Bridgehead Media • 22nd June 2020

Dig deep into surrealist cinema with five stunning films

The strange reality of the lockdown confused us, made us reflect and rethink, and gave us some of the weirdest dreams we’ve ever had. It left us scrambling to put back together the pieces of life’s puzzle. Days and weeks blurred into one another, and our bygone days outdoors suddenly seemed like distant sepia-toned memories. As if life’s new bonkers script had been written by a burgeoning surrealist master.

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Culture Trip • 5th August 2019

Friedensreich Hundertwasser: The Straight Line Is Godless

In the Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s radical manifestos, nothing is what it is supposed to be: the straight line is atheistic and immoral and an uneven floor is a melody to the feet.

BB Magazine • 14th April 2017

Pharmakon: The Art of Confrontation

Coughing. Breathing heavily. Rhythmically banging sheets of metal. Confronting mortality – confronting anything that might get in her way. New York artist Pharmakon. a.k.a. Margaret Chardiet has been snarling, wailing, baring her soul to global audiences for a decade now in a maelstrom of noise and power electronics. Through a raw and visceral process, Pharmakon unleashes her inner demons in full view, striking an enviable balance between strength and vulnerability.

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25th October 2016

Susan Meiselas Photographs The Nicaraguan Revolution

From her candid early work on New England’s Carnival Strippers to her coverage of combat training in Louisiana’s Fort Polk, American photographer and filmmaker Susan Meiselas invites the viewer to give much more than just one look.

Soundbite Culture • 9th August 2019

Field Day Festival review

Another all-day festival, another breathless attempt to speed stage-to-stage, shoving kids with Bratwursts in hand for that ideal stage view. Another all-day festival, another breathless attempt to speed stage-to-stage, shoving kids with Bratwursts in hand for that ideal stage view. With seven or so stages and a few dozen bands crammed in one day, the Field Day extravaganza was meant to be as exhausting as it looked.

Beautiful Bizarre Magazine • 30th June 2017

Popovy Sisters: A Dollhouse Haunted By Haute Couture

Mesmerized by the charisma of personalities as diverse as Marilyn Monroe and Marilyn Manson, Lena & Katya Popovy decided to pour their bottomless talent into doll making.

BB Magazine • 24th December 2016

Yang Yongliang's Ancient Chinese Futurama

There’s an unquestionable serenity and grace permeating Yang Yongliang‘s work that hardly betrays his 36 years of age. Echoing the imagery and unsurpassable craft of centuries-old paintings by great Chinese masters, his figures are languid and his landscapes bear a compelling sense of calm.

BB Magazine • 10th March 2017

'Fun and Cosmopolitan': The Music of Aksak Maboul, interview with founder Marc Hollander

It was 1977 when Marc Hollander and Vincent Kenis formed Aksak Maboul — a Belgian ensemble going down the winding road of avant-rock and pop.

BB Magazine • 29th September 2016

Swans: Future Destination Unknown

Michael Gira and his sonic cohorts gave birth to Swans in the famously bleak, dystopian cityscape of early 80’s downtown New York. Minimalist, ritualistic and downright brutal, the band delivered a relentless assault to the senses—swallowing you gently and gradually into a dark and morbid liturgy, or mercilessly enveloping you in violent bursts of sound. No boundaries, no idols, just a restless cast of characters surfing no wave, a nihilistic era’s fierce and fearless sonic “renaissance”. After

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Beautiful Bizarre Magazine • 10th June 2016

Interview with sculptor Kim Simonsson

BB Magazine • 2nd December 2015

The Benevolent Monsters of Johan Potma & Mateo Dineen: Interview

This is Zozoville. An extraordinary, fuzzy, and snug place where life has a million colours and no one has to be perfect. Well, so long as they are fluent in monster language.

BB Magazine • 20th July 2016

Beauty Through the Eyes of Valérie Belin

The 2015 winner of the prestigious Prix Pictet (the global award in photography and sustainability) Valérie Belin has, since the mid-’90s, photographed a series of brides, packets of potato chips, bodybuilders, and mountains of Venetian mirrors that meet in incongruous juxtaposition.

Europe Up Close • 2nd February 2015

Take a New Look at Arty London

London galleries and museums are more often than not an overwhelming experience – an endless parade of disoriented visitors blocking your view and usually accompanied by a busy soundtrack of camera clicks. But there’s a different and far more interesting art and design game being played in a handful of addresses, mostly a stone’s throw from the main thoroughfare.

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BB Magazine • 1st January 2016

Jamie Hewlett & the Suggestive Power of Things

The punk-inspired, post-apocalyptic strips of Tank Girl first made a countercultural comic art hero of Jamie Hewlett in the tail end of the ’80s…Until his collaboration with instrumental Britpop figure Damon Albarn, in the uber-successful virtual band Gorillaz, put a characteristic mischievous grin in the band members cartoony faces.

Music Crowns • 13th December 2016

Bonobo releases ‘Break Apart’ featuring Rhye | New Music

Bonobo, the British master of eloquent, immersive electronic music has released ‘Break Apart’, building up suspense for his sixth album ‘Migration’.

BB Magazine • 6th June 2017

Adipocere: The Dark Side of Hand Embroidery

Sheep, skulls, and spider webs… mountain laurels, moths and dog-strangling vine: Earth’s beautiful, curious things find their way into Adipocere‘s hand embroidery, putting a deviant 21st-century spin on a well-respected—and so far largely unadventurous—pastime. Hailing from Australia, Adipocere , a.k.a. Josh (a man that otherwise relishes his anonymity) first publicly presented his hand-stitched artworks in 2015 in Los Angeles’ The Hive Gallery, introducing a part sinister, part entertainingly i

BB Magazine • 13th February 2016

Agostino Arrivabene: 'Hierogamy' @ Cara Gallery

History, art and alchemy go hand-in-hand in Agostino Arrivabene‘s enigmatic pairings. “Hierogamy” imaginatively flutters between spiritual delight and earthly misfortune, darkness and light, love and sacrifice – men and women, as one, in sublime union.

BB Magazine • 1st May 2017

Rimel Neffati and the Allure of Imperfection

French photographer Rimel Neffati‘s (and Beautiful Bizarre Magazine issue 006 | Sept 2014 featured artist) answer to having no technical knowledge working with a camera was to strike a pose and let her instincts take their course. Since she snapped her first portraits, in late 2008, the poses and string of different characters she embodied have multiplied exponentially, as she transformed into a warrior princess, circus acrobat, spiritual figure, innocent maiden, burlesque performer, fierce Frid

Music Crowns • 15th December 2016

Léks Rivers strikes back with ‘No Rest For The Wicked’ | New Music

Léks Rivers is a Londoner serving up a whole new strain of soul and he’s here to prove to sceptics, who have long stopped looking to the West of the capital for innovation, wrong.

BB Magazine • 16th May 2016

Joanna Newsom's 21st Century Harp Revamp

Since 2004, when Joanna Newsom released her first studio effort The Milk-Eyed Mender, something entirely fresh and enigmatic appeared in the sonic horizon of 21st-century folk.