2-4-1 tickets to see the new ICA exhibition Tanoa Sasraku: Morale Patch

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Morale Patch is an exhibition of new work by Tanoa Sasraku featuring process-driven works on paper, found objects, and sculpture. In this solo exhibition, Sasraku examines the seductive and destructive power of oil and its ties to…

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The House of Beauty: Arabelle Sicardi exposes the dark side of the industry

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Beauty is terror. The pursuit of beauty can be terrorising. Flesh pulled back and cut open, bodies constricted, poison injected, hair burnt, skin bleached. Our biggest insecurities magnified, our natural bodies sold back to us for…

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This Will Not End Well: Inside Nan Goldin’s major slideshow retrospective

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. It may sound hyperbolic, but while moving between Nan Goldin’s slideshows at her exhibition This Will Not End Well, it’s possible to feel you’re encountering every seminal bandwidth of human experience: lust, loss, family, friendship, violence,…

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Bianca Saunders teams up with the Tate for Blake-inspired collection

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. In 1794, artist and poet William Blake wrote London, a bleak poem about the UK capital, in which he “wander[s] thro’ each charter’d street, Near where the charter’d Thames does flow”. 200 years later and Londoners…

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Cult icon John Malkovich is the new face of JW Anderson

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Since Jonathan Anderson began his career in fashion almost two decades ago, he’s amassed a revolving roster of incredibly famous friends. We’ve seen them front campaigns at Loewe (Josh, Maggie, Taylor) at Dior (Greta, Mikey, Mia)…

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Escentric Molecules: ‘We helped make chemicals sexy in the fragrance world’

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. The fragrance world can be overwhelming – endless notes, layers and combinations line the shelves. Two decades ago, perfumer Geza Schön decided to strip all that back. When he first encountered Iso E Super, a single…

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Dazed Club is hosting a free screening of Bugonia

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Dazed Club is hosting a special preview screening of Bugonia, Yorgos Lanthimos’ new movie which stars Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons. It‘s Lanthimos’ tenth feature film and follows two conspiracy theorists (Plemons and Aidan Delbis) who…

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