Ezra Collective & Greentea Peng single ‘Helicopters’ for War Child
A low, circling tension runs through “Helicopters”, the new collaboration between Ezra Collective and Greentea Peng. Built around a hypnotic bassline and deep dub textures, the track blends the band’s fluid jazz instrumentation with Greentea Peng’s smoky, reflective...
Alien Hand by Alison Blickle & Irini Karayannopoulou
This March, painter Alison Blickle teams up with Irini Karayannopoulou for Alien Hand, a joint exhibition organized by Blackbird Rook and General Assembly in London (6–21 March 2026, 12 Saint George Street). The title comes from alien hand syndrome—the neurological...
Anna Calvi & Iggy Pop ‘God’s Lonely Man’ & new album
There’s something quietly surreal about watching Anna Calvi and Iggy Pop sing together. Not in a “rock legend meets alt icon” way, but in the sense that they seem to exist on the same emotional frequency — two figures who have spent their careers turning internal...
The Guardians of Living Matter – John-Paul Brown and Sophy King
What is Left in the Box: Art After Despair A review of by artist curator Mike Chavez-Dawson “We are left with a stark choice: allow climate disruption to change everything about our world, or change pretty much everything about our economy to avoid that fate.” —...
The Wild Fantasy World of William Blake
William Blake never played by the rules of reality. Angels in trees. Spirits at the window. A whole belief system invented from scratch. Now, in spring–summer 2026, his strange, ecstatic inner world takes over the National Gallery of Ireland with William Blake: The...
MASU presents Sugar Riot – FW26 collection
Fashion didn’t always come with instructions, but now it reads like a codebook. Denim means labor. Argyle means privilege. Velvet means taste. These associations aren’t natural—they’re just habits that calcified over time. MASU exists to break that spell. The...
Between Order and Chaos: André Kertész & M. C. Escher
I’ve always been into art that messes with your sense of what’s real. The kind that slips reality sideways, makes it feel elastic, slightly off, like it could rearrange itself at any moment. That’s probably why M. C. Escher hit so hard early on. Escher’s images don’t...
Jill Scott delivers some home truths with ‘Pressha’
There’s a specific kind of anxiety that hits when an iconic artist drops new music after being quiet for a while. Not the “will this be bad?” kind exactly, but the more uncomfortable question: Will this matter? Time has a way of sanding down even the most essential...
Pictish Trail Reveals New Album ‘Life Slime’ & single ‘Sorry Eyes’
Johnny Lynch has never been afraid of a strange idea, but Life Slime might be his most open and unguarded record yet. Released under his Pictish Trail alias, the album arrives with Sorry Eyes, a glam-flecked electro-pop track that moves confidently through the awkward...
‘Dry Cleaning’ release ‘Joy’ from 3rd album ‘Secret Love’
Dry Cleaning are releasing their third album Secret Love this Friday, but today they’ve dropped what feels like its emotional thesis statement: ‘Joy’, the fourth and final single, following ‘Hit My Head All Day’, ‘Cruise Ship Designer’ and ‘Let Me Grow and You’ll See...
The Tradwife Conundrum: Why some women want to comply
From writer and comedian Leigh Douglas As a pre-teen, I moved from an Irish Catholic Convent school to American middle school. Since then, I have watched Ireland become an ever more liberal nation while the United States has swung dramatically to the right....
Sverre Malling: At the Mistress’ Request
Sverre Malling’s drawings are built on the idea that history is never settled. In At the Mistress’ Request, his new exhibition at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, the Norwegian artist presents a series of large charcoal works that treat the past as something flexible...
Gloria Steinem became a Playboy Bunny so you don’t have to
The Playboy Bunny has stood the test of time as one of the most iconic and instantly recognisable costumes ever; it is cute, sexy and very easy to re-create. But what does it really represent? Playboy began life in 1953 as a men’s pornography and lifestyle magazine;...
Monster Chetwynd launches ‘A Friends Making Machine’
Antwerp’s Middelheim Museum — that 33-hectare art-forest where sculptures lurk like they’re hatching plans — goes full creature-mode this year. Monster Chetwynd lands with A FRIENDS MAKING MACHINE (16 May–11 October 2026), an outdoor exhibition that behaves more like...
Hemi Hemingway ‘Oh, My Albertine’ and album ‘Wings of Desire’
Hemi Hemingway opens his new album Wings of Desire with the line “I wanna live on the wings of desire,” a nod to Wim Wenders’ 1987 film and its monochrome angels, doomed romance, and eventual bloom into colour — basically the entire Hemi Hemingway aesthetic moodboard...