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 • 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...
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...
@Susan Meiselas 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.
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...
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...
Image by Manfred Reinert from Pixabay 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.
@Kim Simonsson/Beautiful Bizarre 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...
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...
@Jamie Hewlett 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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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.
BB Magazine • 5th December 2016 Luci Jockel's Fantasia of Fauna and Flora A pin of cicada shells – you could call it a challenge for the average accessories fan. But then, mortality is not easy to digest in any shape or form. Setting aside the egocentric and ever-lingering tumult of human mortality, Luci Jockel makes...
