Purple Reigns

Purple Reigns

The Pantone Color Institute has announced a new shade of purple in honor of Prince. The new hue has been dubbed Love Symbol #2, after the singer’s logo and custom-made Yamaha purple piano. Throughout Prince’s career, he became indelibly associated with the color, from...
Us and Chem

Us and Chem

We caught up with skater Blondey McCoy in the final days of his debut exhibition Us and Chem, as he chatted with art curator Hans Ulrich Obrist about mental health, social media, and grannies mistaking you for another kid. Skater and streetwear designer Blondey McCoy...
“Jeff Koons Balloons,

“Jeff Koons Balloons,

I Just Wanna Blow Up” . JAY-Z, photographed performing to over 85,000 fans at the closing of day one of England’s “V Festival” at Weston Park in South Staffordshire on Saturday evening. His stage set-up includes a giant Jeff Koons ballon...
What is New Order Untitled?

What is New Order Untitled?

Graphic designer Saville tells Lou Stoppard about creating New Order Untitled in 1989 to coincide with the band’s US tour. ‘‘Untitled’ is that impulse to share something with other people but without having to concretise it into some sort of bogus product...
Great Modern Things

Great Modern Things

Neon is one of what Andy Warhol called “the great modern things” – a kind of lovely thing that can only exist in the modern world. Neon is up in lights, again. The gaseous element whose glamorous glow has been appropriated by one artist after another since the 1960s...