Magic Carpet Ride

‘There is almost like a desire to distract you,’ said the Turner prize-winning artist Elizabeth Price about the carpets in the Mitchell Library in an interview. [...] The carpets are not only unusual for a public library but also speak a language of their own, or at the very least they offer a different logic. Price continued, ‘The combination of...

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Mending at the Margins

Repair in My London Neighbourhood

By Diamond Abdulrahim

Gene Badger, Man Assembling Leather Football Shoes, 1941. Courtesy ICP.

What Adil was saying is that everyone wants an office-based job. His comment made me think about the contemporary office...

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When I want to conjure the image of my mother, I think first of her closet. The walk-in wardrobe at...

Fabulous, Fabulous, Fabulous

An interview with Ty Yorio, Citadel Security Agency

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We practice what we call ‘security with a velvet touch.’ We stay in the shadows. The PRs check people in,...

David Byrne

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Most people know the Big Suit, but there were a lot of others. On one tour I wore a body...

A Love Letter to My Father

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By Thomas Chatterton Williams

When he was out running errands or working in his study, bent over a book or teaching the students who...