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Architecture in film: modernism, futurism and beyond
Ahead of the Oscars 2022 ceremony, we look back to the relationship between architecture and the movies. From modernist houses to futuristic landscapes, the built environment and the ambience it creates play a key role in visual storytelling
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These innovative Dior shoes bridge past, present and future
Inspired by an ornate Dior pump from 1962, Maria Grazia Chiuri’s just-released ‘62-22’ shoes give the classic design a futuristic update. Watch how they are made in this special short film
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Artist Julianknxx on poetry, dreams and Switzerland
Ahead of the New York showing of his major new film with Switzerland Tourism, we visit the studio of London-based poet and filmmaker Julianknxx
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Life on Mars: Tom Sachs’ space adventures captured on film
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Playing house: artist Ian Strange creates an eerie portrait of American suburbia
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A bold social commentary since the 1970s, Barbara Kruger’s art is as incisive as ever
For our December 2010 Entertaining Issue (W*141), we sat down with American conceptual artist Barbara Kruger to discuss message-making, the art market, and her agitprop commentaries on gender, race, consumerism, identity and more
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What is the meaning of home? Here’s what designers say.
On the occasion of World Refugee Day (20 June 2021), Danish design brand Lucie Kaas asked designers from 11 international studios to explain what ‘home’ means to them
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Universal Everything to debut VR experience at Sundance Film Festival
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Screen stars: Beka & Lemoine's complete work acquired by MoMA
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Cao Fei’s dystopian fantasies fuse art and technology
Chinese artist Cao Fei’s dystopian art tackles themes such as the automation of labour, hyper-capitalism and the effect of a global pandemic. Having just completed her first major solo show in Beijing, the prolific winner of the 2021 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize is going global, with her retro-futuristic take on contemporary life now the subject of exhibitions from Los Angeles to Rome, and a 20-page portfolio for Wallpaper*
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Microfilms: the genre set to challenge the movie industry gets its own UK festival
A new festival in Nottingham plans to bring microfilms to the mainstream in the UK
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Miu Miu Womens’ Tales: It’s Getting Late by Massy Tadjedin
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Tarek Merlin launches architecture film series promoting design and accessibility
Architect Tarek Merlin is launching a new film series, Behind Closed Doors, focusing on buildings and interiors in London that are lesser known or not open to everyone, from offices to bars and industrial spaces, celebrating diversity, architecture for all, design and accessibility
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Rolex protégé Chaitanya Tamhane on thinking visually with mentor Alfonso Cuarón
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Moving pictures: MAD’s film series Midcentury Masters kicks off this month
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Under one roof: Metrograph is a cinema, bookshop, bar and restaurant all in one
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Car master Frank Stephenson takes to the skies
New documentary ‘Chasing Perfect’ traces the renowned car designer's vertical move into electric aircraft design
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Handy man: film and suit, by Lernert & Sander and Brioni comes to life
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Anish Kapoor on myth, meaning and melancholia
British-Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor gets confessional for a new documentary, Under the Skin
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Beauty and decay: inside America’s derelict movie theatres
In a new photobook, photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre capture a bygone era of entertainment through decaying American movie theatres
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The Andy Warhol Diaries on Netflix reveals his enduring impact on contemporary art
We review the new documentary, and showcase Warhol’s impact on modern culture through three artists: Deborah Kass, Jeff Koons and Glenn Ligon
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Watch Studio Pepe’s otherworldly design manifesto
The Milanese design duo have gathered their inspirations and pieces from the past year into a magical video
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The early days of Stanley Kubrick’s genius revealed in book of his photography
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The Iran desert sets a poetic scene for Apparatus' designs
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Sex, fashion and disco: forgotten footage of 1970s New York uncovered
