Art
Tracey Emin’s retrospective at Tate Modern (supported by Gucci) was always going to be a blockbuster and a purpose for cultural tourism. A reason to come to London, or to renew your membership, so you don’t queue. I went with particular anticipation. Tracey is for me an artist
Art
The first-ever Schiaparelli exhibition in the UK just opened and the corsets alone are worth the trip.
Travel & Food
You land and something happens to your brain. The air, the sweet mangoes, the smiles — Thais are genuinely, almost aggressively happy and you don’t know what to do with that at first. Durian wafts through every street market (banned in hotels, causes actual wars of opinion). You’re navigating
Culture
Hot take: you cannot understand a country’s culture without watching its television. You can go to museums, pubs, read newspapers, talk to locals — but until you turn on national TV at prime time, you’re a tourist. British television is my anthropological empire. This is where you learn what
Art
Chiharu Shiota: Threads of Life is at the Hayward Gallery until 3 May. The entire top floor — floor to ceiling, wall to wall — woven from black and red thread. Suitcases, keys, letters, beds, shoes suspended inside. She studied under Marina Abramović in Berlin. Started as a painter, then performance, then
Culture
My first trip to the UAE partly confirmed my expectations and the stereotypes. Yes, there really is probably a combination of taste and its complete absence. Endless space and space for opportunity, construction, the smell of (favorable tax conditions) and musk. Money indeed has a smell. Men is white hand
Culture
Scotland is its own world, nothing like England. Tartan everywhere, the air smells of hops, Harry Potter and witchcraft shops around every corner, and even the homeless guys drinking beer wear kilts. People are friendlier. The national dish? A deep-fried Mars bar. Not only all the pork things and my
Rose Wylie: The Picture Comes First opened at the Royal Academy on 24 February. Over 90 works, the biggest show of her career. She now lives in Kent, paints every day and puts newspaper under her feet so paint doesn't ruin her shoes. She grew up in London
Yin Xiuzhen doesn't use the word secondhand.
A new Netflix documentary about the iconic reality show is out — and it holds nothing back. Bullying, Tyra's meltdowns, contestants in tears recounting forced makeovers, questionable photoshoots (a model in a salad. In front of homeless people. Models with their skin painted to "change their nationality"
Latex dresses, Charli XCX, and egg yolk as foreplay — Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights doesn't care what you think.
Notes from a sold-out London evening
Where culture still feels alive.
So why should PR specialists take notes from Rachel?
or hire one?
The pyramids are real. So is the hustle.
but everybody needs.
A cultural study conducted in Tesco aisles.
I have a particular respect for authors who write about food not as a list of ingredients but as a cultural state of being.