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William Sharp began taking surfing photographs in southern California in the early seventies. and was quickly drawn into the nascent skateboard scene, shooting friends emulating surfing moves on pavement. By 1975 he was brought in as a staff photographer for the magazine Skateboard World. During the next five years he documented the meteoric rise of […]

I två års tid har Lars Berge skrivit krönikor för tidningen Arbetsvärlden, med påhittade nyheter och icke existerande företeelser. Som att Sverigedemokraternas opinionssiffror sjunkit efter att en av partiets EU-kandidater setts nykter på en fest. Att Joakim Lamotte av misstag råkat starta en livesändning från ett närlivs som resulterade i att butiken tvingats stänga på […]

‘Art is theft,’ Picasso once proclaimed, and much of the best and most ‘original’ new art involves an act or two of unequivocal, overt theft.  Paradoxically, the law relating to artistic borrowing has grown more restrictive. ‘The plagiarism and copyright trials of the twenty-first century are what the obscenity trials were to the twentieth century’, […]

What made Bowie special? What made him the cultural icon he is today? And what made millions of people around the world tune into his peculiar wavelength and find exactly what they’d been looking for all along? These are the questions asked by Simon Critchley in this keen-eyed, moving and textured tribute to Bowie. Each […]

This book is a dazzling compilation of dream houses with a view, photographed by James Silverman on his travels. Whether of a remote mountain cabin in Norway, a sensuous desert oasis in Morocco, or a monolithic concrete home in Switzerland, Silverman’s photographs capture the seemingly uninterrupted flow between interiors and exteriors. The featured architecture is […]

Jag har saknat en etymologisk ordbok som visar vilka svenska ord som är besläktade med varandra och hur. Eftersom det inte fanns någon sådan bok fick jag skriva den själv. Samtidigt ville jag dela med mig av de aha-upplevelser som

Appropriating characters, images and effects from pop culture, the work of KAWS blurs the lines between high and low art, and between art and fashion. Deploying film and television favorites for his toys, large-scale sculpture and bold, nearly abstract painting, KAWS recasts the familiar colors and forms of popular entertainment in cheeky and often poignantly […]

Hur hittar man karljohan bäst? När blev kantarellen vår mest älskade matsvamp? Varför och på vilket sätt är vissa svampar giftiga? Och var växer matsutake i Sverige, svampen som kostar mer än tiotusen kronor kilot i Japan? I Svamparnas förunderliga liv låter författarna oss se världen och världshistorien ur svamparnas perspektiv. Med hjälp av Anders […]