The Purpose of Street Art: Saving Humanity, One Bee at a Time
What does street art do? Is it protest? Is it a statement? Is it a tool for social change? The very act of street…
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The surprising academic origins of memes
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Instagram is making you a worse tourist
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Trillions of cigarette butts are littered each year and it’s damaging environment
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Ancient Tattooing in Polynesia: World’s oldest toolkit found in Tonga
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Brutalism in Tangier, Morocco’s most artistic city
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Tea and Heroin with a Tribal Chief in Al Qaeda Territory
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Collage art and activism in Chile: Instagram posts building on the legacy of Latin American ‘mail art’
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Democracy in the Animal Kingdom. Read how animals vote to make group decisions
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Toilet graffiti: secrets, support and solidarity in the women’s restroom
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Meet the Many Faces of India: Hugging the Western Coastal Plains
Make your way down India’s coastline of startling juxtapositions; from the frenetic metropolis of Mumbai to the downtempo havens of Goa and Kerala. At…
Climate change in Bangladesh: how rising sea levels are giving rise to poverty and sinking local culture
The effects of climate change have led to a growing sense of outrage in developing nations, many of which have contributed little to the…
In conversation with Ember Island
Swedish trio Ember Island have gained popularity with their unique downtempo versions of popular tracks. Influenced by Sigur Ros and Bon Iver amongst others, dreamy…
An Exclusive Interview with Cubicolor
Ariaan and Peter – as founding members of Cubicolor – where did your musical journeys begin? When did you start producing? We both started…
Best parties to bookmark for ADE 2017
Festival season is never over in Amsterdam. Continuing the summer fun, Amsterdam Dance Event is set to bring close to 2,500 artists, playing in…
The abandoned route through India, Myanmar and China: why the Stilwell Road should be restore
A derelict border crossing steeped in history cuts across the rolling mountain ranges from India to Myanmar. It is at the junction of three…
An Interview with winner of World Press Photo Danila Tkachenko
The work of Danila Tkachenko – a former documentary photography student at The Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia – has been exhibited…
Species of Fishes: Trip Trap
A reissue of Species of Fishes‘ album Trip Trap marks the first release on Nina Kraviz’s new label GALAXIID. First released in 1996 in…
An interview with Oscar winner Director, Orlando von Einsiedel
Words by Alex Durham The film Virunga easily finds its place as one of the most powerful recent documentaries and pieces of activism. It…
Commodifying Banksy
Take a selection of artworks by the most famous illicit artist in the world, add a city that’s passionate about its street art and…
Lost in Womad 2017
We left Womad a while ago. The crevices and corners of world music now replaced by building site beats, traffic tones and barking dogs….
An evening in the Spiegeltent- Casus Circus performs Driftwood
As dusk starts to fall at the close of a hot May day, the crowd milling around the grass outside of the Spiegeltent starts…
“Before they pass away” Q&A: fading cultures in photography by Jimmy Nelson
Words by Alex Durham Jimmy Nelson, in his documentary photography volume Before they Pass Away, offers us a series of gorgeous portraits of the…
Farrago Festival, 18-19 August 2017, Schweppermannsburg
Looking for a small and intimate festival this summer? Craving an adventure to some unknown land, set a world apart by storybook scenery and…
