Dispatches from the Field

Much of the press coverage of the Frieze Art Fair this year has been witty, funny, and just a little snide. It is perhaps unsurprising that Reviews of the fair have focused on the marginal apparatus: on the parties, the celebrities, the sales. This of course may be a semantic point in itself, that the […]

Heinrich Mann, an obscure German novelist, once wrote that:  “A house without books is like a room without windows.” It’s a fittingly compact phrase, and manages to switch spaces within tight confines, describing the perspectives made possible by books. The phrase enacts a heady narrowing, inherent in the solitary experience of reading, which is entirely […]

This week we travelled to Glasgow to see the culmination of all the work and effort put in by the undergraduates of the Glasgow School of Art, held in the beautiful Mackintosh Building. We have brought you some of our reactions and thoughts, and photographs, from our time spent there. Omercan Cirit’s lament for future-imaging […]

Design critic Stephen Bayley’s article on ‘The Gentle Art of Selling Yourself’ on the perils and pleaures of fashioning oneself, Cary Grant famously and eerily said: ‘Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.’