OFF 2020 WITH A MASSIVE 44 PAGES OF ART, PROTEST AND CREATIVITY, PLUS A FREE POSTER. IT’S LIKE THREE MAGAZINES IN ONE! With a special focus on the climate crisis, a de …

Purple Fashion is the avant-garde reference for fashion, style, and contemporary culture with the usual big names. The Brain issue explores how the brain functions, the power of artificial intelligence, the nature of the artistic brain, and the voice o …