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What becomes a legend most? Interview with photographer Nan Goldin

What becomes a legend most? An interview with Nan Goldin I have been sorting through my cuttings and notes recently and found the transcription …

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Artist Frances Aviva Blane talks about her show at the De Queeste gallery, Belgium

LONDON-based British artist Frances Aviva Blane’s show Deconstruct is currently on display at De Queeste Art Kunstkamer …

An interview with American actor Michael Angarano

NEW York-born actor Michael Angarano has grown up in public. From being scouted by a photographer as an exuberant five year old at his mother’s …

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An interview with legendary perfumer Francis Kurkdjian

Francis Kurkdjian is one of the world’s greatest perfumers. Since creating Le Male for Jean Paul Gaultier in 1995, one of the most popular fragrances ever, when the Paris-born Kurkdjian …

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Talking to leading perfumer Azzi Glasser of The Perfumer’s Story

I WOULD love to live in Azzi Glasser’s atelier in north London, with its walls lined with mementoes, candles, precious ingredients and perfume bottles …

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Skullpture – death becomes the design duo

ESTABLISHED IN 2013, by art director Louise Batey, who has worked for clients such as Jaeger and BMW and photographer and make-up artist Gozra Lozano …

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Hysteria show at Maison Bertaux, Soho, London

OPENING next week in one of my favourite Soho haunts, the exquisite French patisserie Maison Bertaux, all-female art collective Hysteria …

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Just for now – interview with Greek poet and musician Sitron Panopoulos

POETRY is a much abused and misunderstood medium. And it is a matter of some sadness, to me at least, that the stagnant pond that passes for …

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Forming reality – new work by sculptor Paul Rowbottom

AN EXHIBITION of new work by British sculptor Paul Rowbottom entitled Forming Reality, a synthesis of Painting Ceramics & Sculpture opens this week …

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An interview with Doran Edwards of Weird Dreams

Weird Dreams Like the surrealist 1930s films of Hans Richter, the music of Doran Edwards and Craig Bowers explores the hypnagogic space between sleep …